HotelChatter - Tag: Cannes Hotels

Cannes: A Night at The 3.14 Hotel: What It's Really Like in Cannes

juliana — 2009-08-10T17:28:09-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/314_cannes.JPG" class="top">The 3.14 Hotel overlooks the storied Carlton Intercontinental hotel.For most of us, heading to Cannes, the land of celebrities, yachts and movies, is a pipe dream. Probably something we could only do when we're old and have saved up enough money. But we'll be old then. Thank god we can live vicariously through <a href="http://www.jetsetlife.tv">Jet Set Life's</a> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/JetSetLife">Kimberly Murgatroyd</a> who gives us yet another hotel review. This time, it's the funkee (in a French accent) <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/3.14+Hotel/ian/242910">3.14 Hotel</a>. Enjoy.Coming of the heels of my St. Tropez vacation, I headed to Cannes for a six-night stay at the kitschy <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/3.14+Hotel/ian/242910">3.14 Hotel</a>. I chose this hotel primarily for it's prime location and said to be unique design concept.

Cannes: After the Stars Leave Cannes, The Perks Pick Up at The Hotel Martinez

juliana — 2009-05-15T16:42:49-05:00

<![CDATA[ <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/martinezext80euros.jpg" class="top"> The Cannes Film Festival is in full-swing right now which means celebs and their entourages have taken all the best hotel rooms and their mere presence has jacked up the rates at any other hotel you may consider staying at. But of course, once the celebs leave the prices come down to back down to earth. And at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Martinez/ian/144903">Hotel Martinez</a>, you will get a little bit of a kickback.To celebrate its 80th anniversary, the hotel is offering guests who stay three consecutive nights a resort credit of 80 Euros, per person which can be used at the hotel's restaurants (including <a href="http://www.hotel-martinez.com/en/dining/dining01.aspx">La Palme d'Or</a>), bars and spa.The offer begins for stays starting June 1

HotelChatter Reader Deals :: The French Want Some American Green

KatieK — 2008-08-27T15:50:11-05:00

Fixed Dollar Rates in France!

The French are adorable, no? As snooty and self-righteous as ever (ahem, unjustified Olympics smack-talking), those zany Frenchies still seem to be slaves to the American tourist's dollar. And since the dollar is as puny as ever, some French hotels are proffering fixed-dollar rates in the hopes of attracting more cash-strapped Americans.

Cannes: French TV Crew Invades Madonna's Hotel in Cannes

juliana — 2008-05-28T12:22:30-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/madonnacannes.jpg" class="imgborder">We've avoided covering the hotel scene at the <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/city/Cannes">Cannes Film Festival</a> this year largely because the same shizz happens every year, practically on auto-pilot. Expensive hotels get more expensive, movies get booed and applauded, Sharon Stone walks the red carpet over and over and nothing really truly of interest happens.Except when it happens to Madonna. Apparently, Madge was holed up in the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/InterContinental+Carlton+Cannes/local/776">Intercontinental Carlton Hotel</a> in Cannes last week while there to promote her documentary, "I Am Because We Are", about orphans in Malawi. But she got pissed when she saw that a French TV crew had managed to sneak into her suite and film the place, including the special water and gym equipment she had