Hotel Fleur de Lys

Tourists visit museums. Somehow they seem to have a certain attraction. They show us things, mostly from the past, which cause curiosity. This past is presented in a pristine way, static but spotless. It triggers imagination, how it was. Museums only change settings if really needed, most of the objects are there for decades and after decades a museum might decide to refurbish. That's why people go, by the thousands, they come there to observe, mostly the past. Hotels are slightly different. Tourists come there to copy the present, even to look for comfort they do not have in that present. Some even look for a bit of luxury. Only a few succeed in showing grandeur of the past combined with the luxury of the present, rare as they are, even more expensive as they should. However, sometimes you get stuck in those of the past, for which, even with the greatest of enthusiasms, you cannot change it. Fleur De Lys has a past, of a certain grandeur, in that same past, architecture fitting that grandeur but which somewhat got stuck on its way, never succeeding in translating it to the present. The result somewhat disappointing. Felt like walking in an episode of Fawlty Towers, the hotel I mean (not the comedy). Perhaps good out of curiosity but less for a stay as infrastructure outdated to our opinion.