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Posted: 12/23/2012 11:08:24 AM EST
In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, a diner at Wolfgang Puck Cafe sits in a sidewalk cafe setting in Terminal 3. Getting stranded at an airport once meant camping on the floor and enduring hours of boredom in a kind of travel purgatory with nothing to eat but fast food. Tough economic times are helping drive airports to make amends and transform terminals with a bit of bliss: spas, yoga studios, luxury shopping and restaurant menus crafted by celebrity chefs. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 12/23/2012 11:08:24 AM EST
In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, travelers visit O'Hare Urban Garden farmers market in Terminal 2. Getting stranded at an airport once meant camping on the floor and enduring hours of boredom in a kind of travel purgatory with nothing to eat but fast food. Tough economic times are helping drive airports to make amends and transform terminals with a bit of bliss: spas, yoga studios, luxury shopping and restaurant menus crafted by celebrity chefs. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 12/23/2012 11:08:24 AM EST
In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, travelers enjoy drinks and dishes at ICE Bar in Terminal 3. Getting stranded at an airport once meant camping on the floor and enduring hours of boredom in a kind of travel purgatory with nothing to eat but fast food. Tough economic times are helping drive airports to make amends and transform terminals with a bit of bliss: spas, yoga studios, luxury shopping and restaurant menus crafted by celebrity chefs. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 12/23/2012 11:08:24 AM EST
In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, fresh, artistically prepared dishes sit on display for travelers visiting the ICE Bar in Terminal 3. Getting stranded at an airport once meant camping on the floor and enduring hours of boredom in a kind of travel purgatory with nothing to eat but fast food. Tough economic times are helping drive airports to make amends and transform terminals with a bit of bliss: spas, yoga studios, luxury shopping and restaurant menus crafted by celebrity chefs. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 12/23/2012 11:08:24 AM EST
In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Marty Rapp relaxes at at ICE Bar in Terminal 3 between flights. Getting stranded at an airport once meant camping on the floor and enduring hours of boredom in a kind of travel purgatory with nothing to eat but fast food. Tough economic times are helping drive airports to make amends and transform terminals with a bit of bliss: spas, yoga studios, luxury shopping and restaurant menus crafted by celebrity chefs. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 12/23/2012 11:08:24 AM EST
In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, blues musician Cedric "Catfish" Turner has a drink at ICE Bar in Terminal 3 between flights. Getting stranded at an airport once meant camping on the floor and enduring hours of boredom in a kind of travel purgatory with nothing to eat but fast food. Tough economic times are helping drive airports to make amends and transform terminals with a bit of bliss: spas, yoga studios, luxury shopping and restaurant menus crafted by celebrity chefs. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 12/23/2012 11:08:24 AM EST
In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, a waiter delivers a drink to a table at ICE Bar in Terminal 3. Getting stranded at an airport once meant camping on the floor and enduring hours of boredom in a kind of travel purgatory with nothing to eat but fast food. Tough economic times are helping drive airports to make amends and transform terminals with a bit of bliss: spas, yoga studios, luxury shopping and restaurant menus crafted by celebrity chefs. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 12/23/2012 11:08:24 AM EST
In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, travelers David Janesko and Tess Menotti relax between flights next to O'Hare's Urban Garden where fresh herbs are grown and used in airport restaurants. Getting stranded at an airport once meant camping on the floor and enduring hours of boredom in a kind of travel purgatory with nothing to eat but fast food. Tough economic times are helping drive airports to make amends and transform terminals with a bit of bliss: spas, yoga studios, luxury shopping and restaurant menus crafted by celebrity chefs. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 12/23/2012 11:08:24 AM EST
In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, a waiter delivers plates of fresh sushi at Wicker Park Seafood & Sushi in Terminal 2. Getting stranded at an airport once meant camping on the floor and enduring hours of boredom in a kind of travel purgatory with nothing to eat but fast food. Tough economic times are helping drive airports to make amends and transform terminals with a bit of bliss: spas, yoga studios, luxury shopping and restaurant menus crafted by celebrity chefs. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 12/17/2012 4:13:36 PM EST
FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012 file photo released by the Guardia di Finanza (border Police), the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side after running aground the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. AP Photo/Guardia di Finanza)
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Posted: 12/17/2012 10:03:27 AM EST
In this photo taken Dec. 5, 2012, a British Heritage Bungalow stands in Assam, now a luxury lodge, that once housed senior British tea estate managers, in Balipara, India. A number of tea estates in India and Sri Lanka have in recent years opened their doors to overnight guests, allowing them to enjoy the special estate lifestyle, learn about tea production and sample some great brews. (AP Photo/Denis Gray)
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Posted: 12/17/2012 10:03:27 AM EST
In this photo taken Dec. 4, 2012, a plucker makes her way through the tea bushes on the Addabarie Tea Estate in Assam, which dates back to 1870 and British colonial times in Balipara, India. Tourists can stay at nearby bungalows or a luxury 19th century lodge which once housed the estate manager. (AP Photo/Denis Gray)
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Posted: 12/16/2012 11:13:30 AM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2012 file photo, construction workers continue work on the platforms on the west side of the Capitol where dignitaries and news cameras will witness the inaugural ceremonies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The pomp surrounding the inauguration of the president can carry a hefty price tag, from the glitzy galas to all those inaugural balls. Think of it this way: It can cost about the same as 150 luxury Bentley cars, several dozen yachts or some $20 million shy of the cash needed for a Boeing 737 passenger jet. But taxpayers aren't on the hook for the fun stuff _ the celebratory events like the balls. And this inauguration won't be as big as the last one for President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 12/14/2012 10:25:36 AM EST
A Maasai waiter brings lanterns to be placed around the swimming pool at little Shompole, a luxury eco-tourism lodge situated at some 180 km (110 miles) south of Nairobi, near the border with Tanzania, October 24, 2007. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti
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Posted: 12/14/2012 4:13:38 AM EST
FILE - In this March 8, 2012 file photo, Mexican-American singer and reality TV star Jenni Rivera poses during an interview in Los Angeles. Las Vegas-based Starwood Management, the company that owns the luxury jet that crashed and killed Rivera on Dec. 9, is under investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the agency seized two of its planes earlier this year as part of the ongoing probe. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
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Posted: 12/13/2012 6:28:52 AM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2009 file photo, Bernard Arnault, Chairman and CEO of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the Paris-based luxury goods empire, presents the group's 2008 results in Paris. The first big blow against the Socialist government’s 75-percent income tax on the richest came last month, when Europe’s richest man and head of luxury retail giant LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Bernard Arnault, applied for Belgian nationality. He denied it was to avoid taxes, but few were convinced, and the move prompted front-page debate. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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Posted: 12/12/2012 11:01:45 AM EST
Pakistan's state minister for foreign affairs Nawad Malik Ahmed Khan (R) walks out of The Polo Lounge, one of two luxury restaurants co-owned by Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, in Islamabad December 11, 2012. Hina's spokesman said profits from them are exempt from tax. Almost 70 percent of Pakistani lawmakers did not file income taxes last year, an investigative journalism group said on Wednesday, highlighting deep flaws in a taxation system that has drawn repeated criticism from Western aid donors. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood
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Posted: 12/12/2012 10:17:30 AM EST
Honda Motor Co. Ltd. introduced the Acura luxury division's first SUV, the 2001 MDX, September 14, 2000 to automotive press in Detroit. REUTERS/John C.
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Posted: 12/12/2012 10:17:30 AM EST
Honda Motor Co. Ltd. introduced the Acura luxury division's first SUV, the 2001 MDX, September 14, 2000 to automotive press in Detroit. REUTERS/John C.
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Posted: 12/12/2012 10:05:57 AM EST
Honda Motor Co. Ltd. introduced the Acura luxury division's first SUV, the 2001 MDX, September 14, 2000 to automotive press in Detroit. REUTERS/John C.
