Hotels Paris Rive Gauche

Paris Plage might get all the media attention, but this sweet mini-festival looks promising too. Let's just hope the weather holds up...
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photo : Rod @ le-hiboo.com

samedi 31 mai 2008

The Hôtel du Panthéon gets a facelift

After months of sandblasting and repairs, the brand new facade of the Hôtel du Panthéon can be seen at last...
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photos : jasonw

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vendredi 30 mai 2008

Villette Sonique electronic music festival from 3rd - 8th June 2008

A festival that tries to avoid big names and often serves up some exciting surprises. So get your throbbing gristle and go team!
Hotel Paris

vendredi 23 mai 2008

A secret rose garden in Paris

Although technically a public garden, it's so well hidden you could almost call it secret...
Hotel Paris

photos : jasonw

jeudi 15 mai 2008

Got 300,000 euros? Why not buy one of André Breton's original manuscripts?

Sotheby's are having an auction of rare manuscripts by the surrealist theorist...
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vendredi 9 mai 2008

Solidays - massive Parisian music festival not to be missed

For its tenth year, this enormous three-day festival of rock and electronic music has pulled out all the stops. If you're a music-lover in Paris between the 4th and 6th June 2008, you know where to go...
Hotel Paris

mercredi 30 avril 2008

Blowing our own trumpet - our brilliant (and useful) blog!

Just a reminder of the wonders you'll find every day on our blog...
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vendredi 25 avril 2008

Quick quiz - where are these people?

Was trying out my mega-zoom yesterday during a particularly warm day in Paris. So where are these people standing? Click on to find out...
Hotel Paris

photo (c) jasonw

Question rapide - où se trouvent ces personnes ?

Il faisait très beau à Paris hier (enfin, avant qu'il ne pleuve des cordes en début de soirée...) et j'en ai profité pour prendre des photos avec mon méga-zoom. Ici, par exemple. Est-ce que vous savez où se trouvent ces personnes ? Cliquez sur le lien ci-dessous pour la réponse...
Hotel Paris

photo (c) jasonw

jeudi 24 avril 2008

Les Créateurs ont du Coeur - get cheap designer clothes and help the fight against AIDS

For the 19th year running, from 1st - 3rd May 2008, charity Arcat is organising a giant sale of clothes and other objects, all donated by famous designers (over 200 of them!). Your chance to spend less, look good and do good.
Hotel Paris

mercredi 23 avril 2008

The Fornarina Urban Beauty Show descends on Paris

Very clearly a promotional excuse to raise the profile of their women's clothes brand, Fornarina are putting on a special - free - event that mixes fashion, music and art. A 'happening' I suppose you could call it...
Hotel Paris

lundi 31 mars 2008

Presenting our new hotel - the Hôtel Ferrandi!

It's not every day we add a new hotel to the group, so we're proud to say that our latest venture, the Hôtel Ferrandi, is now up and running! It's early days yet, and we intend to make quite a few changes, but here are some photos to give you an idea of the charm of our new establishment...
Hotel Paris

photos : Jérôme d'Almeida

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lundi 10 mars 2008

A daffodil for life 2008 - supporting Cancer research with the Institut Curie

A chance to see 50,000 daffodils on the Place du Panthéon!

photo : equichick8

mercredi 5 mars 2008

France's new stamp, with Marianne - not Carla

Each few years the face of the basic stamps for sending letters in France changes. And of course the prices go up...
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mercredi 27 février 2008

A few photos of the 'Maison de Bellefontaine' before work starts...

We decided to visit the 'Maison de Bellefontaine' which is going to be renovated to become a centre run by the Coeur de Femmes association...

mercredi 20 février 2008

The fountain at Saint-Sulpice gets a major cleanup - the photos and the film!

Although the nearby church is still being restored, the newly-cleaned fountain was unveiled on 13th February 2008

photo : jasonw

vendredi 15 février 2008

It's official: we are chic and intimate

The Hôtel des Grands Hommes is featured in a new book about Paris' loveliest hotels...

vendredi 1 février 2008

Paris buses drive into the 21st Century

OK, technically speaking, Paris buses are already in the 21st Century. Isn't it funny how 'space age', 'the year 2000' and 'the 21st Century' are no longer any good as shorthand for all things futuristic? Despite this, we wanted to tell you about the Paris bus system trying out new technology called a Data Matrix to tell you when your bus is coming...

jeudi 31 janvier 2008

Mysterious photographer Bart Omeo is back

We hadn't heard much from Bart Omeo since he 'disappeared' at the Hôtel Jardin de l'Odéon in August 2006, but apparently he's back in Paris, documenting the sunrise...

mercredi 23 janvier 2008

The Silence of the Bees - a bee movie with a difference

Never been to the Géode? No idea what I'm talking about? Read on...
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photo by Jude