Chouchou Hôtel in Paris 9 hosts residential seminars, meetings, group lunches and dinners, and cocktail receptions for up to 150 guests standing. It is a 63-room four-star hotel at 11 rue du Helder, between the Opéra Garnier and Saint-Lazare station, and it stays open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells what it calls residential seminars: meeting spaces and bedrooms reserved together for professional events. Group stays, lunches, dinners and seminars are handled by a dedicated events team, which designs each event to order and answers requests by phone or email.
The working rooms are called Arrière-scène and Loge. The official site lists high-speed Wi-Fi, an individual sound system, a video projector, a TV with HDMI input, notepads and pencils, and a paperboard on request. Between sessions, the hotel can arrange a magician, a photo booth or tailor-made activities.
Rooms and capacities
Arrière-scène measures 45 m² (about 485 sq ft). It seats 24 in meeting format and 35 in theater format, and it holds 45 guests for a cocktail. Loge measures 25 m² (about 270 sq ft) and takes 12 in meeting format, 20 in theater format or 20 for a cocktail. Used together, the two rooms hold 65 guests for a cocktail.
La verrière is the third space. For a cocktail on Monday and Sunday evenings it is listed at 150 guests. Every space is offered on request, so the hotel confirms availability and layout for each event.
Accommodation
The hotel has 63 bedrooms in several categories. Depending on the category, they include a balcony, a bathtub, a large shower or a view over the Opéra. The hotel also offers three private baths that can be booked together with a room, which some groups use for an evening activity.
Catering
Meals are served in house. The official site lists a breakfast buffet from 7:30 to 10:00 a.m., a group lunch menu from noon to 2:00 p.m., morning and afternoon coffee breaks with hot drinks, juice, pastries and fresh fruit, and a dinner of sharing boards. Dinner runs from 7:00 to 11:30 p.m. Monday to Wednesday and from 7:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Thursday to Saturday. The hotel restaurant is styled as a guinguette, the casual Paris tradition of eating, drinking and dancing together, and it also serves the public at lunch and dinner.
History and setting
The hotel presents itself as a four-star address built around French pop culture, with French craftsmanship in the bedrooms. It stands in the 9th arrondissement, a central district of offices, theaters and shops around the Opéra Garnier, which makes it easy to reach for teams coming from several parts of Paris.
Getting there
The address is 11 rue du Helder, 75009 Paris, between the Opéra Garnier and Gare Saint-Lazare. The nearest Vélib station is Taitbout - La Fayette. Métro stations at Opéra and Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette are a short walk away, and Saint-Lazare serves suburban trains.
