PARIS’ FIRST FLOATING HOTEL ON THE SEINE REVEALED AS A CONVERTED CATAMARAN WITH 54 ROOMS AND A 50 FT SWIMMING POOL

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 With 54 rooms, Off-Paris Seine will be housed in a converted catamaran

The hotel will be near Charles de Gaulle Bridge in the 13th arrondissement

Planners said rooms will cost between 160 euros (£115) and 450 euros (£320) a night

The hotel will be located near Charles de Gaulle Bridge along the Quai d’Austerlitz in the 13th arrondissement

Holidaymakers will soon be able to spend the night in a hotel on one of the most famous rivers in the world, www.dailymail.co.uk reportred.

Plans for a floating hotel on the River Seine in Paris were revealed this week, with officials saying it will be housed in a converted catamaran.

The three-star hotel, called Off-Paris Seine, will have 54 rooms and four suites, and there will be nothing else like it in the French capital, according to the planners. 

Off-Paris Seine is scheduled to open next spring, with rooms that cost between 160 euros (£115) and 450 euros (£320) a night, a 50ft swimming pool and a terrace, The Local reported.

The hotel will be located near Charles de Gaulle Bridge along the Quai d’Austerlitz in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, which until September was home to a camp for hundreds of migrants, who slept in tents.

Nearby, visitors will be able to browse shops in the city’s main Asian district, visit the National Library of France or check out the trendy shops or restaurants at Butte-aux-Cailles.

Further out, guests can take a 20-minute walk to Notre-Dame Cathedral or Paris’ Latin Quarter.

Set on the Left Bank of the Seine, Off-Paris Hotel cost about ?11million to build, and is the brainchild of boutique hotel chain Elegancia and Citysurfing, a company that specialises in floating structures, The Local reported.

Gerard Ronzatti, the architect, told the website that guests will feel some “rocking” from the waves of passing boats, but they won’t suffer motion sickness due to the design of the hotel, which has two articulated floats.

The hotel is being built in Normandy and will be towed to its spot on the Seine in a few weeks.

While it may be the first hotel of its kind in Paris, it is not the only place where tourists can sleep on the Seine.

There are a number of private or Airbnb listings for houseboats, with rooms costing anywhere from £80 to £150 a night.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk/travel

Read the whole story and see photos at www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3308198/Paris-plans-floating-hotel-Seine.html 

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PARIS TOURIST PICS AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM

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A lego man, or the Arc de Triomphe? Photo: PaperBoyo/Instagram

An Instagram user armed with paper cutouts has created some of the most creative pics of Paris that we’ve ever seen. And he’s currently in the French capital. Take a closer look.

We’ve all seen the tourist snaps of the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Louvre museum.

But never like this.

Take a look through the feed of Rich McCor, who is currently travelling through Paris as part of a world tour. He uses paper cutouts to show another side of some of the world’s most famous landmarks. 

Source: www.thelocal.fr

See more photos and read the whole story at www.thelocal.fr/20151027/are-these-the-most-creative-paris-pics-ever

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PARIS POLICE CRACK DOWN ON PICKPOCKETING OF TOURISTS

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Paris police say they are getting a handle on crime against tourists, torontosun.com reported.

In a briefing Tuesday, police said special units of officers have ramped up patrols of major tourist areas, including the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, and major department stores, where pickpockets have targeted tourists getting off buses.

Philippe Prunier, the police official in charge of protecting tourists, said thefts were down 17% this summer compared with the same period last year. Police made nearly 4,000 arrests.

He said carjackings outside the airport remain a concern, but thefts are down on public transit.

Security has been heightened at major tourist sites since extremist attacks in January, and Prunier said that combined with the new patrols has made a major difference.

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BUDSJETTBOUTIQUE I PARIS

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Frankrikes hovedstad Paris er notorisk dyr når det gjelder hotellovernatting, hvilket gjør Generator Paris enda mer velkomment.

Dette er nemlig et designerhotell hvor du kan nyte stilige og romslige fellesområder uten å blakke deg, skriver magasinet Reiselyst.

En seng i sovesal koster fra kr.220, og hotellet har også vanlige dobbeltrom med bad til kr.1270.

Les mer på www.generatorhostels.com

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PARIS: OVERNATTING I LIKKJELLEREN

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Fra katakombene i Paris. Foto: wikipedia.org

Airbnb fortsetter å dele ut spektakulære overnattinger som PR-stunt for losjiformidlingen sin. Tidligere har heldige par fått overnatte i fly på Schipol i Amsterdam, Globen i Stockholm og Holmenkollens tårnkabin, skriver VG.

Nå det blir også mulig å sove blant skjelettene i Paris’ likkjeller – katakombene 65 fot under byen, på selveste Halloween-natten, 31.oktober.

Det noe makabre stuntet inbefatter selvsagt at de “heldige” får servert en tre retters middag til folkemusikk før de tar kvelden i den skumle underverdenen, omgitt av flere hundre år gamle knokler og hodeskaller…

Før sengetid vil en historieforteller ta for seg noen av katakombenes legender, og dermed frata paret de siste forhåpninger om søte drømmer der nede i dypet.

