Les Bains can host cocktails for up to 250 guests, seated dinners for up to 82, talks and conferences for up to 100 and smaller meetings, press days, launches and shoots in seven private spaces. The building is the former Bains Douches, now a five-star hotel with 39 rooms and suites, at 7 rue du Bourg-l'Abbé in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. Each space has its own closing time, from 10 pm to 2 am.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells private and professional events: lunches, dinners, evening parties, showrooms, talks, photo shoots and filming. The largest room for a working session is the Roxo, the bar and restaurant, which seats 100 guests theatre style and has air conditioning, a sound system and projection equipment. For a smaller board meeting or a press day, the Salon Secret is a private apartment reached by its own lift, with an open kitchen and private toilets; it takes 30 in a conference layout and 25 at dinner, and two adjoining bedrooms can be added. The Suite Les Bains, an 80 m² suite with a 32 m² south-facing terrace, is offered for meetings, press junkets and product launches until 10 pm.
Weddings and receptions
The official site does not offer wedding packages. Private parties, birthdays and dinners among friends are possible in the same spaces as company events, on request.
Rooms and capacities
The Roxo measures 180 m² plus a 65 m² patio, with one open-air heated patio and one under a retractable glass roof. It takes 250 for a cocktail dinner, 82 seated and 100 theatre style, until 2 am. La Verrière, a 41 m² terrace within the Roxo facing a Futura 2000 fresco, takes 50 for a cocktail and 30 seated.
The Club covers 160 m² with the original 22 m² pool, a lava stone bar, a stage, an artists' room and a smoking room. It takes 150 for a cocktail, 250 for a club night and 30 seated, with a Funktion-One sound system, CDJ 2000 decks, screens and mood lighting.
The Salon Chinois, 25 m² with a fireplace and 19th-century Chinese stained glass, seats 14 or takes 20 standing. The Salon Secret covers 40 m², or 70 m² with its extension. The Réservoir, a 15 m² space with a 15-meter ceiling dating from the Bains Guerbois era, hosts very private dinners for up to 10.
Accommodation
The hotel has 39 rooms and suites, from 23 m² Classic rooms to the 120 m² Penthouse Suite for up to four. Some rooms have a hammam, an outdoor shower or a south-facing balcony. The interiors are by Tristan Auer. There is also a spa, Les Bains Guerbois.
Catering
Food is in-house. Chef Bruno Grossi writes the menus for private events, with a choice of set menus. The Roxo serves breakfast, lunch, cocktails and sharing plates every day from 7 am to midnight.
History and setting
The building opened in 1885 as Les Bains Guerbois, private baths that Marcel Proust used. In 1978 it became Les Bains Douches, a concert hall, restaurant and nightclub that drew musicians, actors and designers for decades. In 2015 it reopened as a five-star hotel, with the old pool rebuilt to the original design and a concept store across the street.
Getting there
The hotel is in the north of the Marais, between the Centre Pompidou and Arts et Métiers. Étienne Marcel and Réaumur-Sébastopol metro stations are a short walk away. Paris Charles de Gaulle airport is reached via RER B from Châtelet-Les Halles.
