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Andy Mossack visits the wide-open spaces of the Paris La Défense district. Traffic free and minutes from the city centre. Basing yourself here is a no brainer.

Paris La Défense. Discover a perfect alternative to the city centre.

Andy Mossack visits the wide-open spaces of the Paris La Défense district. Traffic free and minutes from the city centre. Basing yourself here is a no brainer.

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Intercontinental Paris Le Grand Hotel

Intercontinental Paris Le Grand Hotel:  Unforgettable Parisian Splendour

Frank Mannion stays at the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand Hotel and enjoys a luxury escape at a Paris palace with a Hollywood pedigree.

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25hour Hotel Paris

25Hours Hotel Paris Review

Amy McPherson checks in to the 25Hours Hotel Paris and finds it’s a lot different from your average station hotel.

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Moulin Rouge, Paris

Moulin Rouge. Cliché or not, this sumptuous cabaret approaching its 130th birthday continues to be the greatest show in town.  

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Atelier Des Lumieres. Paris 

Can viewing art digitally ever be as good as poring over the brush-strokes of the real thing?  The thrilling close-ups of Chagall’s Paris Opera ceiling recently projected onto a screen at the city’s Philharmonie convinced this art lover it really could, and now the Atelier des Lumieres, the city’s latest and greatest attraction, proves that looking at highly-detailed images through a magnifying lens and state of the art projectors is the way to go.

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Hotel Le Pigalle, Paris

Not so long ago Pigalle was considered the seedier side of Paris, a magnet for sex shops and low-rent hostelries, thanks to the topless cabarets which made it the apotheosis of city nightlife more than a century ago.  

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