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1–5 passage Ruelle, Paris 75018
Paris 75018
Kube
- Style
- Ice-cool retro-modern funhouse
- Setting
- Backstreets of the 18th
A handy five minutes from the Paris Eurostar terminal is an achingly hip temple to all things futuristic: Kube. This unique boutique hotel 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.
- Children
- An extra bed (€75) or cot (free) can be added to some rooms, but this is more of an adult playground.
- Hotel closed
- Until 28 August 2009.
- Also
- Smoking rooms available. On-site parking, €30 a day.
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…
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.
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Worth getting out of bed for
The Musée National d’Art Moderne is on level four of the Pompidou Centre (www.centrepompidou.fr), and the iconic building's radical insides-outside architecture is nicely in keeping with Kube's retro-modern aesthetic. Book a table for dinner afterwards at the postmodern Restaurant Georges (+33 (0)1 44 78 47 99), on the top floor, for fantastic city views. Closer to home, you can follow in the footsteps of Amélie, wandering through Montmartre (the bohemian hill streets that saw the birth of the can-can), and up to the Sacré-Coeur for more resplendent Parisian panoramas.
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