Ah, the City of Love! Paris is widely known as the most beautiful and romantic of all cities. Paris, also known as the City of Light, is situated on the River Seine and is the most popular tourist destination among travelers. Paris’ influence in politics, education, entertainment, fashion, science and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world’s major global cities. Virtually every monument in this city is a well known, well loved icon. People come here to fall in love, live the culture, breathe in the history, and experience the art and fashion and French cuisine.
Paris Highlights:
The Eiffel Tower: The Eiffel Tower is one of the most famous landmarks in the world. Take the elevator or walk the stairs to the top of this iconic structure and be greeted with a 360 degree panoramic view of Paris.
Arc de Triomphe: This easily recognizable monument is usually met with a few awe-inspired gazes. Climb to the top and admire the view.
The Seine: Enjoy a romantic cruise along this timeless river or just walk along the banks to capture the spirit of a Parisian evening.
The Moulin Rouge: For a taste of true Parisian decadence, come to the red-light district of Pigalle and enjoy a little song, a little dance and of course, a little wine and dine.
Notre Dame Cathedral: This breathtaking cathedral has been described in many books but it is a rare treat to witness the absolute magnificence of this historic Gothic building in person.
The Louvre: Undoubtedly the most famous museum in the world, this historic monument will amaze and inspire you.
Ave Champs-Elysees: Walk down this coveted avenue lined with elite hotels, luxury boutiques and great restaurants.
In general if it’s classic Parisian pomp you’re after, you’re headed to one of the big luxury hotels. This town has no shortage of them, and they’re among the most opulent in the Western world. The boutique hotels tend to be more contemporary, often a bit minimalist — but one boutique in particular can out-classic t ...
A 16th-century abbey converted into a small and charmingly traditional boutique hotel would be special enough, were it located somewhere far out in the French countryside; in the heart of Paris’s Latin Quarter, however, it’s truly extraordinary. This is the Relais Christine, hidden away in a quiet cobbled courtyard in Saint-Germain-d ...
Not at all what you’d expect of this town, in terms of style and design — the Bel Ami is all simple modernity, rather than fussy muséification, and the palette leans to the muted and earthy, almost Nordic, avoiding the rich crimsons and pinks on display in Parisian grand hotels. This sort of elegant simplicity is no accident & ...
It would be difficult to imagine a location for a hotel that would be closer to the center of it all than the Hotel Thérèse. Just a stone's throw away from the Louvre, the Palais Royal, and the Comédie Française, this hotel could hardly be in a better location for shopping or sightseeing. The Opéra, rue Sai ...
Paris, a city of historical architecture, has very few hotels that make an unequivocally modern design statement. Hôtel Square is one of them. The hotel is located in the 16th arrondissement, close to the Eiffel Tower, but also right in the midst of the media district, just opposite the Maison de la Radio, and is in fact something of a gat ...
One might have thought there’d be more hotels in Paris like this one — a stylish and modern boutique hotel, one which edges quite close to luxury territory, hidden away behind the walls of a classic century-old apartment building. Mon Hotel manages to find space for a small spa and fitness center, as well as a restaurant that’s ...
Most Parisian hotels, for better or worse, fit comfortably into one category or another — the bohemian boltholes, the lavish luxury hotels, the impeccably styled minimalist boutiques. But like a lot of the best hotels, the Hôtel Montalembert defies categorization. It’s on the Left Bank but it’s far from bohemian; it&rsquo ...
This chateau-styled boutique hotel is blessed with a remarkable location, on the Place des Vosges, in the Marais, in the heart of historic Paris. It is housed in an eighteenth-century mansion, and the décor is full-tilt historical — no stark modernism on display, and nothing that could reasonably be called "minimal." Inste ...
New hotels open all the time; new boutiques, new design hotels, new chain hotels. It’s not every day, though, that the curtain goes up on a new grand dame. It’s a lofty goal, to be sure, but that’s exactly what the Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière aspires to be.
The Fouquet’s Barrière is m ...
Time was, in the early years of the last century, the Pont Royal was a haunt for literary types — this, of course, back when Paris was the destination of choice for writers in any language. Today it’s known for creation of a different sort; not only is it an intimate 75-room luxury boutique hotel, but it’s the home of the Ateli ...
