In the heart of Reims on its pedestrian centre, the Best Western Hotel Centre Reims, Reims, France, makes an easy base for pleasure or business, set in a building of early-twentieth-century Reims architecture, its rooms cosy and refined across four floors served by a lift, from singles to family rooms.
A few steps from the train station and the convention centre, the hotel sits within a short walk of restaurants, bars, shops, and cinemas, with a calm, well-placed setting in the middle of the city. Pets are welcome, and a 24-hour reception keeps arrivals simple.
A short walk away, the Gothic cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims is a UNESCO World Heritage Site where the kings of France were crowned for centuries, a 13th-century masterpiece studded with more than two thousand statues, among them the famous Smiling Angel, its windows ranging from the medieval to a set by Chagall, with the archbishops' Palace of Tau and the older Abbey of Saint-Rémi completing the ensemble and the great Champagne cellars tunnelling the chalk beneath the city.