top-of-the-range hotels

Marrakech's famous luxury hotel La Mamounia will be welcoming guests back from 16 October after several months of renovation work designed to bring the hotel into line with the times "while preserving the charm and heritage of this 95-year-old house", according to Pierre Jochem, the hotel's general manager....

Upmarket and sophisticated, the Kimpton brand is continuing to expand within the IHG group. Bought by the British hotelier in 2015 to strengthen its lifestyle offering, the trendy brand born in the United States has 34 projects in its pipeline, which will be added in the next three to five years to the 72 establishments already open across the...

After adding a second address in Tokyo over the summer, Four Seasons is also doubling its offering in San Francisco. On 1 October, the luxury group opened the doors of the Four Seasons San Francisco at Embarcadero at the junction of Sansome and California streets, in the Financial District. Not far from the first Four...

The charm of boutique hotels, the energy of the city, a sustainable dimension with, for example, mattresses and bed linen made from 100% recycled materials: the voco brand is living with the times. Launched by the IHG group in 2018, this upmarket brand is now taking off with its first hotel in France, in Paris....

After Zürich last year, CitizenM has now arrived in Switzerland's other major financial centre, Geneva. This new hotel is the second to be opened by the Dutch brand in 2020, after the one in Seattle South Lake Union and before the one in Washington DC, expected by the end of the year, and another planned near the Champs-Elysées in Paris....

Open since 1 September, the Athens Capital Hotel marks the arrival in Greece of the Accor MGallery brand. This collection, which includes around a hundred boutique hotels with strong personalities around the world, such as the Molitor in Paris or the Santa Teresa in Rio, is being established in the heart of Athens, on Syntagma Square, thanks to the...

Paris's top-of-the-range hotels are back in business after months of closure. While some hotels took the gamble of reopening their doors at the start of the summer, such as the Hôtel Fauchon on 1 July and the Hilton Opéra on 10 July, most of the four and five-star establishments kept their doors open...

The lifestyle brand Ruby Hotels is continuing to expand, with two new hotels expected by 2023. Already boasting eight hotels based on the "lean luxury" concept of relaxed, affordable luxury, the German group intends to unveil seventeen new properties in Europe by this date. While the German group founded by Michael Struck already has a presence...

Old-world elegance and ultra-contemporary sophistication: opened in Warsaw in August, the Nobu Hotel Warsaw brings together two experiences in one place. With a classic spirit, one of its wings is housed in an Art Deco building dating from the 1920s, the former Rialto Hotel, while the other, newly built, seduces with its very contemporary lines....

The fruits of the partnership between Accor and the American group sbe, in which the French hotel operator has a 50 % stake (%), are beginning to materialise. After announcing in January the arrival of the Mondrian brand in Europe, in Bordeaux and Cannes, this lifestyle brand has just opened its first hotel in Asia-Pacific, in Seoul. Located in...

Barely open, already closed. A few months after its inauguration in June 2019, the InterContinental Lyon - Hôtel-Dieu was forced to suspend its activities due to a pandemic. We were going at 500 an hour and had to come to an abrupt halt," says Madelijn Vervoord, the hotel's general manager. The evening we were told we had to close...

The date for the reopening of the Hôtel Barrière Le Westminster in Le Touquet is now known. This jewel in the crown of the Hauts-de-France seaside resort will reopen its doors on 25 September following a major renovation programme which began in December last year. Although the work was initially scheduled to last six months, it has taken a little longer in...

One - the Radisson Hotel Istanbul Sultanahmet - is more intimate with its 28 rooms, historic ballroom and 19th-century Ottoman-French meeting room. The other, the Radisson Hotel President Beyazit, is more contemporary, with 201 rooms and suites in grey and beige tones, five bars...

We will have to wait until the end of 2023 to see Mandarin Oriental make its debut in Austria, one of Europe's leading business destinations, particularly for conferences. Regularly listed in the top 3 of the ICCA rankings, Vienna will then play host to the top-of-the-range hotel group, which plans to set up a hotel in the...

"The most luxurious hotel ever built in Rome". Jean-Christophe Babin, CEO of Bulgari, was full of praise when presenting the project for the jeweller's future establishment, expected in the Italian capital in 2022. Located opposite the Mausoleum of Augustus, not far from the Spanish Steps and the banks of the Tiber, the Bulgari Hotel Rome...

The Tribe family of hotels is about to grow. After a first establishment unveiled in March 2019 in Perth, Australia, the Accor group's new lifestyle brand is taking off with several openings expected in the coming months, notably in France. First and foremost, Paris will be the first city in Europe to offer the concept, with the...

Plexiglas protecting the reception area, masked staff, gloves for those carrying luggage: there's nothing very glamorous about the sanitary measures needed to combat the current pandemic, nor are they in line with luxury hotel standards. "It's a bit the antithesis of our hospitality business. And yet, if...

"To find out the dish of the day, scan the QR code". Adding to the multitude of functions it already fulfils, the smartphone is now being enriched with a new function, that of maître d'. While the cards and menus passed from hand to hand between diners could fall victim to the pandemic, the service should tend...

It's a welcome update at a time when, with Covid-19, the customer experience is becoming increasingly contactless. The Barrière group has just given its five-year-old application a facelift. The new version of the Barrière App, developed during the period of confinement,...

The Lodge & Spa Collection is getting ready to unveil its new jewel, the fourth from this group specialising in luxury mountain hotels. Accustomed to naming its establishments after the biggest diamonds in the world, such as Koh-I Nor in Val Thorens, Taj-I Mah in Arc 2000 and Daria-I Nor in...