The $100,000-a-Night Suite Was a Damien Hirst You Could Sleep In

US$100,000 for one night — the Empathy Suite's listed rate at its March 2019 opening, and the Empathy component carried in Palms' Epic Experience Suite Package. Palms' own package page listed the package by components: Empathy Suite $100,000, Hardwood Suite $25,000, Kingpin Suite $15,000.

The package total was US$150,000 per night (Palms press release, 22 Oct 2022): the three suites together — 19,576 sq ft — plus a $10,000 dinner for ten at Scotch 80 Prime. The components ($100k + $25k + $15k = $140k) plus the $10,000 dinner reconcile to the $150,000 total.

That package was sold for a fixed window, 8 January – 8 October 2023, and the window has closed. The package page now redirects into Palms' press room. Palms' current Empathy Suite page (checked 12 Nov 2026) publishes no price at all — booking is by phone. The $100,000 is the opening rate and the package component, not a live quote.

Most hotel suites charge for space and service. The Empathy Suite at Palms Casino Resort charges for authorship.

When the suite opened on 1 March 2019 — the finishing piece of the Palms' $690 million reinvention under Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta — it arrived with a number no hotel room had carried before it: $100,000 a night, with a two-night minimum. A stay started at $200,000 before a single drink. The Palms called it the world's most expensive hotel suite, and for once the superlative was arithmetic rather than adjectives.

What the money names is a 9,156-square-foot, two-story Sky Villa — Palms' current page gives the exact figure; most coverage rounds it to 9,000 — designed by Damien Hirst with the architecture firm Bentel & Bentel. Not decorated by Hirst. Designed: the furniture, the textiles, the spin and butterfly and pharmacy motifs worked into the fabric of the rooms, down to the pool table and foosball table carrying his designs.

Then there are the six original artworks, and they are the reason the rate survives scrutiny as a story even where it no longer survives as a booking.

You meet the first one at the door. Winner/Loser (2018) sets two bull sharks in formaldehyde into the wall of the entry — Hirst's signature medium, the preserved animal suspended between life and display, splitting the room. Casino Royal (2018) spreads his butterfly motifs across ten gloss-painted panels. Vegas (2018), the medicine cabinet, fills a cabinet with diamonds — one contemporary account counts 12,710 of them — and nods to the medicine-cabinet pieces Hirst was making decades before anyone offered him a hotel.

The 13-seat curved bar, Here for a Good Time Not a Long Time (2018), is built around medical waste under its surface, with a marlin skeleton above it. The Winner Takes It All (2018) is the pool table. Money (2018) completes the six. Coverage at the opening valued the art inside the suite in the eight figures; MrBeast's film, touring the suite three years later, put the room's art at over $16 million on camera.

Around the art, the villa does the ordinary work of a Sky Villa at an exaggerated scale: two king bedrooms sleeping four, a private cantilevered pool and terrace with the butterfly motif tiled into it, floor-to-ceiling glass over the Strip, two massage rooms and a salt sauna, a gym's worth of wellness space folded into the floor plan. Palms' current amenity list for the suite still runs to 24-hour butler service, VIP check-in, pre-arrival concierge, complimentary roundtrip airport transportation and a day's complimentary cabana in pool season.

That combination — a functioning hotel suite wrapped around an original, site-specific body of work by one of the most expensive living artists — is the premium, stated plainly. You cannot book "a Hirst" by the night anywhere else, because there is nowhere else it exists.

The ladder inside one package

The Empathy's $100,000 only fully makes sense next to its stablemates, which is how Palms sold it in the Epic Experience package built around MrBeast's visit in the autumn of 2022.

The Hardwood Suite — 10,000 square feet built around a 30-by-30-foot indoor basketball court, with locker room, pool table, massage rooms and beds that fold onto the court — was the package's $25,000 component. The Kingpin Suite, built around a two-lane bowling alley and named for the film, was $15,000. Together with the Empathy's $100,000 and the package's $10,000 Scotch 80 Prime dinner for ten, the three-suite, one-night total was $150,000: 19,576 square feet, 12 beds, more than 25 televisions, private butler service, all of it held at once, all day and all night.

Read as a ladder, the package prices three different fantasies honestly. Fifteen thousand buys the joke you can bowl in. Twenty-five thousand buys the court. One hundred thousand buys the museum — and the museum costs four Hardwoods.

What an ordinary night at the Palms costs

The ordinary counterpart is in the same building. Palms' standard Ivory Tower room is 440 square feet — the Empathy Suite is nearly twenty-one of those rooms by area — and starting rates observed in November 2026 aggregator listings run from about $49 to $77 a night before fees, with the resort fee adding $43.99 plus tax (roughly $50) a night on top. Rates swing hard by date in Las Vegas, and these are starting-rate observations, not a quote for any specific night.

At those figures, one night at the Empathy Suite's listed $100,000 equals roughly 1,300 to 2,000 ordinary Palms nights — call it three and a half to five and a half years of sleeping at the same resort, one standard room at a time. The comparison is illustrative: nobody is choosing between the two rooms. It exists to give the $100,000 a denominator a reader can feel.

What the price included, what it left out, and where the number stands now

In the package era, the documented inclusions were substantial: all three suites for the night, the $10,000 dinner for ten, private butler service, and the Empathy's own amenity set — 24-hour butler, chauffeur/airport transport, VIP access, and, in 2019 launch coverage of the standalone rate, a $10,000 resort credit. Taxes and resort fees sat outside the headline figures, as they do across the property, and gaming — for the million-dollar-credit-line players the suite was also held for — was never part of any rate. Launch coverage was explicit that the suite could be reserved for top casino players rather than cash guests; the $100,000 was always partly a marker of rank, not only a tariff.

And here is the part this piece owes the reader in plain words: the package window closed on 8 October 2023, and Palms does not currently publish a price for the Empathy Suite. Its page invites you to call. Trade and travel coverage in October 2026 reported the suite no longer marketed at the $100,000 figure. So the honest headline is historical, and it is still a remarkable one: Las Vegas once listed a single night inside a Damien Hirst at $100,000, built a $150,000 package around it, and sold the city a new definition of what a hotel room could claim to be. What that night costs today is a phone call away — Palms publishes no current figure, and no current-price claim stands until one exists.