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WHERE İS BEST HOTELS İN THE WORLD
WHERE İS BEST HOTELS İN THE WORLDHotel Les Terrasses d'Eze, 1138 Route de la Turbie, 06360 Eze-Village, FranceTel: +33 (492) 415555, Fax: +33 (492) 415510Nestled between Nice and Monaco, a few minutes from Nice Cote d'Azur International Airport, the Hotel "Les Terrasses d'Eze" offers a unique panoramic view over the Mediterranean Sea.Location7 km to the city center, Railway Station Eze sur mer 8 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit La Turbie 1.5 km, Exhibition Site Monaco 7 km, Beach8 km, Hotel Les Terrasses d'Eze 0.0 km, Hotel Les Terrasses d'Eze 2.0 km.Nearest Airport: Nice Coted'Azur 20 kmDirections from Airport to HotelHwy A8 direction Menton, exit 57, turn right before the Village La Turbie direction 'Nice par le col', after 1 km turn left direction Eze Village (D 45), hotel 1 km on the right.Hotel Les Terrasses d'Eze, 1138 Route de la Turbie, 06360 Eze-Village, FranceTel: +33 (492) 415555, Fax: +33 (492) 415510Nestled between Nice and Monaco, a few minutes from Nice Cote d'Azur International Airport, the Hotel "Les Terrasses d'Eze" offers a unique panoramic view over the Mediterranean Sea.Location7 km to the city center, Railway Station Eze sur mer 8 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit La Turbie 1.5 km, Exhibition Site Monaco 7 km, Beach8 km, Hotel Les Terrasses d'Eze 0.0 km, Hotel Les Terrasses d'Eze 2.0 km.Nearest Airport: Nice Coted'Azur 20 kmDirections from Airport to HotelHwy A8 direction Menton, exit 57, turn right before the Village La Turbie direction 'Nice par le col', after 1 km turn left direction Eze Village (D 45), hotel 1 km on the right.Hotel La Perouse, 11 Quai Rauba Capeu, 06300 Nice, FranceTel: +33 (4) 93623463, Fax: +33 (4) 93625941An intimate, 62-room luxury oasis around the corner from the port of Nice and next to old Nice, with breathtaking views on the Baie des Anges. This boutique hotel combines a welcoming, warm and romantic ambience with a great and quiet location, provencal decor, pool and fitness facilities.Location1 km to the city center, Railway Station Gare Centrale Avenue Thiers 2.5 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit Number 50 on the A8 7 km, Exhibition Site Acropolis Convention Center 2.5 km, old Nice 0.0 km, Nice Harbour 1.5 km, Matisse and Chagall Museums 4.0 km, Flower Market 0.5 km, Antiques 0.5 km.Nearest Airport: Nice Cote Dazur 7 kmDirections from Airport to HotelDIRECTION PROMENADE DES ANGLES DIRECTION DRIVE EAST 7kms TOWARDS THE PORT oF NICE BEFORE THE PORT AND WHEN YOU HAVE PASSED THE MEMORIAL KEEP YOUR LEFT AND TAKE THE U TURN TO DRIVE BACK WEST 500 METERS TO FIND THE HOTEL ENTRANCE ON YOUR RIGHTHotel La Perouse, 11 Quai Rauba Capeu, 06300 Nice, FranceTel: +33 (4) 93623463, Fax: +33 (4) 93625941An intimate, 62-room luxury oasis around the corner from the port of Nice and next to old Nice, with breathtaking views on the Baie des Anges. This boutique hotel combines a welcoming, warm and romantic ambience with a great and quiet location, provencal decor, pool and fitness facilities.Location1 km to the city center, Railway Station Gare Centrale Avenue Thiers 2.5 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit Number 50 on the A8 7 km, Exhibition Site Acropolis Convention Center 2.5 km, old Nice 0.0 km, Nice Harbour 1.5 km, Matisse and Chagall Museums 4.0 km, Flower Market 0.5 km, Antiques 0.5 km.Nearest Airport: Nice Cote Dazur 7 kmDirections from Airport to HotelDIRECTION PROMENADE DES ANGLES DIRECTION DRIVE EAST 7kms TOWARDS THE PORT oF NICE BEFORE THE PORT AND WHEN YOU HAVE PASSED THE MEMORIAL KEEP YOUR LEFT AND TAKE THE U TURN TO DRIVE BACK WEST 500 METERS TO FIND THE HOTEL ENTRANCE ON YOUR RIGHTHotel Astor Saint-Honore, 11 Rue d'Astorg, 75008 Paris, FranceTel: +33 (1) 53050505, Fax: +33 (1) 53050530Located in the fashionable 8th arrondissement, with the world's most elegant boutiques, supreme dining and some of Paris' most famous sights at your doorstep, Hotel Astor Saint-Honore welcomes guests with an ambience of charm and intimate luxurious elegance.LocationLocated in the City, Railway Station Gare St Lazare 1 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit Motorway A4 6 km, Exhibition Site VILLEPINTE 30 km, ABN AMRO 1.5 km, Champs-Elysees 1.0 km, Opera House 1.0 km, Eiffel Tower 4.0 km, Louvre Museum 2.0 km.Nearest Airport: Charles De Gaul 33 kmDirections from Airport to HotelA1 direction Paris, exit "Porte d'Asnieres", then Bd Malhesherbes to "Place Saint Augustin" and Rue d'Astorg.Hotel Astor Saint-Honore, 11 Rue d'Astorg, 75008 Paris, FranceTel: +33 (1) 53050505, Fax: +33 (1) 53050530Located in the fashionable 8th arrondissement, with the world's most elegant boutiques, supreme dining and some of Paris' most famous sights at your doorstep, Hotel Astor Saint-Honore welcomes guests with an ambience of charm and intimate luxurious elegance.LocationLocated in the City, Railway Station Gare St Lazare 1 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit Motorway A4 6 km, Exhibition Site VILLEPINTE 30 km, ABN AMRO 1.5 km, Champs-Elysees 1.0 km, Opera House 1.0 km, Eiffel Tower 4.0 km, Louvre Museum 2.0 km.Nearest Airport: Charles De Gaul 33 kmDirections from Airport to HotelA1 direction Paris, exit "Porte d'Asnieres", then Bd Malhesherbes to "Place Saint Augustin" and Rue d'Astorg.Villa Pantheon, 41 Rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, FranceTel: +33 (1) 53109595, Fax: +33 (1) 53109596On the Left Bank, in the mythic Saint Germain district, the Villa Pantheon welcomes you in an authentic English colonial-style setting. Appreciate the exceptional comfort and calm of our rooms, in a subtle blend of tradition and refinement.LocationLocated in the City, Railway Station Gare d'Austerlitz 2 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit Porte de Bercy, Porte d'Orleans. 2 km, Exhibition Site Porte de Versailles 6 km, Notre Dame Cathedral 0.5 km, Luxembourg Gardens 0.3 km, La Sorbonne 0.3 km, Eglise Saint Sulpice 0.3 km, Saint Germain des Pres 0.5 km.Nearest Airport: Orly Airport 15 kmDirections from Airport to HotelHighway A6b (Kremlin Bicetre) by Porte d'Italie. Follow avenue d'Italie to Place d'Italie. Avenue des Gobelins, Rue Monge, Rue des Ecoles on your left. The Villa Pantheon on your leftVilla Pantheon, 41 Rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, FranceTel: +33 (1) 53109595, Fax: +33 (1) 53109596On the Left Bank, in the mythic Saint Germain district, the Villa Pantheon welcomes you in an authentic English colonial-style setting. Appreciate the exceptional comfort and calm of our rooms, in a subtle blend of tradition and refinement.LocationLocated in the City, Railway Station Gare d'Austerlitz 2 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit Porte de Bercy, Porte d'Orleans. 2 km, Exhibition Site Porte de Versailles 6 km, Notre Dame Cathedral 0.5 km, Luxembourg Gardens 0.3 km, La Sorbonne 0.3 km, Eglise Saint Sulpice 0.3 km, Saint Germain des Pres 0.5 km.Nearest Airport: Orly Airport 15 kmDirections from Airport to HotelHighway A6b (Kremlin Bicetre) by Porte d'Italie. Follow avenue d'Italie to Place d'Italie. Avenue des Gobelins, Rue Monge, Rue des Ecoles on your left. The Villa Pantheon on your left
WHERE İS BEST HOTELS
