Tuesday, January 22, 2019

The lounging area, Heliopic Hotel & Spa, Chamonix, French Alps.

There's a Starbucks kiosk in the deli of this hotel and is the one and only in Chamonix.  Out of curiosity, I went in for a hot soy mocha, but it was just 10% of an average Starbucks standard.  No coffee aroma.  No choco. flavour and not either soy milk texture.  The only standard is "hot".  So I gave it a 10% of a Starbucks standard. That reminded of the first SB shop in Paris, that they intentionally made the coffee very bland as the French often claimed American coffee is "stocking water".  I absolutely disagree to this statement since SB combines espresso with the traditional American coffee.  That made it a middle of the road.  That brought the coffee culture though I'm not a big fan of SB.
The hotel serves complimentary pop corn at the late afternoon, good for people to lounge in the cozy lobby area.  Once again, I took all these photos in the second when there's no people around.  It was quite busy day and night.  

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