Top Ten Luxury
Hotels with Helipads

For the super-rich and time-poor helicopters are the new taxis. So hop a chopper and descend in style onto the roof of your favourite five star city bolt-hole. Or land on the private polo field of your stately home of choice - but don't scare the ponies.

Luxe footnote: In NYC not even The Don (Trump) himself gets a helipad on his hotel so fly to the Downtown Manhattan Heliport instead. So convenient for Wall Street.

 Hilary Doling, 10/3/10

Ashford Castle, Connemarra, Ireland
Ashford Castle, Connemarra, Ireland

The Luxury Travel Bible's choice for scenic landings is beyond doubt the spectacular Ashford Castle in Ireland, which dates from 1228.

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Burj Al Arab, Dubai, UAE
Burj Al Arab, Dubai, UAE

Roger Federer and Andre Agassi played tennis on this pad, and Tiger Woods has tee'd off a (though nobody reported whose skull 321 metres down below his ball might have become embedded in!).

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El Questro Homestead, WA, Australia
El Questro Homestead, WA, Australia
Outback Australia is another one of those places where a helicopter is more of a necessity than a luxury.
 
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Emiliano, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Emiliano, Sao Paulo, Brazil

For some reason San Paolo is helipad central - maybe the traffic (and the crime rate) really are that bad.

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Hilton Shanghai, China
Hilton Shanghai, China

Just to confuse everybody the Hilton Shanghai recently opened its never-been-used helipad as a function space called, of course, The Helipad.

 

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Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort, Monte Carlo, Monaco

High flyers fearful of being caught in the Grand Prix gridlock can be whisked over the crowds from the airport to the bay in no time.

 

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Nomads of the Seas, Patagonia
Nomads of the Seas, Patagonia

OK it's not actually a hotel but Nomads of the Seas ship, the 28-passenger Atmosphere offers one of the only ways to explore remote Chilean Patagonia in real style.

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The Peninsula, Kowloon, Hong Kong
The Peninsula, Kowloon, Hong Kong

 The China Clipper departure lounge which is under the twin roof top helipads at the hotel oozes old time glamour.

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THE W Atlanta Downtown, Atlanta, USA
THE W Atlanta Downtown, Atlanta, USA

We always knew "W" stood for "whirlybird'.

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The Shangri-La, Doha, Qatar
The Shangri-La, Doha, Qatar

Shangri-La's new hotel in Doha, scheduled for 2011 will have a helipad balancing atop its awesomely space-age silver-pronged design.

 

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