In case you’re planning to attend the Paris Olympics and see a little bit of Europe this summer time, you could have quite a lot of plush new lodges from which to decide on (although they’re prone to replenish rapidly). Whether or not you’re going to the Video games or just occurring trip, you’ll discover contemporary boutique properties in Paris and plenty of extra which might be a simple flight away, be it to the French Riviera, Rome, or fittingly, an island in Greece, the birthplace of the ancient games.
Paris
Hôtel Balzac
Starting June 1, after a two-year renovation, Hôtel Balzac, a member of Relais & Châteaux, the luxurious lodge and restaurant community, is planning to open within the Eighth Arrondissement, inside strolling distance of the Champs-Élysées. Meant to really feel like a Parisian dwelling and impressed by Thirties model, the lodge is a sister property of the comfy Relais Christine within the Sixth Arrondissement, in addition to the Saint James Paris within the sixteenth Arrondissement.
With interiors designed by Festen Architecture, there can be 58 rooms and suites in soothing impartial hues, some with views of the Eiffel Tower. Past your room you’ll discover a lounge the place you may take pleasure in breakfast earlier than strolling the well-known boulevard; a Japanese-inspired spa for therapies upon your return; a cocktail bar; and Pierre Gagnaire, a Michelin-starred restaurant with fashionable French delicacies. Costs from 590 euros, or about $630 an evening.
Maison Proust
Like a number of of the most recent lodges in Paris, corresponding to Hotel Norman and Le Grand Mazarin, this scorching spot within the Marais is an intimate affair with simply 23 rooms and suites. A homage to the novelist Marcel Proust, the lodge options luxurious areas that conjure the Belle Époque and in them you’ll uncover objects linked to the lodge’s namesake, together with an autographed copy of “Swann’s Approach.”
Designed by Jacques Garcia, the French interior decorator recognized for luxurious areas just like the Hôtel Costes in Paris and La Mamounia in Marrakech, Maison Proust is a member of the Collection Maisons Particulières, a gaggle of lodges designed to really feel like mansions. Every of the glamorous rooms are impressed by personalities from Proust’s world, together with Colette and Monet.
In case you can’t handle to nab one, you may nonetheless go to the bar the place on Fridays, Colin Field, previously the pinnacle bartender at Bar Hemingway on the storied Ritz Paris, is now creating cocktails (from 25 euros, or about $27) like L’Élixir de Proust, with raspberry essence and Champagne. You may also unwind at Spa La Mer, the place there’s a hammam and pool.
But even with out all that, the lodge’s location within the Marais — amid eating places, outlets and locations just like the Musée National Picasso-Paris and the Musée Carnavalet — makes it an enviable spot from which to step out and discover one of many world’s most walkable cities. Costs from €950 (with slight seasonal variation).
AREV Saint Tropez
Inside strolling distance of the colourful village of St.-Tropez, this 43 room-and-suite lodge opened in March with flowering timber, a pool surrounded by striped umbrellas, and an out of doors bar the place frozen rosé awaits. The favored Pampelonne Seaside and its seaside golf equipment are a short drive away, whereas smaller close by seashores supply the chance for a fast dip. Or keep put and bask in a therapeutic massage on the spa, head outdoors for a dawn Pilates or yoga class, or hop on a Peloton bike on the health middle. Not like the Olympics, video games at AREV Saint Tropez, like pétanque and padel, could be performed in between glasses of rosé.
The rooms (some with personal terraces and patios with flowers) had been designed by Luis Bustamante, with splashes of blue, white and purple, making a nautical really feel even whenever you’re not lounging by the ocean. Discover outdoors your room and also you’ll come throughout the Strand Restaurant and Champagne Lounge. The unique Strand, a neighborhood crowd-pleaser, closed years in the past, although this reincarnation at AREV Saint Tropez hopes to carry again a few of the joie de vivre of its predecessor with reside music, French wines and modern takes on regional dishes corresponding to thon de Méditerranée, purple tuna atop crispy risotto. For dessert, attempt the rice pudding or the chocolate soufflé. Costs from €1,440 June by August, and beginning at €590 from October by March.
Good, France
Hôtel du Couvent
Set in a convent courting to the seventeenth century, this 88 room-and-suite lodge plans to open in June, when it’s going to supply visitors glimpses into its monastic previous. The property’s restoration is being spearheaded by Valéry Grégo, who based Perseus, a builder and operator of lodges, together with Le Pigalle in Paris. There can be a vegetable and herb backyard, a bakery and an herbalist store the place you may cease in for custom-made teas with herbs from the backyard.
Greens, fruits and eggs from each the backyard and an off-site farm in Touët-sur-Var could also be served on the lodge’s eating places: Le Restaurant du Couvent, Le Bistrot des Serruriers and La Guinguette Café, the place you may sip a drink within the backyard close to the lap pool. Wander the grounds and make the most of the studio for yoga, train and meditation, or partake of a sequence of thermal “Roman baths.” The baths are a nod to the stays of the Roman baths in close by Cimiez, the place you can too go to the Musée National Marc Chagall and Musée Matisse.
Return to the lodge, a part of the Luxury Collection from Marriott, with inside design by Festen Structure, and to the serene colours of your ethereal room. Costs from €390 an evening.
Rome
Casa Monti
On Might 31, Leitmotiv — the group behind the buzzy, garden-themed La Fantaisie boutique lodge in Paris — is planning to open their first property outdoors of France: Casa Monti, in Rome.
The lodge is in Rome’s Monti neighborhood, dappled with cafes and eating places, and takes its inspiration from the realm’s artists, encouraging visitors to consider themselves as artists in residence. Previous its 18th-century facade are frescoes and 36 rooms and suites which might be awash with shade and daring patterns by the inside designer Laura Gonzalez. You’re inside strolling distance of must-see sights just like the Roman Discussion board and the Colosseum. And upon getting back from a day of exploring you may drop by the spa, linger over dinner — indoors or al fresco — on the lodge restaurant after which watch evening fall out of your perch on the rooftop bar. Costs from €450 an evening.
Avant Mar
Rising from the Greek island of Paros, this escape on Piperi seaside blends smooth sand with Cycladic cubic model structure. The lodge has 38 rooms and suites, together with some with personal plunge swimming pools. In case you can handle to depart yours behind to discover the grounds, you’ll discover the wellness area, the place you will get a therapeutic massage or physique therapy open air in a non-public curtained chamber. Avant Mar’s identify joins the French phrase for “earlier than” with the Spanish phrase for “the ocean,” highlighting the lodge’s location “in entrance of the ocean,” and there’s an open-air theater that can be utilized for yoga and Pilates upon request, in addition to an Olympics-worthy, 55-meter-long swimming pool.
Again on dry land, a gin-and-tonic bar referred to as the Bridge plans to open the tip of this month with views of the Aegean Sea. And mark your calendar for July 10 to 13 when the Japanese chef Nobu Matsuhisa can be on the lodge’s waterside restaurant, Matsuhisa Paros, for the Nobu Meals Competition. (The restaurant is scheduled to open for the season on June 7). For Greek fare on the lodge, go to Thymes for breakfast, lunch or dinner by the pool. And don’t overlook dessert. Cease into Figs, the lodge’s pastry store, to get your repair of conventional Greek sweets. Costs from €715 an evening.
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