22 hotels · France
The great hotels of Paris
22 luxury hotels in Paris are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, Le Meurice, opened in 1815; the most recent, Bulgari Hotel Paris, in 2021. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
Cheval Blanc Paris
LVMH's Paris hotel opened in September 2021 inside La Samaritaine with 72 rooms, a Dior spa and Arnaud Donckele's three-star Plénitude.
72 rooms
Hôtel Ritz Paris
César Ritz’s 1898 hotel on Place Vendôme, set behind a listed 17th-century façade by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.
Shangri-La Paris
Prince Roland Bonaparte's 1896 mansion on avenue d'Iéna, where the Eiffel Tower fills the windows of the river-facing suites.
100 rooms
Le Royal Monceau - Raffles Paris
Reopened in 2010 after a Philippe Starck redesign, with a 99-seat cinema, an art bookshop and the Eisenhower link from 1944 kept in the house story.
149 rooms
Hôtel de Crillon
An 18th-century palace on Place de la Concorde, behind Ange-Jacques Gabriel’s colonnade, a hotel since 1909.
Bulgari Hotel Paris
At 30 avenue George V, Bulgari Hotel Paris opened in December 2021 with 76 rooms and a 25-metre pool, among the longest in any Paris hotel.
76 rooms
La Réserve Paris Hotel and Spa
Forty rooms in a Second Empire mansion on avenue Gabriel, decorated by Jacques Garcia, with Jérôme Banctel's three-starred Le Gabriel on the ground floor.
40 rooms
Hôtel Lancaster Paris
Marlene Dietrich's Paris home for three years, a mansion of 1889 on rue de Berri where a Russian painter settled his bills with eighty canvases.
57 rooms
Saint James Paris
The 1892 Fondation Thiers on avenue Bugeaud, built where Paris flew its first balloons, now the city's only château-hotel with a walled garden.
50 rooms
Hôtel Lutetia
Built in 1910 by the Bon Marché for its customers, the only grand hotel on the Left Bank of Paris, reopened in 2018 after four years of restoration.
184 rooms
The Peninsula Paris
The 1908 Hotel Majestic on avenue Kléber, where the 1973 Paris Peace Accords were signed, reborn in 2014.
200 rooms
Four Seasons Hotel George V
The first hotel in Europe to hold three Michelin-starred restaurants under one roof, behind a 1928 Art Deco facade on avenue George V.
244 rooms
Le Meurice
A Paris hotel since 1815, on rue de Rivoli facing the Tuileries, where Salvador Dalí spent his winters.
160 rooms
Le Bristol Paris
A 1,200 square metre garden inside a Faubourg Saint-Honoré block and a rooftop pool built like a yacht's deck, in the first French hotel named a Palace.
190 rooms
Hôtel Raphael
A 1925 hotel still in the hands of its founding family, with a seventh-floor roof garden facing the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower.
83 rooms
Hôtel Plaza Athénée
Red awnings and geraniums on avenue Montaigne since 1913, with Christian Dior's couture house across the street since 1946.
Hôtel Costes
Jacques Garcia's crimson Napoleon III interiors of 1995 and a run of lounge compilations made a Saint-Honoré hotel the fashion weeks' living room.
L'Hôtel
Oscar Wilde died in room 16 on 30 November 1900, when this twenty-room house on rue des Beaux-Arts was still the Hôtel d'Alsace.
20 rooms
Hôtel Barrière Fouquet's Paris
Built in 2006 behind cast replicas of Haussmann facades, around a brasserie that has stood at the corner of the Champs-Élysées since 1899.
81 rooms
Mandarin Oriental, Paris
Behind a 1930s facade on rue Saint-Honoré, a planted inner garden and a two-starred restaurant opened in 2011 and earned the Palace grade in 2014.
138 rooms
InterContinental Paris Le Grand
Empress Eugénie inaugurated the Grand Hôtel in 1862, thirteen years before the opera house it faces was finished.
Maison Souquet
Behind two red lanterns on rue de Bruxelles, Jacques Garcia staged a Belle Époque maison close as a twenty-room hotel with a private spa below ground.
20 rooms