A flight of romance in London

Are Red Carnation Hotels swimming against the tide unveiling a Valentine's package unrivalled in terms of sheer luxury and reckless pampering, shot through with inimitable style? Probably!

A three-night stay at the elegant, five-star Milestone Hotel in Kensington will include a fantastic array of treats including divinely decadent culinary feasts, beauty treatments (even though we know you're beautiful already, on the inside as well as outside), chauffeured shopping, helicopter travel and much more.

From the insanely wonderful handmade chocolates to the seven-course banquet served in your master suite, accompanied of course by amazing wines, through lashings of unlimited complimentary champagne during your stay, to champagne breakfasts-in-bed served by your personal butler each morning, this is a Valentine's package like no other.

Your suite will be adorned with 12 dozen roses. And because a little fresh air always does us good, the hotel's Bentley will be on hand to take you to Harvey Nichols, while a personal shopper looks after you, with £2,000 spending money to start you shopping in style. (And carrying loose change is such a bore.)

Further indulgences pour elle include a makeover and fabulous haristyling and, pour lui, the services of a traditional barber to shave and groom you. There are his and hers massages, in-room, naturally, and to top it all, a rather special - and may we say, exciting gift for her (from Tiffany, where else) and for him (from Cartier). Oooh, yes please!

No more, you say! But we can't stop here, can we? We will arrange an early evening helicopter flight over London, with a limo for the transfers to and from the helipad. And while you're away, we'll arrange a romantic turndown of your room, the likes of which you have never seen. And since the pampered life can make one seriously hungry, what could be more fun than a Lovers' Midnight Feast with (more) champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries.

We know, we know. In these straitened times, conspicuous consumption is really to be frowned upon. So let others frown away, Valentine's Day comes but once a year. Ah, the pleasure of succumbing to temptation and listening to your heart.

The Milestone's Flight of Romance is priced at £11,060. For further details, visit milestonehotel.com.