RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – President Bush’s accommodations are never shabby when he travels abroad. But consider life at his hotel in Abu Dhabi, where a run-of-the-mill room goes for $1,595 a night.

He was, a White House aide indicated, assigned one of the eight “Ruler’s Suites” at the Emirates Palace Hotel on Sunday night. The suites are made available only to those who King Khalifa, the sheik of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, says may stay there.

Think of a suite the size of a basketball court, with ceiling high enough to permit a three-point jump shot. In the more plebeian rooms, it would be tough to get off a shorter foul shot. But you do get a bathroom floor – marble, of course – decorated with red and yellow rose petals arranged on a towel.

The hotel is reputed to have cost $3 billion. A walk from end to end covers about a half-mile.

As for the president’s costs: They were inherited by the government of the United Arab Emirates, said Gordon D. Johndroe, the spokesman for the National Security Council, who accompanied Bush.

Khalifa presented Bush with genuine bling: a necklace with a medallion of 18-karat gold featuring a hand-enameled U.S. flag, set with rubies, emeralds and diamonds.

Don’t look for the president or first lady Laura Bush, who did not accompany her husband on his eight-day journey across the Middle East, to be wearing it around their ranch in Texas – or anywhere else. By State Department rule, it must be turned over to the U.S. government.

The United Arab Emirates, by the way, can afford the giveaways. It brings in approximately $225 million in oil revenue daily.