What does Plaza Athénée mean?

It means hotel I can stay at on HBO’s dime if I hijack the plot in the final season

It means 2000 EU a night.

US$20,000 per night for the hotel's premier suite.

It belongs to the Sultan of Brunei who is keen on beheading homos.

Are you known as the deep thinker among your friends, OP?

There's also one in New York- not that anyone is going there. I always stayed there in the 2000s. I could always depend on the cab drivers trying to drop me off at the fucking Plaza!

Life was so simple then.

It's a historic hotel in the 8th, owned by Brunei.

Avoid.

What does the name mean (FFS)?

It's closed now. I stayed in one in Bangkok which was a franchise--owned by a local plutocrat. It was very nice.

Athenian Plaza Rose.

[quote] Athenian Plaza Rose

Why?

It's a brand name.

It was the Hotel Plaza when it first opened, there were two with the same name at the time, but 'Plaza' wasn't trademarked in France so they tacked on the Athénée to avoid a lawsuit.

R8 An Athénée is an athanaeum - a temple to the goddess Athena, Athène in French.

It's definitely not closed-closed, but they're on confinement 2 in France for... a while, at least. It's still one of the top 10 hotels in Paris.

Why not Plaza Parisien; where does the Athénée come from?

[quote] An Athénée is an athanaeum - a temple to the goddess Athena, Athène in French.

Thanks R12, you advance the discussion... unlike some...

Athénée / Athenaeum appears to mean a school or academy.

The one in NYC is closed.

Don't worry R15 the Brunei oil wells keep on gushing in the pandemic.

It means "free public toilet if you walk briskly past the doormen"

Tom Driberg in Ruling Passions wrote the best way to get your trick into your hotel in the golden days was to give him an envelope addressed to "Thomas Driberg, Esq TO BE DELIVERED PERSONALLY" and tell the trick to take it to the concierge for directions. Said concierge will direct said trick to your hotel room for fucking. I don't know if Driberg tried this at the Plaza before it was owned by Brunei.

^Works like a charm.

Plaza Athénée is a oddly mixed name. "Athénée" is French for Atheneum, while "plaza" is Spanish for a public meeting place or city square. The French equivalent is "place" /plas/, so why wasn't it called Hôtel Place Athénée?

/an oddly mixed name...

It is rather mysterious.

R20 Because it was supposed to be called the Hôtel Plaza and they were going to get sued by the other Hôtel Plaza in Paris at the time (1909?) even though they had never registered the trademark in France. So they tacked on the « Athénée », and a brand was born. The other Plaza had opened in NY in 1907 (different owners, same name) and seems to have made a name for itself immediately.

OP: If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

R24, such a bitch.

r25 But really only in their own little world.