The day the newly renovated Le Royal Monceau opened its doors was the day we had to stop saying most of the things we’ve been saying about Parisian grand hotels all these years. No longer is it sensible to say that Paris, when it comes to luxury hotels, is entirely a conservative town — not now that Le Royal Monceau has been red ...
Paris may have older hotels, but in terms of glamour, it all starts here. Coco Chanel lived here for thirty years, Pamela Harriman clocked innumerable laps in its pool, Edward VII was one of its first guests, and Guillaume Escoffier was one of its first chefs.
Even today, the Ritz is larger than life. The bathrobes are the same sh ...
An utterly traditional Thirties hotel in Paris’s Montparnasse district is now, after a radical update, the very picture of the modern boutique hotel. With just twenty rooms, the Hotel des Académies et des Arts owes some debt to the cozy Left Bank lodgings of times past; but the bold colors, graphic décor, even the downbeat el ...
Located on the rue de Buci, in the left bank, the newly renovated Artus is doubly remarkable; not only is it contemporary and stylish, but it’s quiet about it as well. Some of the most fashionable Parisian hotels take themselves a bit too seriously, with pompous service to match (we could name names, but won’t; not to worry, they are ...
“No two rooms are the same” — any hotel with even a modicum of personality is likely to include such a phrase somewhere in its promotional literature, and it is bound to be true, at least to some degree, of any hotel selected by Tablet (though there may be a Japanese capsule hotel in our future). Then again, no two snowflakes a ...
A little explanation in order to properly introduce the new Hotel Lumen: Paris is in another league when it comes to hotels — its enormous volume of tourist traffic combined with its general scarcity of real estate places it in the same pricey bracket as London or Tokyo. Combine that with a generally conservative bunch of hotel decorators ...
Parisian luxury hotels are well known for their historical bent, but when measured against the Hôtel de Crillon, the rest of them are practically brand new. This massive stone edifice at the end of the Place de la Concorde has been a luxury hotel since before the Revolution, and can honestly claim just about everyone from Marie Antoinette ...
Le Faubourg comprises two landmark buildings on rue Boissy d’Anglas, close to the Place de la Concorde. One of them was previously the headquarters of the Marie Claire magazines, the other the former Hotel St. Honoré. The location is fantastic, adjacent to the US embassy and quite near the Louvre and Orsay museums, as well as Cartie ...
It’s often a bit of a gamble commissioning boutique hotel interiors from fashion designers, but one thing you can almost always be sure of is that you won’t end up looking at the same tired minimalism you’ve already seen in a thousand other hotels. Extravagant materials, bold colors, quirky details and statements aplenty are pr ...
It’s not just the design, by the Parisian architect Jean-Philippe Nuel, that’s turning heads — this stylish little boutique is garnering notices for its budget-friendly price tag as well. After all, it’s not every day that a new contemporary design hotel sets up shop on these staid old streets, and when one does, it&rsquo ...
In Paris we’re always on the lookout for something that shows a little restraint, whether that means understated style, unimposing atmosphere, or reasonably affordable rates. It’s rare to find all three at once, but that’s more or less what the Hôtel Keppler offers: a sensible amount of luxury, a surprising degree of quie ...
At this late date the mere fact of a contemporary-style hotel in Paris may not be enough to raise eyebrows. But add to that the fact that Hotel Mayet manages to come in at a starting rate of under €120 per night, and you’ve got yourself a story.
In this case we’re not talking about the kind of haute-luxury minimal ...
The Marquis de Sers, it seems, was a country gentleman in need of a Parisian second home — he commissioned this classic four-story mansion just off the Champs Elysées in 1880, and in the intervening hundred-plus years it went on to become first a rather conventional hotel (the Queen Elizabeth) and now, a refreshingly unconventional ...
Combining Eighteenth-Century elegance and Art Déco cool, this Belle Epoque hotel may be a classic but it is no museum. Even in its youth, in the 1930s, the Plaza Athénée was equal parts classical French style and contemporary hipster hangout — the likes of Josephine Baker and Rudolph Valentino could be seen among the p ...
