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Tours in Paris |
Hotel prices generally include VAT and a room tax (taxe de séjour) of between €0.50 and €1.50 per person per night. This tax is sometimes added to the bill at the end of a visit and guests are advised to check whether it is included when making a reservation. Guests are also advised to tip porters €2 for each bag and chambermaids €2 per day.
The hotels below are grouped into four price categories:
$$$$ (over €300)
$$$ (€200 to €300)
$$ (€100 to €200)
$ (up to €100)
The prices quoted here are the lowest standard rates for a double room, including VAT and room tax but excluding breakfast, unless otherwise specified.
The hotels below are grouped into four price categories:
$$$$ (over €300)
$$$ (€200 to €300)
$$ (€100 to €200)
$ (up to €100)
The prices quoted here are the lowest standard rates for a double room, including VAT and room tax but excluding breakfast, unless otherwise specified.
Business
Hotel Concorde La Fayette
The towering 1,000-room Hotel Concorde La Fayette is located close to the Champs-Elysées and la Défense Porte Maillot. All guest rooms are air-conditioned and decorated in a modern style, with colours that are gentle on the eye. Conference facilities include 2,200sq metres (25,000sq ft) of space, shared with the Palais des Congrès and its own fully serviced business centre. Secretarial and translation services are available. There are also executive floors with modem points in all rooms, a fitness club, two bars (one on the 33rd floor offering a panoramic view over Paris) and two restaurants.
3 place du Général Koenig, 17th
Tel: (01) 4068 5068.
Website: www.concorde-lafayette.com
Price: $$
The towering 1,000-room Hotel Concorde La Fayette is located close to the Champs-Elysées and la Défense Porte Maillot. All guest rooms are air-conditioned and decorated in a modern style, with colours that are gentle on the eye. Conference facilities include 2,200sq metres (25,000sq ft) of space, shared with the Palais des Congrès and its own fully serviced business centre. Secretarial and translation services are available. There are also executive floors with modem points in all rooms, a fitness club, two bars (one on the 33rd floor offering a panoramic view over Paris) and two restaurants.
3 place du Général Koenig, 17th
Tel: (01) 4068 5068.
Website: www.concorde-lafayette.com
Price: $$
Le Bristol
A plush business clientele frequent Le Bristol. Here, 180 elegant rooms and 41 suites, decorated with original prints and paintings, are complemented by top-notch business facilities, including a business centre, meeting rooms and secretarial and translation services. For relaxation, there is a rooftop indoor swimming pool, a fitness room and an excellent restaurant run by top chef Eric Frechon, as well as fabulous shopping nearby in this smart arrondissement (district).
112 rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré, 8th
Tel: (01) 5343 4300/25.
Website: www.lebristolparis.com
Price: $$$$
A plush business clientele frequent Le Bristol. Here, 180 elegant rooms and 41 suites, decorated with original prints and paintings, are complemented by top-notch business facilities, including a business centre, meeting rooms and secretarial and translation services. For relaxation, there is a rooftop indoor swimming pool, a fitness room and an excellent restaurant run by top chef Eric Frechon, as well as fabulous shopping nearby in this smart arrondissement (district).
112 rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré, 8th
Tel: (01) 5343 4300/25.
Website: www.lebristolparis.com
Price: $$$$
Le Meridien Montparnasse
Even those with a poor sense of direction will have no problem finding this impressive skyscraper of a hotel, only a tad shorter than the Montparnasse tower. The TGV glides to within a stone's throw of this business hotel, equipped with in-room voicemail, meeting rooms for up to 2,000 delegates and secretarial services. Dining options include Montparnasse 25 restaurant and Le Justine buffet.
19 rue du Commandant-Mouchotte, 14th
Tel: (01) 4436 4436.
