Opened at the start of summer and inaugurated on 17 September 2026 in Saint-Trojan-les-Bains, Bel Hôtel Oléron Thalasso & Spa, MGallery Collection, features 102 rooms facing Gatseau beach, a 27-cabin Phytomer thalassotherapy centre and Pierre Gagnaire's OYAT restaurant.
For Christmas 2026, The Peninsula Paris teams up with Maison Chaumet: pastry chef Anne Coruble, Gault&Millau Pastry Chef of the Year 2026, presents "L’Épi de Blé", an eight-person yule log priced at €120, available to pre-order from 1 December and collect between 21 and 31 December.
From the Grandvaux plateau to the Arbois vineyards, and Salins-les-Bains to Lake Saint-Point: ten hand-picked spa hotels personally verified, from a sauna perched on a lakeside beach to the 500 m² Caudalie spa in Port-Lesney, complete with dimensions, temperatures, pools and rates.
Between Les Invalides and Matignon, an 1872 building that once housed a riding school is up for sale at €37.296 million. Thirteen hundred square metres across four levels, a basement swimming pool and 1,069 m² of garden, one of the largest in the neighbourhood.
Set on 14 hectares above Vence, Château Saint-Martin & Spa, an Oetker Collection palace, closes its season on 11 October 2026. A year marked by the arrival of chef Romain Antoine and by a spa signed La Prairie, for 47 keys including six villas.
Sixty-one rooms dressed by Martin Brudnizki, a pool vaulted with a fresco by Jacques Merle and the Ashkenazi table Boubale by Assaf Granit. We stayed at Le Grand Mazarin, the first city hotel from Maisons Pariente.
Opened on 10 September 2025 on rue Victor-Massé, Hotel Massé has just celebrated its first year in SoPi. Forty unique rooms, a bar-restaurant named Le Trente, and a commitment to French artisans, all within a Haussmannian building in the 9th arrondissement.
Ten exceptional spa hotels in Brittany, from Castelbrac in Dinard to the Balthazar in Rennes, via Perros-Guirec, Roscoff, and Belle-Île. Discover their facilities, treatment brands, and rates sourced directly from official websites.
From the Luberon to the Alpilles, from Aix-en-Provence to Arles, and from the Camargue to the Verdon Gorge: ten hand-picked spa hotels, from the 2,000 sq m of Coquillade to the vaulted Guerlain spa in Gordes, complete with pools, treatment rooms, skincare brands and current rates.
Part 4 of Lupin arrives on 23 October on Netflix. The Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme hosts the Pellegrini reception, the Musée Nissim de Camondo serves as the family home and Étretat closes the first season, right where Maurice Leblanc hid his Hollow Needle.
The Grand Hôtel de Valloire et du Galibier, a three-star hotel at the foot of the slopes in Savoie, is aiming for the first five-star rating in the Maurienne valley: 43 rooms instead of 37 and a wellness area of over 300 sq m. Works start in November 2026.
A former theatre and convent on rue de Saintonge, turned into a 28-room hotel with four suites, an intimate spa by appointment and a cocktail bar set in the atrium. Our review of Le Boudoir des Muses in the Marais.



















