The Hotel Fouquet's BarriereNew hotels open all the time; new boutiques, new design hotels, new chain hotels. It’s not every day, though, that the curtain goes up on a new grand (...)
Standard Design Hotel ParisThe budget boutique has come to Paris. As improbable as it may seem in a city where high prices and high opulence rule the day, the Standard Design Hotel (...)
The Five HotelIt’s never easy to let go of a comfortable old idea. We’ve gone on and on in these pages over the years about what a conservative lot Paris’s hotels (...)
Sofitel Paris Le FaubourgLe Faubourg comprises two landmark buildings on rue Boissy d’Anglas, close to the Place de la Concorde. One of them was previously the headquarters of (...)
Relais ChristineA 16th-century abbey converted into a small and charmingly traditional boutique hotel would be special enough, were it located somewhere far out in the (...)
Radisson Blu Le Dokhan’S Hotel, Paris TrocaderoIn the crowded and often ostentatious world of Paris hotels, the Radisson SAS Dokhans sets itself apart—the feeling is less grand hotel, more private (...)
Pershing HallPershing Hall is named for the American general John Pershing, who used this nineteenth-century mansion as his headquarters during the First World War. (...)
Park Hyatt Paris - VendomeLeave the tourists to gawk at the ostentatious facade of the Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme. The smart money is on (and presumably in) the Park Hyatt (...)
Palais De La MediterraneeThe Palais de la Méditerranée is back, to add at least another chapter to its already storied history. The “Méd” opened in 1929, just months before (...)
One By The FiveIt had to come to this, didn’t it? Ever since luxury hotels began to shrink, emphasizing the privacy and exclusivity that only a small hotel can offer, (...)
LUMEN Paris LouvreA little explanation in order to properly introduce the new Hotel Lumen: Paris is in another league when it comes to hotels — its enormous volume of (...)
Hospes LancasterThe Hospes Lancaster is Paris’ most sophisticated gem: small and flawless without dazzle. Since this 1889 mansion was converted by hotelier Emile Wolf (...)
Mama ShelterThere’s a widening gap between the picture-book Paris and the real one. As with many great cities, New York and London among them, the center has a (...)
Les Sources De CaudalieIt’s a new twist on the traditional notion of the spa hotel. Les Sources de Caudalie, on the grounds of the Chateau Smith Haut-Lafitte vineyard, just a (...)
Le Relais De Franc MayneLe Relais de Franc Mayne is housed in a 16th-century château. Not the sprawling estate style that’s so common in the Bordeaux countryside, but the (...)
Le PrieureThe sensibly named Le Prieuré was built as a priory in the year 1322, but since the Mille family bought the place in 1943, it’s been the site of a more (...)
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