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Calm by the Canal at Le Citizen Hotel Paris
I’ve been lucky to stay in most Paris neighbourhoods on the numerous trips to my spiritual home, but the Canal Saint-Martin has long been neglected due to the lack of decent hotels in the 10th….that is, until now! The Canal … Continue reading
Posted in Hotels - Design, Paris
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From the catwalk to the lobby…
Fashion hotels are spreading like wild fire and any designer worth their salt has translated their style DNA into interiors and furnishing. It seems like a no brainer that fashion designers should try their hand at designing hotels. They have … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Hotels - Design, Hotels - Luxury, Milan, News, Paris
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Stylish sleeping on the Left Bank
The Left Bank is synonymous with literary cafes, the Existential philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, boutique art galleries and gauche chic designers like Yves Saint Laurent and Sonia Rykiel. Nowadays, the philosophers may have decamped from the Café … Continue reading
Posted in France, Hotels - Design, Paris
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Boutique Budget Hotel at the Bastille
Christmas time in London is always magical, with ice skating at Somerset House, German markets in Hyde Park and Covent Garden’s piazza all lit up, but after what feels like a lifetime since the last summer beach holiday, I’m just … Continue reading
Posted in France, Hotels, Hotels - Budget, Hotels - Design, Paris
Tagged 12e arondissement, affordable hotel, bakery, bastille, Boulevard de Reuilly, boutique hotel, budget hotel, café crème, chic, covent garden, Design Hotel, double room, east Paris, Eastern Paris, Granny Smith apples, hotel costes, hotel deals, hyde park, Le Quartier Bastille Le Faubourg, Le Quartier Bercy-Square, lounge, madame figaro, opera bastille, Paris, pastries, République, Rue de Reuilly, Rue du Faubourg St-Antoine, somerset house, the marais
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Mama knows best…
After years of searching for that perfect Paris hotel, I never thought the answer to my prayers would be found way out in the 20th arrondissement! Le quartier Saint-Blaise may not have the elegant appeal of Hausmann’s linear boulevards, but … Continue reading
Posted in France, Hotels, Hotels - Budget, Hotels - Design, Paris
Tagged 20 arrondissement, apple imac, bar and terrace, Belleville, boutique hotel, Cimetière Père Lachaise, club med, cyril aouizerate, Design Hotel, Eastern Paris, gambetta, hip hotel, industrial refuge, industrial-chic, kiehls, la bellevilleoise, la fleche d'or, Mama Shelter, Menilmontant, Paris, Phillippe Starck, postmodern, Rue de Bagnolet, Rue Oberkampf, Saint-Blaise, summer BBQ, trigano
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