WHERE İS BEST HOTELSSt. Pierre Park Hotel, Rohais, GY1 1FD Guernsey, United KingdomTel: +44 (1481) 728282, Fax: +44 (1481) 712041Set amidst 45 acres of quiet, mature parkland on the outskirts of St Peter Port, this resort hotel offers something for everyone, whether it's the wide range of outdoor and indoor leisure amenities, the nine-hole golf course, superb cuisine or excellent conference facilities.Location2 km to the city center, Exhibition Site Beau Sejour Center 2 km, Beach3 km, Little Chapel 4.0 km, German Underground Museum 5.0 km, CI Traders 0.0 km, Castle Cornet 3.0 km.Nearest Airport: Guernsey 5 kmDirections from Airport to Hotelcontact hotelSt. Pierre Park Hotel, Rohais, GY1 1FD Guernsey, United KingdomTel: +44 (1481) 728282, Fax: +44 (1481) 712041Set amidst 45 acres of quiet, mature parkland on the outskirts of St Peter Port, this resort hotel offers something for everyone, whether it's the wide range of outdoor and indoor leisure amenities, the nine-hole golf course, superb cuisine or excellent conference facilities.Location2 km to the city center, Exhibition Site Beau Sejour Center 2 km, Beach3 km, Little Chapel 4.0 km, German Underground Museum 5.0 km, CI Traders 0.0 km, Castle Cornet 3.0 km.Nearest Airport: Guernsey 5 kmDirections from Airport to HotelGrange Bloomsbury Townhouse Collection, 34-37 Bedford Place, London WC1B 5JR, United KingdomTel: +44 (20) 76373400, Fax: +44 (20) 74368253A spectacular, newly re-opened historic hotel ideally located in the heart of the capital, just minutes from London's fashionable West End. Lovingly restored with its Georgian features enhanced, it offers a peaceful and comfortable retreat in the heart of the world's most exciting city.LocationLocated in the City, Railway Station Euston Station 0.8 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit M40 Junct 1 3.2 km, Exhibition Site Earls Court 2.4 km, Oxford Street 0.2 km, Leicester Square 0.2 km, Deloitte and Touche 0.2 km, Covent Garden 0.2 km, Cable and Wireless 0.0 km.Nearest Airport: London Gatwick 56.35 kmDirections from Airport to HotelM25 Northbound to M40 East into Central London. Right at Euston into Upper Woburn Place, right at Russell Square and third left into Bedford Place.Grange Bloomsbury Townhouse Collection, 34-37 Bedford Place, London WC1B 5JR, United KingdomTel: +44 (20) 76373400, Fax: +44 (20) 74368253A spectacular, newly re-opened historic hotel ideally located in the heart of the capital, just minutes from London's fashionable West End. Lovingly restored with its Georgian features enhanced, it offers a peaceful and comfortable retreat in the heart of the world's most exciting city.LocationLocated in the City, Railway Station Euston Station 0.8 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit M40 Junct 1 3.2 km, Exhibition Site Earls Court 2.4 km, Oxford Street 0.2 km, Leicester Square 0.2 km, Deloitte and Touche 0.2 km, Covent Garden 0.2 km, Cable and Wireless 0.0 km.Nearest Airport: London Gatwick 56.35 kmDirections from Airport to HotelM25 Northbound to M40 East into Central London. Right at Euston into Upper Woburn Place, right at Russell Square and third left into Bedford Place.The Westbury Mayfair, Bond Street, W1S 2YF London, United KingdomTel: +44 (20) 76297755, Fax: +44 (20) 74951163Situated in the heart of London's most exclusive district, the deluxe Westbury Mayfair Hotel, with its stylish rooms and suites, is one famous name surrounded by others. Guests will be spoilt for choices, given the hotel's ideally location amidst London's cultural treasures, theatres and shopping.LocationLocated in the City, Railway Station Charing Cross 2 km, Exhibition Site Earls Court 8.1 km, Tower of London and Tower Bridge 3.0 km, Royal Academy 0.3 km, Piccadilly Circus 0.5 km, London Eye 1.0 km, Houses of Parliament, Westminster 0.6 km.Nearest Airport: London Heathrow 30 kmDirections from Airport to HotelM4 to central London. Follow signs to WestEnd to Oxford Circus.Turn right onto Regents Street, third turning on right into Conduit Street.The Westbury Mayfair, Bond Street, W1S 2YF London, United KingdomTel: +44 (20) 76297755, Fax: +44 (20) 74951163Situated in the heart of London's most exclusive district, the deluxe Westbury Mayfair Hotel, with