HotelChatter

Tags: Hotel Hype / Paris Hotel Scene / W Hotels / Starwood Hotels / Hotel News / → All Tags

Are We Supposed to Call The W Paris 'Double Vé?'

C'est bon: W is coming to Paris! Except maybe we're supposed to say "double vé" when we say it out loud? Our American "double-you Paris" sounds significantly less schmaltzy than the "double vé Par-ee" it's probably supposed to be — but after consistently butchering French hotel names in the U.S. (let's just say "L'Ermitage" doesn't always roll off the tongue beautifully), perhaps we best not try.

Anyway, great news: W Hotels has announced plans to open their very first Paris property by 2011. It will be close to Place Vendome, in the Opéra area of the city. According to the press release:

W Paris-Opéra will feature 90 stylish guest rooms, a world-class contemporary restaurant and destination bar, a state-of-the-art fitness facility with spa treatment rooms, and W Hotels' signature lounge experience where guests are invited to mix, mingle and relax in a chic social atmosphere.

The hotel will be inside a "quintessentially Parisian" 1870s Haussmann-era building, close to the Galleries Lafayette. This is W's first foray into the France hotel scene, but Starwood's been there for a while: the hotel giant has six properties in France under the Sheraton, Le Méridien, Westin and The Luxury Collection flags.