Paris mon amour – Reopened Hotel Ritz / Paris / France

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Destination Paris.

The Ritz is open again.

The Ritz Paris has been shuttered since July 2012 for what is billed as the biggest refurbishment in its history, headed by architect Didier Beautemps of Paris-based Atelier COS and interior designer Thierry Despont.

Founded by Swiss hotelier Cesar Ritz in 1898, the hotel has hosted celebrities ranging from Coco Chanel to Ernest Hemingway, after whom the Bar Hemingway is named.

Chanel plans to open its first spa named Chanel au Ritz Paris, dedicated to the brand’s skin care, in the Ritz Club.
Michelin-starred chef Nicolas Sale, who was overseeing the kitchen at the Table du Kilimandjaro and Kintessence restaurants in Courchevel in the French Alps, is to take the reins of the hotel’s fine-dining restaurant L’Espadon, with Estelle Touzet — who ascended the ranks at the crème de la crème of Parisian hotels, including Le Bristol, Hôtel Le Crillon and Le Meurice — as the hotel’s chief sommelier.

Love it. Paris starts when you arrive @ Charles de Gaule (CDG) International Airport.

Straight away to the city, Boulevard Saint-Michel, Boulevard Haussmann on the way to the famous “Ritz”. An amazing hotel, not a hotel for everyday and everyone but you feelin straight away perfect and are getting what you are looking for when you check in.

We got an upgrade, and checked in a junior suite literally next to the Cesar Ritz, which was fun.

Four windows overlooking the obelisk in Place Vendome, thats nice and if you are looking for an unforgettable lunch and hotel overnight thats the place to be. T

he Ritz is a #1 grand hotel in the heart of Paris.

The new hotel was constructed behind the façade of an 18th century town house, overlooking one of Paris’s central squares. It was reportedly the first hotel in Europe to provide a bathroom en suite, a telephone and electricity for each room. It quickly established a reputation for luxury, with clients including royalty, politicians, writers, film stars and singers.

Several of its suites are named in honour of famous guests of the hotel, including Coco Chanel and Ernest Hemingway who lived at the hotel for years. One of the bars of the hotel, Bar Hemingway, is devoted to Hemingway and the L’Espadon is a world-renowned restaurant, attracting aspiring chefs from all over the world who come to learn at the adjacent Ritz-Escoffier School. The grandest suite of the hotel, called the Imperial, has been listed by the French government as a national monument in its own right.
Considered one of, if not the world’s most prestigious and luxurious hotel, The Ritz in Paris has an illustrious history. It is a member of “The Leading Hotels of the World” and was the world’s first hotel to provide modern rooms in the sense now ubiquitous – bathroom, telephone, and electricity. Always popular with royalty, artists, and dignitaries, the Ritz appears in many literary works and films. It provided the backdrop for the beginning of romances in Billy Wilder’s 1957 “Love in the Afternoon”.

It has featured in a few novels like: Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is The Night and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.

In August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales and Al-Fayed’s son, Dodi, dined in the hotel’s Imperial Suite before their deadly car crash.

Hmm, thats a bit sad. RIP.

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