Modern design hotels may be moving into Paris, but Hotel Relais Saint-Jacques is decidedly in the opposite camp. This is, in many ways, what one expects from a Parisian hotel — comfort, traditional style, and enough antique furnishings to start an auction house. This Hausmann-style building, near the Jardin du Luxembourg and the Sorbonne, ...
La Trémoille has been a fixture on the Paris luxury hotel scene since 1883. In 2002 it was re-opened following a complete renovation by Richard Martinet. The restored Haussmannian facade, a historical monument in its own right, is as authentic as ever, while the interior has been updated in an understated yet decidedly contemporary style. ...
These days design hotels are so widespread as to be almost commonplace, and art hotels are no longer the novelty they once were. So what’s next? One attempt at an answer comes in the form of the Apostrophe Hotel, which styles itself the world’s first “poem hotel” — an idea that’s so perfectly Parisian it&rsquo ...
Some cities are filled to the brim with chic and hyper-modern designer hotels, but Paris could always use another one. As such, Sezz Paris is a welcome addition to the landscape, the perfect antidote to the prevailing antique hotel trend. Here, in the 16th arrondissement (hence the name), Starck protégé Christophe Pillet has create ...
Conservatism casts a long shadow in the world of Paris hospitality, and the best boutique hotels seem to find compelling and original methods of reacting against tradition without indulging in some sneering postmodern wackiness. Step inside the lobby of the Madison Hotel, and you’ll see how it’s done: the eye-popping palette of reds ...
Is it possible for a hotel to be a biography? La Belle Juliette might be the first: this stylish little boutique hotel in the Saint-Germain is a period piece, at the very least, conceived by the French designer Anne Gelbard as an homage to Juliette Récamier, a notorious Parisian beauty from the turn of the 19th century. Some of it is over ...
Paris is one city that’s certainly not lacking for home-grown high-gloss luxury hotels. Of course there’s always room for another good one, and the Shangri-La group has spent decades honing its expertise in the major markets of the Far East, which has to be good preparation for Paris’s notoriously exacting clientele. And when i ...
Though it’s the address — 6 rue Saint-Placide — rather than the adjective which lends this Saint-Germain hotel its name, there is a certain calmness about Hôtel Le Placide’s cool white contemporary interiors. The final effect, however, is anything but tranquilizing: it’s hard not to feel energized by the prosp ...
See, we’re not the only ones who thought Paris’ hotels were looking a little bit too conservative. Even from the photos, with their neon palette and dramatic contrasts, you can tell that Hotel Seven is a different sort of place. But look closer. Those fiber-optic effects are coming from underneath the bed — the bed (and the bat ...
Of some of the Radisson Blu hotels the best you can say is that, for a big business chain, they’re remarkably stylish and surprisingly individual. To say that of the Radisson Blu Le Metropolitan, however, would be understating the case by a considerable distance. This is a hotel that will have you checking the stationery in disbelief &mdas ...
In Paris, one of the most-visited cities in the world, there are the old palace hotels, the new minimalist boutiques, and, as in this case, various shades in between. A newly minted classic, and a bit of a stylistic departure for Paris hotels, Hotel Daniel comes outfitted in a sort of Silk Road, east-meets-west theme — old-world Parisian i ...
The danger with superstar designers is that they’ll descend into self-parody, what was once a personal vision becoming little more than branding. It’s hard to imagine that happening to Matali Crasset. You’d know simply by the ultra-saturated color palette that Hi Matic bears at least a family resemblance to the original Hi Hote ...
Paris is famous for its uniformly elegant architecture: the Belle Époque buildings lining the boulevards, the medieval houses on narrow lanes, the manicured gardens, the glazed corner cafes. No matter how elegant, though, one does occasionally need a break from the uniformity. And this is where a hotel like the Hotel Banke can really help ...
In the crowded and often ostentatious world of Paris hotels, Le Dokhan’s sets itself apart—the feeling is less grand hotel, more private mansion, one impeccably designed by the noted decorator Frédéric Méchiche, whose antique selection and keen eye for color make hospitable order from what would, in lesser hands, ...
If there’s a common thread that runs through most of Paris’s big-name hotels it’s this: whether they’re centuries-old grand hotels or cutting-edge design experiments, they tend to announce themselves with some fanfare. For that reason we’re always partial to the soft-spoken, to Parisian luxury hotels that buck the t ...
