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

The Hi Matic breaks hotel standards!

• 1 Aug, 2011 • Catégorie: France, Green hotels, One hotel a day, Paris, Top stories, Unusual hotels, What else

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 [...]



Les Pléiades Hotel: arty stop in Barbizon

• 27 Jul, 2011 • Catégorie: France, Getaway, Gourmet, One hotel a day, Paris, Romantic, Top stories, Unusual hotels, What else

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 [...]



Un lit au Pré: the house of happiness!

• 4 Jul, 2011 • Catégorie: France, Getaway, Green hotels, Out of the city, Unusual hotels, What else

To relive the “Little House of the Prairie” saga with your children, quickly book your chic bivouac in the French country thanks to Un lit au Pré (“a bed in the meadow”). With this “glamping”, contraction of glamor and camping, you will have the chance to discover chic and wild camping, surrounded by animals [...]



Marina Bay Sands: luxury, elation and altitude!

• 21 Jun, 2011 • Catégorie: Asia, Singapore, Unusual hotels, What else

Beware of vertigo! Inaugurated last spring, the eccentric Marina Bay Sands hotel resort does not do things by halves. With 2,560 rooms and suites, a conference room, a shopping center, restaurants, a museum of Arts and Science but first and foremost a huge casino, it is one of the most expensive hotels on the [...]



Amangiri: a certain idea of luxury

• 3 Jun, 2011 • Catégorie: North America, United States of America, Unusual hotels, What else

In Sanskrit, Amangini means “peaceful mountain”. But no need to speak the language to understand that this dream hotel designed by Aman Resort promises a quiet and exclusive stay. Located in Canyon Point between Arizona and Utah, the Amangiri is spread across 600 acres of luxury, with an architecture designed especially to merge with [...]



Flight 727 for Costa Rica

• 17 May, 2011 • Catégorie: Costa Rica, Latin America, Unusual hotels

The sloths and toucans of the National Par of Costa Rica can now come across a funny-looking bird trapped in the canopy. With its orange and white cabin, the 727 Fuselage Home cannot go unnoticed! This former airliner used to fly for the South Africa and Avianca Africa airlines before being completely refurbished by [...]



Hafjell Mountain: black run in Norway

• 2 May, 2011 • Catégorie: Northern Europe, Norway, Unusual hotels, What else

What’s the point of skiing on runs when you can ski on the roof of your hotel? This crazy idea came from the Danish group BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group – along with the project of a hotel resort in Norway. With 11,000 square meters and 330 apartments, the Hafjell Mountain will certainly win [...]



A hotel for sleepless nights?

• 22 Apr, 2011 • Catégorie: Germany, One hotel a day, Unusual hotels, Western Europe

Looking to do something crazy, to go out and party? Off to Germany and especially Hamburg where the East Hotel arranged it all for your night to be… short! Ideally located downtown near Reeperbahn in the district of St. Pauli (Hamburg’s new trendy area), the East Hotel shows a surprising and luxurious design, created [...]



A crane hotel in the Netherlands!

• 21 Apr, 2011 • Catégorie: Netherlands, Unusual hotels

Have you ever dreamed of being a site foreman? Take your wife along for the most unusual hotel adventure… and sleep in a crane, 17 meters above ground! In the typical little harbor of Harlingen in the Netherlands, discover an industrial monument called the “spider”, all dressed up in white and blue. To access [...]



Hotel Aire de Bardenas: Wild Wild West

• 18 Apr, 2011 • Catégorie: Family, One hotel a day, Out of the city, Southern Europe, Spain, Unusual hotels

The call of the wild American West is growing but you’re afraid to embark on this adventure because of your young children? You no longer need to go as far, all you have to do is book an incredible stay at the 4-star Hotel Aire de Bardenas. Lost in the natural park of Bardenas [...]



Nobu launches into the hotel business

• 12 Apr, 2011 • Catégorie: Let's talk about it, Unusual hotels

After the Yotels by Asian restaurant chain Yo Sushi, Nobu Matsuhira, owner of the international sushi chain Nobu is now launching into the hotel business. In partnership with the Caesars Palace, the Nobu Hotel Restaurant and Lounge will settle in Las Vegas, in the Centurion Tower of the famous palace. Transformed into a hotel [...]