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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 [...]

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 [...]

The fifties have been taking pride of place in fashion and design these days, and Grace Leo, who steers the ship of the Royal Riviera Hotel in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, is delighted. With the help from her personal decorator, Pascal Allaman, she has just finished renovating about 30 rooms of the palace in a glamorous tone, [...]

This summer, holidays on the Atlantic coast appear to be in-style. If the Bobo atmosphere of Cap Ferret doesn’t exactly thrill you, try and stay in Saint-Martin-de-Ré where the alleys in bloom hold a taste of liberty. In this town listed as World Heritage by the UNESCO, the Villa Clarisse, annex of the Hotel [...]

There’s a fine line between the restaurant and the hotel business… Imagine you’re in the Basque upcountry, on a northern ridge of mountain Ursuia near the lovely village of Hasparren, 35 kilometers from Biarritz. Lost on top of the clouds, there’s a farm dating back to 1746, reassuring shelter from the greatness of nature. [...]

After the Hi Hotel in Nice and the Dar Hi in Tunisia, Patrick Elouarghi and Philippe Chapelet once again decided to break all current hotel standards. With their new hotel gem, the Hi Matic, and the participation of designer and architect Matali Crasset, they redefined the modern hotel business between design and ecology, low [...]

On the Atlantic coast, Bordeaux is mostly known from tourists for its wine labels rather than for its 2.5 million annual visitors. The awakening of the “sleeping beauty” came along an artistic and cultural revival. Listed as City of Art and History and as UNESCO World Heritage, Bordeaux is the home of the most [...]

On a lovely sunny Sunday in the summer, you decide to go for a walk in the wild Forest of Fontainebleau in Seine-et-Marne. Leaving your car and city life aside, you choose to ride your bike on the steep tracks, in the freshness of the undergrowth when you suddenly come across a concrete road [...]

After traveling along the wine route to Beaune, you are hesitating on your next oenological stop. Bordeaux? Too mundane. The Loire Valley? Quite tempting, but for the summer, you need sunshine! Off to the Languedoc-Roussillon region between Béziers and Narbonne, in the beautiful Château Les Carrasses. On the menu: discover the land of Languedoc…

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Owner of the 5-star hotels Belles Rives and Juana in Juan-les-Pins, Marianne Estène-Chauvin is proud to carry on the family history of a French hotel group, far from the Arab Emirates and other foreign groups leading numerous luxury hotels in France. Meeting.

Hoosta magazine – The Belles Rives belonged to your grand-parents. Tell us its [...]

On the wooded domain of Château d’Arnac, near a lake hides The Gate House, a charming hotel of two suites only. Despite the noise of water slowly running down and the little birds chirping, we could even believe that Bluebeard imprisoned his wife behind these thick and mysterious walls. Don’t worry though, the Gate [...]