its stylish rooms and suites, is one famous name surrounded by others. Guests will be spoilt for choices, given the hotel's ideally location amidst London's cultural treasures, theatres and shopping.LocationLocated in the City, Railway Station Charing Cross 2 km, Exhibition Site Earls Court 8.1 km, Tower of London and Tower Bridge 3.0 km, Royal Academy 0.3 km, Piccadilly Circus 0.5 km, London Eye 1.0 km, Houses of Parliament, Westminster 0.6 km.Nearest Airport: London Heathrow 30 kmDirections from Airport to HotelM4 to central London. Follow signs to WestEnd to Oxford Circus.Turn right onto Regents Street, third turning on right into Conduit Street.Airport Hotel Bonus Inn, Elannontie 9, 01510 Vantaa, FinlandTel: +358 (9) 825511, Fax: +358 (9) 82551818A privately owned hotel providing a warm welcome between flights or for an extended stay, it offers excellent value, with responsive, service-minded multilingual staff, renovated rooms, and the owners in charge. Courtesy shuttle from Helsinki Airport. Free car park. Shopping mall nearby.Location15 km to the city center, Railway Station Tikkurila 7 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit Pakkala 1 km, Exhibition Site Helsinki Fair Center 10 km, Beach15 km, Helsinki Fair Centre 15.0 km, Helsinki city centre 15.0 km, Finlandia Hall 15.0 km, Backas Manor and Garden Center 1.0 km, Aviation Museum 3.0 km.Nearest Airport: Helsinki 4 kmDirections from Airport to HotelLentokentantie South, over the RING III Hwy. Turn right from traffic lights on Vaino Tannerintie, take the first to the left and to the right again, you see the hotel in front of you.Airport Hotel Bonus Inn, Elannontie 9, 01510 Vantaa, FinlandTel: +358 (9) 825511, Fax: +358 (9) 82551818A privately owned hotel providing a warm welcome between flights or for an extended stay, it offers excellent value, with responsive, service-minded multilingual staff, renovated rooms, and the owners in charge. Courtesy shuttle from Helsinki Airport. Free car park. Shopping mall nearby.Location15 km to the city center, Railway Station Tikkurila 7 km, Motorway/ Highway Exit Pakkala 1 km, Exhibition Site Helsinki Fair Center 10 km, Beach15 km, Helsinki Fair Centre 15.0 km, Helsinki city centre 15.0 km, Finlandia Hall 15.0 km, Backas Manor and Garden Center 1.0 km, Aviation Museum 3.0 km.Nearest Airport: Helsinki 4 kmDirections from Airport to HotelLentokentantie South, over the RING III Hwy. Turn right from traffic lights on Vaino Tannerintie, take the first to the left and to the right again, you see the hotel in front of you.Hotel Splendid, 4 Rue Felix Faure, 06400 Cannes, FranceTel: +33 (4) 97062222, Fax: +33 (4) 93995502Stunning views over the yacht harbour and the bay of Cannes enhance the hotel’s splendour. As a family-managed property, there's an emphasis on friendliness and personalized service at this elegant hotel. Enjoy buffet breakfast on the sunny terrace - there is no better way to start a leisurely day.LocationLocated in the City, Railway Station Cannes Train Station 0.1 km, Exhibition Site Palais des Festivals (Convention Center) 0.1 km, Old Harbour 0.1 km, none 0.0 km, La Croisette 0.1 km.Nearest Airport: Nice Airport 30 kmDirections from Airport to HotelMotorway A8, take the exit Cannes, follow the sign 'Centre Ville', go down on 'Bd Carnot', at the end of that street take direction 'Hotel de Ville', we are two blocks down at the corner.Hotel Splendid, 4 Rue Felix Faure, 06400 Cannes, FranceTel: +33 (4) 97062222, Fax: +33 (4) 93995502Stunning views over the yacht harbour and the bay of Cannes enhance the hotel’s splendour. As a family-managed property, there's an emphasis on friendliness and personalized service at this elegant hotel. Enjoy buffet breakfast on the sunny terrace - there is no better way to start a leisurely day.LocationLocated in the City, Railway Station Cannes Train Station 0.1 km, Exhibition Site Palais des Festivals (Convention Center) 0.1 km, Old Harbour 0.1 km, none 0.0 km, La Croisette 0.1 km.Nearest Airport: Nice Airport 30 kmDirections from Airport to HotelMotorway A8, take the exit Cannes, follow the sign 'Centre Ville', go down on 'Bd Carnot', at the end of that street take direction 'Hotel de Ville', we are two blocks down at the corner.
