I'm nowhere near that level of wealth, but I've been more than fortunate to be invited on some trips that follow this pattern.
I was fortunate to end up with a bunch of scholarships and funding to let me go to a much more expensive college than I would ever have otherwise been able to afford. Guy who lived across the hall from me was the son of a pharma exec, and I ended up learning a lot about how that stratum of society works.
And that's pretty close to it. I've known people who literally can say "oh, yeah, I don't need a hotel on that Europe trip, a friend of the family has a castle I can stay in".
I was fortunate to end up with a bunch of scholarships and funding to let me go to a much more expensive college than I would ever have otherwise been able to afford. Guy who lived across the hall from me was the son of a pharma exec, and I ended up learning a lot about how that stratum of society works.
And that's pretty close to it. I've known people who literally can say "oh, yeah, I don't need a hotel on that Europe trip, a friend of the family has a castle I can stay in".