The Best Hotels Near Sèves, by the Record
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Ten rooms tucked into an 18th-century aristocratic townhouse in Nancy's old center, with a library installed in the former stables and breakfast served in the courtyard when the weather cooperates. This boutique hotel keeps the period bones but lets a sharp contemporary eye handle the furnishings, so the ten rooms and lofts feel curated rather than museumified. It's the kind of small, unhurried place that makes Paris hotels feel like they're competing for square footage.
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Fourteen lodges split between a lakeside and a forest, some dressed in primary colors and bold graphics, others in bare birch with Scandinavian restraint. This design-forward nature retreat sits minutes from Metz but reads like a deliberate escape from it. A greenhouse holds the pool, sauna, hammam, and whirlpool, and the bistro restaurant wraps itself in glass to make the most of the grounds. The bar adjoins a proper display wine cellar, which is its own argument for lingering.
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Philippe Starck placed a traditional Lorraine farmhouse on top of a stark tower in Metz's Amphithéâtre district, and that's the whole pitch in one image. The 104-room hotel leans into the joke rather than explaining it, with natural wood, terracotta, and stained glass softening the monumental frame. The rooftop restaurant, La Maison de Manfred, sits inside the house itself, looking out over the city.
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A 16th-century military barracks in the heart of Metz, now a hotel in Accor's MGallery collection, where the rooms are surprisingly modern and a little maze-like thanks to whatever the original soldiers were working with floor-plan-wise. The on-site restaurant, La Réserve, sits in the old provisions warehouse and runs a menu that splits the difference between bistro and fine dining, which is a neat trick for a building that once stored hardtack.