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Most outlandish rooms for holiday parties
By Rusty Weston of Forbes
Trophy room
Las Vegas
Price: $16.5 million
The Primm Compound sits on 10 acres, comprises five buildings and has 50 total rooms with 21,000 square feet of living and party-room space.
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Safari at home
According to real-estate website Trulia, the trophy room features "butternut wood paneling and automated recorded sounds of animals in the wild that is light activated." There's no better setting to toast the bounty from your latest jungle safari.
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Exotic ballroom
Cambria, Calif.
Recent price: $58 million
This 32,500-square-foot Venetian-style mansion adorned with onyx pillars, mosaics and murals is set on 80 acres overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Guests can land on the compound's helipad or explore the auto pavilion before making a grand entrance in the 4,500-square-foot exotic ballroom.
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Game room
Grimes, Iowa
Price: $1.5 million
This 4,571-square-foot home has an authentic 1950s-style diner with a soda fountain and chrome stools with red vinyl cushions. According to the listing, it also has a home theater with a "ticket booth and actual theatre seats." Maybe you can show off a red '57 Corvette in the eight-car garage.
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Barn saloon
Greenwich, Conn.
Price: $17.5 million
On an 11-acre equestrian estate that has roots back to the Revolutionary War period, this stately home includes a casual party room in a Dutch barn.
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Party barn
Actually, it's more than a party room: It's a full-fledged Western saloon with a stage, billiards and dance floor.
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Open-air party space
Indian Wells, Calif.
Price: $5.95 million
This resortlike home is in a California desert location best known for championship golf and tennis tournaments. A great room, dining room and wet bar open up to a gorgeous pool and stellar views of the Toscana Country Club and mountains ringing the Coachella Valley.
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Man cave
Telluride, Colo.
Price: $19.9 million
Just in case you run out of things to do in this spectacular ski and summer destination, you can take your friends to this 23,124-square-foot Alpine home.
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A party in every room
It's hard to name the best party room in a home that features a 75-foot indoor pool, an AMF bowling alley, a two-lane indoor shooting range and an authentic golf fairway outdoors with a bunker and a putting green.
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Screening room
Los Angeles
Price: $7.5 million
This 10,000-square-foot home overlooking the first fairway of the Riviera Golf Course in Los Angeles may not be the largest or most expensive home on our list, but don't overlook the entertainment value of its posh home theater. What's special about it? It includes a stage and theatrical lighting worthy of an intimate performance by an A-list singer, comic or pianist.
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Classic ballroom
Alpine, N.J.
Recent price: $56 million
Someone should develop a smartphone application so guests don't get lost in the 30,000-square-foot Stone Mansion, which features an expansive ballroom, 12 bedrooms, 19 bathrooms and a kitchen that one wag dubbed "decadent." Wear a dinner jacket or gown to this lavish, chandelier-lit ballroom, which could host a small symphony and the court of King Charles II.
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Home mega-theater
Alpine, N.J.
Price: $29 million
This 34,000-square-foot mansion features an exceptional home theater, but the house is large enough you could hold multiple parties simultaneously without guests trampling over each other.
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More than movies
There's an open floor plan with French doors leading to the back, a bar overlooking an indoor pool, a bowling alley and a billiards room with an indoor fireplace.
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