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Le Méridien Nice
Nice, France · Le Méridien · Near Luxury
At 1 Promenade des Anglais, Le Méridien Nice stands on the plot of the Hôtel Ruhl, a 1913 palace demolished around 1970. The Ruhl had replaced the Hôtel des Anglais, on this corner since 1862. The glass hotel opened in the mid-1970s with a rooftop pool, the Casino Ruhl still in the base, and a public garage below that kept the Ruhl name. Marriott counts 324 rooms, 17 of them suites, toward the Baie des Anges or the Jardin Albert Ier. The ninth-floor bar, La Terrasse, looks back over the bay.
- 324 rooms
- Neighborhood: Promenade des Anglais
- Architect: Toscan Honoré
- Interiors: Didier Gomez
About Le Méridien Nice
- Didier Gomez redid the rooms around 2019 in sand tones, teak floors, and coral curtains. The presidential suite opens through an 85-square-metre terrace onto its living room, dining room, and bedroom.
- It opened with 444 rooms, fifteen of them suites, a much larger house than the 324 keys here now. Toscan Honoré was the architect, and one dating of the facade puts the year at 1976.
History
The corner at 1 Promenade des Anglais has had a hotel since the Hôtel des Anglais of 1862. The Hôtel Ruhl, a palace of 1913, replaced it and was itself pulled down around 1970. A permit for the new hotel was filed in January 1969. The glass building opened on 15 May 1974 with 444 rooms, 15 of them suites. Another dating of the same facade puts the year at 1976, and names the architect Toscan Honoré.
The Casino Ruhl stayed in the base. The public garage underneath, still called Ruhl Méridien, holds about 420 cars. The hotel now counts 324 rooms, 17 of them suites. Didier Gomez redid the rooms around 2019 in sand, teak, and coral, and the ninth-floor bar is La Terrasse.
The setting
1 Promenade des Anglais, 06000 Nice, between the promenade, the Jardin Albert Ier, and the streets just behind (avenue Gustave V, rue Halévy, rue Gabriel Fauré). The old town and Cours Saleya are a short walk. This is not the Palais de la Méditerranée, which stands further along the same promenade.
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