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This Man Won the Grammy of the Hotel Industry
So, Beyonce and Taylor Swift scooped up all the Grammys last night, but elsewhere in the world, another fierce competition was recently decided. We’re talking about the award for Receptionist of the Year.
This is no Office Space joke, but a very serious honor for the winner—which, this year, was Francois Lenne of Le Meurice in Paris. Lenne was granted the award at the Presidium of the International Association for Deputy Managers and Front Office Managers of Luxury Hotels, held in Madrid in January.
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From The Five Hotel in Paris Comes Hotel Le Seven
Last year, we stopped into a quaint little art/design hotel in Paris called The Five Hotel in the city's 5th Arrondissement. We loved the location, the hotel's individuality (no rooms are exactly alike), the seriously helpful service and the ceiling that lit up with different colored lights.
Which is why we are excited to hear that the Five Hotel's creators have another one in the works called Hotel Le Seven. However, the hotel is not in the 7th Arrondissement but rather in the Latin Quarter of the 5th, about a 10-minute walk from the Luxembourg gardens.
A tipster tipped us off to the hotel's new Facebook page where we learned that the Seven Hotel will have 28 "individually created guest rooms" but the coup de grace will be there seven suites, designed by seven different designers with different themes and interactive features. Here are the hotel's descriptions of a few of the seven suites:
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A Detox Hotel in Paris? Apparently so at The Hôtel Gabriel Paris Marais
Even if you binge on Cabernet Sauvignon and gorge too much on rich Camembert and Brie while in Paris, you won't have to abandon your resolution to get fit in '10. You can kick-start your plan at the Hôtel Gabriel Paris Marais, the City of Light's first detox hotel.
Don't worry, staying here won't be like an episode of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. Instead, the 40-room hotel takes a less invasive method of purging the toxins in your life—whether they be from stress, bad diet, sleeplessness or lack of exercise. The hotel focuses on creating a relaxing zen den where you can get some shut-eye.
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Hôtel de Sers Proves that Paris Can Get Cooler Than it Already Is
What's cooler than being cool? According to uber-hip website The Cool Hunter, Paris' Hôtel de Sers fits into said category. The City of Lights, with its ciggy-loving, blasé denizens, already ranks very high on the haute scale, so this hotel—which was a former mansion—fits right in.
The site gives kudos to its contemporary edge, saying, "[T]he current owners' expensive and extensive renovation retained the initial feel...of the original mansion, and managed to insert today's touches in a way that does not feel like a pretentious afterthought." A high class Parisian hotel that isn't pretentious? Quelle surprise!
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Snow Job: Hilton Arc de Triomphe's Outdoor Winter Bar
France and the U.S. might be in the midst of a cold trade war at the moment (can you believe how hard it’s become to get a smelly hunk of cheese or a nice bottle of wine for a decent price?), but the Hilton Arc de Triomphe is importing a couple of American customs this winter, including happy hour specials at their temporary outdoor “Snow Bar”.
Now through Christmas Day, the hotel is transforming its open-air “Andalusian Patio” into a winter-themed cocktail garden. The space is 8,600 square feet, making it one of the largest hotel gardens in Paris, with plenty of room for snow-covered Christmas trees and a chalet bar that will make you feel like you’ve swished your way to the slopes of St. Moritz.
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Paris Says Bonjour to a New InterContinental
Ah, gay Paree. If it’s not enticing us with slightly-less-heinous-than-usual rates, it’s calling us by opening a new hotel – the InterContinental Paris Avenue Marceau, near the Arc de Triomphe, which opened on Friday.
It’s pretty small (or should we say, petite) for an InterCon – just 55 rooms spread over three buildings around a courtyard. It’s pretty new, too – it used to be the Crowne Plaza Paris Champs Elysees, but even that only opened in 2008, so there’s not been much wear and tear to cover up here.
Decorwise, they’re aiming for a mix of “French classical and urban contemporary”, which probably explains the stripy carpets/cherub-spotted wallpaper combo. Weirdly, though, we kind of think it works. Meanwhile there’s Hermes in the bathroom and Missoni bedding (unstriped, luckily). The lobby’s another blast of messed up murals, modern chairs and frilly antique mirrors. We like.
The whole thing looks rather charmant, and rather unlike what we’d expect from an InterCon. Unfortunately, the prices are rather less so – from €270 ($386/£240) for a double, up to €910 for a suite. Paree, you better be worth it.
