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The Plaza Athénée's Eiffel Suite Goes Pink
When you stay in Paris, you'd best do Paris up right. If you're going to go, you should go all the way — live out all your Carrie Bradshaw-esque fantasies and just treat yourself to all the luxuries that a princess (or prince) such as yourself deserves.
And now you've got a new option for royal digs: the Eiffel Suite at Hotel Plaza Athénée. The property (yes, where the final two eppies of the Sex and the City series were filmed) just put the final touches on a newly revamped suite (complete with a connecting Superior Guestroom), and the space comes in around 300 square-meters, "dripping with costly fabrics, luscious colors and magnificent floor-to-ceiling views."
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Drunk on Champagne, High on LV at Radisson Blu Le Dokhan's
It appears Radisson Blu has somehow gotten into our Parisian daydreams, which go a little something like this: frolicking about the city looking at art all day, drinking champagne in an ornate bar all evening, and then riding up a magical elevator made out of Louis Vuitton bags to go to our sweet suite (um, then we eat chocolate and hang out with our lovah and go to sleep).
The brand new Radisson Blu Le Dokhan's, the latest property from the brand formerly known as Radisson SAS, makes the whole fantasy come true — well, the first part, anyway. The hotel, located in the 16th arrondissement, features 45 rooms accessible by — seriously — an elevator made from a vintage Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk. And it's an art hotel, too, with its own art collection on display year-round in addition to traveling exhibitions in the lobby.
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A New-Style Hotel in the Old Latin Quarter
Finding a decent hotel in Paris without shelling out a mint of euros has gotten harder and harder, even in the economic downturn. That’s why it’s so exciting to come across a new entry like the Hotel Sorbonne right in the shadow of the Pantheon in Paris’s fifth arrondisement.
The hotel’s façade is still undergoing a bit of renovation, so rooms in the front can be a little noisy, but this is Paris, what are you doing sitting around in your hotel room anyway? Besides, the cleaning should be done any day now, so go ahead and book it. And if you need a further incentive, um...look at what's on the desk in the hotel rooms. Yeah, we're thinking the same thing. Oooh la la.
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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.
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Inside The Hotel Lutetia
Although we don’t like to admit it, we often go by celeb guests when we’re deciding where to stay. So when we decided to take an empowered single lady trip to Paris, we took a leaf out of uber-empowered single Dita Von Teese, by going for the Left Bank Hotel Lutetia, where she’s apparently staying at the moment.
We didn’t catch Dita, or anyone else of note, but the bar is the place of choice for a host of French celebs – Carla Bruni used to be a regular before she became Mrs. Sarko, and Gerard Depardieu pops in most days. We can imagine that – it’s a gorgeous art deco hall with a couple of bronze statues propping up the lights, and panes of coloured glass on the ceiling.
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Homeless Shooed Away From Luxury Parisian Hotel
While the homeless were being treated at the Hyatt Regency Dallas, a different scene was unfolding in Paris in front of the Intercontinental Paris Le-Grand Hotel. France24 reports:
Several dozen protesters, mainly women and children, briefly occupied the entrance patio of one of France's most famous and prestigious hotels on Friday to demand better low-cost housing.
Around 50 police moved in and removed the group, many of them African immigrants, after they moved into the Intercontinental Paris-Le Grand on Place de l'Opera in the heart of Paris' main shopping and tourist district....
Their group, Right to Accommodation, is campaigning for homeless and poorly housed families to be provided with long-term low-cost housing by the French state, and has been fined in the past for camping on public thoroughfares.
The protestors were seeking a meeting with the prime minister's office. The hotel is a short walk away from where they have set up a squatters camp. It's also a top hotel for first class jet-setters as we learned last month. Fortunately, the protest did not turn violent although the police did break up the group. Let's hope the gendarmerie did not have to use any of that serious gear they were sporting.
