Renovated in 2011, the three-star Campanile Reims Centre is located within a five-minute walk to the center of Reims. The modern rooms are a bit like an adolescent boy’s bedroom, painted in Granny Smith apple green and furnished with a candy apple red chair. Framed paintings of race cars hang on the walls above the…
Life in Manhattan is sometimes like a Hollywood romance from the Thirties – and especially when listening to the songs of Cole Porter and Noel Coward while happily sipping tea in the Empire Deco splendor of the Stanford White-designed Lambs Club in the theatre district. Named for Charles Lamb, the renowned 19th-century London drama critic…
In the year 1912, the world’s largest ship made her maiden voyage sailing from Southampton. Meanwhile in Paris, a butcher in the 4th arrondissement purchased a neighboring restaurant and gave it his name: Benoit. Who would have imagined that one hundred years hence the restaurant would be charging full steam ahead – while the Titanic…
For a sartorial gentleman, certainly one of the most haunting scenes in the entirety of American literature is the scene from “The Great Gatsby” where Daisy Buchanan weeps at the profusion of gorgeous, made-to-order shirts that Jay Gatsby shows her in a rainbow of colors and fabrics as he tosses them onto a table in…
On Air France, there’s still a middle class – and it is rightfully celebrated. It’s called Premium Economy, meaning it’s a class above Air France’s economy class – and right behind Air France’s business class. (Air France’s first class service, La Première, is used only on long-haul flights.) On the new Airbus 380, the four…
One of the many joys of Old Montreal is its serene atmosphere and the sense of returning to a more leisurely pace of life. The cobblestoned streets and the clip-clopping of the horse-and-carriages that traverse the neighborhood enable one to be easily transported back into another century. Located in the courtyard garden of Le St….
Some locals claim that Montreal has only two seasons: winter and festivals. When winter ends, it’s festival season. Months and months of festivals. Festivals all over the city: music festivals and gay festivals, movie festivals and comedy festivals and jazz and arts and culinary festivals. For at least nine months a year, Montreal is an…
Recently, in celebration of the hotel’s 10th anniversary, Le St. Sulpice Hotel produced a 15-minute film titled “La Valise,” in which four guests converge at the charming four-star boutique hotel located in Old Montreal. “We wanted to create something daring and innovative,” said Alexandre Tessier, Director of Sales and Marketing. “La Valise” is but one…