Room Mate Hotels has inaugurated its first hotel in France. Located in one of the most elegant Parisian neighbourhoods, between La Defense, Porte Maillot, the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Elysees, Room Mate Alain was created by the renowned interior designer Lorenzo Castillo and is expected to be one of the chain’s reference hotels in Europe. The company also expects to double the size of its portfolio from 1,800 to 3,600 rooms in the next 18 months.
Room Mate Alain’s decoration is intended to take us back to the Golden age of luxury hotels, to the Paris of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald that was so well reproduced in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris”. Because of its location, it deserved a sophisticated decoration, full of rich textures -like velvets and silks- and very warm and soft lighting. Aside from the design and its unique location, Room Mate Alain has a fitness centre and a fully-equipped Spa dedicated to well-being which includes a hammam and a complete treatment menu available upon request. The hotel also has a cocktail bar on its ground floor, Le Bar d’Alain.
“It’s always a pleasure to work for Kike Sarasola. He trusts me and allows me to design freely and this is the only possible way to create art. The only thing he asked me to do was to give this hotel the allure of the great Parisian hotels in the 1920’s”, said Lorenzo Castillo.
Kike Sarasola, Room Mate Hotel’s President and Founder, commented: "I am especially happy with our arrival in Paris. Room Mate Alain is the first of many hotels we’ll have in France, which is a key market for us and a country I love. Alain is proof of our international expansion plan with which we will be doubling the size of the company in the next months”.
