亚洲奢华酒店艳惊巴黎 美景一览无遗

Walk past its grandiose entrance today, and its brand-new bolt-on glass portico and twohulking Chinese lions on either side of the main steps are signs that the former Majestic hasjust undergone another change.
如今走过它气势恢宏的大门时，崭新的螺栓紧固式玻璃门廊以及门两边主台阶上两只中国风格的大石狮子活生生地表明昔日的美琪酒店所在地又更换了新主人。
Last month, the building reopened as the Peninsula Paris, the Hong Kong-based hotel group’sfirst venue in Europe. With a total investment of nearly 800m (460m to purchase the buildingand 338m for its refurbishment), the Peninsula Paris is one of the biggest and flashiest hotelprojects ever undertaken in the French capital. L’Oiseau Blanc, its aviator-styled rooftop bar andrestaurant, offers sumptuous views of the city.
不久前，大楼重新开业，这次的新主人是巴黎半岛酒店(Peninsula Paris)，它是总部位于香港的集团在欧洲开业的首家酒店。酒店总投资近8亿欧元（其中4.6亿欧元买下整幢大楼，花费3.38亿欧元进行重新装修）。从机舱风格的楼顶酒吧与餐厅L’Oiseau Blanc向四周俯瞰，巴黎的美景一览无遗。
But it is not alone. Within a relatively small radius of the Peninsula, near the Arc de Triomphe,two other new five-star hotels have opened since 2010. On the Rue Saint-Honoré, one of thecity’s go-to streets for high-end shopping, the Mandarin Oriental offers top-rate rooms andsuites looking over a verdant central courtyard for 925 a night.
但这样的绝佳酒店比比皆是。自2010年以来，离半岛酒店只有咫尺之距、位于凯旋门(Arc de Triomphe)附近的另外两家五星级酒店又相继开业。在巴黎高档购物去处圣奥诺雷街(Rue Saint-Honoré)，文华东方酒店(Mandarin Oriental)的高档客房与豪华套房可以俯眺酒店内绿草如茵的四合院，每晚的入住费用为925欧元。

In the more sedate 16th arrondissement, guests can relax at the Shangri-La Hotel in a buildingthat was once home to Prince Roland Bonaparte, great-nephew of Napoleon. The hotel has thebest pool of any five-star hotel in Paris and offers seductive views of the Eiffel Tower.Bonaparte’s fully restored rooms alone are worth the visit.
在更为静谧的第16大区，嘉宾们可以惬意地入住香格里拉酒店(Shangri-La Hotel)，这儿曾一度是拿破仑侄孙罗兰•波拿巴王子(Prince Roland Bonaparte)的府第。酒店的泳池冠绝整个巴黎的所有五星级酒店，在此还可眺望艾菲尔铁塔(Eiffel Tower)的雄姿。单单入住彻底翻新的波拿巴王子的房间，游客们就已不虚此行了。
What all these hotels have in common, beyond their Asian roots, is the sort of modern, high-end facilities that a new class of mega-rich international tourists – many of them fromemerging economies such as China, Russia and Brazil – had looked for among Paris’s old guardof top-notch hotels.
除了均来自亚洲外，这些酒店的共性就是现代高端设施一应俱全，它们正是新涌现的全球富豪阶层（很多来自中国、俄罗斯以及巴西等新兴国家）在巴黎老牌顶级酒店中到处寻觅的目标。
The new Asian presence in Paris’s hotel scene has sent a tremor through some of the mostfamous names in Parisian hospitality, inducing an initial period of collective introspection – inmuch the same way that France’s recent economic malaise has forced its residents to ponderthe country’s fading grandeur in a faster-moving, more competitive world.
亚洲酒店集团最新进军巴黎，“震动”了巴黎的一些最知名酒店，初期还引发了集体性反思——这与近期法国经济萎靡不振迫使国民深刻反思国家在快速发展、竞争激烈的全球环境中地位每况愈下如出一辙。
For the majority, it has also served as a wake-up call, forcing them to undertake the biggestinvestments in decades and a rush to turn rooms into suites and gymnasiums into spas.对于多数酒店来说，这也如同震耳发聩的警示，迫使巴黎本地酒店在未来几十年里进行大规模投资，抓紧时间把普通客房改造成豪华套间以及把健身房改建成spa房。

So what does Paris’s new, more competitive hotel landscape look like? I stayed at two ofthem – old and new – to find out. Of the new guard, the Peninsula, with its 200 rooms andsuites sets the standard. Even those that are not suites, which go for about 1,000 a night, arequite spacious – a rare thing in Paris.
那么，如今巴黎更具竞争力的新型酒店究竟如何？我入住其中的两家（一家老牌酒店与一家新建酒店）以一探究竟。就新酒店而言，拥有200间客房及豪华套房的半岛酒店已设立了标准。即便非豪华套间（每晚的费用约为1000欧元）都异常宽敞，这在巴黎实属凤毛麟角。
The lines are clean and in a style somewhere between art deco and modern businessfunctionality. The colours run cool with plenty of black, grey and cream. Everything is tastefulbut also a little sober. Save for the nail dryer built into the wall of each walk-in dressing room,the feel is predominantly masculine.
房间内的轮廓线干净整洁，风格介于阿泰科与现代实用型商务之间。客房内的色彩包括了黑色、灰色以及淡黄色，时尚感十足。一切显得既美观又素雅。除了可走进人的更衣室墙上固定的烘干指甲的机器外，整个客房的主基调阳刚气十足。
Yet just when you start to think that this is a box (albeit a spacious one with complimentarysoft drinks from the minibar) of a hotel room, two things change your mind. The first is amagnificent oval-shaped bathroom, clad in black-and-white marble with a deep, generousbathtub as its centrepiece.
然而，诸位刚觉得房间犹如大盒子一般（虽说客房宽敞，而且小冰箱里还放着免费饮料），两样设施会立马改变您的看法。第一是高大上的椭圆形浴室，地面铺着黑白色大理石，其中最引人注目的就是大浴缸。
Throw in a splash-proof television, touchscreen console to control lighting – the “spa”setting, with its low lights and mood music, is gimmicky but fun – and even an Asian-stylelavatory seat with its own heating and water jets, and the chances are that you may not wantto leave.
锦上添花之物还包括防水电视以及触摸式灯控器（俨然spa配置，昏暗的灯光以及烘托气氛的音乐，尽管噱头十足，但乐在其中），甚至还配备了安装自热与水喷系统的亚式马桶座，诸位最后很可能会流连忘返。
The Peninsula’s second coup is a tablet that allows you to control everything. This is entirelydifferent DNA from those restaurants and bars that hand you their menus arranged in oftenbewildering sub-menus on iPads. The Peninsula’s interface, designed by the group’s owntechnology team in Hong Kong, is simple, attractive and functional. At a touch, you can openor close the curtains, control the flatscreen TV set, adjust the lighting and tweak thetemperature. It is effortless. Refreshingly for a top-dollar hotel, internet is also included.
半岛酒店的第二大亮点是提供操控一切的平板电脑。这种做法迥异于那些常规酒店及酒吧，服务员递上来的菜单通常由眼花缭乱的分菜单编排而成，并在iPad上显示。半岛酒店的界面既简洁、好看又实用，由集团位于香港的技术团队亲自设计。轻轻一触摸屏幕，就能收起或拉下窗帘、操控平板电视、调节灯光亮度以及微控温度。一切显得轻而易举。这些高价酒店还免费提供因特网，着实让人耳目一新。