There’s no forgetting you’re in Paris at this groundbreaking hotel afloat a stylish boat on the River Seine. Designer rooms are a nod to Le Corbusier, while the fashionable lounge-bar with dipping pool begs guests to switch off and relax in one of the city’s loveliest new lifestyle spaces. On a purpose-built barge on the River Seine, between road bridge Pont Charles de Gaulle and the handsome Viaduc d’Austerlitz crossed by clattering aqua-green metro trains. The innovative Elegancia hotel group behind Paris’s first boat hotel has created a floating cocoon where guests can disconnect from urban life. With its beachy lounge bar – fast becoming a hot spot for sundowners among trendy Parisians – and laidback vibe, this is an address where guests kick off their shoes, dip their toes in the water and relax. Hotel life revolves around the lounge bar, a buzzy glass-and-steel affair arranged in a U-shape around the dipping pool – with inflatable gold swan – on the upper deck. At 80m long and 20m wide, it’s the largest vessel currently moored on the Seine. #fabulous100 #offparisseine #livingitcool