After years of refining our product
Italy-Accom, we're making the leap beyond the borders and beginning
Paris-Accom, the first of many French accom sites ---- in our sights?
Many of our clients have been in touch over the years asking if we can arrange an apartment for them in other European cities, so its a natural progression for us to move ahead with this project, the first of many European projects.
We will be inspecting each property in Paris for quality, location and facilities, just as we do in
Italy , including the famous bounce on the bed, to be sure you sleep well. This will just mean more traveling, which is job I am always willing to take on. Of course during these -- grueling -- inspection trips, there's always time for a wander along the Seine, bit of poster shopping and try out some of the local cuisine.
We have a wonderful, like minded collaborator in Paris and we've been viewing a bunch of apartments for the website this weekend, joy o joy, they are wonderful, and the buildings so magnificently maintained, this is going to be cinch to find quality accom.
We are staying in a super bright apartment called
"Halles" which is just next to the Novatel on the edge of the
Halles district, there are huge windows in all rooms and although only a one bedroom apartment, it has two modern bathrooms and is so spacious, we almost feel guilty for not having brought our Francophile teenage daughters with us to sleep on the large sofa bed in the living room, next time!
We fell in love with another apartment during the inspection tour, especially the color of the walls, Here's a pic of Leon testing out the Starck chairs to see if they were as comfortable as they are sylish...
Well, it's June now, so I guess we will be launching this site just after the summer, I will update the blog as I go..
Well, the summer is almost over and I’ve been working on the new Paris site between trips down to Positano and up to Umbria. I’ve been very fortunate to have had help from my daughter Ava who is a confirmed Francophile at 18 years and thank goodness she speaks pretty good French, so she is accompanying me on this trip to help out and do all the talking, we even managed a trip up to Montmartre which was gorgeous and some very kind Australian tourists too this rather fab photo of us in this wonderful local cafe
Our project for this trip was to photograph all of the apartments for the site and eat well .... We were very lucky to be staying in the apartment Francs Bourgeois in the Marais, I mentioned in my last blog, you know the one with the famous blue walls and the incredible location - right opposite Muji - and a few steps from Chez Marianne. I forced Ava into sitting for a shot against those fabulous walls too, irresistable backdrop.
Not only is the interior of this property sensational, but also the common areas are incredible, each time I opened the heavy door from the street to enter the apartment, all passers by stopped to look in as even for Paris the courtyard is looked upon as something special. The courtyard is so wonderfully manicured and as we entered the entrance hall there was the strong perfume of beeswax from the wooden staircase and banisters, all quite magnificent!
We photographed all of the apartments in a few days, there are going to 12 apartments to begin with and we will add to this slowly just a we did with Italy-Accom, handpicking the apartments as we go, this is a great start though as the quality of the properties we saw was really superb, we have some cute little inexpensive studios, like St. Sauveur in the Montorguiel area and a specious 3 bedroom apartment just off the Champs Elysees called Bassano that I am sure would not disappoint even our most fussy clients in search of Luxury accom in Paris. All in all, I think we have a great cross section of sizes, there should be something to suit the needs for all of our clients, couples, families and groups traveling, so I look forward to getting back to Rome and launching the site at the end of September.
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