This hotel is located in the northern region of Paris, near all the concert venues and the famous Montmartre.
Despite the fact it's in a very lively area, the street the hotel is in is very quiet and you will be able to fall asleep after attending a concert.
10 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne
75009 Paris
France
Tel: +33 1 48 78 61 60
Fax: +33 1 49 95 99 00
www.hoteltourdauvergne.com
The hotel blog: friendlyroominparis.com/
Hotel Gavarni is an old-fashioned-style hotel in the chic 16th arrondissement in Paris.
The owner is green and he wants his hotel to be the same. That's why organic food is served for breakfast, the water from the showers is recycled, the staff is trained to save detergent and water and so on...
5 rue Gavarni
75016 Paris - France
Phone:+33 1 45 24 52 82
gavarni.com/
This hotel is not open yet but I had the chance to visit the place and talk to the owners and trust me, it was worth the visit!
The calligraphy signs are the proof of what the mankind has become, our ability to share and to connect to each others. From the ground floor to the top floor of the hotel, you go through the different eras of calligraphy and mankind until reaching the paradise (Add three letters to Paris, it makes Paradise).
They call themselves the first Poem Hotel. The basis of their thinking was the track man leaves by his intellectual work since the birth of the conscience of humanity.
Opening Fall 2008
Montparnasse area
3, rue de Chevreuse
75006 - Paris, France
direction@apostrophe-hotel.com
www.apostrophe-hotel.com
Hotel des Academies et des Arts is a three-star hotel in the heart of Paris. Usually whenever you're looking for art in general, you would go to a museum or an exhibition - in this case you just need to go to a hotel!
The French street-art artist Jerome Mesnager made this place his and had carte blanche to paint his 'white bodies' all over the hotel. Same thing with Sophie de Watrigant and two video artists. It is worth a look!
15 rue de la Grande Chaumière
75006 Paris - France
Tel : +33 (0)1 43 26 66 44
www.hotel-des-academies.com/
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