Nice, the aptly named
The Hôtel Amour in Nice, the third variation of the brand, after Pigalle and rue de la Fidélité in Paris, was designed as “a unique place where everyone feels good. The opposite of a tourist hotel,” according to Emmanuel Delavenne, one of the founders. And in fact, establishment of 40 rooms also has an organic self-service, a pocket swimming pool on the roof terrace, and above all a library of 1,500 books (but no television or telephone in the rooms and no star on its pediment) and a beach way era of games on the Promenade des Anglais.
Standard room from 99 euros to 129 euros (instead of 329 euros in July). Hotel Amour, 3, avenue des Fleurs, Nice (Alpes-Maritimes). Such. : 04-65-27-10-10. hotelamournice.fr
Biarritz, the Atlantic trance
A few hundred meters from the Côte des Basques beach, the Edouard VII hotel, a charming establishment with 18 rooms, located in the former Villa des Rosiers (large 19th century bourgeois housee century where Napoleon and King Edward VII of England stayed), does not play the card of modernity at all costs, and that’s good…
Comfort room with balcony, €135 per night from January to March (instead of €189 in high season). Hotel Edouard VII, 21, avenue Carnot, Biarritz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). Such. : 05-59-22-39-80. hotel-edouardvii.com
The haven of peace
In a building in Le Havre bearing the mark of his colleague the architect Auguste Perret, project manager, after the war, of the reconstruction of the 150 hectares of the city center of the Norman city, destroyed by the bombardments of 1944, Vincent Duteurtre had the idea of transforming a modest family hotel in the spirit of the 1950s. remained “in their own juice”.
Comfort double room, from 72 euros to 80 euros per night in January (instead of 110 euros in high season). Oscar Hotel, 106, rue Voltaire, Le Havre. Such. : 02-35-42-39-77. hotel-oscar.fr
National Sète
Sète, which tourist brochures call “the little Venice of Languedoc”, is however not a city-museum. It is even what charms, this South which flows without preparation on the squares, on the terraces of the cafes of this small city, which still smells of the tide and the diesel, with its commercial port, its trawlers which return at the end of afternoon… It is above the former Rio cinema that the team of The Marcel, the starred restaurant, offers, facing the Royal Canal, six apartments converted into suites decorated and named after familiar artists from the city.
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