Room service is less and less popular in luxury Paris hotels. The classic champagne clientele is making itself rare in the pandemic.
Foreign holidaymakers willing to spend money stay away as well as expense knights. Now high-class hotels in the capital are trying to seduce local guests.
Patrick Arnoult is the director of the Pullman Tour Eiffel Hotel, which offers an unobstructed view of the tower of the same name in many rooms: “Today there are practically no international customers anymore, so we really focus on the local, Parisian customers – Paris and the Ile-de-France – to try to get those new customers. Before we didn’t have them, or we only had them a small percentage. Today it looks different, since they make up about 15 percent of our guests. “
Room as a cinema suite
But it doesn’t always have to be the view of the Eiffel Tower that draws in Paris. Cinemas are permanently closed in France, so the Hotel Paradiso is only too happy to step into the breach. Those who can afford it book one of the 36 screening rooms, in which the screen is larger than the bed. You can choose from the in-house video library with 2,500 titles, but also eight international streaming services.
Nathanaël Karmitz, co-managing director of the MK2 group, came up with the idea: “The hotel industry suffers, the cinema suffers, so we decided to take the two most suffering sectors, bring them together and bring an offer to the market that is completely new, whether at the cinema or at the Hotel side to create a hybrid experience. “
And if it gets too tight in front of the three-meter screen, you can escape to the roof terrace. With an open-air cinema, of course – and a view over the twelfth arrondissement of Paris.
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