Calling all mushroom lovers: the Concorde Hotel chain of Paris has the ultimate special for you this mushroom season. Chefs across the Concordes in Paris have chosen their "favorite fungus" and created a special dish, to be served up in the hotels between October 14 and November 2.
Perhaps you need to reserve your room based on what particular mushroom dish you fancy. For example, the Hotel Concorde La Fayette is offering a risotto using a Shimeji mushroom, while the Hotel Ambassador Opera is throwing Girolle mushrooms into a few dishes--including a risotto. At the Hotel Concorde Montparnasse it's the Oyster mushroom that gets the job of jazzing up a fish dish and at the Hotel Concorde Saint Lazare the Chanterelle mushroom is going in a fondue, among other things. And we wouldn't want to leave out the Hotel Lutetia, whose chef decided on throwing Autumn Truffles into a few dishes.
If you're not such a big fan of mushrooms, it looks like this is not the right season for you in Paris. Please come back some other time.
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.
With a few of our big financial institutions falling out of the sky and our analysts all jittery, Concorde Hotels is inviting travellers to bet on the volatility of the currency markets when booking their holiday. What do you think of this deal?
In other words, the dollar rate you see when booking is the dollar rate you'll pay when you stay, regardless of any fluctuations in the euro/dollar exchange rates.
We're used to 'romantic weekend' hotel packages and 'winter break' special deals, but Concorde Hotels in Paris is now offering a Marie Antoinette package.
Marie Antoinette was that 18th-century It girl who married the French King Louis XVI aged 14, spent the country's money on dresses and jewellery, ate too much, drank too much, partied too hard, and ended up not legless but headless when the French peasants revolted and guillotined the royal family. We can think of quite a few modern-day Marie-Antoinettes....no names mentioned.
So what does a Marie Antoinette hotel package consist of? Eating too much, drinking too much, spending too much on dresses and jewellery and, er, well, hopefully not the last part?
In a European first among four and five star hotels, Concorde Hotels has announced the kind of deal that could blow its competitors out of the water permanently - or at least until they follow suit.
This week Concorde launch the 100% WiFi, 100% free deal across 15 of their European hotels, ensuring free, secure internet access, wherever your travels might take you. The French company boasts seven hotels in Paris alone, as well as additional free WiFi hotels in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Prague, Rome and Berlin, to name but a few.
Now you can have 24-hour free internet access for the duration of your stay, an essential for business travelers or for those who wanting to upload their holiday pics to Facebook instantly.
Another feather in Concorde's cap is the host of top-shelf restaurants that the chain has become renowned for, with at least ten of the hotels' restaurants having acquired international recognition.
"Sharing a singular pursuit of perfection that is the mark of exceptional hospitality", Concorde seem to be devotees of the notion that the way to a customer's heart is through their stomach (with free WiFi thrown in for good measure!)
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by amandak
In a European first among four and five star hotels, 
