Choose your Best Hotels in Paris

France is one of the popular tourist destination in Europe, 14 Million people visit France annually, Paris city ranks in first 10 cities of the world from tourist attraction point of view.  France is known for good food and wine, it also has one of the vibrant night life compared to any other city in Europe.   It is also said French people are lot more mannered than any other country in the world, there are guidelines for fine dining to living laid by French people, which are considered to be the best standards in the world.

Hotel industry in France is highly regulated by French government, there are stringent guidelines from running a Bar to owning fine dining restaurant, most of the hotels are rated from 1 to 4 stars, but until recently in 2009 a new 5-Star ranking was introduced and some were around 160 – 200 hotels are expected to get qualified for this ranking by first quarter of 2010.  Best 5-star hotels in France are found in Paris, like top Alpine resorts and Spa, on the Riviera.

The largest 5 start chain hotels in Paris are Sofitel Hotels, Pullman Hotels and not to forget Europe’s largest chain of three star called “Novotel” The current new 5-start ranking system is based on what Amenities the hotel provides, traditionally 5-star rating is judge by the quality of the amenities, there are some organization which provide unofficial quality based rankings.

As per the law, in France all hotels must display room rates including tax in the room as well, they called it “rack rate”. Which means basic undiscounted cost for the room which does include VAT, normally Rack rate is higher than the rates you would have paid for.  If you have paid more than the Rack rate, then you might have been charged by the agency via which you have booked, which normally charges commission on top of the room rates, the rate breakdown should also indicate local tourist tax. It is very advisable to book online for hotel in Paris where you can find very reasonable deals, such online travel sites are very safe and offer quick service.

Hotel prices in France are lower compared to hotels in Tokyo and Stockholm, it’s possible as several hotels have 500 plus room capacity, and when such huge capacity is in place competition is to happen which draws room rent to reasonable amount.  Therefore hotels don’t include Continental breakfast in the room fare, they charge somewhere between €15 -€50 depending on the star of hotel you are in.  In Europe Continental breakfast would include fresh baked Croissant bread, butter and fruit jam, along with brewages like Tea, Coffee and Orange Juice, If you are at three star and above rated hotel you might see more offerings in breakfast like Cereals, Fat Free Yoghurts, Fresh Fruit as well offer Eggs, Ham and Cheese sandwich.  Some hotels provide warm cooked breakfast like scramble egg, Hash brown, Pan Cakes with Strawberries, etc…

Internet is most of the star rated hotels is free, using password given to each guest you can connect to Hotel’s Wi-Fi wireless network, today most of the laptop you carry have Wi-Fi port to connect to internet, such hotels also provide you free airport pick up and drop out shuttle coaches which operates at regular intervals, So next time when you are ready to fly and spend your vacation in Paris you have lots of knowledge, based on which you can select right hotel.

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