You would think the first rule of establishing a truly hidden hotel would be, Don’t put a sign over the door that says “Hidden Hotel.” But some allowances must be made, we suppose, for the necessity of commerce — and even with that sign over the door, the Hidden Hotel is practically invisible compared to the ostentation w ...
The first thing that’s notable about Hotel le A is the style. Any time a high-design, architecturally modern hotel opens in Paris, it’s news. First because there are still few of them — the Paris hotel scene remains in thrall to a century-old vision of architecture and interior design — and second because here, in one of ...
After years of pining for more contemporary hotels in Paris, we’re finally getting what we wished for. Suddenly the place is awash in design-oriented boutique hotels. And not half measures, either. The Hotel Secret de Paris, for example, isn’t content with just one vibrant, contemporary look — not when it can have six of them, ...
Pershing Hall is named for the American general John Pershing, who used this nineteenth-century mansion as his headquarters during the First World War. But anyone expecting this place to be some sort of museum, or a throwback to 1917 and before, will be in for a shock: the hotel as we know it today is the creation of Andrée Putman, the de ...
From the same family that brought you the Pavillon de la Reine, here’s another pavillon entirely, the Pavillon des Lettres. This one, in the 8th arrondissement, is styled as a literary hotel, each of its twenty-six rooms named for a well-known author, from Baudelaire to Zola, Ibsen to Kafka. But though its luxuries may be subtle, it’ ...
The fashion world and the hotel world don’t cross over as often as they should. Especially in Paris, which is odd, since it’s the fashion world (and its associated industries) that drives much of the demand for extraordinary hotels in the first place. One imagines the situation is only temporary, though — a few more results on ...
Some Parisian hotels aim to sweep guests up in the bustling romance of this great city. The Gabriel, by contrast, is for guests who can get quite enough bustling romance outside the hotel’s doors. It’s more like a pocket-sized spa resort than a city boutique, and the fact that it’s located at the edge of the Marais, which makes ...
Luxury-hotel junkies were licking their chops for ages before this one opened. Paris is a city that’s no stranger to high-end luxury hospitality, and it was long clear that a Mandarin Oriental would have to be something special, even by the company’s lofty standards, if it was going to make a dent here. And when it was revealed that ...
The gardens are pint-sized, but then again so is the hotel. Paris is a city where a little greenery goes a long way, and it’s impossible to overstate the sense of expansiveness Les Jardins de la Villa’s little courtyard garden lends to this thirty-three-room boutique hotel, a few blocks off the Arc de Triomphe end of the Champs Elys& ...
In Paris, perhaps more than anywhere else, the difference between a boutique hotel and a luxury hotel is not one of scale so much as one of kind. Hôtel Le Six, however, rather blurs the distinction. It’s a 41-room boutique, decidedly intimate and unmistakably contemporary in style. Typically if you’re in the mood for much more ...
It’s not often the case that a hotel belonging to a big international chain can challenge the independents in the design stakes. But when it happens, we’re there, like a shot. From its name the Renaissance Paris Arc de Triomphe may sound like your classic tourist trap, but one look at the pulsating, illuminated waves of its curvaceou ...
It doesn’t get much more central than this for a Parisian hotel, around the corner from the Ritz, just off the Jardin des Tuileries, the Champs-Elysées, and everything that’s anything on the Right Bank, big and small — including Coco Chanel’s original atelier, which is still right next door. The setting is right fo ...
Christian Lacroix’s name pops up in all sorts of places these days, but in the case of the Luxe Hôtel Notre Dame, the Parisian designer gets to play the role of the hometown hero. Here, practically in the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral (and literally in its shadow, a few mornings a year), a 400-year-old building has been thorough ...
Suffice it to say that the Saint James is anything but typical. In Paris an hôtel particulier, a freestanding house, is unusual enough — something like the Saint James, almost a country-style château, surrounded by a wall and garden, is vanishingly rare. And now that it’s open for business as a hotel, it’s almost to ...
It’s rare in any city, and especially in Paris, that a new hotel immediately becomes an instant classic. In the case of Le Burgundy, however, it’s not at all out of the question. Though more modest in size than some of the big-name grand hotels — the Burgundy is just 59 rooms — it’s scarcely any less luxurious, and ...
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