Hotel Melia Vendôme
Paris
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Address:	8 Rue Cambron, 75001 Paris, France
Telephone:	+33 (0)1 44 77 54 00
Fax:	+33 (0)1 44 77 54 01
Cost:	euro 365
Rooms:	83
Rating:	4 star

The Hotel Writes

The Melia Vendome Boutique Hotel is a deluxe hotel, located in the center of Paris. The hotel is in Paris' prestigious 1st District. Attractive guest rooms feature neo-classical decor and are well equipped with modern conveniences. This boutique hotel is centrally located to most of Paris' popular attractions.

Reviews

Jamie Dunford Wood:
The name of the hotel includes the subtitle 'boutique hotel', although in truth it's a marketing ploy - this is not really a boutique hotel as is commonly understood, but very much a chain. The brand is the Spanish company Melia, and the look is clean luxury corporate with local twist - in this case the twist being the Belle Epoque reception area scattered with good repro antiques, the wood paneling in the rooms, and the general library air of sophistication running through the whole hotel (there's a cosy Parisian library bar of dark wood and deep sofas on the ground floor, rather lacking in activity when we were there.)

Being very much a commercial enterprise where productivity is all, the rooms are squeezed in either side of narrow corridors, with some compromise in room size. Of the 83 rooms, a sizeable proportion are small, and these tend to be given to agency clients who pay bulk rates, so if you book individually, don't be fobbed off with them. As a chain , all the rooms are consistent in decor - striped walls in pale yellows, red carpets, good repro furnishings and copies of 18thc engravings on the walls. Characterless but slick, but since it only opened at the beginning of 2001, some wear and tear may cosy it up a bit. All double rooms are of the same standard, with a single rate.

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