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Chic and cheerful: The best budget hotels in Paris
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Chic and cheerful: The best budget hotels in Paris

Paris regularly tops the list as the most romantic city in the world, but there’s no reason to throw financial caution to the wind for a weekend in its embrace. Here are our favourite Parisian hotels that will make your pulse race – and not because you’ve seen the bill.
Expat's 'illegal' chateau hotel closed by cops
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Expat's 'illegal' chateau hotel closed by cops

A Dutch expat is in hot water with the long arm of the French law after allegedly illegally renting rooms in his historic chateau in the south of France to scores of tourists through a classified ads website. Police raided the hotel last week.
Paris hotel guests invited to 'pay what they want'
Paris

Paris hotel guests invited to 'pay what they want'

A group of hotels in Paris are experimenting with the idea of allowing customers to pay the price they believe their stay was really worth. It sounds like a great idea for tourists, but could the initiative take on permanently in the future?
Becks outshines Zlatan - in choice of Paris hotel
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Becks outshines Zlatan - in choice of Paris hotel

English football superstar David Beckham has finally found a place to lay his head in Paris. And with his €17,000 a night, 320m² suite at the famously fancy Hotel Bristol, Becks has outgunned Swedish clubmate Zlatan Ibrahimovic, to boot.
Strasbourg, not Paris, has France's 'top hotel'
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Strasbourg, not Paris, has France's 'top hotel'

Forget the Ritz Paris, or the Champs Elysee Plaza. In fact, forget the City of Light altogether. According to Tripadvisor's 2013 Travellers' Choice Awards, the top hotel in France is in fact the Cour du Corbeau in the eastern city of Strasbourg.
Paris hotels post record year for reservations
Paris

Paris hotels post record year for reservations

<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The number of nights spent in Paris hotels hit a record in 2011, the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau said on Monday, with a big jump in visits from China.</span></p>