Packer's palace: six stars promises a layer of luxury that's off the scale

By Julie Power, Carolyn Cummins
Updated August 3 2012 - 9:08am, first published 9:04am
Reach for the stars ... a six-star rating for James Packer's Barangaroo hotel is either ambitious marketing hype or a preview to unimaginable luxury.
Reach for the stars ... a six-star rating for James Packer's Barangaroo hotel is either ambitious marketing hype or a preview to unimaginable luxury.

JAMES PACKER'S Crown Ltd may plan to build a six-star hotel - ''the best hotel in the world'' - at Barangaroo but the official international rating system only goes to five. Anything above that, say experts, is marketing hype used to denote luxury that most of us can only imagine.

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