Search

From a $1 Hallway Mat to a $1 Million Castle: One Night at Every Price

MrBeast ミスタービースト · ▶ 15:38 · 9 min read
Englishespañol日本語한국어português繁體中文
Open on YouTube ↗
Overview

MrBeast (Jimmy) and his friends set out to spend a night at accommodations across a huge price range. The stays ran from a $1 sleeping mat to a $1 million-a-night castle, with a cave, an underwater villa, a private island, a cruise ship, and a Las Vegas suite along the way. The video's question is how the experience changes as the price climbs, and how much better it feels at each step. Jimmy promised at the start that "it gets really crazy towards the end of the video."

9 min read
0:18

The $1 Hotel: A Mat in a Hallway in India

The trip began at what Jimmy called the world's cheapest hotel, in India. For $1 a night, guests rent a mat. Giving a "room tour," Jimmy pointed to the mat and said it was his entire room for the night. He compared it to his mattress at home "minus the comfort." When he asked about room service, the answer was simply "Bro, it's a dollar."

The mats were laid out in a hallway. To prove it, the group showed people stepping over them as they tried to sleep in the middle of the night.

0:47

The $1,000 Cave, 200 Feet Underground

The next stay was a $1,000-a-night cave room 200 feet below ground. It had two beds, a living room, and one bathroom with little privacy; Jimmy joked that "you could see me while I pee." The group had the whole cave to themselves. There were no bats, they reported, but the bed had stains on it. Their verdict was that it was at least better than a pad in a hallway.

The cave had no Wi-Fi, so the group had to entertain themselves. Chris wandered off at one point, and someone remarked that a creaky passage looked like the entrance to a horror movie. Later the others found a keyboard beside Jimmy's bed and kept playing it while Jimmy tried to sleep. The takeaway: "there's not much else to do in a cave."

1:40

The $10,000 Villa with an Underwater Room

At $10,000 a night, Jimmy said, things "really start ramping up." The villa had three bedrooms, one bed covered in floral decoration that a friend could have done without, bathtubs by the ocean, a private dock, an infinity pool, and unlimited food from a private chef. The group tasted pizza to see whether it "tastes expensive."

Jimmy said the main reason for the price was behind one door: an underwater room at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by fish. Asked to choose between the cave and this, a friend picked this immediately; Jimmy concluded "the fish sell it." The villa also had an underwater bathroom where one could shower among the fish. Chris said they felt like a villain plotting world domination from an underwater base. Then Chris left, came back in diving gear, and swam outside the window as a "Chris fish."

The $10,000 package also included jet skis and water jetpacks for an afternoon, which led one friend to call it "the greatest hotel in the world." They ate at an underwater restaurant and spotted a shark. Someone noted the irony of eating fish surrounded by fish, and Jimmy reminded viewers that $50,000, $150,000, and $1 million stays were still ahead. Asked how he could afford it, he said he was "just gonna lose a million dollars in this video." He slept in the fish room and called it "kinda trippy."

3:46

The $50,000 Private Island vs. the $50 Bus

For the next stop, Jimmy had the group randomly pick between a $50,000-a-night private island and a $50 bus. Chris and Chandler drew the bus. On the way to the island, Jimmy filmed a whale with his drone.

The $50,000 turned out to cover a chain of 14 islands, all open to explore. The group also listed 12 houses, five swimming pools, and 110 staff, which worked out to 110 people looking after the three of them. One staff member joked that they had been waiting "two years," then admitted it had been since eight in the morning, which made Jimmy feel bad. The group's casitas sat up the side of a small hill, and Nolan's room had an indoor/outdoor shower that can be used with the door open. The day continued with lunch, an elaborate dessert, time on a private beach, a private plane ride, and more food. Jimmy said he hadn't felt so peaceful in a long time.

The bus was a different story. Chris and Chandler first marveled that it was "a home" and doubted it really cost only $50. Chandler couldn't stand up inside. When Jimmy called to check in, they reported that the bus was hot, wouldn't start, and had only one bed. The pair later convinced the Airbnb owner to tow the bus so they could get food at McDonald's. Meanwhile the island group had an eight-course dinner on the beach, with dishes such as octopus carpaccio. Jimmy called it one of the most fun days of his life.