Website: www.lemeridien.com
Price: $$
Even those with a poor sense of direction will have no problem finding this impressive skyscraper of a hotel, only a tad shorter than the Montparnasse tower. The TGV glides to within a stone's throw of this business hotel, equipped with in-room voicemail, meeting rooms for up to 2,000 delegates and secretarial services. Dining options include Montparnasse 25 restaurant and Le Justine buffet.
19 rue du Commandant-Mouchotte, 14th
Tel: (01) 4436 4436.
Website: www.lemeridien.com
Price: $$
Paris Rive Gauche Hotel and Conference Centre
This top business hotel, which boasts conference space for 2,000 delegates, as well as a fully equipped business centre with cyber lounge, simultaneous translation and catering services, is the largest four-star convention hotel in Paris. Located on the left bank of the River Seine, the 18-floor hotel that was built in the 1970s is just a few minutes from Gare Montparnasse and the Latin Quarter. Each room is decorated in a contemporary style and equipped with a modem point. The hotel boasts a fitness centre on the 18th floor, which offers panoramic views over Paris. There are three restaurants - the recently revamped La Table et la Forme, Le Café Français (an ideal setting for business lunches) and Le Patio buffet bar. The jazzy Nelli's Bar serves good cocktails.
17 boulevard Saint-Jacques, 14th
Tel: (01) 4078 7980 or 4078 7840.
Website: www.sofitel.com
Price: $$
This top business hotel, which boasts conference space for 2,000 delegates, as well as a fully equipped business centre with cyber lounge, simultaneous translation and catering services, is the largest four-star convention hotel in Paris. Located on the left bank of the River Seine, the 18-floor hotel that was built in the 1970s is just a few minutes from Gare Montparnasse and the Latin Quarter. Each room is decorated in a contemporary style and equipped with a modem point. The hotel boasts a fitness centre on the 18th floor, which offers panoramic views over Paris. There are three restaurants - the recently revamped La Table et la Forme, Le Café Français (an ideal setting for business lunches) and Le Patio buffet bar. The jazzy Nelli's Bar serves good cocktails.
17 boulevard Saint-Jacques, 14th
Tel: (01) 4078 7980 or 4078 7840.
Website: www.sofitel.com
Price: $$
Luxury
Hôtel de Crillon
The hotel of choice for supermodels, movie stars and royalty, this marble palace was built for Louis XV in 1758. As sumptuous as the Ritz, the Crillon sparkles with chandeliers, gleaming marble, sculptures and gilt. Beautiful people dine in the gastronomic, Michelin-starred Les Ambassadeurs restaurant or the lower key L'Obélisque brasserie. There is also the Jardins d'Hiver tea room and hip Piano Bar, designed by Sonia Rykiel. Business guests are catered for with conference rooms, a 24-hour business centre and a fitness centre. For those wishing to really splash out, there is a choice of 52 suites.
10 place de la Concorde, 8th
Tel: (01) 4471 1500.
Website: www.crillon.com
Price: $$$$
The hotel of choice for supermodels, movie stars and royalty, this marble palace was built for Louis XV in 1758. As sumptuous as the Ritz, the Crillon sparkles with chandeliers, gleaming marble, sculptures and gilt. Beautiful people dine in the gastronomic, Michelin-starred Les Ambassadeurs restaurant or the lower key L'Obélisque brasserie. There is also the Jardins d'Hiver tea room and hip Piano Bar, designed by Sonia Rykiel. Business guests are catered for with conference rooms, a 24-hour business centre and a fitness centre. For those wishing to really splash out, there is a choice of 52 suites.
10 place de la Concorde, 8th
Tel: (01) 4471 1500.
