Wednesday 30 May 2012
Yann Casparini I am a hotel manager. With a hundred of contemporary hotel managers we created this travel magazine to share our selection of addresses and tips.
Yann Casparini

Jean-Francois Piege’s hotel stop-off

• 18 Feb, 2011 • Catégorie: France, Getaway, Gourmet, One hotel a day, Paris

After working as a Chef for the best Parisian hotels, from the Crillon to the Plaza Athénée, Jean-François Piège spread his wings and created with Thierry Costes a hotel in his own image, where he welcomes his guests a little like home: the Thoumieux. With 15 rooms, this hotel gambles on privacy and cosiness [...]



Citizen Hotel: the little world of Arletty

• 11 Feb, 2011 • Catégorie: France, One hotel a day, Paris, Waterfront

Emerging from the heart of the poetic Paris alongside the Canal St-Martin, the Citizen Hotel is surprising because of its length. In this popular Paris where Arletty seems to be haunting the streets, Christophe Delcourt and Stéphane Lanchon designed a young and refined decor, very urban and ecofriendly.

The 12 rooms of the hotel are [...]



Le Pavillon des Lettres: a midsummer night’s dream

• 24 Jan, 2011 • Catégorie: France, One hotel a day, Paris

“And I, in my bedchamber, will not think at all” (A Dream, Alfred de Musset). This is exactly what the new Parisian hotel Le Pavillon des Lettres offers: don’t think at all, live in a comfort zone where you can work as well as you can daydream or read. Le Pavillon des Lettres pays tribute [...]



Westin Paris-Vendome : The fairytale hotel

• 22 Dec, 2010 • Catégorie: France, Gourmet, One hotel a day, Paris, Romantic

It’s 7 in the morning. A nice ray of sunshine wakes you up. Still asleep, you stagger to the window and pull the curtains. In front of you, Paris offers a wonderful sight : the Tuileries Garden at dawn and a few brave joggers. Paris is still sleeping. You are hesitating, will you have your [...]



Hotel 7 Eiffel : the elegance of a 4 star hotel

• 17 Dec, 2010 • Catégorie: France, One hotel a day, Paris

When we arrive in the rue de Grenelle in Paris, we almost expect to meet the dear Madame Renée, the crabby but intelligent concierge of The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Once at the entrance of the rue Amélie, we know that we will want to live in this district forever because there is a particular [...]



Hotel Marais Bastille : at the heart of the Marais

• 24 Nov, 2010 • Catégorie: One hotel a day, Paris

Not far from the concept-store Merci and the Cirque d’Hiver, sheltered by the boulevard Richard Lenoir and its vegetable beds, there is a hotel of 37 rooms, entirely renovated last summer. Its name escapes you ? Though, the Hotel Marais Bastille has been decorated by the interior designer Michel Jouannet, who made the Villa Madame [...]



The Royal Monceau : A Palace !

• 22 Oct, 2010 • Catégorie: France, One hotel a day, Paris

After a successful « demolition party » and not less than two years of works, the Royal Monceau imagined by Philippe Starck finally reopened its doors !  On the menu : a palace where emotion, originality, and “Parisianism” are mixed ! First hotel of the group Raffles in Europe, and thus in France, the Royal [...]



Hotel Athénée: Paris, luxurious capital

• 11 Oct, 2010 • Catégorie: One hotel a day, Paris, Romantic

Jacques Garcia is not known for its minimalism sense. Specialist of the neo-Gothic and Napoleon III style, he sometimes knows how to do less.  As proof of, he has just signed the decoration of the new Hotel Athénée, located just steps from the Opéra Garnier. The hotel is certainly full of red velvet, marble columns [...]



Hotel Pont Royal : a literary hotel

• 6 Oct, 2010 • Catégorie: France, Historical, One hotel a day, Paris, Romantic

“On ne naît pas Bar, on le devient” ( in english : If you are not born as Bar, you can become it ). With those few words, Simone de Beauvoir has imaged a place where Letters men and women can love, stare, share and laugh. In Paris, a few hotel bars obtained the favours [...]



Le Secret de Paris : A Parisian adventure

• 1 Oct, 2010 • Catégorie: France, One hotel a day, Paris, Romantic, Unusual hotels

Paris, 7.30pm, somewhere on the quays. The Musée d’Orsay has just closed its doors and its treasures fall in the arms of Morpheus. What a pity ! You would have loved to spend a night in the heart of this museum. Sad but determined to live your dream, you choose to stay at the Secret [...]



Hotel de Notre Dame : the romantic Latin Quarter

• 20 Sep, 2010 • Catégorie: France, One hotel a day, Paris, Romantic

You are looking for a charming hotel for your wedding ? Be as Aleksandr Petrovsky in Sex and the City and bring your sweetheart in Paris for a week-end 100% romantic. Only one address to remember, far from the impersonal palaces : l’Hôtel de Notre Dame « Maître Albert ». With its air of old Paris [...]