6:36

The $75,000 Cruise Ship, for One Hour

Jimmy then rented an entire cruise ship that normally holds thousands of people. He said the $75,000 price bought only one hour, because the ship is worth $500 million. To fill the hour, he hid $100,000 in checks around the ship and let his friends keep whatever they found. The checks were $10,000 each, and several were found quickly. The video breaks for a sponsor segment here, during which Jimmy revealed he had been holding one check himself. When asked how much they found in total, the searchers weren't sure and guessed "30? 40,000."

8:22

The $150,000 Package at the Palms in Las Vegas

With two stays left, the group met in Las Vegas for a $150,000-a-night package at the Palms Hotel Resort. It had three themed rooms: bowling, basketball, and an art room filled with work by Damien Hirst. Chandler and guest Gravy picked first and took the basketball room. Jimmy thought it was the best of the three. It had a hidden gaming room behind a secret door, a personal butler, and its own basketball court.

Nolan and Karl chose the bowling room, the "Kingpin suite," with a private lane and, to their delight, bunk beds. That left Jimmy and Chris with what they called the "medicine room," which Jimmy said had looked unappealing when he searched for it online. He said the room held more than $16 million of art. One piece was a million-dollar artwork that Chris thought looked like a grandmother's medicine cabinet. Jimmy said the hotel had told him not to touch it, and that opening it would bring up a security guard. Chris guessed that a collection of pills was worth $37; Jimmy said it was $3.5 million. When Jimmy claimed the pool table was worth $2.3 million, he admitted it was a joke and the table was ordinary. Chris noted that the other pairs were bowling and playing basketball while the two of them were afraid to touch anything.

The package included a $10,000 dinner. When Jimmy finally asked Chris about the bus, Chris said they had been bitten in the face by mosquitoes. Jimmy replied that he'd been getting a massage at the time. One diner rated the meal 10 out of 10. Afterward the group played "The Quad Bowl" in the bowling room. Jimmy concluded that every hotel room should have a bowling alley, and said he didn't know how a million-dollar hotel could top this.

10:47

The $1 Million-a-Night Castle

The final stay was a castle at $1 million a night. Each guest got a personal butler on arrival. Inside were a split staircase and an unusually long foosball table, and the staff said their goal was to give the group "a million dollar experience for the next 24 hours." Jimmy said the place had six Diamond stars and added that he hadn't known ratings went above five. Other attractions included a staff member serving milkshakes (one friend said this alone made it worth a million dollars), a robot, and breakdancers who seemed to perform all day and offered to teach Jimmy. Karl, a self-described "bath guy," was thrilled with the bathtub in his room.

Jimmy then revealed a surprise: four randomly chosen subscribers. He said they were invited because subscribers are the reason the group could afford the castle. Each friend paired up with a subscriber for an activity. One pair took on something high up that the subscriber was afraid of, and afterward the subscriber called it the most epic thing they had ever done. Karl rode a horse inside the castle. Chris and their subscriber drove a $300,000 McLaren to McDonald's, where Chandler introduced themselves at the window as "Chandler, from MrBeast." Another pair played golf at a course with a $57,000-a-year membership, free for them because Jimmy had spent a million dollars.

Final Verdicts and the Grand Finale

At dinner, Jimmy told the waiting butlers they could relax and sit down. He then asked everyone to compare the stays. The group agreed Vegas had the best food. For best hotel, the $50,000 private island won with those who stayed there. Chris said they never saw it, only a bus where the lamp and AC didn't work.

The dinner came with a show, which led one guest to say they were starting to understand the million-dollar price and another to conclude "rich people are crazy." The grand finale was a drone show. Green dots rose into the sky and formed images, including dabbing figures and a scene involving a briefcase full of money. One friend said fireworks "better count their days," and Jimmy insisted that the footage was real even though it didn't look it.

Jimmy closed by saying the team spent weeks traveling around the world for the video and called it their hardest video ever.

Article published · Updated