A honeymoon planner for billionaires says he's built a private beach, booked first-class flights for birds, and sourced 16 types of condoms

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• Billionaire honeymoons are out of this world — especially when it comes to their requests.

• Writer Brandon Presser recently spent time with luxury travel consultancy Ovation Vacations, according to an article he wrote for Bloomberg, and it was an eye-opening peek at the whims of rich people.

• Some of the wildest requests involve stocking a minibar with 16 different condoms and rebuilding a Caribbean beach in front of a couple's villa after it was destroyed by a storm for $50,000.

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If you think planning the logistics for your honeymoon is a nightmare, then you need to spend some time with Ovation Vacations, a luxury travel consultancy for billionaires.

That's exactly what writer Brandon Presser did for an article for Bloomberg, in which he gained firsthand experience in arranging honeymoons for rich people — for better or for worse.

As the mastermind behind honeymoon planning for the world's richest people, Ovation Vacations charges a minimum of $20,000 to plan a honeymoon, but it doesn't take long for the bill to increase — especially when a private flight is involved, writes Pressler. On the average trip of 2.78 weeks, accommodation typically runs for $1,950 a night, he says.

"We'll do anything for our clients as long as it's legal in the country they're visiting," Ovation Vacations president Jack Ezon told Presser.

Presser does the math: With more than 200 honeymoons a year at an average of $20,000 a trip, Ovation Vacations plans almost $1 million worth of honeymoon travel every month.

But some trips alone exceed that — like a monthlong $1.85 million yacht trip in the Indian Ocean and a $1.62 million 45-day tour from Oceania to the Mediterranean for a royal couple.

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But planning such luxurious honeymoons also means earning generous tips. Ezon told Presser that such tips have come in the form of $100,000 checks and Hermès cuffs, to name a few.

If there's one thing Presser learned during his brief experiences arranging a meeting with the pope for a client and coordinating an international flight for a sheikh's bird, it's that billionaires have some one-of-a-kind requests for post-nuptial perfection — requests that involve jumping through a lot of hoops to meet.

Ezon and the Ovation Vacations team shared countless stories with Presser — here are some of the wildest requests they've made happen:

• Stocking a minibar with 16 different types of condoms for a new husband

• Remodeling a hotel bathroom's granite sink by raising it by seven inches for $40,000, so a TV actress wouldn't have to bend over to wash her face during a five-night stay 

• Rebuilding a Caribbean beach in front of a couple's villa after it was destroyed by a storm for $50,000

• Hiring German clinicians to supply intravenous vitamin B-12 solutions for Champagne hangovers at the cost of $2,250 a day

• Booking $21,055 first-class suites on transatlantic Emirates and Etihad flights for falcons (the birds)

• Arranging a meet-and-greet with Vladimir Putin

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