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What sort of Christmas presents do the partners who have everything buy for each other? A tropical island? A racehorse? For lovers so rich they've lost count of all the zeroes and who dig Marie Antoinette-style extravagance, there is the Mandarin Oriental's FANtastic Jet Set Journey, an over-the-top 10-day tour of three big U.S. cities with private jets, lavish suites and limousines. From New Year's Day through May 31, for a whopping $220,000 per couple (but hey, tax is included), luxury junkies can be waited on like royalty before the revolution at the hotel chain's outposts in Miami, New York City and Washington. www.mandarinoriental.com
MIAMI
• Treatments at the hotel spa's Couple's Suite
• Dinner at Azul restaurant with a six-course tasting menu and sommelier selections
• Beach cabana with bento-box lunches
• Four-hour shopping tour with stylistand personal assistant
• Picnic-lunch yachting excursion
• Luxury gift bag including Gucci andNeiman Marcus products
NEW YORK CITY
• Tickets to a Broadway show
• Pre-theater dinner at Asian-fusion eatery Asiatewith sommelier selections
• Tickets to the Metropolitan Opera
• Commemorative iPod loaded with New York City tunes
• Tickets to Jazz at Lincoln Center
• Helicopter service
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• Private sushi and sake tasting at Café Mozu
• Private tour of the National Gallery of Art
• A commemorative U.S. flag that flew over the Capitol
• Guided limousine tour of the city'slandmarks (with bubbly)
• Tickets to a Kennedy Center performance or a Verizon Center sports event
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