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Here's Your Chance to Stay at the Ritz Paris For Slightly Less Than Normal

Where: 15 Place Vendome, Paris, France, 75041

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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Hotel Ritz in Paris Kicks Up Its Heels With High Fashion

Where: 15 Place Vendome, Paris, France, 75041

More often than not, the lives of the fabulously fashionable and fashionably fabulous intersect with hotel lobbies and bars, giving us regular folk a glimpse into their gilded partying. The latest raucous affair went down this week in the bar of The Ritz in Paris, when the "Eroticism" issue of Acne Paper Magazine was celebrated with burlesque performers, of course, and plenty of flashbulbs.

The big news is not so much the party, but rather what will come of it; during the fete, designer Alber Elbaz of French luxury label Lanvin photographed instead of drank and schmoozed, as he was shooting for his next menswear campaign.

This is reminiscent of the time that Jimmy Choo's ads were all done at The Plaza. Perhaps next time we accidentally wander into the midst of a hotel party, which we've totally done before, we'll end up appearing in a Vogue ad spread; probably not, but a girl can dream.

[Photo: Olivier Zahm]

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HotelChatter Question :: How Did Raffaello Follieri Manage Not To Pay His Hotel Bill?

This week's HotelChatter Question comes from yours truly and it has to do with hotel bills, everyone's favorite topic.

Now, every single time we have checked into and out of a hotel, the hotel has always had the credit card that we used to book the room on file. Once we've checked out, either that card or a different one that we put down at check-in is charged.

This has never not happened. That credit card, whichever one it may be, is always charged. And more often than we like, it is charged with some additional fees on it that we did not order or use. Like getting charged twice to use the internet when we only used it once. (This happens a lot.)

But we are not here to ask you about your favorite bill-reviewing method. Or even what hotels frequently mischarge you for. (Although, that could be a good question later.)

No. Today we want to know how the #$&@!% Raffaello Follieri, Anne Hathaway's dashing ex-boyfriend/con man, managed to stiff the Ritz Hotel in Paris out of 4,551.70 Euros.

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