The toilet opened by itself as he walked toward it. That detail alone told Dantic everything he needed to know about the Future Hotel gaming spa suite in Granada, a room that cost $48 a night and somehow outscored a luxury gaming hotel in Dubai, a gamer-girl pink paradise in Berlin, and a pyramid casino resort in Las Vegas across four categories and a 20-point scale. For anyone who has ever wondered whether the most technically wild hotel room in the world requires a bottomless travel budget, this four-stop journey across three continents has a very clear answer.
The trip opened in Las Vegas at the Luxor, the only hotel shaped like a pyramid with a beam of light shooting from its peak. The interior lives up to that opening statement. Past the casino floor sits the HyperX Arena, an Esports venue with HyperX keyboards and mice, Omen monitors, some of the most powerful PCs available, and comfortable chairs built for long sessions. The stairs to the arena are RGB. The conversations overheard on the floor run more toward triple-monitor setups than anything you would expect from a standard hotel. It earned a 4.5 for appearance, a five for things to do, a four for comfort, and a three for value at $236 a night, landing at 16.5 out of 20. The one real letdown was the room itself, which was, as Dantic put it plainly, ‘literally just a hotel room.’
Where $48 a night somehow wins
Granada’s Future Hotel gaming spa suite is the kind of room that makes you double-check the price. The toilet opens as you approach it. A smart mirror streams YouTube from the bathroom wall. A touch-screen tap lets you dial in exact water temperature and pressure. The bath sits front and center in the room, stocked with soap bars including one scented with Red Bull, which Dantic confirmed smells exactly as bad as it sounds. An actual fireplace activates when you remove a cover and press a button, blowing out what he described as a sort of technical fire. The bed was genuinely comfortable. The room earned a perfect 20 out of 20 across its four categories, a five for appearance, a four for things to do, a four for comfort, and a five for value, making it the clear winner of the entire ranking.
The gaming zone downstairs was a different story. One of the racing chairs was missing a wheel, the PS5 was chained to the desk, and the room controller had severe stick drift. The spa cost $50 an hour, more than the room itself, and had none of the smart technology that made the bathroom so memorable.
Pink lobbies, a Berlin gong room, and a Dubai PS5 delivery
The nhow Berlin brought Dantic and his friend Jack into the most color-saturated stop on the list. The lobby, the elevator, the towels, and the gaming setup are all pink. The desk raises and adjusts electronically. A Cherry MX keyboard and mouse sit alongside two Samsung monitors. A retro pink phone on the desk dials 2222 to summon a room service robot, though on this visit the robot was, reportedly, unavailable. A room elsewhere in the hotel contained a gong, which they used until the entire hotel could hear it. A nearby VR venue hosted a virtual Squid Game session, and a gaming setup museum in the city displayed rooms from every decade of gaming history. The nhow scored 16 out of 20, pulling threes for comfort and value.
Dubai arrived last and with the highest expectations. The hotel room came fully committed to one brand: Razer chair, Razer headset, Razer microphone, Razer mouse, Razer keyboard, Razer poster. The advertised view of the Burj Khalifa required pressing your face against the window to see it. The PC ran an Intel Core i7 11700K, an RTX 3070, and 16 GB of RAM, solid but not what you might expect from the richest city in the world. The genuine surprise came from a local delivery app called Kareem, which brought a PS5 controller to the hotel room in roughly 20 minutes. At $136 a night, it scored 17 out of 20.
The bath that won the whole thing
A stone bath inside a $48 hotel room in Granada, filled with Red Bull soap, rainforest music playing through the smart mirror, a fireplace glowing from across the room.
Four hotels, three continents, one clear answer: the gaming spa in Granada finished first at 18 out of 20, ahead of Dubai by one point and Las Vegas by one and a half, because a self-opening toilet and a bath you never want to leave turn out to matter more than a pyramid with RGB stairs.
