VILLA MAIA

Ideally located on Fourviere hill the hotel overlooks the city and offers panoramic view of the jagged architecture of Lyon s building. Suites and rooms all with private outdoor terrace and views as far as the Mont Blanc and over the boats navigating on the Saone and Rhone rivers Hotel imagined designed and decorated by an elite trio. United in a quest for aesthetics and perfection interior decorator Jacques Grange - Jean-Michel Wilmotte internationally renowned architect - and Louis Benech artist gardener. Sober and made to measure furniture. The contemporary decorated rooms with a hint of art-deco create a zen environment. Sober colours oscillating between brown and oatmeal highlighted with bright-coloured accessories and mixed with an artistic impertinence with Anamorphoses -circular photographs- by Charles Maze above each bed. The majestic Carrara marble and bright nickel bathrooms open onto the rooms through glass partition walls. Bathrooms have automatic heated floors mirror-embedded televisions and Japonese toilets. Elected Meilleur Ouvrier de France -Top Chef- Christian Tetedoie hosts epicureans in his Tetedoie starred restaurant facing Villa Maia. The Thermes - The thermes with Roman like arched windows overlooking the hotel s meditative courtyard garden is an oasis of serenity with its 20 metre-long indoor pool - jacuzzi - sauna - steam room. There is a fitness room and the concierge can arrange a personal trainer or masseuse. The meditative courtyard garden - Imagined as a cloister and features an exceptionnal diversity of plants. Like an abandoned kitchen garden where nature has reconquered the ground. This garden is a true heaven of peace. The Bar - Enjoy a memorable moment drinking a cocktail at Villa Maia s Bar. This is the perfect place for a cozy pause.