Staying amid plush velvets, silks
FIRST-TIMERS to Bordeaux could do worse than to immediately base themselves at the 130-room Grand Hotel de Bordeaux & Spa. The only five-star hotel in town, it was built in the late 18th-century by Victor Louis, the same architect who designed the equally grandiose Grand Theatre, home of L'Opera National de Bordeaux, across the square, La Place de la Comedie. The generously proportioned rooms are furnished in plush velvets and silks and extravagant trompe l'oeil wallpaper, while bathrooms are kitted out with Nuxe and Guerlain toiletries. Some suites are specially tailored to…
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