Have you found a hotel like none other? Share your positive or negative experiences at your hotel in Paris - and we will post it.
Yesterday I mentioned that the City of Light still has a way to go in providing access to the physically impaired.
Some steps have been taken since 1997 to create a more friendly city toward those with disabilities. In 2001, an official label was designated for wheelchair accessible sights, but when you look at the list of museums that are accessible to the blind - the list is mighty slim i.e Le Musee du Vin and La Cite des Sciences for starters.
Maybe the Braille Graffiti artist will remind art museums in Paris that braille ‘etiquettes’ …
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How trustworthy are internet hotel reviews? I’m just putting this question out there because I’m constantly amazed at the variety of reviews one can find for the same Paris hotel! You’d think ten people must have stayed at ten totally different hotels.
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The first time I heard about the Hotel Lutetia was when Eva and Werner Bernstein came to Paris. Werner and Eva met in Rochester, New York. She was a dentist and he showed up in her office just as she was getting ready to finish up for the day. As he sat in her dentist chair, he looked up at Eva and decided on the spot - love at first sight! Eva and Werner had much in common - they were both Jewish refugees from Europe during World War II.
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In the last week, we’ve been on a number of planes and trains, and I have to admit, train travel is more conducive to talk. If you plan on traveling by train while you’re in France - and you like to like to chat - I’d suggest getting one of the ‘old-fashioned’ 2nd class compartments.
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For as long as tourists have been visiting Paris, writers far more talented than this blogger have been giving advice about how to pick out a good hotel - what is truly amazing though, when you’re talking about Paris, some of these hotels are still in business. Which means that they must have been doing something right for the past hundred years or more.
Thackery gives some advice for fresh arrivals regarding the Hotel Meurice on Rue de Rivoli. He suggests that upon arrival when you’re surrounded by touts approaching you with phrases in broken English, …
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Paris Girl at the Ritz - Long, long ago.
Princess Diana spent her last night at the Ritz Hotel in Paris- and judging by the current rates, you had better be royalty or something close to royalty to even consider staying at this hotel. A simple room - plain vanilla - will set you back between 700 to 800 Euros for one night.
And just for the fun of it, take a look at the Prestige Suites - starting at 2000 Euros for the Chopin suite and finishing up with the Imperial suite, …
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If you’ve been cruising the net lately, you’re bound to have run into Oliver Servat, Hotel Manager for the Meridien Montparnasse Hotel, at 19 Rue Commandant Mouchotte, Paris 14eme.
Photo from www.venere.com
He’s taking on customer complaints, one at a time. In the good ole US of A, we’d call this ‘good follow up’.
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There are two kinds of luxury hotels in Paris, those that beat their chests and dominate the boulevard, and those that prefer to take a step back from the main avenues, and let you find them (however years it may take). This is the case with the Victoria Palace Hotel, a family-run four-star hotel, located just off the busy Rue de Rennes shopping street.
Because I live in Paris, I don’t sleep in luxury hotels, but that doesn’t stop me from being nosey and walking into the lobby which is carefully attended by a greeter at the front door. How is possible that I’ve walked past this hotel dozens of times on my way to FNAC? Because, to notice the tidy pierre-de-taille façade and neatly trimmed shrubbery, you’d have to walk down the narrow street connecting Rue Blaise Desgoffe to Rue de Rennes. The Hotel Victoria is tucked in between FNAC and ZARA, but far enough from the noise and the hubbub to remain a bemused observer.
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This may come as a surprise to you, but five-star hotels do not exist in Paris. The most famous hotels in Paris such as the Ritz and the Crillon are called 4-Star hotels ‘de luxe’. 4-Star Luxury Hotels. So, when you hear about 5-Star Cuisine and 5-Star Hotels, this is more often the work of over-enthusiastic brochure writers. I’ve noticed that ‘5-Star’- cuisine is particularly a cruise-talk cliche.
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There are certain times of year when you might want to consider booking a hotel in advance, in Paris, especially in September/October when the fashion industry is in town or if there’s a big show going on at the Porte de Versailles convention center, but in the summertime, there are tons of hotels from which to choose. You might actually even save some money by waiting until you get to Paris rather than booking in advance. (On the other hand, I just checked out BNALLS’s listing of Paris Hostels/Hotels at prices in US Dollars that look very competitive with what you would find if you were already in Paris).
Another option is booking a hotel for one night, decide if you like the hotel well enough to stay for an additional few nights or look elsewhere for the next night.
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