In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- All the rooms are witty, cleverly designed and tricked out with ultra-modern accessories. Double Kube rooms have rainshower heads. Some of the junior suites have a terrace.
- Packing tips
- A fully loaded iPod, your dancing shoes and a sense of fun.
- Also
- Reception is housed in a cubic glass construction outside the building, meaning the hotel's dazzling interiors are for insiders only…
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- 'Mini martini welcome' for two, served in your room on arrival.
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Kube
Paris, France[view map]
- Style
- Ice-cool retro-modern funhouse
- Setting
- Backstreets of the 18th
Just five minutes from the Paris Eurostar terminal is an achingly hip temple to all things futuristic hidden behind a traditional 19th-century façcde: Kube. With multimedia accoutrements, the only ice bar in France and party-friendly lounge cum restaurant, this unique boutique hotel in La Chapelle is on a mission to turn you into one of its distinct tribe of fun-loving, tech-savvy design aficionados.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 31 rooms and 10 suites.
- Rates
- €250–€750.
- Check-out
- Midday, but can be flexible on request. Earliest check-in is 3pm.
- Facilities
- Hi-tech everything: multi-functional, multimedia plasma screens (computer, TV, CD/DVD player), fitness room, DVD/CD library, free WiFi. Rooms also have minibars, digital entry systems and air-conditioning.
- Hotel closed
- Until 28 August 2009.
- Also
- Smoking rooms available. On-site parking, €30 a day.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- The Lounge Bar – the electronically bleeping heart of this night-owls' roost – is also where you'll take your breakfast; there's a great menu of bar food, including oysters, miso soup and plates of charcuterie.
- Dress code
- Geek chic: cool jeans, snazzy trainers, Prada specs.
- Top table
- Recline in soft square corners downstairs, or hang out on the mezzanine in one of Eero Aarnio's Perspex bubble chairs
- Last orders
- Breakfast, 7am to noon; dinner, 7–11.30pm; finger food available round the clock.
- Room service
- 24 hours.
- Hotel bar
- As well as the decadent split-level main bar, there's the resplendent Ice Kube, the only ice bar in France. Reserve a half-hour Grey Goose vodka-slamming session for €38; your fingers will be numb, but you'll feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Also worth knowing
- Children
- An extra bed (€75) or cot (free) can be added to some rooms, but this is more of an adult playground.
Smith Members offer
'Mini martini welcome' for two, served in your room on arrival.
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Kube
1–5 passage Ruelle
Paris 75018
Paris 75018
