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

Sleep under the starry sky at the Bubble Hotels!

• 22 May, 2012 • Catégorie: Design hotels in Europe, France, Unusual hotels, What else

Your girlfriend is soon celebrating her birthday, and you’re lacking of present ideas? Why don’t you offer her a dream stay in one of the two Bubble Hotels in France, conceived by designer Pierre-Stéphane Dumas?

A new definition of luxury ecotourism
At l’Attrap’Rêves and at the Sky River, you’ll live in a totally transparent rosée bubble, [...]



Visit Corsica with your family at the Pinarello

• 21 May, 2012 • Catégorie: Corsica, Design hotels in Europe, Family, France, Getaway, One hotel a day, Top stories, Waterfront

This year, you made the decision to put aside romantic retreats and travel with your little tribe? Why not stay     at the Pinarello, a 4 star hotel nesting near Porto Vecchio in the south of Corsica? With its secured beach, its new communicating rooms, and its numerous activities, this is the perfect place [...]



Sleep on a work of art!

• 16 Apr, 2012 • Catégorie: France, One hotel a day, Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur, Top stories, Unusual hotels, What else

Do you often find hotels boring? Do you dream of enjoying and transforming your room into a real museum? Book now at Au Vieux Panier in Marseille. This artsy boutique hotel offers an original concept: a room is the equivalent of a work of art, either from a painter or a graphic designer.

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The Platine Hotel: Made for Mad Men

• 20 Feb, 2012 • Catégorie: France, Getaway, One hotel a day, Paris, Romantic, Top stories

Vintage is in! Indeed, TV series, fashion designers and now hotels take inspiration from the 50s. Recently opened the Platine Hotel brings us in the retro and playful America, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, when pin-ups used to make men dreaming, and people drank delicious milk-shakes in diners.



Le Pradey: A Haute Couture Hotel

• 1 Feb, 2012 • Catégorie: France, One hotel a day, Paris, Top stories

Nestled between the Eglise Saint-Roch and the Tuileries, the 4 star hotel Le Pradey is clearly the best surprise of this new year. Since it’s close to luxury shops, that fashion victims adore, especially during Fashion Weeks, the establishment has naturally entrusted a mission to two major Haute Couture fashion designers: decorate 6 rooms.

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On the Road of Wines From Bergerac

• 30 Jan, 2012 • Catégorie: Aquitaine, France, Getaway, Gourmet, One hotel a day, Top stories

Are you ready for a weekend on the road of wines from Bergerac? The editorial staff of Hoosta Magazine has spotted a 17th century property, proudly settled on a hill, surrounded by vineyard and orchards, right in the heart of the purple Perigord, in the Aquitaine country, halfway between Sarlat and Saint-Emilion. The picturesque [...]



Observatoire Luxembourg Hotel : Paris, Capital of Arts !

• 11 Oct, 2011 • Catégorie: France, One hotel a day, Paris, Top stories

One of the most Parisian hotel has settled in the heart of the Latin Quarter, in the historic Paris. Behind its ebony black walls, the Observatoire Luxembourg, owns 41 rooms mixing modern and old and playing on art themes related to the area. Indeed, this boutique hotel is in front of the Luxembourg gardens, [...]



Focus on Art Ensuite with Olivier Breuil

• 10 Oct, 2011 • Catégorie: France, Paris

This past May, we met Olivier Breuil, manager of the Elysées Mermoz Hotel, in the 8th arrondissement. He told us about his job, hotelkeeper. Today, Hoosta magazine meets him once again for an interview dedicated to his new project: Art Ensuite. Art Ensuite is a real support for emerging contemporary artists. It aims at [...]



Hotel Sud Bretagne: a very cosy 4-star hotel near la Baule!

• 5 Sep, 2011 • Catégorie: Brittany, France, One hotel a day, Top stories

Since 1920, The Bardouil family watches over this former post house of the 19th century, located at 5 miles from la Baule, in a seaside resort of Pornichet, in Loire-Atlantique. Immersed in the hotel business since he was born, the great grand son Marc-Antoine Bardouil put the finishing touches to the interior design [...]



Le Régent, La Baule: a totally wild hotel!

• 17 Aug, 2011 • Catégorie: Brittany, France, Getaway, One hotel a day, Top stories, Waterfront, Western Europe

Whatever got into the owners of Le Régent Hotel in La Baule? This recently renovated 3-star hotel seems totally wild! Sitting in from of the bay of La Baule, Le Régent may be considered as one of the most surprising hotels on the Côte d’Amour.

The wild side starts with the room decoration, because the [...]



Le Fort de l’Océan : a hotel against the tide

• 10 Aug, 2011 • Catégorie: Brittany, France, Getaway, One hotel a day, Top stories, Unusual hotels, Waterfront, What else

Located in Brittany, near Le Croisic and 12 kilometers away from La Baule, Le Fort de l’Océan recreates the history of France. The drawbridge, the ditch, the battlements and crenels are still there, but the dangers of the high seas have disappeared and the glorious home has finally found peace. The rose-tinted granite walls [...]