Activities at Hotel Hi or nearby

• Accommodations:

  • 38 rooms & suites

• Dining options:

  • Cantine Bio. Offering healthy and simple food by using biological products.

  • Happy Bar. Modern Bar with lightning effects and video screening.

• Outdoor swimming pool

• Steam bath, hammam

• Hi-Beach - Beach area

• Hi-Book - Library service

Bathing on the roof

The high point of HI is the open-air terrace on the 8th floor, commanding a magnificent view of Nice, the Mediterranean and the Alps. The swimming pool reaches up vertically, like a huge terracotta pot set on top of the building. And here is another room to enjoy, with its own custom built furniture. Different options are available for interacting with the space: chatting at tables on the terrace, lounging on a deck chair or reclining on giant waterbeds on the "beach-front".

HI runs a program of feature films and every Thursday evening at 7.30 a video is screened at the bar. The program can be viewed on the hotel's in-house channel which includes: videos, documentaries, fiction, computer-generated images and animated films.

Hammam

The contemporary style bath made entirely from resin is a genuine hammam with two hot zones and two adjoining rooms, one for relaxing with music, and the other for massage. Well-being also means enjoying the outstanding climate in Nice, with warmth in the atrium garden, on the private terraces and spa terraces, and on the hotel roof solarium.

Hi Book

It's an original, self-service library with novels, essays, books on art, architecture and design, and magazines in French, English, German, Italian and other languages.

HI is a hotel with the focus turned towards embracing what is happening outside its own walls. It will be presenting contemporary works of art in exhibitions created by Francis Fichot. Recent events have featured Oscar Diaz's candles, Emmanuel Bourrousse and Tim Parsons, from "fab", projects with the Gandy Gallery in Prague, and Jerome Olivet's "Demonsoap". Other exhibitions in collaboration with students at ECAL in Lausanne and the Villa Arson in Nice, will be seen in the future.

ABOUT NICE

929km (577 miles) S of Paris; 32km (20 miles) NE of Cannes

The Victorian upper classes and tsarist aristocrats loved Nice in the 19th century, but it's solidly middle class today, and far less glamorous and expensive than Cannes. It's also the best excursion center on the Riviera, especially if you're dependent on public transportation. For example, you can go to San Remo, "the queen of the Italian Riviera," and return to Nice by nightfall. From the Nice airport, the second largest in France, you can travel by bus along the entire coast.

Nice is the capital of the Riviera, the largest city between Genoa and Marseille. It's also one of the most ancient, having been founded by the Greeks, who called it "Nike," or Victory. Because of its brilliant sunshine and relaxed living, it has attracted artists and writers. Among them were Dumas, Nietzsche, Apollinaire, Flaubert, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Stendhal, Chateaubriand, and Mistral. Henri Matisse, who made his home in Nice, said, "Though the light is intense, it's also soft and tender." The city has, on the average, 300 days of sunshine a year.