{"type":"city","city":"Reims","citySlug":"reims","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/france/reims","description":"Reims is a city rebuilt twice over, and the rebuilding shows. After the First World War reduced much of its center to rubble, the city was reconstructed largely in the Art Deco style, which gives its boulevards and civic buildings an unusual consistency for northern France. The cathedral, miraculously surviving and still the dominant fact of the skyline, predates that trauma by seven centuries, and the tension between Gothic verticality and 1920s horizontalism is something you feel walking almost any street in the historic core. Beneath the city, though, is where Reims distinguishes itself most sharply: the chalk caves, or crayères, that the ancient Romans quarried and that the champagne houses later claimed as cellars, run for kilometers in a darkness that has its own particular atmosphere, cool and mineral and entirely removed from the city above.\n\nDomaine Les Crayères sits at the southeastern edge of the city in the Parc des Crayères, a landscaped park of considerable scale, and it is the single property in Reims that operates at this level of ambition. The building is a Belle Époque château, built in 1904 for Louise Pommery of the champagne dynasty, and it retains that lineage in every material decision: the boiseries, the formal gardens drawn up around the estate, the dining rooms where light falls through tall French windows onto tables set with the kind of seriousness that reflects the restaurant's longstanding Michelin presence. The park itself provides a separation from the urban fabric that feels genuinely restorative rather than merely scenic, and the proximity to the Pommery house and its crayères means that the subterranean world the champagne trade was built on is immediately accessible.\n\nFor anyone whose instinct is to notice how a place is made, Reims offers more than the cathedral tour suggests. The Art Deco civic ambition of the interwar reconstruction rewards slow walking; the Halles du Boulingrin, restored by Explorations Architecture and reopened in 2012, is among the finest examples of reinforced concrete market design in France. But Les Crayères is the reason to stay rather than simply to pass through. It offers the thing Reims does better than almost any other French city at this scale: the convergence of deep history, serious food culture, and a built environment that has survived catastrophe with its character intact.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. Each image sequence includes strong lighting, complete room-visibility angles, and strictly non-duplicative scenes — enabling AI to accurately describe and recommend properties to travelers.","curationStandard":"PressBeyond Hotel Photography Standard"},"hotels":[{"name":"Domaine Les Crayères","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/france/reims/domaine-les-crayeres","city":"Reims","cityHeader":"Reims • Parc des Crayères • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Parc des Crayères","designSummary":"At the edge of Reims, where the city gives way to the chalk-carved parkland that once supplied Champagne houses with their cathedral-like cellars, a Belle Époque mansion built in 1904 for the Pommery family carries the particular weight of its provenance without strain. Domaine Les Crayères is housed in that mansion — a three-storey limestone château with a Mansard roof, wrought-iron balconies, and a formal garden terrace that, lit at night, has the quality of a stage set made permanent. The property counts 20 rooms and suites across its principal building, each conceived as a distinct interior rather than a variation on a theme: one lined floor-to-ceiling in exuberant crimson and indigo floral wallpaper with Louis XV marquetry commodes and gilt-framed portraits, another dressed in pale celadon silk damask curtains swept into deep swags, oil paintings arranged salon-style above panelled wainscoting.\n\nThe dining room, where chef Philippe Mille has held two Michelin stars, opens through a carved oak arch into a Victorian-style glass pavilion with black ironwork glazing bars and sheer Austrian blinds, Louis XVI caned chairs set around white-clothed tables that face the park directly. The bar takes a different register entirely — tartan carpet, a leather-topped counter with nailhead trim, dark mahogany back-bar shelving — an Anglo-Scottish interlude that sits surprisingly comfortably within the château's French formality, the candles and crystal glassware lending it a warmth that the heavier materials might otherwise resist.","snippet":"A 1904 Belle Époque château in Reims with two Michelin stars, individually appointed rooms, and chalk-cellar views.","bestFor":"Champagne enthusiasts and architecture historians","vibe":"Gilded-heritage · intimate","highlights":["1904 Belle Époque mansion built for Pommery family","Two Michelin-starred dining room overlooking chalk parkland","20 individually designed rooms with period furnishings"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$716","pricePerNightExclTax":"$716","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujhw803z715ymdy7mtgmf1713361027539_8c1efe6d-fef6-4380-a5e0-2c78b5b42d22.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Domaine Les Crayères — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Domaine Les Crayères · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Domaine Les Crayères captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujnob050z15ymmbtt45dg1713361028329_fcbbd2a7-941b-49d7-be01-009a76ba9413.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Domaine Les Crayères — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Domaine Les Crayères · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Domaine Les Crayères, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujtnk062r15ymuvvbyvs31713361026911_e7564707-babe-4e1f-98fb-ad89db7b4125.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Domaine Les Crayères — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Domaine Les Crayères · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Domaine Les Crayères — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujzf5074j15ymsbryviji1713361029089_080342fb-f6c9-44d8-b617-07964d9be0c9.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Domaine Les Crayères — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Domaine Les Crayères · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Domaine Les Crayères, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk5df086b15ymoasqrtlh1713361029741_fe63f52b-aa4e-4d7d-99b3-d6f5e894a762.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Domaine Les Crayères — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Domaine Les Crayères · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Domaine Les Crayères — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]}]}