Rooms by the river: Paris welcomes its first floating hotel

OFF Seine, 58-room hotel moored near the Gare d’Austerlitz, is the first of its kind in France and part of Paris’s ambitious riverside development scheme

France’s first floating hotel has opened in Paris, giving visitors a chance to enjoy a riviera lifestyle in the heart of the capital. Launched in June, the stylish and contemporary OFF Seine hotel is on a purpose-built barge docked on the Seine.