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The Palace at Versailles Will Soon Have a Hotel Inside of It

Cheesy Dream Confession: It has long been our dream to twirl in front of the mirrors in the Hall of Mirrors at The Palace of Versailles just outside of Paris. And now with a luxury hotel set to open inside the palace at the end of 2011, our dream might just come true.

France24 reports:

The project is expected to transform the Hotel du Grand Controle into a 23-bedroom hotel scheduled to open in late 2011. Some of those rooms will overlook the “Orangerie”, an elaborate greenhouse featuring lemon trees and orange trees.

The Hotel du Grand Controle, despite its name was not an actual working hotel, but rather a place for the palace treasurers to crash. Now it looks like it will be transformed into a proper hotel for guests.

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Gordon Ramsay Also in Name Only at the Trianon Palace

Where: 1, Boulevard de la Reine, Versailles, France, 78000

On the heels of the news that the Gordon Ramsay restaurant inside the London West Hollywood hotel will exist in name only, comes this report that Ramsay's restaurant inside the Waldorf-Astoria Collection hotel in Versailles, The Trianon Palace, has also been sold. But while the restaurant under his bleeping eye will have closed (just under a year of operation), his name will live to see another day.

As before, the establishment will retain his name and the hard-nosed chef will continue as a consultant. Ramsay's empire of over 30 restaurants in a dozen countries has been under increasing financial stress since last fall.

While the private company refuses to discuss its financial health, it is clear the chef is shedding properties quickly.

Ramsay has several restaurants in hotels, most notably his Maize restaurant at the Marriott Grosvenor Square and a new outpost at the One & Only Cape Town. We're guessing the recent selling off of his restaurants probably doesn't mean very good news for his own hotel which is to have only 10 rooms, but two eateries.