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Article: Tackling the City of Light is child's play ; Paris might be for lovers, but Clive Aslet discovers that it is also ideal for young families
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 18, 2007
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COOL LIFT", said the boys, as they burst into the Hotel Bristol,
off the Champs- Elysees in Paris. The arrival of the Aslet family
with three energetic children under 11 puts any hotel through its
paces. We thought we would up the stakes by choosing one of the
swankiest, with, as it happens, a glass lift behind an Edwardian
grille.
The Bristol has as many stars as an American general, and its row
of tricolours puts President Chirac's neighbouring Elysee Palace to
shame.
French tradition and children are supposed not to mix, at least
not on equal terms. A recipe for disaster, then? Far from it. Paris,
in our experience, is a great destination for a young family.
The Bristol has just ...