It looks like Mama Shelter's offbeat design and budgety prices have worked well enough in Paris to warrant an expansion. Mama Shelter Marseille will be opening on April 12 with 127 rooms starting at 69 Euros a night.From what we can gather, the concept in this city by the...
March 02, 2012
The other week we checked out, CheckYourRoom.com which allows you to pick your hotel based on a personality quiz. It was a novel idea, perfect for people who know they want to get away but don't know to where. But if you're already bored of personality quizes, we've now...
May 12, 2011
Despite a few little quibbles (tiny rooms, far out location, too-cool-for-school staff) in the past, weve often touted the glories of Pariss swingingest little hotel that could, Mama Shelter. We love the simple but sophisticated Philippe Starck design, the iMacs in all the rooms, the iPhoto booth in the...
June 21, 2010
Every so often we feature a hotel review from one of our readers that we feel should be shared with the rest of you dear hotel guests. These reviews are highlighted because they are timely, about cool hotels in cool places and are relatively level-headed. Think you can submit one...
July 30, 2009
You may be a little worried about hitting Europe this summer. Especially Paris its notoriously expensive at the best of times, but right now, a trip there means youre pretty much guaranteed a wallet-mauling. But if Mama Shelters full and you dont want to settle for a hostel...
June 03, 2009
To say that Mama Shelterthe new Philippe Starck-designed boutique hotel in Pariss 20th arrondisementhas a restaurant is misleading. Rather, it has a restaurant, bar, parlor, outdoor smoking lounge, foosball arena, iMac photo booth, and breakfast nook. During our recent stay there, we managed to nosh our way through most of...
April 28, 2009
We happened to check into Mama Shelter on a recent Saturday night in Paris, and though well admit to harboring a few preconceived notions about what to expect thanks to the gaggle of recent reviews, we kept an open mind. During our stay at the Philippe Starck-designed property in the...
April 27, 2009
Mama Shelter is the most talked-about new hotel in Paris lately, and its no wonder, thanks to funding from the kids of the folks who started Club Med, and some ingenious design elements courtesy of Philippe Starck. We just happened to be in Paris last weekend and spent a night...
April 24, 2009
Fast becoming the most talked about new hotel in the City of Lights, Mama Shelter is a Philippe Starck-designed budget boutique option in an out-of-the-way (some might say dodgy) corner of Paris that seems to be drawing international hipsters (and New York Times journalists) to its chic bar and...
March 23, 2009
You know the scene: you had an epic evening out with your people, you stumbled back to your hotel room drunk ... and some kind of booze-soaked tragedy occurred. It's happened to us and while you may not remember it so clearly, we'd be willing to bet it's happened...
November 20, 2008
Paris' newest Philippe Starck-designed hotel, Mama Shelter, may just be the mother of all geek hotels (get it? Mama? Mother? Har har). No, but really: the new hotel, located in the Saint Blaise quartier (which is the 20th arrondissement and on the edge of Paris), has 174 "digital" guest...
November 07, 2008
The other day, we got a tip from a reader who let us know that there was a new hotel on the scene in Paris called Mama Shelter and it's from Philippe Starck! Here's what this covert tipster wrote us: designed by philippe Starck and run by the Trigano family...
October 08, 2008
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