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InterContinental Le Grand Paris Has Been Invaded By Designer Christmas Trees
Trust Paris to trump the rest of us in the chic Christmas stakes. The InterContinental Paris Le Grand is making Noel tres fash this year with an exhibition of Sapins de Noel Fashion or “Fashion Christmas Trees”, designed by fashion students from the Paris Duperre Institute and judged by 15 French designers. Oui, seriously.
The competition has become an annual thing for the hotel (this is the third year) and this year, 30 students entered. The winner was Fusion glacée ( Icy Fusion) created by Floriane Leblong and Milane Pujolle – a plexiglass tree with snowflakes containing miniature trees inside. Tres compliqué but tres pretty – here it is.
Other efforts include a tree made of books, one made from lino “symbolizing the meeting of inferior matter with the noble majesty of the Christmas tree” and a rather charming hat made of Christmas fruits sprayed silver. See the whole lot on their Facebook page.
If you’re in need of inspiration for your own front room, the trees are on display throughout the ground floor of the hotel until January 2.
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Hilton Gets In On the Paris Hotel Package Bonanza—With Wine
OK, if it weren’t already obvious that we should be taking a winter jaunt to Paris, here we have yet another Paris hotel package deal that sounds, well, délicieuse. And that's not because of its sexy hotel name.
This time the package revolves around something we find it very hard to resist: French wine. This month is all about Beaujolais Nouveau. And even though it’s the time when your local wine store starts accepting its shipments of Beaujolais, surely a glass or three of the stuff would taste better in the mother land. That’s what Hilton is banking on with its new Wine Lovers package.
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The Hotel Ferrandi Is Dead, Long Live The, Um, 'BJ 2010'
Well here’s a way of getting our attention. The Hotel Ferrandi in Paris has closed for a rebuild, but lest you forget about it and fall for one of the establishments offering crazy deals all over the place, it’s making a bid for your attention by renaming the new hotel, BJ 2010.
Ok, it’s a codename for the rebuild project rather than a permanent moniker (at least, we sincerely hope), but still. The hotel’s blog says:
It’s our way of hiding the identity of the character who will be giving the hotel its new theme.
Er, whatever. We say it’s their way of getting our attention – and it’s worked.
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Here's Your Chance to Stay at the Ritz Paris For Slightly Less Than Normal
It used to be something of a tradition for Londoners to hop on the Eurostar for a quicky weekend in Paris – especially when it came to winter romance. But it obviously isn’t going so well at the moment, thanks to the insanely strong euro: Eurostar is currently bombarding London with ads, and Parisian hotels seeing to be flinging out special offers by the day.
Anyway, if you can bear the dreadful exchange rate, there are deals to be had. This week the Leading Hotels of the World group have jumped on the bandwagon, offering up to 30% off – which, when you’re talking hotels like the Ritz or the Crillon, is a pretty big deal.
With the Leading in Paris offer, starting rates are down to €590 at the Hotel Le Bristol, €550 at the Ritz, €530 at the Hotel de Crillon and €589 at the Hotel Fouquet’s Barrière. Slightly cheaper are the Hotel Lancaster from €370, or the Hotel Raphael from €365 (the Raphael will also chuck in breakfast and a special “welcome gift).
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Lindsay Lohan Loves The Plaza Athenée But Not as Much as Herself
The Terrace Eiffel Suites at The Plaza Athenée.
Nothing Lindsay Lohan ever tweets about really makes sense, except when she's trying to promote her 6126 leggings line, her Sevin Nyne spray tan lotion and her work for the fashion house of Emanuel Ungaro and even those tweets aren't all that well-crafted. The same goes for her tweets about hotels too. The other day she tweeted:
I love Emanuel Ungaro and I miss Paris and the Plaza Athenée
This was followed by a picture link which we eagerly clicked because we thought it would be a pic of her room at the luxury hotel but alas, it was just a pic of her attempting to look seductive. Boo.
Fortunately, we still have these killer views that a tipster sent us last month that we can drool over.
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Paris, The City, Is Working Hard for Our Money
Oh look, something’s trying to tell us to go to Paris. Yesterday we had the Hotel Bel Ami and the Edouard 7 offering us money off and fixed dollar rates to come on over; today it’s the turn of the recently renovated, nifty-looking Hotel Jules.
Stay one or two nights from now until December 29, and they’ll 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? They’ll give it you for €130 ($192/£118) on a weekend, or €144 ($213/£130) on a weekday. Just look for the SMART rate on the list of special offers on the website.
VAT is included, but a city tax of a measly €1 per person is not. You know what that is? It’s a call on behalf of your loved ones to do your Christmas shopping en France. Allons-y!
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