The next phase, with 25 units for interval ownership, will be available in a year. The club will eventually have 866 members. But the service is all Ritz. Personal concierges will meet arriving members, who will always return to the same unit. Preshipped clothing will be hanging in closets, refrigerators will be stocked with preselected food and family photos will be hanging exactly where they were left.
Maids visit each unit twice a day.
Personal chefs can be called in to prepare meals, and room service is available 24 hours a day. For the past two months, Ritz's trainers have been grooming 140 employees in the Ritz way. But there are skeptics. Certainly they do satisfy some customers' needs. But they are very expensive to own.