Tomorrow, April 20, is a big day for Plaza Athénée Paris, when it will be one hundred years ago it first opened its doors on that same day in 1913. A major party is set to take place in the hotels courtyard, with over 600 guests expected, who among...
April 19, 2013
For a woman who's known for singing about butterflies and rainbows and daydreams, it's no surprise that for her fourth annual wedding vow renewal ceremony, Mariah Carey towed husband Nick Cannon all the way to Paris for a cutesyand very publicdisplay of affection at The Plaza Athenee. Dressed in matching...
April 30, 2012
For better or worse, today is Valentine's Day. And in honor of all the naughty business we know will be going down in hotel rooms around the globe today, we thought we'd take a look at some of HotelChatter's favorite bathrooms ever. That's right. We've been serving up hotel stories...
February 14, 2012
For the most troubled sleepers, not even the finest sheets in one of the best luxury hotels in the world can help you catch some much-needed Zs. But now at the swank Plaza Athenee Hotel in Paris, there's a scientific solution to insomnia and jetlag symptons with the NightCove Sleep...
February 10, 2012
"Quiet and calm, yet strong and spicy" Five skilled European fashion designers are going head-to-head this week for a $40,000 prize, handed out by Dorchester Collection Hotels. To mark the occasionand to keep things light-hearteda cocktail has been created for each of them. Between champagne-soaked raspberries and espresso-whiskey concoctions, each...
October 04, 2011
A former girlfriend of Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi's son, Saadi, has recently detailed his typical rich kid/son-of a dictator behavior to the Sydney Morning Herald and as to be expected, a lot of it centers around his obnoxious hotel behavior. (If it weren't for crazy people and rich people,...
March 07, 2011
There's only five days until Christmas and if you're stumped trying to find a gift for a little one in your life, hotels are a great place to turn for gifts. We've rounded up Five Cute Hotel Gifts for Kids that we think you (and they) will like. The good...
December 20, 2010
Hotels are getting in a holiday mood! Usually around this time, we spotlight all the delicious holiday cocktails that hotels concoct for the season. Don't worry, we're not giving up the booze but we are keeping tabs on all the wonderful, wild, and in some cases, weird Holiday Hotel...
November 22, 2010
There are not many times when we find ourselves wishing we were sanctimonious sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw (ok maybe when it comes to the shoes) but on a visit to the Plaza Athenee in Paris the other week, we found ourselves envious of Carrie's stay in the luxe hotel...
September 17, 2010
Play your cards right and tattoo girl might whisk you to her $1000 room. The colors red and blue have got a little too hijacked by political affiliations for our liking, plus were assiduous drinkers, so were fully behind the Plaza Athénée Paris appropriation of the colors for its...
July 27, 2010
It's the Summer of Celebs in the City of Light! In this episode, we have "California Gurl" Katy Perry arriving at the The Plaza Athenee. X17 Online reports that later on Katy tweeted: Drank Jean Paul Gaultier water & used pink rose scented bathroom tissue! Oh frenchies, you are...
July 02, 2010
When you bring Junior to a hotel, why put him up in some boring beige room? Win the best-parent-ever award by staying a colorful SpongeBob or Dr. Seuss suite that'll also score him lots of swag. We scoured around the most kid-friendly hotels to find the ones with the...
June 30, 2010
More celebs in Paris! It looks like Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper have taken their hotel-hopping ways to the continent and they dragged along Kate Hudson and her new man.E! Online says that Kate and her rocker du jour, Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy were dining at the legendary steakhouse,...
June 15, 2010
We always had the French down as innately stylish, but looks like theyre happy to abandon that when money comes a-knocking. How else to explain the new Barbie rooms at the Plaza Athénée - two rooms that, according to the hotel, have been: Made over like a little girls...
May 10, 2010
You probably dont think twice about how your bellhop or your front-desk clerk looks, as long as they schlep your bags and check you in quickly. But as we found out when we got our very own Fashion 26 concierge uniform, a lot of effort goes into making hotel employees...
February 25, 2010
It's what you've been waiting all year for--The 2009 HotelChatter Awards! We'll be bringing you the best and worst of the year (and the decade) all day today and part of tomorrow. Agree or disagree with our picks? Air your thoughts in comments below.BEST KILLER VIEW: THE PLAZA ATHENEE...
December 30, 2009
The Terrace Eiffel Suites at The Plaza Athenée.Nothing Lindsay Lohan ever tweets about really makes sense, except when she's trying to promote her 6126 leggings line, her Sevin Nyne spray tan lotion and her work for the fashion house of Emanuel Ungaro and even those tweets aren't all that...
October 30, 2009
We are suckers for a room with a killer view. We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with...
October 01, 2009
Heres a confession: we used to think that trips to great cultural centers would probably be lost on kiddies. What child, we reasoned, would be able to grasp le sheer greatness of the City of Light, for example? Well we were wrong, because we hadnt counted on the Plaza...
June 24, 2009
When you stay in Paris, you'd best do Paris up right. If you're going to go, you should go all the way live out all your Carrie Bradshaw-esque fantasies and just treat yourself to all the luxuries that a princess (or prince) such as yourself deserves. And now...
March 27, 2009
We know that this is not the time to be adding overpriced spa treatments onto your room bill, but then maybe it is the perfect time. Paris' revered Plaza Athénée is attempting to reel in anyone heading to the City of Lights for the holidays, because obviously those taking...
December 16, 2008
If you can't afford to buy Dior clothing, or even the couturier's perfume, chances are you won't be able to afford the new Dior Institut salon at Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris. But we can dream, can't we? Here's what a press release had to say about the 5,000-square-foot spa...
October 02, 2008
Thanks to all the commenters who dropped in their suggestions for Paris. In the end there was a three-way tie between the The Petit Moulin, Plaza Athenee and the write-in suggestion from PatrickSW, The Four Seasons George V.So, here is how we operated the tie-breaker. The George V was about...
September 26, 2008
So we're headed off to the City of Light in a week and while we are fortunate to have an apartment of a family friend to crash at for most of our stay, we still want to check in on the Parisian Hotel Scene.We've covered Paris extensively, thanks in part...
September 16, 2008
If you're the kind of traveler who chooses their hotel by its lounge, you'll want to take note of this: the Hotel Plaza Athenee Paris has got a new one. We're personally not so obsessed with the hotel lounge yet even for us the "re-envisioned" La Galerie des Gobelins...
September 03, 2008
The Hotel Plaza Athénée - we don't know for sure, but it's a good bet Brit singer Amy Winehouse stayed here last week for her brief appearance at the opening of the luxe Fendi boutique in Paris. Amy isn't known for her love of exercise, and the Plaza Athénée...
March 04, 2008
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