Full revamp for Le Grand
Six Continents Hotels is to pump $100m (£69m) into refurbishing its historic Le Grand Hotel Inter-Continental Paris.
Work will begin in January 2002, and the hotel is scheduled to reopen in the spring of 2003. Guests and conferences booked for 2002 will be relocated to the nearby Hotel Inter-Continental Paris and the Holiday Inn Place de la Republique.
The revamp will include the renovation of all 487 bedrooms and bathrooms, and the enlargement of the Café de la Paix Brasserie and Terrace, to seat as many as 300 diners.
The hotel will also benefit from a new health club, upgraded meetings and conference facilities, and the creation of a new 115-bedroom Club Inter-Continental floor with private lounge.
The hotel, opened in 1862 by Empress Eugenie, has been visited by such luminaries as Mata Hari, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, King Edward VIII, Oscar Wilde, Bing Crosby and Joan Collins.
