I once had a client who rented a house for a whopping $7,000 per month.

I thought that was nuts – but how about paying $6,000 per night to stay at a downtown Toronto hotel?

I know there are supposed $50,000 per night hotels in Dubai or New York but that’s absolutely insane.

Let’s take a look at a few photos of a hotel room that is only “ridiculous”…

So apparently TIFF is in town?

I guess that explains seeing David Silver from the original Beverly Hills 90210 in Yorkville this week with Megan Fox.  Sorry, I don’t know his real name – I just know him as the guy who was in love with Kelly Taylor and whose father married Kelly’s mother, thereby making it impossible for them to ever hook up.  In the end, he settled for Donna Martin….what an awful, awful trade-off…

I have a few friends who work in the entertainment and public relations industry, so I received my fair share of invites to TIFF events.  I don’t really believe in the concept of celebrity so I declined most (even though the real hob-nobbing events don’t start until the weekend), but I did stop by one event that was being held at a $6,000 per night hotel room.

Six-thousand-dollars.

That would pay off four months of my mortgage.

That would pay for backpacking trips to Europe for two people.

That would pay for three thousand boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios….when they’re on sale.

Or, it would pay for one night of sleeping in a bed and watching TV inside a particular hotel room.

This, I had to see!

At the risk of angering my friend who allowed me into the hotel room, I’m going to hold off on naming the hotel itself.  But below are some choice photos that I’m not quite sure justify the six-grand.

Here is a photo of what I deemed to be “the entertaining space,” although I couldn’t quite fit the whole room in.  This unit is two stories, but the second story is really just an exit to the rooftop terrace.  In the foreground, you see the living room and television, and in the background you see the dining room table which is made of a really cool oak tree.

Here is a view from the terrace, facing south and looking at the water.  In the top of the frame, you can see a small plane that had taken off at the Island Airport.  I guess watching planes take off is worth $6,000 per night…

Okay, so I’m not an incredible photographer.  Here is a somewhat dark and blurry photo of the patio chairs with the CN Tower in the background.  I would estimate that the terrace is about 800 square feet in total, and it has very clear south, west, and north views.

Here is a view of the living room from the top of the stairs where you exit to the rooftop terrace.

Here is the kitchen, in all its glory!  If this were a condo, I’d say the kitchen is fantastic.  But this is a $6,000 per night hotel, so I’m not quite gushing.  Apparently, Kevin Kostner was eating wine-gums or ju-jubes on that very counter where I ate all the leftover finger foods about eight hours after they were first set out…

Here is the “bar” where a book-signing was held earlier and where Kevin Costner probably had a guy spraying him with salt-water to remind him just how awful Waterworld was for those of us that caught even half the movie on TBS at 3AM one morning…

The most incredible part of this hotel room was the bathroom, which had three revolving mirrors (see the middle one is open) that divided the bedroom from the bathroom. 

Here you see the slate tiles on the wall and the double Corian sinks.  As great as this bathroom was, it’s really still just a bathroom, and other than brushing my teeth and going pee, I’m not quite sure how else I can justify $6,000.

Here is “Elton John’s piano.”  Now, it was never quite explained to me if this is actually his piano or if he just played it.  Was this piano brought in for Elton, or was it actually his and was shipped in for him?  Either way, it was basically being used as a bookshelf for Elle magazine…

Now here is where I get (more) cynical!  Are those three paintings of the HomeSense variety, or were they created by a famous artist?  What I’m asking is: are they $100 each, or are they worth tens of thousands of dollars?  Because if they were purchased at the Eaton Centre one afternoon, then how can you justify the $6,000 per night cost of this room?

Okay – I absolutely know for a fact that these light fixtures don’t cost more than few bucks!  I’ve seen these in hundreds and hundreds of condos!  For $6,000 per night, I want a crystal chandelier!

Okay, my brother and his wife have nicer trinkets and frilly-vase-thingies with sea-shells and rock-assortments….I have no clue what the hell this pile of junk is doing in a $6,000 per night hotel room.  It’s a fake flower in a glass vase with three rocks at the bottom.  Can’t I get some wood carving or something?  How about a metal sculpture in the shape of a naked man?

I’m not part of Toronto’s social elite nor am I in a position to compare one $6,000 per night hotel room to another $6,000 per night hotel room.

But I can say that as an average-Joe, I have absolutely no idea who would ever pay $6,000 for one night in this room.

I’d rather stay at the Fairmont for $250 and spend $5,750 on “Toronto” shot-glasses and souvenir-spoons.

I guess if you have millions and millions of dollars, then maybe $6,000 is just play-money that you can throw around.  But I can honestly say that I don’t care how much money I had – I would never pay this kind of money for this kind of room.

Oh yeah – and I took everything out of the mini-bar…