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Paris hotel is back with big makeover

Consumers sit at the Saint Germain restaurant of the newly-refurbished Lutetia Hotel in Paris on February 12, 2019. – The iconic, history steeped Lutetia hotel, reopened after four years of renovation work (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP) (Photo credit should read STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)

By: Eastern Eye Staff

FAMED LUCETIA GETS COSTLY REVAMP THE historic Lutetia hotel, where Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso once stayed, will re-open this month after a €200 million revamp aimed at making it fit to take on the fierce competition in Paris. The city already has a cluster of elite hotels, after reno­vations of The Ritz and The Crillon and the arrival of Asian-operated rivals like the Shangri-La, Mandarin Ori­ental Paris and Peninsula Paris. But the 108-year-old Lutetia has an advantage: it is the sole luxury hotel on the Left Bank, the traditional home of writers, painters, poets and random bohemians, Jean-Luc Cousty,…

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