The Royal Suite on the 25th floor has a marble-and-gold staircase, leopard print carpets, its own private lift and a rotating four-poster canopy bed.

After she registered them and handed him a key, they rode the elevator to their floor and he walked well ahead of her down the plush hallway and into the room.

As I turned on my side I noticed pieces of fingernail, bits of skin and hair on the lift carpet.