Our bedroom was, thankfully, complete - and it lived up to and beyond our expectations. The bed was quite high off the ground (two small glass stools were there, I presume to stand on if you did not have long legs like I have). Snow white duvet, huge soft pillows and a most comfortable mattress awaited us. Unfortunately because of the lighting I could not get perfect photographs to show you but this is how the ceiling looked when we woke up and throughout the daytime.
If you looked very closely you could see tiny pinpricks in the ceiling and at nightime the sky darkened and fibre optic lights shone through like twinkling stars.
The walls of the room were covered in a light navy material and all the furnishings were a thick perspex giving the appearance of glass. When you first went in, and when you returned in the evening, the lights had been left on so that the wardrobe (complete with perspex coat hangers) and all other fittings were illuminated. It has to be seen to be appreciated.
Can you see the tiny individual bedside lights - you just had to touch them and they became illuminated. At the opposite side of the bed was a perspex cupboard and just down from the wardrobe was a shelf for the telephone which had a line of tiny lights running inside the edge of it.
At the bottom of the room there was a further perspex unit which had a Neopresso Coffee machine and 16 individual containers (think the usual milk containers in hotels) of coffee. Apologies for the quality of the photograph but I just had to take one of the coffee.
Now all this seems very nice but the shower - oh the shower - absolute bliss! And the towels - fresh every day and so big, white and soft as down.
The floor was glass slats and you could have got three people inside the shower unit. If you look closely you will see three rectangular taps. You simply lifted the central one and the water came showering down on you from above but that was not all. There were two other shower "wands", one left and one right. These too could be operated by lifting the taps and water jets came at you from either side. It was your choice whether you had them at waist level or higher. The walls were like stainless steel tiles and at night tiny fibre optic lights shone blue from every corner of every tile.
The separate toilet was tiled in the same way and there was one of those touch bendy lights, I presume for reading on the loo!
I really do recommend this hotel - when it is finished - and do so want to stay there again. By far the best hotel we have stayed at in Paris and that is despite it being unfinished. We have had such small, dark, poky rooms before that this was simply heaven. The reception staff were lovely, could not stop apologising for the inconvenience and ... guess what? A free stay!
This will give you an idea of some of the little touches that will be in place - as we exited the lift this was facing us - changing colour all the time
And hopefully you can get past the bits lying around on the ground and envisage what the bar will be like when it is complete. I can.
