Meeting and event venues in France

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.

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 · Up to 99 guests

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

Hôtel du Couvent

A 17th-century convent of the Poor Clares in Vieux Nice, restored over more than a decade and opened as an 88-room hotel with Roman-style baths in June 2024.

88 rooms

Hôtel de Crillon

An 18th-century palace on Place de la Concorde, behind Ange-Jacques Gabriel’s colonnade, a hotel since 1909.

Hôtel Byblos

A Provençal village of ochre and pink houses built in 1967 around a pool, with Les Caves du Roy nightclub in the basement.

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

Les Airelles

A ski-in, ski-out Palace in the Jardin Alpin of Courchevel 1850 built in 1992 to look like an Austro-Hungarian castle.

Hôtel Royal

Built in 1909 for Edward VII on the slope above Lake Geneva, with Gustave Jaulmes frescoes and the golf course that hosts the Evian Championship.

150 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

Cheval Blanc Courchevel

The first Cheval Blanc opened in Courchevel 1850 in December 2006 and now houses Yannick Alléno's three-star Le 1947, named after the vintage.

36 rooms

Château de la Chèvre d'Or

Medieval village houses 400 metres above the Mediterranean, joined into a Relais & Châteaux with a two-starred restaurant and terraces over Cap Ferrat.

40 rooms

L'Apogée Courchevel

Built on the site of the 1992 Olympic ski jump in the Jardin Alpin of Courchevel 1850, with interiors by India Mahdavi and Joseph Dirand.

53 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

Villa La Coste

Twenty-eight villa suites on Paddy McKillen's Château La Coste estate, where Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Renzo Piano built among the vines.

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

Les Sources de Caudalie

The first vinotherapy spa in the world, opened in 1999 among the vines of Château Smith Haut Lafitte, with a two-starred table and a Palace label.

61 rooms

Château Saint-Martin & Spa

A 1936 bastide on the site of a twelfth-century Templar commandery, 350 metres above the Côte d'Azur between Vence and the sea.

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

La Réserve Ramatuelle Hotel, Spa and Villas

Jean-Michel Wilmotte's white pavilions on the hill above Pampelonne, 28 rooms and a 1,000-square-metre Nescens spa facing the bay of Saint-Tropez.

28 rooms

Lily of the Valley

Philippe Starck's village of 44 rooms on the Gigaro hill above Cap Lardier, built in 2019 around a 2,000-square-metre wellness centre for weight loss.

44 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 Martinez

The largest hotel on the Croisette, opened in February 1929 by Emmanuel Martinez, with a two-star restaurant named after the festival prize.

Hôtel du Palais

Napoleon III's summer villa for Empress Eugénie, built in 1854 in the shape of an E, became a hotel in 1893 and was rebuilt after a fire in 1905.

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.

Hyatt Regency Nice Palais de la Méditerranée

Frank Jay Gould's 1929 casino on the Promenade des Anglais kept only its listed Art Deco facade; the hotel behind it opened in 2004.

187 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

Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic Cannes

Opposite the Palais des Festivals since 1926, with two penthouses added in 2010 and a ballroom that seats the festival's dinners.

349 rooms · Up to 400 guests

Hôtel de Bourgtheroulde, Autograph Collection

A Renaissance mansion of 1501 on the square where Joan of Arc was burned, with a carved frieze of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a hotel since 2010.

78 rooms

Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, A Four Seasons Hotel

A funicular links the 1908 Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat to Club Dauphin and its heated seawater pool at the tip of the peninsula.