Kilde: Verdens Gang 

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SMAKEN AV DET SØTE LIV I PARIS

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Sjokoladekostyme. Foto: chocoland.com

Er du glad i sjokolade? Da kan du oppleve selve himmelriket om du besøker Paris fra 29.oktober til 2.november, for da er det nemlig sjokoladefestival i Parc de Expositions, skriver bladet På Reise.

Her får man vite alt om sjokoladetrender og nyskapning innen sjokoladebransjen, det er prøvesmaking og opptog med kostymer av sjokolade.

Les mer på chokoland.com

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CONCORD KAN KOMME TILBAKE I 2019

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En gruppe britiske flyentusiaster ønsker å få det supersoniske flyet Concorde i lufta igjen – helst innen 2019, skriver www.travelnews.no

Club Concorde består av tidligere britiske flykapteiner, charteroperatører og entusiaster som er villig til å legge halvannen milliard kroner i potten for å få flyet i drift igjen. Gruppens leder, Paul James, sier at å få Concorde på vingene “er virkeliggjøringen av drømmen for Concordes globale brorskap”.

Concorden kunne fly to ganger lydens hastighet, og var selve juvelen i flåtene til British Airways og Air France. Etter at en av maskinene krasjet i Paris i 2000 gikk etterspørselen sammen veien, og siste flyvning var i 2003.

“Concorde-klubben” har først og fremst maskinen som nå står på utstilling på La Bourget-flyplassen utenfor Paris i sikte.

Målet er å restaurere den og gjenoppta flyvninger som et privat selskap i forbindelse med flyshow og som charter.

Årstallet 2019 er viktig: Da er det nemlig 50-årsjubileum for Concordes første flyvning.

Blant Concords destinasjoner var ruten fra London Heathrow og Paris Charles de Gaulle til New York John F.Kennedy, Washington Dulles, og til Barbados.

Kilde: www.travelnews.no

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PARIS APPROVES CONTROVERSIAL SKYSCRAPER

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A rendering of Tour Triangle.

The Paris city council has approved plans to construct its tallest skyscraper in 42 years: Herzog & de Meuron’s Tour Triangle. The controversial triangle-shaped glass building was rejected by the council last November, but the decision was overturned by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who declared the vote invalid and affected by party infighting, the www.architecturaldigest.com blog reports.

The 42-story tower will top out at 590 feet, well below the 1,062-foot Eiffel Tower. The last skyscraper built in the city, the 231-meter-tall Tour Montparnasse, was completed in 1973 and is still disputed. The Tour Triangle isn’t the only tower in the works, though; the Palais de Justice by Renzo Piano a proposed 525-foot-tall courthouse, is set to be completed in 2017.

Plans for the building were first unveiled in 2008.

Because the building is shaped like a triangle, it will cast fewer shadows on nearby residential buildings, according to the Herzog & de Meuron site. Also, the firm says say Tower’s impact on the environment is limited by its “simple, compact volume.”

The $552 million tower, to be built in the 15th arrondissement, will include a 120-room four-star hotel, a panoramic restaurant, public cultural spaces, a health center and 752,397 square feet of office space.

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MILITÆR MAKT OG PRAKT PÅ FRANKRIKES NASJONALDAG

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Tradisjonen tro ble Frankrikes nasjonaldag 14.juli – Bastille-dagen, feiret med en stor militærparade på Avenue es Champs-Elyssees. Foto: Mal Langsdon, Reuters / ibtimes.co.uk

Et storslagent fyrverkeri og Eiffeltårnet lyssatt i de franske nasjonalfargene hører med i feiringen.

Nasjonaldagen ble innført i 1880 til minne om stormen på middelalderborgen og fengselet Bastillen i Paris 14.juli 1789, og kalles også Bastilledagen. Hendelsen 14.juli 1789 var et kritisk øyeblikk i den franske revolusjonen.

Kilde: wikipedia.org 

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LOVE LOCKS ON PARIS’ PONT DES ARTS BRIDGE TO BE DISMANTLED

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Any hope that the love locks clinging to Paris’ famed Pont des Arts bridge would last forever will be unromantically dashed by the city council’s plan to dismantle them Monday — for good, the AP News agency reports.

 

The padlocks – signed and locked by lovers on the metal grills on the bridge’s sides by lovers — are widely regarded as an eyesore on Paris’ most picturesque bridge, which overlooks the Eiffel Tower.

Last summer, they also became symbol of danger after a chunk of fencing fell off under their weight.

The city council said this week that the several hundred thousand padlocks in places around Paris cause “long-term heritage degradation and a risk for visitors’ security.”

Padlock-proof plexiglass panels will soon replace the Pont des Arts bridge’s metal grills.

See also related story at www.hovedsteder.blogg.no/1383674685_05112013.html

See also our blog post about the Bridge of Love in Helsinki, Finland at our travel blog www.minbestereise.blogg.no/finland.html

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