The first requirement of a good hotel isn’t a buzzy lobby or throbbing restaurant with bouncers. It isn’t a rooftop club or a basement club or any club at all. A good hotel wants its guests to sleep. Sleep as if they’re on a cloud, as if they’ve never heard of jet lag, as if they’re a teenager after exams.
La Fantaisie, a new boutique hotel in Paris’s Ninth Arrondissement, is a sleeper’s paradise. It’s located on a pedestrian street that’s dotted with food and wine shops and seemingly devoid of tourists. That’s a long way of saying it’s quiet.
