HotelChatter - Tag: France Hotels

Nantes: Wanna Live Like a Hamster for a Day? There's a Hotel For That

juliana — 2009-11-17T09:26:33-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/HAMSTER_1524575c.jpg" class="top"> And we though <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fursuit">Furries</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plushophile">Plushies</a> were bad but it turns out there might be a whole other subculture of people who want to live like hamsters. Yes, hamsters. Your fourth grade class pet. At least that's what two architects in France, Frederic Tabary (pictured as a hamster) and Yann Falquerho, are hoping. The duo who run a company that rents out "unusual venues to adventure-seekers" have created a "hotel room" inside an 18th century building that resembles the inside of a hamster's cage, complete with a giant hamster wheel. You sleep in hay stacks and feast on hamster grain and when you get bored you can go for a run.The cost is 99 Euros

Paris: Paris, The City, Is Working Hard for Our Money

juliab — 2009-10-28T12:29:25-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/jules.jpg" class="top"> Oh look, somethings trying to tell us to go to Paris. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/27/122136/06/hotels/French_Hotels_Claim_They_ll_Cure_Your_Winter_Blahs_">Yesterday</a> we had the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Bel+Ami/ian/109085">Hotel Bel Ami</a> and the Edouard 7 offering us money off and fixed dollar rates to come on over; today its the turn of the recently renovated, nifty-looking <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Jules/ian/256628">Hotel Jules</a>. Stay one or two nights from now until December 29, and theyll not only knock 20% off the price making rooms start from 160 ($237/£145) weekends and 172 ($254/£156) on weekdays - but throw in a buffet breakfast for free. Want to stay an extra night? Theyll give it you for 130 ($192/£118) on a weekend, or 144 ($213/£130) on a weekday. Just look for the SMART rate

Missillac: French Hotels Claim They'll Cure Your 'Winter Blahs'

juliab — 2009-10-27T12:47:31-05:00

<![CDATA[ <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/belami1.jpg" class="top">Hotel Bel-Ami in Paris. A "cure for the winter blahs" - now thats some claim for a hotel group to be making. Bessé Signature Hotels, which owns a ménage a trois of hotels in France, is promising to wipe away yours with special rates. Stay at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+De+La+Bretesche/ian/207009">Domaine de la Bretesche</a> in Brittany, and youll save 35% with the Winter Promotion rate rooms start at 190 ($282/£172) per night instead of the normal 295, until March 22, 2010. Not bad although, having been to Brittany in the winter, we can vouch for there not being a whole lot of stuff to do. But the hotel looks pretty lovely like a modern(ish) castle (its

Nice: Even Bomb Threats Are Chic At French Riviera Hotels

JetSetCD — 2009-08-19T10:13:46-05:00

Thanks to a bomb scare which turned out to be a false alarm, the French Riviera became everything we've imagined and more yesterday. When the posh seaside Hotel Negresco alerted its 158 guests and staff to a bomb threat, they fled the building in all states at the break of dawn.

Among them was French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaulthier, who fled the hotel clad only in a white dressing gown and joined other alarmed guests by the beach. Apparently the bomb threat was called in by a woman who said that it would detonate at 6:00 AM, and when it hadn't by 7:00 AM, the scene dispersed and the hotel returned to normal.

Courchevel: Courchevel's Newest Refurb Adds a Snow Cave and Sexy Hot Tubs

juliab — 2009-07-15T16:06:04-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/airelles.jpg" class="top"> Date for your diaries: December. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+De+Charme+Les+Airelles/ian/131733">Les Airelles</a> in Courchevel has just been given five star status by FAGIHT, the Federation Autonome Generale de lindustrie Hoteliere Touristique (which, for those of us who dont speak French, is an association of seasonal-opening hotels). Les Airelles is one of six Courchevel gaffes on the FAGIHTs books (there are 11 across the country) to be awarded five stars. And its not that surprising; its coming to the end of a three year, 35 million revamp, which will be unveiled when it opens for the season in December. Rooms and suites have been refurbished, theres a Valentino boutique, a 7000 square foot "spa and snow cave" (for between saunas), and a