The Best Hotels In Paris: 20 Palace Hotels And Hideaways

Best for: a three-star dinner and a sixth-floor pool in one stay.

Up on the sixth floor of Le Bristol, the pool is built like the deck of a 1920s yacht. Naval architect Cäsar Pinnau laid it in teak, and the chlorine-free water stays at 28°C. From the water you can see Sacré-Coeur and the Eiffel Tower. Only hotel guests swim here, and the spa is by La Mer.

The hotel opened on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in April 1925, and in June 1940 it housed the American Embassy. In 2011, the hotel says, it became the first luxury hotel in France to receive the Palace distinction. Of its 188 rooms, 100 are suites.

Dinner is Epicure: three Michelin stars under chef Arnaud Faye, in a room that opens onto the hotel's 1,200 m² French garden. It serves Tuesday to Saturday only and the jacket is mandatory, so book ahead and pack one. Its one-star sibling, 114 Faubourg, is temporarily closed.

Best for: a three-star dinner, and a free kids' club.

Cheval Blanc Paris lives inside La Samaritaine, the Art Deco building on the Seine facing the Pont-Neuf. Architect Peter Marino imagined the hotel, and it holds the Palace distinction with just 72 rooms and suites. Ask about the Eiffel Suite, whose balcony hangs over the Seine with the tower in view.

Six Michelin stars are spread across its restaurants. Plénitude has three, run by Arnaud Donckele with pastry chef Maxime Frédéric. Hakuba, under Takuya Watanabe, has two. Le Tout-Paris on the seventh floor has the sixth, looks onto the Seine and keeps going from 7am to 1am.

Plan your nights around the calendar, because Plénitude and Hakuba serve dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday. The Dior Spa has a 30-metre pool, and children get the Carrousel kids' club for free.

Best for: Paris history, and the Bar Hemingway.

The Bar Hemingway at the Ritz Paris opens at 5pm every day and takes no bookings, so arrive early. César Ritz opened the hotel on Place Vendôme on 1 June 1898. The hotel says it was the first in the world with electricity on every floor and private bathrooms.

Coco Chanel lived here for more than twenty years, and Proust, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Maria Callas all stayed. The 218 m² Suite Impériale keeps a listed salon with six-metre ceilings and a bust of Napoleon. At the Ritz Club & Spa, the 16-metre pool lies under a painted sky.

Espadon has held a Michelin star under Eugénie Béziat since March 2024. It serves dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday, and the Ritz Bar also closes on Sundays and Mondays.

Best for: a Place de la Concorde address and Karl Lagerfeld's Grands Appartements.

Karl Lagerfeld reimagined the Grands Appartements at Hôtel de Crillon, a former royal palace on Place de la Concorde. Its Palace distinction was renewed in 2025, and it has 78 rooms, 36 suites and ten Signature suites. Families get Le Petit Crillon, a children's programme, and family suites.

Take a drink at Les Ambassadeurs, whose terrace is under the arcades over the square. Nonos & Comestibles is by Paul Pairet, and the hotel says executive chef Alan Taudon will soon unveil his own restaurant. Sense, the Rosewood spa, has a pool, a sauna and a Himalayan salt wall, and the hotel lists a 2026 World Spa Award for France's Best Hotel Spa.

Best for: an address facing the Tuileries Garden.

Salvador Dalí made Le Meurice his second home, the hotel says, and Philippe Starck's 2007 interiors take their cue from him. It opened in 1835 on rue de Rivoli, between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, and has 121 rooms and 39 suites. The Belle Etoile Penthouse covers 620 m², 300 m² of it terrace, with a view from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower.

Bar 228 has live jazz every night. Cédric Grolet's pâtisserie at 6 rue de Castiglione opens Wednesday to Sunday and sells until it runs out. Restaurant le Meurice Alain Ducasse holds two Michelin stars under chef Amaury Bouhours, but it opens Monday to Friday only and closes for all of August.

Best for: an address on avenue Montaigne.

In 1946 Christian Dior opened his first boutique on avenue Montaigne to catch the guests of Hôtel Plaza Athénée. The hotel had opened on 20 April 1913, and today its spa is Dior too. There are 154 rooms and 54 suites, and the 450 m² Royal Suite has a balcony running the width of the facade towards the Eiffel Tower.

At La Grande Table du Plaza Athénée, the hotel's Michelin-starred restaurant, executive chef Jocelyn Herland cooks recipes up to 250 years old at a Royal Table of pink Breccia marble. It serves dinner Tuesday to Saturday and lunch on Saturday only. Le Relais Plaza, the 1936 Art Deco brasserie, was inspired by the first-class dining room of the SS Normandie.

Best for: a welcome in a Louis XV salon, and lunch or dinner at Le Gabriel, Monday to Friday.

La Réserve has no classic reception. You are welcomed in a Louis XV salon instead, in a Haussmann-style building on avenue Gabriel with trees out front and the Grand Palais and the Concorde obelisk in view. Jacques Garcia did the interiors, and suites outnumber rooms. The 220 m² Grand Palais Suite comes with a wine cellar and a balcony facing the Eiffel Tower.

Le Gabriel has held three Michelin stars under Jérôme Banctel since 2024, but it opens Monday to Friday only. The Nescens spa has a 16-metre indoor pool.

Best for: a two-star rooftop that is open every day.

A three-quarter-scale replica biplane stands in the courtyard of The Peninsula Paris, a nod to the aviators Nungesser and Coli. The hotel opened in 2014 in a century-old building on avenue Kléber, with 200 rooms including 93 suites.

Up top, L'Oiseau Blanc holds two Michelin stars under chef David Bizet, and unlike most of the starred rooms on this list it serves lunch and dinner seven days a week. The hotel bills its spa as the largest hotel spa in Paris, with a 20-metre indoor pool. The open-air rooftop bar is summer only.

