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Romantic Paris breaks at the Hotel d'Aubusson Treat yourself to a romantic break this spring at the Hotel D'Aubusson in the centre of Paris. 3 night packages include private champagne lunch, tickets to the Louvre, a trip down the Seine and much more. 3 days, from £145 (). World Reviewer Hotels »

If you've only got a couple of days in Paris, a cruise on the Seine is an obvious choice. How else can you admire the Louvre at enough of a distance to take in the whole, magnificent thing, inspect the ornate Alexander III Bridge and the elegant Pont Neuf, gaze on the Gothic island glory of Notre Dame, marvel at the full railway-station length of the Musee d'Orsay, see the giant obelisk of Luxor pierce the sky above the Place de la Concorde and feel tiny beneath the tower held together by two-and-a-half million rivets in an hour? But there's so much more to it than that. Paris is full of an adaptable type of romance – for couples on their dinner cruises, yes – but also for the solitary traveller watching from the stern of a bateau mouche, or the children excited just by being on the water. How can anyone fail to find themselves in their own art-house movie, silhouetted against a sunset-soaked skyline of such beauty, surrounded by the fairground lights of passing paddle steamers? And there's always a stranger waving from the middle of at least one bridge...

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‘Seine’

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