WHAT İS THE HOTEL
WHAT İS THE HOTELI had wanted to do some thinking about why I so often prefer to stay in a hotel room when travelling - even to cities where I have many friends with room to spare, and even when I can't really afford it. I want to clarify, for myself if no one else, just what it is that I am looking for, and why I so often find myself disappointed.I think we can take it as read that Hotel is more than a place to stash one's body and personal effects while on the road; otherwise the capsule hotel, priced appropriately to its dimensions, would have more than curiosity appeal.But I'm also assuming that the proposition goes quite a bit further, even, than the evoking the space of home in unfamiliar surroundings. In many regards, I'm imagining, it is precisely the condition of home that Hotel aims to transcend. (Witness the curious reimportation into the domestic milieu of "hotel-grade" mattresses, linen, bath appointments, and so on.)The element of reinvention is certainly at play here, the opportunity to try on new masks and guises that has always been afforded by travel. But there is also a potent set of inducements operating at the rawly material level:- Hotel is always clean[ed], even sterile. Hotel is always a blank slate, an idealized terrain not subject to the cluttering accumulations and biological drifts of everyday life. Designed to be serviced, it holds forth the promise of a new beginning with every passing day, "sanitized for your protection."- Nested somewhere within the idea of Hotel is that of Concierge, of some human guide to the social, physical and temporal complexity that is city. Bundled up in the Concierge pattern are notions of access and privilege: they can get you reservations or tickets that are otherwise impossible to acquire, accomodate and smooth transactions that would otherwise require extensive nemawashi.The prime attribute sought here is that of discretion: the Concierge arranges, but never judges. Or so I'd want to believe - never having actually availed myself of concierge services anywhere, the access symbolized by those golden keys remains a potent fantasy for me. The reality (i.e. "good" seats at tonight's showing of The Lion King) is probably a great deal sadder and less romantic.- Hotel is always perched precisely on the borderline between public and private. Once you close the door of your room, it's as if you've decoupled utterly from the world and its demands - until the moment that you require something from beyond its walls. In the ideal case (that generally suggested by ads, brochures, and other marketing collateral), the guest finds that sustenance of most any sort is merely a phonecall away. This unusual ability to toggle at whim between public and private, detached and intensely connected, constitutes one of the primary attractions of Hotel.- Hotel is a stage set on which the guest is free to act and enact some idealized version of his or her self and life. Room and public areas invoke a certain insouciance or lightness of spirit; the all-important element of glamour is provided by the furnishings, the location, the design, and never least by the spectral presence of other guests historic or contemporary.