[Photo via France24]
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Beyonce and Her Freakum Dress Prefer Le Meurice
The divalicious Beyonce, whose every move is worshiped by some of us here at HotelChatter HQ, was in Paris last night. She was spotted emerging from Hotel Le Meurice looking fly, naturally, in a blue Freakum Dress (note: if you've yet to convert to the church of Knowles, she has a song called "Freakum Dress" about a super fly dress much like this one).
Gossip Girls reminds us that she may have been on her way out to celebrate her Golden Globe nomination, which was announced yesterday — Knowles received a nod for Best Original Song for "Once in a Lifetime," a jam she co-wrote for the Cadillac Records soundtrack.
And just so we're clear: when we picture Beyonce in her posh suite at the ultra-expensive Le Meurice (single rooms start around $695 USD tonight), we like to think she's singing her song "Upgrade U", with its lyrics that mention things like purple labels, diamond cream facials, VVS cuff links and 6-star pent suites.
[Photo: Bauer Griffin via Gossip Girls]
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Mama Shelter is the Mother of All Geek Hotels
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 rooms that sort of give us of a trippy NYLO-meets-geek-chic vibe — with a techie twist.
French company DirectStreams has outfitted every guest room with an iMac — which, in itself, is nothing particularly groundbreaking given the number of hotels that are throwing iMacs into guestrooms nowadays — but Mama Shelter's actually act as comprehensive multimedia centers: a single terminal that offers every in-room digital service you're gonna need (HDTV, music, radio, CD, films, DVDs, Internet, etc.)
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Room with an Anti-View :: The Five Hotel's Top Floor
We are suckers for a room with a killer view. We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.
As you know, we loved our stay at The Five Hotel in Paris. We had one of the rooms on the top floor, nifty mood lighting, relaxing L'Occitane amenities and super comfy suspended bed.
In addition to that we loved the neighborhood and the friendly staff. Heck, we loved it all. Just like we pretty much loved all of Paris (except for stepping in dog poop on our last day but that's another story.)
The only thing however, not to love about The Five is this view from room 603. You are basically looking into other people's apartments. On the bright side, you're at the top so you do get some sunlight. That is, if the sun is shining.
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Where We Will Stay On Our Next Trip to Paris
The hotel is that smaller building after the corner building.
Yesterday we gave you a tour of the excellent Five Hotel in Paris which is where we spent our last night in the City of Light. But you know we will be going back to Paris again. Hopefully soon and we are already mulling over our options.
This one is first on our list, the The Hotel de LaTour Maubourg on Rue de Grenelle in the posh 7th Arrondissement. The hotel is across from a metro stop and a run, skip and a jump away from the Hotel Invalides (which is a not a hotel but actually an old, old, military hospital and is where Napolean is buried.) You can also get to the Eiffel Tower in a quick 10-minute walk.
The Hotel Tour Marlbourg is extremely small but it's in the best neighborhood. We spent five days in Paris in an apartment literally ten steps away from the hotel and we really grew attached to the area.
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Inside The Five Hotel in Paris
A while back we asked you readers to Pick a Hotel for HotelChatter in Paris and while we would have loved to stay at the Plaza Athenee or the George V, our budgets decided on a more affordable option in the Fifth Arrondissement called The Five Hotel. The hotel was a suggestion from reader WallaceGirl who totally went dark on us when we tried to contact her about "winning." Go figure.
But still we anticipated our stay at The Five Hotel all trip long. When we finally arrived in Paris for our last night, we headed straight to The Five Hotel. It's on a tiny little street called Rue de Flatters. And we mean tiny.
Tiny is also a good word to use when describing The Five. But in this case, tiny doesn't necessarily mean bad.
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Paris Hotel Scene:: A New Starck Hotel Arrives in the Form of Mama Shelter
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 (founders of Club Med). just opened a couple of weeks ago
Screeeech. Club Med and Philippe Starck together? Cannot be. But it is!
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