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The Costes Hotel is a incontroversible venue of Parisian’s life. You go there to have tea with your friends while devouring some cheesecake -one of Paris’ finest according to me- or to have dinner with friends at night in a chic and glamourous ambiance. You can also have a romantic dinner in a little corner, go swimming or have body cares -when you’re privileged enough!
I love this place, its ambiance is unique with its music and its smells, you feel good there! The only issue is that everything is too expensive. Indeed, you definitely have a good time with all the “luxury, the calm and the voluptuousness” but for a really classic menu at the restaurant you’ll end up with a long bill. Moreover, the suites are really expensive: 530€ for a standard bedroom; although they are really well-decorated by Jacques Garcia they are not that big. Also, the candles - I buy too many of those- cost 45€ but smell really good and I don’t even dare to talk about the body cares. A massage on a Sunday will bankrupt you…

And the highest pitch of the Costes Attitude: Forget your keys inside the house and then have to book a room to watch DVDs with your daughter while waiting that your super friends brings you back your spare set of keys!

A tour of Parisian’s table dedicated to Nicolas Sarkozy in order that he welcomes in tete-a-tete the union leaders’. It is going to be Les Cocottes for Jean-Claude Mailly (leader of the FO).
Les Cocottes is Christian’s Constant fourth restaurant - he was the former chef at Crion- after Le Violon, Le Café Constant and Les Fables de la Fontaine specialised in fish cuisine. Les Cocottes is a new concept where you eat affordable dishes served in individual dutch ovens by the counter. Issue: No bookings for lunch!

A pretty hotel located in the little village of Monêtier / Serre Chevalier. Hotel spa with a nice heated outdoor swimming pool, a little indoor pool which is very warm and therefore ideal for after skiing, a balneo, baths, massages and Decleor treatments. I’ve tested the massages and they really are great (70 euro for an hour), and you can ask for Sophie who really is an expert!!! They are all Decleor products and therefore very good quality. After skiing it’s a dream…

A very nice boutique on the place de la madeleine, a children’s paradise! Wonderful traditional-style toys, often in wood, that please both young and old. Rocking horses, giant cuddlies, magnificent wooden cars, theatre puppets, shop stalls… The toy shop for children whose parents have good taste :-) A bit expensive obviously, but like all the nice things…

This is an address a waitress gave us, we were looking for a bathhouse that wasn’t a hotel spa which is often expensive. And well, it was crazy… As it was 42 degrees! We hadn’t been to a bathhouse before, and we chose 1 hour of massage (270 dirhams, compared to double in a hotel). I don’t think I will ever have another massage like it! To start with it was 3 in the afternoon and we were practically alone, which was really nice after the bustle of the medina. Then, 2 fairly imposing women  pinned us to a table and covered us with argan oil. For an hour they did anything and everything to us!!! But really it was incredible, fantastic, something to be experienced… If you’re passing through Marrakech remember to bear it in mind!