Website: www.crillon.com
Price: $$$$
Ritz Paris
Situated on one of the smartest yet most intimate squares in Paris, close to the Louvre, the Ritz is the city's most celebrated, and rightly so, hotel; the very essence of luxury and discretion. The lobby gleams with marble, chandeliers and impressive floral arrangements from designer Djordje Varda, while the oriental carpets, soft to the touch, soak up the sound. Pop stars, presidents and people with money to burn have a choice of 135 rooms and 40 suites - now all fitted with wireless Internet connections, BOSE sound systems and plasma TV screens. There is a magnificent swimming pool and fitness room, as well as a recently revamped health spa that offers such exoticisms as Australian aboriginal massages. In the labyrinthine underbelly of the hotel lies the celebrated cookery school, where master chefs teach their tricks to international acolytes and mere mortals can dream of cooking like head chef Michel Roth. The fame of the Ritz has risen to even higher heights of late with the opening scenes of both the Da Vinci Code book and film set here; guests can even choose to sleep in room 512, where Tom Hank's character was so rudely woken in the night. One suspects in reality that it would take more than a pushy French police inspector to get past the Ritz staff.
15 place Vendôme, 1st
Tel: (01) 4316 3030.
Website: www.ritzparis.com
Price: $$$$
Situated on one of the smartest yet most intimate squares in Paris, close to the Louvre, the Ritz is the city's most celebrated, and rightly so, hotel; the very essence of luxury and discretion. The lobby gleams with marble, chandeliers and impressive floral arrangements from designer Djordje Varda, while the oriental carpets, soft to the touch, soak up the sound. Pop stars, presidents and people with money to burn have a choice of 135 rooms and 40 suites - now all fitted with wireless Internet connections, BOSE sound systems and plasma TV screens. There is a magnificent swimming pool and fitness room, as well as a recently revamped health spa that offers such exoticisms as Australian aboriginal massages. In the labyrinthine underbelly of the hotel lies the celebrated cookery school, where master chefs teach their tricks to international acolytes and mere mortals can dream of cooking like head chef Michel Roth. The fame of the Ritz has risen to even higher heights of late with the opening scenes of both the Da Vinci Code book and film set here; guests can even choose to sleep in room 512, where Tom Hank's character was so rudely woken in the night. One suspects in reality that it would take more than a pushy French police inspector to get past the Ritz staff.
15 place Vendôme, 1st
Tel: (01) 4316 3030.
Website: www.ritzparis.com
Price: $$$$
Moderate
Hotel du Septième Art
A Hollywood theme runs through this fun and funky 22-room hotel designed with the film buff in mind and adorned with 1950s posters. The hotel is a popular media haunt in the Marais district, set in a 16th-century building. There are no mod cons, such as lifts or air conditioning, although there are original wooden beams throughout and all rooms have en suite bathrooms.
20 rue Saint-Paul, 4th
Tel: (01) 4454 8500.
Website: www.paris-hotel-7art.com
Price: $
A Hollywood theme runs through this fun and funky 22-room hotel designed with the film buff in mind and adorned with 1950s posters. The hotel is a popular media haunt in the Marais district, set in a 16th-century building. There are no mod cons, such as lifts or air conditioning, although there are original wooden beams throughout and all rooms have en suite bathrooms.
20 rue Saint-Paul, 4th
Tel: (01) 4454 8500.
Website: www.paris-hotel-7art.com
Price: $
Relais Lafayette
Just a short walk away from Gare du Nord, the 61-room Relais Lafayette could not be much better placed for Eurostar travellers. With RER and Metro connections from Gare du Nord, this unpretentious hotel makes an ideal base. It may be no-frills, but rooms are modern and spotlessly clean. Reception staff is friendly and helpful, dispensing maps to new arrivals, as well as information on tours. The lobby has a public access Internet terminal and wireless access can be arranged in the rooms.
7 rue des Petits Hotels
Tel: (01) 4246 3300.
Website: www.lesrelaisdeparis.fr
Price: $$
Just a short walk away from Gare du Nord, the 61-room Relais Lafayette could not be much better placed for Eurostar travellers. With RER and Metro connections from Gare du Nord, this unpretentious hotel makes an ideal base. It may be no-frills, but rooms are modern and spotlessly clean. Reception staff is friendly and helpful, dispensing maps to new arrivals, as well as information on tours. The lobby has a public access Internet terminal and wireless access can be arranged in the rooms.
