Two girls sunbathe on a deck; one binds a delicately positioned book, a other nonchalantly covers her feet in a swimming pool. An inflatable bullion swan drifts past, while over during a pool’s potion corner a beefed-up bro composes a ideal selfie unaware a river.
Moored on a Left Bank, during Quai d’Austerlitz, Off Paris Seine is clearly attempting to turn a French capital’s hottest new residence — and it seems to be working. Opened in June, it’s Paris’s initial floating hotel; yet some-more boxy than a boat, it has a hold of a catamaran about it, with dual rows of bedrooms built over dual levels, connected by a sky-lit corridor.
There are 54 rooms, trimming from entry-level Left and Right Bank Rooms (with views of a petrify quayside or a stream respectively) to a incomparable Horizon Suites and top-level Designer Suites.
The décor opposite a reduce categories is chic, minimalist and mostly monochrome, with touches of dim wood. In a Designer Sunset Suite orange is a usually colour you’ll find, while a Designer Silver Suite is embellished out in mirrors and pale tones, with a difference of a yellow bath.
My beloved and we were in a Right Bank Room, that felt a tiny too tiny for dual — some-more like a journey boat cabin than a hotel room. The miss of space done rummaging by dual suitcases a bit of a challenge, yet there are some crafty storage solutions, including an beyond shelf, that we competence have used if I’d been staying longer than one night.
Despite a size, a room is light and bright, with a inexhaustible window from that to admire a stream and a pleasure boats flapping past.
A glass-fronted showering room lets you make a many of a view.
A tiny some-more information wouldn’t have left astray in a room — there was no printed element or inscription with sum on a hotel, and no minibar menu, that left us wondering either a essence were free (we asked, and they’re not).
As good as being a hotel, Off is a bar, open to a public, with dual glass-walled bedrooms (ideal for checking out a perspective over a sundowner), distant by a path pool and deck; downstairs there’s a apart smoking area with some-more tables.
On a Saturday night we were there, a bar was packaged with a worldly throng sipping cocktails. There’s no griddle though a bar serves really juicy tapas, including cod croquettes and tiny gem lettuce with a cheese sauce.
The neighbourhood
The area around a hotel — the 13th and 5th arrondissements — is on a up. Gare d’Austerlitz, one of Paris’s vital stations, is carrying a revamp, while subsequent to a hotel is La Cité de la Mode et du Design (the City of Fashion and Design). Also called Les Docks, this eye-catching former storehouse, with a twisted immature frontage, has been converted into galleries, rooftop bars and restaurants.
On a other side of Off you’ll find L’Asile, a temporary bar and griddle set within a few trailers, with waterfront seating. You’re also brief wander divided from Jardin des Plantes, with a manicured flower beds and zoo, while a half-hour travel along a Seine will move we to traveller sights such as Notre Dame Cathedral.
Further afield, in a 2nd arrondissement, executive David Lynch’s bar Silencio serves wines and cocktails in surreal surroundings. Members usually before midnight.
Off Paris Seine, 20-22 Port d’Austerlitz, Paris, France (00 33 1 44 06 62 65; offparisseine.com). Doubles from €160, room only. Eurostar (eurostar.com) serves Paris from St Pancras, from £29 one way.
Rooms ★★★✩✩
Service ★★★★✩
Value ★★★★✩
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