I heard rumours about bad customer service here (fancy being kept waiting in the lobby after a transatlantic flight for hours until your room is ready?) but the rooms are just divine and the bar is a lot of fun too.
Murano Urban Resort
13 Bld du Temple
75003 Paris
T: +33 01 42 71 20 00
For over-the-top opulence you won't go wrong at the the Hôtel Meurice, opposite the Tuileries gardens. Make time for lunch and indulge your Louis Quinze fantasies. Michelin starred chef, Yannick Alléno has made it one of the most sought after tables in town since his arrival in 2003. He won a third star before turning 40 - pas mal.
Le Meurice
228 rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
T:+33 1 44 58 10 10
Something funky had to happen in the 16eme so a big round of applause for Hotel Sezz. A personal assistant service is available and the rooms are huge. It’s the first hotel designed completely by Christophe Pillet, a protégé of Philippe Starck.
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Not many of the people I advised to invest in Max Dormy and Chateau Rouge took me up on it. Okay, it's for the fearless, long-term investor but speculators are supposed to have balls. If you want to be a pioneer you have to be brave.
Maybe now that "Kube" has opened they'll believe me.
Kube
1-5 Passage Ruelle
Paris, 75018
Three 100m² apartments in a converted loft, not far from his Marais boutique. The "king of cling" conceived each space, complete with kitchen. Furnishings by Jean Prouvé, Jean Nouvel and Arne Jacobson complete the understated "non-hotel" concept.
Azzedine Alaïa "Hotel"
5 rue de Moussy
01 42 72 19 19 - ask for Patrice
I had to give up my obsession with staying in boutique hotels because I rarely leave Paris -- except for long-haul trips to far-flung places where they don't have boutique hotels. But it would be fun to have a romantic evening in the 9th arrondissement, in the area once known as Nouvelle-Athenes...
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The Hotel du Petit Moulin is a converted fin de siécle bakery in Le Marais, the oldest in Paris dating from Henry IV. And that's not all - this is where Victor Hugo used to purchase his baguettes........ The 17 room hotel is gorgeous and the interior is designed by my fave French colourist Christian Lacroix (darling). Who else could mix "zen" and Toile de Jouy? It has seventeen rooms, all different and starts at 180 euros a night. Definitely where Eddie and Pats would stay.
4* Hôtel du Petit Moulin
29/31 rue du Poitou, 75003
This famous doss-spot is just as good as ever - a reasonably priced treat, a short stroll from the Seine. The murals in each chamber are worth seeing and one of the rooms includes a hammam. This charming accomodation supplies perfumed French linens and big showerheads. The hotel also offers a coin operated washer and dryer; and on the first floor, you have an entry towards a wild garden, where you can sit around a table and enjoy a bit of calm in the midst of the hustle bustle of St. Germain.
NO, they don't take credit cards for reservations, you have to just turn up.
The Café au Lit is a gallery, and surprisingly enough, serves as a boutique hotel as well. Didier Fiuza Faustino designed the gallery/hotel, but many rooms are decorated with other young artists' work. In this clever combination of design one can relax amongst fascinating works of contemporary art. Read more on I V Y paris' Gridskipper article
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