lifestyle

Singapore is both a hotel tradition embodied in historic monuments and a bold vision of the future. It is the timeless elegance of the Raffles, and the exaggerated modernity of the Marina Bay Sands (MBS). The use of the greatest architects, backed by the traditional precepts of feng shui. These apparent paradoxes, and...

Europe of course, the Americas with a hotel in Los Angeles, soon the Asian continent and the Middle East with an opening expected at the end of the year in Dubai... The only territory left for Mama Shelter to explore was Africa. This should be a reality by 2024, with a project recently announced in the main...

Launched by Accor three years ago, the Tribe lifestyle brand is continuing to expand by adding a tenth hotel to its offering, the third in the Paris region. After Les Batignolles in 2020 and La Défense last year, a new Tribe opened in Saint-Ouen at the end of January. The hotel's surroundings reflect the...

Ultra-colourful interiors, furniture with curved lines, peppy rooms: the prizeotel brand offers its customers a contemporary atmosphere that is more cheerful than pared-down. Inspired hospitality at affordable prices, in line with the concept of "designocracy" advocated by its resident decorator, Karim Rashid. Co-creator of the brand with German hotelier Marco...

The Hyatt group has made no secret of its firm resolve to expand its offering in the EMEA region. And the start of 2023 has been extremely productive. After the opening of a Hyatt Regency in Izmir, with plenty of room for meetings, and the announcement of a new Unbound Collection member in Davos, the American group has just...

Embodying this new hybrid hotel model combining traditional rooms with user-friendly accommodation solutions, Eklo has just added an eighth address in France, in Lyon. After Le Havre, Le Mans, Lille, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Marne-la-Vallée and Toulouse, the group is continuing to expand with a new 111-room, 278-bed establishment in Vénissieux, on the outskirts of Lyon.

A bohemian and arty style, a contemporary spirit: business travellers used to staying at the Best Western Plus Paris Roissy hotel will find this establishment quite different. Firstly, because it was completely refurbished last year, and its rooms, designed to be warm and intimate, feature four distinct styles: 'La Bohème Esthétique', 'La Bohème Esthétique', 'La Bohème Esthétique' and 'La Bohème...

Canada Montreal Honeyrose Hotel, Tribute Portfolio (June) Located in the heart of the Quartier des spectacles, the cultural epicentre of Quebec's metropolis, this new upscale boutique hotel is inspired by the 1920s and Montreal's art of living. Affiliated with Marriott's Tribute Portfolio brand, the hotel is part of a new tower combining residential flats and guest rooms...

Paris/Ile de France Maison Delano Paris (February) American-born luxury lifestyle brand Delano, now part of the Accor group, is coming to Paris. To mark the occasion, an intimate version of its concept, called Maison Delano, will be opening early this year on rue d'Anjou, in the 8th arrondissement. The establishment revisits a former...

With luxury and lifestyle at the heart of its strategy, and new hotels in major world cities for its Novotel, Ibis and Pullman brands, Accor has presented its 2023 collection of flagship openings. In the luxury segment, several Raffles hotels will all open their doors in the middle of the year, including the eagerly awaited Raffles...

It's no coincidence that the lifestyle hotel sector has been booming for some time now. And, in response to this craze, IHG can count on its Hotel Indigo brand, whose portfolio is set to grow from 135 hotels to more than 200 over the next three years. Launched in 2004, back in the days when boutique hotels were...

Radisson RED. With such a strong brand identity, this new hotel in Liverpool has everything it takes to become a favourite haunt for fans of the Reds, the legendary football club from the city in the north of England. And for business travellers, because of its location. Radisson's lifestyle brand has just given a new lease of life to a...

Having already appeared in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, Motto by Hilton, the American group's new lifestyle brand, is beginning its global expansion with its debut in Europe. Business travellers passing through Rotterdam will be able to discover its innovative concept close to the Markthal, a vast foodcourt with around 100 stands and restaurants,...

Wojo has teamed up with Mama Shelter to develop the hotel chain's coworking brand, Mama Works. The flexible workspace specialist now has a brand licence to roll out Mama Works in France and Europe, including the UK. It's a logical move, given that the two brands have been...

We've already heard of Hard Rock Hotels, the hospital offshoot of the famous Hard Rock Café, and Virgin Hotels, the hotel arm of Richard Branson's media group. Universal Music is now getting in on the act with its UMusic Hotels and a first address in Madrid. The place to make its debut has not been...

Mama Shelter's expansion in France will continue over the coming months. From its current eight hotels, the brand created by Serge Trigano and now owned by Accor should have eleven by summer 2024. Recently, the lifestyle brand gave a number of details about its arrival in Rennes next March, with a 119-room hotel...

A contemporary design, a real coworking space, a sustainable spirit: the Ruby Hotels chain is deploying all the components of its affordable lifestyle offer within the walls of an existing hotel in Amsterdam. To make its debut in the Netherlands, the German-born hotelier is integrating the walls of an existing hotel, the first project of its kind in...

The Mama Shelter brand's expansion into French provincial cities has been in the pipeline since the announcement at the end of last year of new hotels in Nice, Dijon and Rennes. Among these destinations, Brittany is set to launch this salvo of openings by welcoming, from March 2023, the ninth hotel in the lifestyle brand created...

While Ennismore, Accor's lifestyle hotel subsidiary, has just passed the 100-establishment mark with the opening of the SO/Paris, its brand The Hoxton is already preparing new developments. Seven new hotels are due to open in Europe between now and the beginning of 2024, adding to its network in the major business cities, whether...

The British group edyn, which specialises in long-stay hotels, is preparing to make a big splash in Paris and France. Hitherto developed in the British Isles and Germany, its upmarket lifestyle brand Locke is expected to open in 2024 a stone's throw from the Panthéon and the Sorbonne, in the 5th arrondissement. A location...