From a $1 Shack to a $250,000 Trip: MrBeast's Five Vacations Compared

The $1 Vacation: A Shack With a Raccoon

The trip starts at a beach shack. The crew quickly points out that it barely has walls. When someone checks the price, it turns out to be $0.93, not a dollar, and Jimmy admits to rounding up. For that money they get a mattress on wooden planks, a broken cabinet, a light that only sort of works, and unexplained noises from the ceiling. The noises turn out to be a raccoon on the roof.

Jimmy says most people would be angry to find a raccoon in their hotel room, but the group is oddly happy about it. There is only one bed for everyone. When someone asks about that, the answer is that four beds would have cost $4. Later the raccoon runs into the room itself. The crew asks to skip ahead to the expensive trips, and Jimmy refuses, because the contrast is the point of the video.

1:28

The $10,000 Vacation: An All-Inclusive Beach Resort

The next tier costs 10,000 times as much. The room has jellyfish on display, which one crew member calls "so unnecessary." It also has a private pool and opens directly onto what appears to be a private beach, with water clear enough that Jimmy asks Tareq "since when is water this blue."

The all-inclusive package covers a large spa, a park full of flamingos (which start fighting while the crew watches) and unlimited room service. Asked what they want to order, the crew says "all of it." Jimmy jokes that the only flaw is the missing raccoon. At this price each person gets their own floor of the building. One crew member notes that their room is identical to Jimmy's except that it's on the top floor, and has a hammock. He tries to reach it without falling into the water and fails.

The resort is best known for an infinity pool that extends over the crew's personal beach. Watching the others play in it, Jimmy says he feels like a father who took his kids on vacation and is now just watching them in the pool.

3:05

The $50,000 Vacation: The Eiffel Tower to Themselves

The $50,000 trip is in Paris. It begins with a private luxury ferry ride, which the crew teases for looking old-fashioned ("what is this, 1805?"). It also includes fine dining, a tour of the city and a luxury hotel room with a view. The crew then points out that none of this adds up to $50,000. The rest of the money, Jimmy explains, went to having the entire Eiffel Tower to themselves for the night. Asked how much of the budget the tower took, he says "almost all of it."

The group walks past where the lines would normally be, and one person says it "feels illegal." On the first floor, more than 187 feet up, they eat at a restaurant they have entirely to themselves. Jimmy finds it funny that the staff still seated them in a corner. They take the elevator higher and find there is still a long way to go. Jimmy mentions that the tower was once the tallest building in the world. Past a certain point there are no more elevators, only stairs.

At the highest point open to the public, which Jimmy puts at over 900 feet, he reveals one more surprise: a door to further stairs leading to the very top, where no one is normally allowed. The ledge there only reaches his waist. He says he is "holding on for dear life" and fully understands why tourists aren't let up. A cameraman more than a mile away across the city films them waving through a zoom lens.

The final moment of the Paris trip is a light show. Jimmy calls out "lights," and the tower lights up "like a disco show." Then he says he doesn't know whether the next command will work and asks for every light to be turned off. The tower goes dark. Jimmy wonders aloud what millions of people in Paris are thinking, and says he doesn't know why he was given this much control.

6:48

The $100,000 Vacation: A Hotel for Presidents in Switzerland

The fourth tier is in Switzerland, at a hotel that Jimmy says world leaders and presidents use for their own vacations. He lists its security features: windows two inches thick and bulletproof, a panic button that locks down the whole building, and heavy security throughout. The Sidemen happened to be in town, so Jimmy invited them along.

The group stays in what the video calls the most expensive penthouse suite in Europe. It covers the entire eighth floor, has dozens of rooms, has staff available day and night, and has elaborate food everywhere, including a seafood display that someone describes as "the whole ocean." Jimmy jokes that Bill Clinton stayed there and "wasn't assassinated," so it must be safe. The crew knocks on the bulletproof glass and finds it solid.

Playing at being world leaders, Jimmy and the Sidemen act out a mock negotiation. Jimmy asks to buy 10% of the Sidemen, and they name a price of $200 million. Then comes the panic button, which Jimmy says he has wanted to press since arriving. Karl is cast as a threatened Bill Clinton and presses it. Doors shut, one crew member who had stepped away briefly ends up on the other side, and the group asks whether they're locked in. They're told the button can open things again, but that pressing it again would bring the police and a large fine.

