Smoking in the boys room in Paris

We are staying in a "boutique hotel" in Paris . Here is the definition of a boutique hotel:  

  a small stylish hotel, typically one situated in a fashionable location

This hotel has 142 rooms and I guess that is small by hotel standards. Is it stylish? Ok, it's stylish. Is it in a fashionable district? I wouldn't call it fashionable. It has lots of restaurants with a few sex shops thrown in. You and your friend Pierre can be eating a burger and fries at a table outside and across the street people are doing who knows what in "luxeux salons " at the L'ODYSSEX.  Kinda bizarre, but I'm just a naive little old lady from the midwest.(!) I guess that's just how they do things in this den of debauchery they call Paris. Har. 

So the hotel itself has a theme: art. There were 3 artists chosen to design 3 floors each. The floor we are on has a bit of  a dark theme. The halls are black with ghost looking animal figures in white. Our room has the same theme. It sounds more bizarre than it is. It's really kind of cool. The lobby has interesting artwork. They have art classes, cooking classes and different things here. 

The room itself is designed different than a gal from Minneee-soda is used to. First of all, the bathroom is a six by six coffin like box with a door (appropriate since we are close to the Paris catacombs). It is separate from the rest of the bathroom around the corner. The shower is in a corner and there is a short hallway in front of it. In the very short hall there is a sink. There is no door on this part of the bathroom. Very little privacy.  Weird design.

By the way, last night some naughty hotel guest either above or below us were smoking in there coffin like bathroom and we smelled it in ours, if you're wondering about the smoking in the boys room reference.

One interesting thing here, the people at the desk emphasized that there is not only a bar, but a speakeasy too. This place is just too damn hip.

I'm making this hotel and neighborhood sound weird, but it isn't at all. It's all kind of fun and different. That's what life's all about.

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October 31, 2022 at 06:06PM