Hotel Lutetia Paris France

... I hate flying. Our hotel was very nice on the outside and pretty much everywhere except for our room.  Hotel Lutetia is a 5 star hotel but I can say from experience that not all the rooms are 5 star rooms.  Our first room (we had 3 ...

... ; I packed up my bags, left the hotel in Beijing for the airport for the next part of my journey ...to PARIS! Even though we were staying in a nice hotel in Beijing ( I'll blog about our stay there later), the hotel staff didn't know much English.  ...

... that grew up was known as Lutetia. In 52 BC, it was overrun by Julius Ceasar's troops. The Counts of Paris became kings of France around 987AD. The Frankish kings transformed the old Gallo-Roman fortress into a splendid palace of which the Sainte Chapelle ...

... of Haussmanian/Modern/ and even Medieval architecture, on streets that were originally laid out in Roman times. From early Roman maps of Lutetia, to the maps from the 12-15thth centuries, one can recognize the layouts of the Ile de la Cite, Ile Saint ...

... a while as I read a book, woke up and decided that this hotel room was bad as well.  So, after some discussions with hotel management, we moved into our third room.  This room, our last at this hotel, was fantastic.  Everything worked - tv ...