Jimmy then wonders how a president would get to somewhere like McDonald's, and the group rides in a presidential-style motorcade. Security tells them the third or fourth car is the ideal place to sit and the first is the most dangerous, so Nolan is assigned to the first car. Jimmy rides with Harry and Chandler and jokes that they'd normally be his bodyguards. The motorcade draws a crowd. People film them as if they were the president, which Jimmy says makes the McDonald's visit awkward. Asked whether this beats the Eiffel Tower, Jimmy says it depends on how good the nuggets are.

9:41

The $250,000 Vacation: Tokyo

Jimmy says the earlier trips "pale in comparison" to the final one in Japan, where a special guest will appear. The group drops their bags at what he calls the most expensive hotel in Japan. The room is big enough to echo.

To see the city, they rent private go-karts styled after Mario Kart and drive them on public streets next to real cars. Jimmy remarks that the karts aren't meant to be on a street. They drive through what he calls the busiest crosswalk in the world while people stare.

They then meet master swordsman Yoshioki Sumida, who according to the video has trained with the katana for 26 years and agreed to give them a rare lesson in samurai swordsmanship. Each person gets a katana, and the lesson starts with swinging techniques, which the crew finds harder than expected. Jimmy and the others each take a turn cutting. At the end the teacher gives them a katana as a gift, and Jimmy says he doesn't deserve it.

For dinner, the group rents an entire floating restaurant and a sushi chef the video calls the most premium in the world. The chef prepares everything beside their table, and Jimmy calls watching a master at work one of the coolest dining experiences he's had. The crew also notices Louis Vuitton coasters and is allowed to feed tuna to birds, which catch the pieces in midair.

11:15

An Immersive Art Space and a Robot Restaurant

Next, Jimmy rents out an entire venue that he describes as "basically an art museum, but for experience." The video description thanks teamLab Planets TOKYO for allowing filming. Visitors take their socks off before entering. Jimmy says he has goosebumps, another crew member says their eyes can barely process what they're seeing, and someone asks if this is what dying looks like. Normally the place is full of visitors, but the group has it to themselves. In one room they wade through a pool of animated fish that seem to gather around them. Jimmy calls it the most unique thing you could do on a vacation and says it might be one of the best things they've ever done.

They then eat at a restaurant run by robots, which they've also reserved in full, so the only others there are the robot waiters. A robot called Pepper seats them, and food arrives on what the crew calls "an oddly fluffy robot." The running joke is that Pepper keeps staring at Chandler and seems not to like him.

12:54

Meeting PewDiePie at Fuji-Q Highland

The last day centers on PewDiePie (Felix). Jimmy recaps their history: his channel helped PewDiePie in the subscriber race against T-Series, and MrBeast later passed PewDiePie in subscribers, which Felix took graciously in a clip shown in the video. Jimmy says that despite years of friendship, the two had never met in person. To mark the meeting, he rents all of Fuji-Q Highland, which he describes as the park with the scariest rides in Japan and usually thousands of people in line.

Before Felix arrives, one crew member rides a coaster alone. The video says it has the steepest roller coaster drop in the world. Felix shows up later than planned because Jimmy texted him the wrong day, and Jimmy apologizes.

Felix wants to ride the park's most intense coaster. Jimmy says he is very scared of roller coasters and only agrees because Felix is going. Riders have to remove their shoes and anything else that could fly off, which the group takes as a bad sign. Jimmy asks to pick a gentler ride and says he has no idea what this one involves, other than a 90-degree drop. Neither of them knows in advance that it launches backward. During the ride they go upside down. Afterward, Jimmy calls it the best roller coaster ever, and Felix says he's crying, with tears running down his face.

The Ending

The video ends lightly. Felix teases Jimmy for screaming at the first small drop. Felix also jokingly threatens him over the subscriber milestone ("That's what you get for passing me"), and Jimmy apologizes for passing him. They share food, including what Jimmy calls the first chewy potato he's ever had. Jimmy declares the $250,000 vacation finished and asks Felix to close the video, which Felix does with his "bro fist."

Across all five tiers, the main difference the video shows is less the comfort of the rooms than how much exclusive access the money buys. The $1 shack comes with a raccoon. The top tiers buy an empty Eiffel Tower, a presidential motorcade, a private art space and an entire theme park.