Considerations on the location, the decor and the Eiffel Tower views of the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris, a 5-star hotel in the 16th arrondissement, including tea in the lounge, a drink at the bar and dinner in one of its three restaurants.
Most men manage to control the urge to sequester a chambermaid or baggage boy, but it’s only natural for a man to stumble upon a hot hotel employee fantasy when traveling alone.
When the Royal Monceau reopened its doors to the press in October 2010 following a two-year make-over, all eyes were on the interior decoration signed Philippe Starck, as well as on Philippe Starck who came [...]
I promised the director of sales of the admirably old-fashioned 4-star Victoria Palace Hotel that I would not refer to the dark plush green and red furnishings and the aristocratic portraits of the hotel’s bar as [...]
I crossed the city by bike one late afternoon and checked into the Hotel Aviatic so as to test the hotel and investigate the surrounding neighborhood. Within 10 minutes I sensed that the Aviatic could [...]
This review is specifically written for travelers who would like to stay in a 4-star hotel in Paris but have a less stellar budget. It’s a review of a hotel that has seen better days [...]
All travel carries a scent of infidelity. The eye wanders, the senses get curious, the smile invites foreign conversations, and at night you grope your way to the bathroom as though you might disturb a [...]
It’s ten after six in the afternoon and the piano player has just left the gallery lounge at the Four Seasons George V, signaling the end of tea time in one of Paris’s leading palace [...]
