In the event you’re planning to attend the Paris Olympics and see a little bit of Europe this summer time, you’ve got quite a lot of plush new motels from which to decide on (although they’re more likely 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 simple flight away, be it to the French Riviera, Rome, or fittingly, an island in Greece, the birthplace of the traditional video games.
Paris
Hôtel Balzac
Starting June 1, after a two-year renovation, Hôtel Balzac, a member of Relais & Châteaux, the posh 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 house and impressed by Thirties fashion, 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 Structure, 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 possibly can get pleasure from breakfast earlier than strolling the well-known boulevard; a Japanese-inspired spa for remedies 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 motels in Paris, similar to Lodge 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 inside decorator identified for luxurious areas just like the Hôtel Costes in Paris and La Mamounia in Marrakech, Maison Proust is a member of the Assortment Maisons Particulières, a bunch 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.
In the event you can’t handle to nab one, you possibly can nonetheless go to the bar the place on Fridays, Colin Subject, 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 resort’s location within the Marais — amid eating places, retailers and locations just like the Musée Nationwide 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 bushes, a pool surrounded by striped umbrellas, and an outside 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 provide the chance for a fast dip. Or keep put and take pleasure in a therapeutic massage on the spa, head exterior 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, may 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 pink, making a nautical really feel even once you’re not lounging by the ocean. Discover exterior 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 number of the joie de vivre of its predecessor with stay music, French wines and up to date takes on regional dishes similar to thon de Méditerranée, pink tuna atop crispy risotto. For dessert, strive the rice pudding or the chocolate soufflé. Costs from €1,440 June via August, and beginning at €590 from October via March.
Good, France
Hôtel du Couvent
Set in a convent courting to the seventeenth century, this 88 room-and-suite resort plans to open in June, when it is going to provide 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 can be a vegetable and herb backyard, a bakery and an herbalist store the place you possibly can 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 possibly can 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 it’s also possible to go to the Musée Nationwide Marc Chagall and Musée Matisse.
Return to the resort, a part of the Luxurious Assortment 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 exterior 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 think about 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 possibly can 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 gentle sand with Cycladic cubic fashion structure. The resort has 38 rooms and suites, together with some with personal plunge swimming pools. In the event you can handle to depart yours behind to discover the grounds, you’ll discover the wellness space, the place you may get a therapeutic massage or physique therapy open air in a non-public curtained chamber. Avant Mar’s title 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 can be on the resort’s waterside restaurant, Matsuhisa Paros, for the Nobu Meals Pageant. (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 overlook 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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