- Hotel is a realm where you are unusually free to act without (apparent) consequence and where, to a great degree, you simply needn't consider anyone else's prerogatives in making your own choices. You come and go as you please; you act as you and you alone see fit; you emit whatever noises, smells and traces you will.And here, of course, is where a significant element of bad faith surfaces, because unless you are unusually callous - and I like to think that I am not - the guest always retains the consciousness that someone has to clean it all up. And by the same token, that that someone is building up an impression of the guest based on their leavings. Of course, to put it with maximum bluntness, such perceptions have historically been safe because the people holding them do not matter to the guest, socially, economically, or otherwise. Suppression of one's consciousness regarding all of this is a sleight-of-hand absolutely necessary to enjoyment of the Hotel condition.- At its best, Hotel is always both prospect and refuge, offering (in its public spaces at the very least) a view from the commanding heights matched only by the security with which the guest retreats from others' gaze.- Ideally, Hotel is near-clockless, time here reduced to the shifting of the offshore breeze...the daily lighting of the lanterns...the setting-out of the breakfast buffet.- There is always in Hotel a note of the louche, even in the most elegant surroundings and however subterranean. For me, anyway, Hotel is always an intensely erotic machine, a potent cocktail of privacy, disinhibition, borrowed glamour and relative anonymity. Much of the pleasure of Hotel living ultimately resolves to what it promises the guest in the exercise of their sexuality. The best Hotels understand and acknowledge this, but don't beat you over the head with it.Following on from this is a specific geometry which has always been all but irrelevant to me personally, but which presumably furnishes much of the attraction of Hotel for a great many: backstairs sexual intrigues of guest and uniformed staff, fueled by the power and economic differentials between the participants just as a tornado is fueled by stark gradients of heat and humidity. You can't convince me that the desk staff at the Standard or the W aren't hired with this in mind, or don't consider it in applying for work there.- And this brings me, finally, to the question of why I so rarely find these elements held in just the right balance. (I discount, with sad ease, nine of ten nights spent on the road, in hostelries variously too corporate, too generic or tone-deaf or self-consciously swank to enjoy.)Some simply try too hard, throwing every conceivable vista, gadget and obsequious gesture at the Guest in the hope of securing acquiescence to the particular paradigm of luxury on offer. But excess for its own sake isn't really the point of Hotel, at least as far as I am concerned, unless you mean the deeper and truer privileges of abundant time and space and air.Even when the level of material luxury has been gauged properly, some - many - get its tenor all wrong. For Hotel to work for me at all, it can't smother the Guest with wet "glamour" of the Versace/Trump/Cristal variety, or anything even remotely close. I'm not asking for an ashram, but to err on the side of astringency is frankly preferable. Too rustic, too winking, too bustling, too efficient: easy pitfalls to stumble into, and terribly hard to recover from.Ultimately, I think, it's the quality of modulated privacy that determines whether Hotel is experienced as restorative or as something to be endured. A lodging can fail on every other aesthetic and practical ground and still succeed, in my book, if only it lets the Guest establish a temporary base of operations that transitions rapidly and readily between sanctuary and conviviality.Happily, of course, some do far better at resolving these challenges. Even the big chains occasionally demonstrate an understanding of real comfort. And once in a blue moon, someone gets almost everything right.