Just a block or two again from the grand tree-lined avenue of the Champs-Elysées and a brief stroll to the banks of the Seine, the Hotel de Sers is the right method to expertise Paris in boutique luxurious.
What does ‘boutique luxury’ imply in lodge phrases? To me, I suppose it has to fulfil these 4 standards: magnificence, historical past, friendliness and—after all—luxurious itself.
So what does Hotel de Sers do to hit these marks, and what does that imply on your go to to the lovely romantic metropolis of Paris?
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Hotel de Sers—boutique luxurious within the coronary heart of Paris
Hotel de Sers is a part of the family-run B Signature Hotels and Resorts model. The Jousse household have been working B Signature since Anne Jousse opened their first property in Brittany in 1990.
Since then Anne and her daughter Agathe have gone on so as to add six extra motels to the road; 5 in Paris and one on the Caribbean island of St Barthélemy.
In spite of all of the motels being fantastically positioned, excessive luxurious and sufficiently small for all of the employees to know your identify by the primary day, B Signature motels are nonetheless good worth—particularly with the scale and high quality of the rooms and particularly for Paris.
Elegance
From the discreet reception hidden at first of the foyer hall to the spectacular monumental staircase the coils up by the centre of the constructing, the Hotel de Sers has the form of magnificence you’d anticipate from a five-star lodge within the stylish eighth Arrondissement.
The lodge’s restaurant and bar are within the courtyard, which is roofed by a retractable glass ceiling, flooding the world with pure mild. And the kitchen is behind a residing wall, emphasising the sensation that you just’re within the lavish courtyard backyard of a nineteenth Century mansion.
Other touches in our room—the function wall behind the mattress, the outsized door to the ensuite, the sheer amount of contemporary flower preparations all through—makes the Hotel de Sers merely ooze sophistication and elegance.
History
As with most buildings within the centre of Paris, the Hotel de Sers has a captivating backstory. Commissioned by nobleman, navy officer and world traveller Henri-Leopold Charles (a.okay.a the Marquis de Sers) in 1880, this was his Paris residence when away from his ancestral house within the south of France.
After the Marquis’ demise in 1903, this Paris mansion was bought and used as workplaces and a medical facility in the course of the early a part of the twentieth Century, however grew to become a lodge in 1935. The Jousse household took this and the opposite 4 Paris properties into their portfolio in 2003.
Friendliness
The relationship between employees and friends in a lodge is commonly a qualifier of high quality. At Hotel de Sers, you all the time really feel like everybody working right here has your finest pursuits, your consolation and your happiness at coronary heart.
Reception, bar and breakfast employees are so useful, and housekeeping are all the time prepared with a smile. And for those who’re trying to uncover the secrets and techniques of town, the lodge’s unimaginable concierge—Cédric Gazou—is superb.
A uncommon Les Clef d’Or Concierge, Cédric has contacts all through Paris and his data of town is flawless. Check out our interview with Cédric and be taught what a Gold Keys Concierge can do on your time within the City of Light.
Luxury
It’s all the time onerous to outline luxurious, however within the Hotel de Sers’ case it’s the sum complete of the sooner three factors. Luxury is so intangible and subjective, it’s like making an attempt to outline an emotion. And maybe that’s what luxurious means right here.
The emotion you’re feeling as you stroll by the bespoke asymmetrical entrance doorways, if you’re greeted by reception, when the Gold Keys Concierge helps you get into a totally booked present or restaurant, or plans your day for you with issues most individuals don’t get to do, that’s luxurious.
Yes, it’s with the ability to stretch out in your lovely room in your opulently comfortable lodge robe and watch the brilliant needle searchlight of the Eiffel Tower sweep throughout town out of your window. But it’s extra about how you’re feeling if you do this stuff.
And that’s what Hotel de Sers not solely permits you to do, however actively encourages as properly.
