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Last year, as part of the first OnMilwaukee Hotel Week, we explored the city’s priciest hotel rooms, expansive suites on upper floors, swanky rooms with all the amenities.

But in the intervening period, a game changer arrived, blowing the swanky hotel room game wide open.

While rack rate at a number of the hotels featured last year climbed into the quadruple digits, the impressive 2,200-square-foot Presidential Suite at Potawatomi Hotel and Casino runs a cool $4,000 a night.

And for that you get the coolest view in town for a warm, soaking bath. You get a couple bathrooms, a couple kitchen areas, a couple sleek fireplaces, super comfortable bedding, a makeup table and dressing area, you get a large living area for relaxing or entertaining. All the windows are fitted with automatic privacy shades (come on, now, stop that; they're not toys).

Best of all, you get what is surely the best hotel room terrace in town ... all 800 square feet of it. This one runs the width of the building, and thanks to the hotel's unique location in the Menomonee Valley, it has incredible views from the Domes and Miller Park to Marquette to the Downtown skyline to the Allen-Bradley clocktower and the Hoan Bridge and beyond. It’s got a bar, two TVs, plenty of seating for a one-of-a-kind cocktail party, glowing lights, a complete sound system and other amenities.

But, as is the case with most – if not all – of these top-level hotel rooms in Milwaukee, folks don’t always pay the rack rate. In fact, in this case, the folks at Potawatomi don’t appear to be worried if they ever get that $4,000 a night.

"Just like any casino, an amenity like the Presidential Suite exists primarily for the enjoyment of our VIPs," says Ryan Amundson, Potawatomi Hotel and Casino’s external communications manager. "The lion’s share of its use is comped nights for those guests."

While there’s always improvement – the audio/video systems could be more intuitive, for example, and it seems odd that there is no corkscrew in the kitchen, nor reading lamps astride the bed – the feeling of stepping into this modern, luxurious space makes one almost giddy.

And opening the soundproof doors to the patio to the sound of the breeze and the distant hum of the freeway – as well as the chatter down on the sports fields below – is invigorating and offers the kind of rarely experienced view of the city. Stepping out, you immediately appreciate the beauty of this town.

Combine a stay with dinner in a curvaceous, dimly lit booth at Dream Dance Steak, a little time at the gaming tables and you'll feel like you're in Vegas.

Here are some photos to take you inside the Presidential Suite...

The kitchen and living area

The living area

The bedroom fireplace and 60-inch television

The bedroom

The skyline view from the terrace

The terrace at night

The terrace by day

Rack rate