Paris: city for dog-lovers

Last updated at 09:01 29 July 2004


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Does your four-legged friend deserve some pooch pampering?

How much do you love your dog? Enough to treat it to a weekend in France? A hotel in Versailles is offering guests - and their pets - a luxury package this summer.

For those willing to part with £300 per night, you and your pooch will be pampered with a range of treats. There's a special canine menu, including poached Queen's Hambone with spring vegetables and low-fat yoghurt, vegetarian options, fish and beef burgers, designer baskets complete with haute couture blanket and two matching bowls.

"We realised a lot of our guests like to travel with their pets, so we decided to do something in keeping with our name and reputation, without getting altogether too absurd," said a spokesman for the hotel.

And who could suggest that providing dog toiletries including a packet of cleansing wipes was absurd? The dog's basket-side table also provides a bottle of Shampooing pour Chien, and a miniature flask of Oh My Dog!, a fruity dog fragrance which has sold more than 300,000 bottles since its launch three years ago in Paris's department stores.

As part of the package, which the hotel admits is aimed principally at wealthy overseas visitors, more active owners will be able to take their pets around an agility course in the hotel's grounds. A personal fitness trainer is of course on hand (paw?).

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