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nhow Marseille
Marseille, France · nhow · Near Luxury
The pool at nhow Marseille still draws on the Roucas Blanc spring, of public interest since 1852, where a spa opened in 1872. After the war Marseille kept swimming there and called it Palm Beach. In 1974 the Concorde Palm Beach hotel rose beside the new Prado beach, at 200 Corniche Président John Fitzgerald Kennedy. NH reopened it in 2018 as nhow, 150 rooms, with a sky-bar chandelier of four thousand steel sardines. Claire Fatosme and Christian Lefèvre shaped the rooms. Teresa Sapey did the tunnel bar out to the sea.
- 150 rooms
- Opened 1974
- Neighborhood: Corniche Kennedy
- Rooms from 1,475 sq ft (137 m²)
- Architect: Claire Fatosme and Christian Lefèvre
- Interiors: Teresa Sapey
About nhow Marseille
- Sofitel took the hotel when it reopened in 2002, after works that moved reception up to Corniche level. Pullman kept it until 2017. The old ground-floor door became the service entrance.
- A fresco by Tristan Bonnemain hangs behind the desk, and a glass belvedere puts you against the spring rock. The spa water still arrives at about 21 degrees, as it did for the nineteenth-century baths.
- Entry-level rooms start at 1,475 sq ft (137 m²).
History
The Roucas Blanc spring under this rock was classed a thermal spring of public interest in 1852. A spa opened in 1872, using water rich in sodium chloride at about 21 degrees and a flow of about 50 litres a second. The spa disappeared after the Second World War. What remained was a big pool on the spring, which Marseille knew as Palm Beach.
In 1974, as the Prado beach was being made next door, a hotel with its own spring spa opened as the Concorde Palm Beach. A renovation from 2000 moved the front door up to a hall level with the Corniche. The hotel reopened in 2002 as a Sofitel, then traded as a Pullman until 2017. NH Hotel Group took the management in May 2017, closed the house that October, and reopened it in 2018 as nhow Marseille: 150 rooms, architects Claire Fatosme and Christian Lefèvre, who had already redone the Palm Beach in 2002, and Teresa Sapey on the ground-floor bar, restaurant, terrace, and meeting rooms.
The setting
200 Corniche Président John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 13007 Marseille, in the 7th, on the rock above the Prado beaches, looking at the Frioul islands and the Château d'If. Villa M is a different hotel, over at Borély in the 8th.
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