Article: Petit Palace Germanias Valencia ; 24-HOUR ROOM SERVICE

My pulse quickened as we turned off a bustling Valencian thoroughfare to find our hotel in a rather run-down neighbourhood, next to the "Chicken Palace" and opposite the Valencia Hell's Angels Club. Thankfully, the Petit Palace Germanias loomed audaciously above its paint-peeling neighbours in a restored fin-de-siecle crimson-hued building. This is just the sort of place that typifies Valencia's urban renaissance. Venerable old buildings have been regenerated and the warren-like streets of the atmospheric old town are now inhabited by trendy bars, boutiques and restaurants, while the City of Arts and Sciences on the drained riverbed of the Turia is defined by eye-popping modern ...

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