Best for: art lovers.

Before its two-year renovation in 2008, Le Royal Monceau handed guests overalls and mallets for a demolition party. It reopened in 2010 after Philippe Starck's makeover. The hotel first opened in 1928 on avenue Hoche, and Josephine Baker was an early guest.

Art runs all through it: a collection of more than 300 works, an art bookshop, a 99-seat cinema and an Art Concierge. Every suite has an acoustic guitar. Il Carpaccio holds a Michelin star and serves Tuesday to Saturday, and the 1,500 m² Raffles spa has a 23-metre pool.

Best for: first-timers who want the Louvre across the street.

Step out of Hotel Regina Louvre and the Louvre is across the street, with the Tuileries stretching out in front. The Baverez family has run the hotel since 1900, and its arcades once housed the riding academy of Antoine de Pluvinel, equerry to Henri III and Henri IV. Of the 98 rooms, 32 are suites, and the Eiffel Tower Suites are named after their view.

On Fridays the oak-panelled English Bar pours three Scotch whiskies and then a cocktail. Dinner is French regional cooking at Chez Suzy. Wellness is a hammam, sauna and gym in more than 70 m², and for a swim the family's Majestic has a 14 by 5 metre pool.

Best for: a starred dinner and a pool in the Madeleine district.

A glass-roofed atrium by the artist Guy de Rougemont is the heart of Le Burgundy, with 41 rooms and 18 suites around it. The hotel first opened in 1850 on rue Duphot, and it says the origin of its name remains a mystery.

Le Baudelaire has held a Michelin star since 2011, with chef Mylo Levin in the kitchen since January 2025. It serves dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday. The 250 m² Susanne Kaufmann spa has a 15-metre pool, and on Tuesday mornings it runs an Aqua Disco class.

Best for: longer stays, with a pool.

More than half the rooms at the Majestic Hotel-Spa have a kitchenette. The Regina's sister is on rue La Pérouse, a 10-minute walk from the Arc de Triomphe, with 57 rooms including 15 suites. The Eiffel Tower Terrace Suite has a private terrace facing the tower.

The 450 m² spa has a 14 by 5 metre pool heated to 29°C, with a counter-current, plus two hammams and a sauna. Restaurant Sibien serves lunch only, Monday to Friday.

Best for: a terrace facing the Eiffel Tower.

Pierre Cardin once had his headquarters at 51-57 rue de Courcelles. L'Hôtel du Collectionneur fills the address now, styled on Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann's hôtel at the 1925 exhibition and on the ocean liners of the 1930s.

Book the 160 m² Eiffel Suite for its 30 m² terrace facing the tower, or a garden-view room over the 800 m² garden. The nearly 450 m² spa centres on an Art Deco pool, with treatments by the Swiss brand Cellcosmet. One thing to know: the hotel is also a big events venue, with 1,800 m² of meeting space for up to 650 people.

Best for: design, a big gym and a pool.

Thousands of art books fill Brach, 7,000 m² in the 16th that Philippe Starck designed from 1930s modernism. Of its 59 rooms and suites, six are suites of 60 to 210 m², each with a terrace and a Norwegian wood hot tub or jacuzzi.

Dinner is Mediterranean, cooked over a 20-metre open-fire kitchen under executive chef Adam Bentalha. The Sports Club takes its cue from 1930s boxing clubs, with a 22-metre pool, a salt cave and Clarins treatments. The rooftop opens from May to September.

Best for: a private hammam in your room.

You reach the hammam at Le Roch through a thin veil of water, and the pool is made of black lava rock. Sarah Lavoine designed all 37 rooms and suites on rue Saint-Roch. Four room types, from the Deluxe Hammam Room up, have a hammam of their own. The spa is by Maison Codage, and from May to September the 60 m² terrace turns into a vegetable garden.

Best for: a short walk to both the Louvre and the Palais Garnier.

Painted clouds drift over the grand staircase at Nolinski, on avenue de l'Opéra. Jean-Louis Deniot designed each of its 45 rooms and suites like a Parisian apartment. The myBlend spa has a 15-metre pool, and at Charbone, with a menu by Evok's executive chef Adam Bentalha, the chateaubriand is flambéed at the table.

Best for: the Left Bank.

The Guerlain spa at Relais Christine is under 13th-century vaults. The hotel has kept the feel of the private residence it once was, with a private flower garden on rue Christine in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and it has been a hotel since 1979. Laura Gonzalez redesigned its 48 rooms and suites. Valet parking, bikes and tandems are free, but an early arrival costs the full nightly rate, so ask before you plan one.

Best for: a private hour a day in the Salon d'Eau.

Maison Souquet opened as a pleasure house in 1905, and two red lanterns still hang at the entrance. Jacques Garcia decorated its 20 rooms and suites, each named after a Belle Époque courtesan. Under a cobalt vault set with gold-leaf stars, the Salon d'Eau holds a 10-metre basin, and each guest gets it privately for an hour a day.

Best for: the Marais, and a late dinner.

Temple & Chapon, with chef Mélanie Serre, is a 1950s New York chophouse under a glass ceiling, and it stays open until 1am. The hotel around it was Sinner and is now Experimental Marais: 43 rooms and suites on rue du Temple, designed by Tristan Auer with the artist Clovis Retif. The spa has a Roman bath and a hammam.

Best for: swimmers.

Molitor has two pools, a 1930s indoor one and a 46-metre outdoor one. It has been a Paris emblem since 1929, and more than 100 street-art exhibits are shown through the hotel. The Clarins spa is billed as Europe's largest hotel spa, and the rooftop opens from May to September only.