When you’re planning to attend the Paris Olympics and see a little bit of Europe this summer time, you could have a wide range of plush new motels from which to decide on (although they’re prone to refill rapidly). Whether or not you’re going to the Video games or just happening trip, you’ll discover contemporary boutique properties in Paris and plenty of extra which might be a straightforward 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 resort 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 residence and impressed by Nineteen Thirties type, the resort is a sister property of the comfortable Relais Christine within the Sixth Arrondissement, in addition to the Saint James Paris within the sixteenth Arrondissement.
With interiors designed by Festen Architecture, there might 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’ll be able to get pleasure from 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 trendy French delicacies. Costs from 590 euros, or about $630 an evening.
Maison Proust
Like a number of of the most recent motels in Paris, corresponding to Hotel Norman and Le Grand Mazarin, this sizzling spot within the Marais is an intimate affair with simply 23 rooms and suites. A homage to the novelist Marcel Proust, the resort options luxurious areas that conjure the Belle Époque and in them you’ll uncover objects linked to the resort’s namesake, together with an autographed copy of “Swann’s Approach.”
Designed by Jacques Garcia, the French interior decorator identified 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 motels designed to really feel like mansions. Every of the glamorous rooms are impressed by personalities from Proust’s world, together with Colette and Monet.
When you can’t handle to nab one, you’ll be able to nonetheless go to the bar the place on Fridays, Colin Field, previously the top 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 too can unwind at Spa La Mer, the place there’s a hammam and pool.
But even with out all that, the resort’s location within the Marais — amid eating places, retailers 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 resort opened in March with flowering timber, a pool surrounded by striped umbrellas, and an outside bar the place frozen rosé awaits. The favored Pampelonne Seashore 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 take pleasure 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 heart. In contrast to the Olympics, video games at AREV Saint Tropez, like pétanque and padel, will be performed in between glasses of rosé.
The rooms (some with non-public terraces and patios with flowers) had been designed by Luis Bustamante, with splashes of blue, white and purple, making a nautical really feel even if 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, an area crowd-pleaser, closed years in the past, although this reincarnation at AREV Saint Tropez hopes to convey again among the joie de vivre of its predecessor with dwell music, French wines and up to date 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 way of August, and beginning at €590 from October by way of March.
Good, France
Hôtel du Couvent
Set in a convent relationship to the seventeenth century, this 88 room-and-suite resort plans to open in June, when it can 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 motels, together with Le Pigalle in Paris. There might be a vegetable and herb backyard, a bakery and an herbalist store the place you’ll be able to 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 resort’s eating places: Le Restaurant du Couvent, Le Bistrot des Serruriers and La Guinguette Café, the place you’ll be able to sip a drink within the backyard close to the lap pool. Wander the grounds and reap the benefits of the studio for yoga, train and meditation, or partake of a collection 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 resort, 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 Could 31, Leitmotiv — the group behind the buzzy, garden-themed La Fantaisie boutique resort in Paris — is planning to open their first property outdoors of France: Casa Monti, in Rome.
The resort is in Rome’s Monti neighborhood, dappled with cafes and eating places, and takes its inspiration from the world’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 coloration 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 coming back from a day of exploring you’ll be able to drop by the spa, linger over dinner — indoors or al fresco — on the resort 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 type structure. The resort has 38 rooms and suites, together with some with non-public plunge swimming pools. When you can handle to depart yours behind to discover the grounds, you’ll discover the wellness area, the place you may get a therapeutic massage or physique remedy outside 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 resort’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 known as the Bridge plans to open the top of this month with views of the Aegean Sea. And mark your calendar for July 10 to 13 when the Japanese chef Nobu Matsuhisa might be on the resort’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 resort, go to Thymes for breakfast, lunch or dinner by the pool. And don’t neglect dessert. Cease into Figs, the resort’s pastry store, to get your repair of conventional Greek sweets. Costs from €715 an evening.
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