<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Prosecutors said Eric Adams stayed in the Bentley suite at the St. Regis in Istanbul paying a heavily discounted rate.St. Regis and Bentley</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Eric Adams spent two nights at the St. Regis Istanbul in the summer of 2017, prosecutors said.</li><li>He paid $600 for the hotel's Bentley suite instead of its true worth, about $7,000, they said.</li></ul><p>Everyone wants to save money on vacation, but steep discounts are rare for most — unless you are a high-profile celebrity, influencer, or, it seems, the mayor of New York City.</p><p>NYC Mayor Eric Adams paid only $600 for a two-night stay at the Bentley suite at the luxurious St. Regis Hotel in Istanbul in 2017, federal prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Thursday.</p><p>The stay was worth about $7,000, prosecutors said. That's about 91% off.</p><p>The discount has landed Adams in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-charges-indicted-2024-9/" rel=" nofollow">hot water</a>.</p><p>In the indictment, federal prosecutors accuse Adams of engaging in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-adams-indictment-unsealed-read-the-charges-2024-9" rel>years of public corruption</a>. They say that over the past decade, he accepted gifts from foreign nationals — including complimentary or discounted Turkish Airlines flights, stays at luxury hotels, a spa treatment, meals, and boat trips — in exchange for political favors.</p><p>One of these perks was the 2017 stay in the St. Regis' Bentley Suite. The suite is a collaboration between St. Regis Hotels and luxury car brand Bentley, which also worked together on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-bentley-suite-at-the-st-regis-hotel-2012-9" rel>a suite in St. Regis' flagship hotel in New York.</a></p><p>Everything was inspired by Bentley, from the curves of the headboard to the sofa that uses the same quilted leather pattern as the auto brand's seats. There's a Champagne chiller built into the couch and a TV in the bathroom.</p><p>A one-night stay in mid-October 2024 costs around 1,880 euros, or about $2,100, a night, according to the St. Regis Istanbul website.</p><p>Prosecutors also said in the indictment that on a 2019 trip to Turkey, Adams stayed in a different suite, called the Cosmopolitan, at the same St. Regis hotel, paying nothing instead of the visit's $3,000 value.</p><p>Adams has said he is not guilty. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 45 years in prison.</p><p>Take a look inside the Bentley hotel suite where prosecutors say he stayed in 2017 at a major discount.</p>