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The Palace at Versailles Will Soon Have a Hotel Inside of It

December 16, 2010 at 11:25 AM | by | Comment (1)

Cheesy Dream Confession: It has long been our dream to twirl in front of the mirrors in the Hall of Mirrors at The Palace of Versailles just outside of Paris. And now with a luxury hotel set to open inside the palace at the end of 2011, our dream might just come true.

France24 reports:

The project is expected to transform the Hotel du Grand Controle into a 23-bedroom hotel scheduled to open in late 2011. Some of those rooms will overlook the “Orangerie”, an elaborate greenhouse featuring lemon trees and orange trees.

The Hotel du Grand Controle, despite its name was not an actual working hotel, but rather a place for the palace treasurers to crash. Now it looks like it will be transformed into a proper hotel for guests.

There's no word on what those room rates are going to be like but hey, this is the Palace of Versailles, budget accordingly. Meanwhile, if you're looking to stay near Versailles on your next trip, you can stay at the Trianon Palace, a Waldorf-Astoria collection hotel, which is less than a mile from the real Palace.

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Some help with your facts...

"The Hotel du Grand Controle, despite its name was not an actual working hotel, but rather a place for the palace treasurers to crash."

Nope. And you're not the first Anglophone to get this wrong.

The French word "hôtel" was used throughout French history to refer to buildings that "hosted" something or someone, so the famous "Hôtels Particuliers" were private mansions, not hotels for tourists. And the Hôtel de Ville is city hall. Not the mayor's hotel.

In this instance, it was where the financial controllers for the king worked, and later was used as a military canteen. But it was never a place where anyone ever slept. Or "crashed". ;-)

Regards,
Heather (http://www.secretsofparis.com)

Heather Stimmler Hall on December 17, 2010 at 1:46 PM #Permalink

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