7 rue des Petits Hotels
Tel: (01) 4246 3300.
Website: www.lesrelaisdeparis.fr
Price: $$
Appi Hotel
When you say the location could not get better, expect to get a few strange looks from Parisians as this budget hotel is right in the heart of the red light district. It also happens to be close to most of the main tourist attractions and a Metro stop. The en suite doubles may have the smallest bathrooms in the city, but the bedrooms are clean with some modern art to brighten things up and views out over the human zoo below.
158 rue Saint Denis
Tel: n/a (bookings through the website).
Website: www.appi-hotel-paris.federal-hotel.com/page_en_1.html
Price: $
When you say the location could not get better, expect to get a few strange looks from Parisians as this budget hotel is right in the heart of the red light district. It also happens to be close to most of the main tourist attractions and a Metro stop. The en suite doubles may have the smallest bathrooms in the city, but the bedrooms are clean with some modern art to brighten things up and views out over the human zoo below.
158 rue Saint Denis
Tel: n/a (bookings through the website).
Website: www.appi-hotel-paris.federal-hotel.com/page_en_1.html
Price: $
Other Recommendations
Hôtel Costes
The intimate Hôtel Costes is the place to see and be seen - the Parisian hangout of pop stars, media types and fashionistas. Decor is decadent Napoleon III style and many of the 82 rooms and three ultra-luxurious suites overlook an Italianate interior courtyard. A trendy restaurant follows the fad for Asian-inspired food and there is also a health club, swimming pool and hip bar. Meeting rooms are available for guests and each room is equipped with a fax connection.
239 rue Saint-Honoré, 1st
Tel: (01) 4244 5000.
Website: www.hotelcostes.com
Price: $$$$
The intimate Hôtel Costes is the place to see and be seen - the Parisian hangout of pop stars, media types and fashionistas. Decor is decadent Napoleon III style and many of the 82 rooms and three ultra-luxurious suites overlook an Italianate interior courtyard. A trendy restaurant follows the fad for Asian-inspired food and there is also a health club, swimming pool and hip bar. Meeting rooms are available for guests and each room is equipped with a fax connection.
239 rue Saint-Honoré, 1st
Tel: (01) 4244 5000.
Website: www.hotelcostes.com
Price: $$$$
Murano Urban Resort
Opened in 2004, the Murano Urban Resort created a buzz amongst savvy visitors looking for a funky oasis in the city centre and it is still justifiably popular. As the name suggests, the aim was to create an urban resort with its own swimming pool, spa, trendy bar and a stand-alone restaurant that all tempt guests to spend a night in. Two of the nine suites have their own plunge pools and all of the 43 other rooms share an air of modern luxury with fingerprint access instead of room keys, a choice of lighting schemes and Bang & Olufsen televisions. Other neat touches include toffees laid out over the crisp white sheets at turndown, a ‘sensual eye mask for lovers' and complimentary lollipops.
13 boulevard du Temple, 3rd
Tel: (01) 4271 2000.
Website: www.muranoresort.com
Price: $$$$
Opened in 2004, the Murano Urban Resort created a buzz amongst savvy visitors looking for a funky oasis in the city centre and it is still justifiably popular. As the name suggests, the aim was to create an urban resort with its own swimming pool, spa, trendy bar and a stand-alone restaurant that all tempt guests to spend a night in. Two of the nine suites have their own plunge pools and all of the 43 other rooms share an air of modern luxury with fingerprint access instead of room keys, a choice of lighting schemes and Bang & Olufsen televisions. Other neat touches include toffees laid out over the crisp white sheets at turndown, a ‘sensual eye mask for lovers' and complimentary lollipops.
13 boulevard du Temple, 3rd
Tel: (01) 4271 2000.
Website: www.muranoresort.com
Price: $$$$
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