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Eiffel Park Hotel: A Welcome ChangeMany Hotels in Paris Have Received Overhauls – Mostly for the Better
The Eiffel Park Hotel started life as a clean-cut, impersonal business hotel - and had a change of heart involving lots of Asian furniture and objets. What a change!
About the HotelThe granite floor of the hotel’s high yellow hall is warmed with a big oriental rug, rattan colonial armchairs, a wonderful table made from a pair of Indian shutters and a gigantic Provencal urn. Pass a carved Indian gate to the soft-smart bar and salon then to the warmly Mediterranean Garcia-designed breakfast room and the little patio. All very comforting. Most of the hotel’s rooms have some rustic-looking Far-Eastern furniture - little chests, bedside tables, often painted to match the colour scheme, which may be blue and sunny gold or vibrant pink and red, some in Jouy prints. Rooms are small, but there are some quirky shapes and window angles which give space; bathrooms have superb classic white tiles and fittings. The crowning glory is the hotel’s wonderful summer roof terrace with small grapevine and lavender flowers, and you can breakfast while gazing across the roofscape. Françoise Testard, the manageress of the Eiffel Park Hotel, and her team ensure a lively, friendly welcome completes the picture. Hotel InformationThe hotel has 36 rooms. Prices range from €150 – 180 ($234 – 280/£115 – 138) for singles and doubles. A continental buffet breakfast in the hotel costs €7 ($10/£5), however meals are not available. Parking is available nearby at Invalides. The hotel has an elevator and its rooms are air-conditioned. Four connecting apartments are possible subject to availability. Eiffel Park Hotel 17 bis rue Amelie, 75007 Paris Tel: (0)145 55 10 01 Fax: (0)1 47 O5 28 68 Getting to the HotelThe hotel is located in the Invalides – Eiffel Tower district of Paris. From Gard du Nord take Metro route number 4, change at Strasbourg St-Denis for route number 8 and get off at La Tour Maubourg. On the RER take route B, changing at St-Michel Notre Dame for route C, getting off at Invalides. The hotel is served by bus route numbers 28, 49, 63 and 69. Did You Know?Rue Amelie, the street on which the Eiffel Park Hotel stands, was named for Amélie Pihan de Laforêt. Amélie died aged 15 and her father, who owned the land on which the hotel stands, immortalised her name rather than his own. Amélie was said to possess all the Christian virtues. Attractions Near the HotelApart from the Eiffel Tower and Les Invalides, just around the corner from this hotel, on rue St-Dominique, is Thoumieux: a cavernous, traditional brasserie replete with mirrors, carved wood, hat stands and bustling black-and-white clad waiters.
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