The Hotel Fouquet's BarriereNew 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 (...)
Standard Design Hotel ParisThe budget boutique has come to Paris. As improbable as it may seem in a city where high prices and high opulence rule the day, the Standard Design Hotel (...)
The Five HotelIt’s never easy to let go of a comfortable old idea. We’ve gone on and on in these pages over the years about what a conservative lot Paris’s hotels (...)
Sofitel Paris Le FaubourgLe 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 (...)
Relais ChristineA 16th-century abbey converted into a small and charmingly traditional boutique hotel would be special enough, were it located somewhere far out in the (...)
Radisson Blu Le Dokhan’S Hotel, Paris TrocaderoIn the crowded and often ostentatious world of Paris hotels, the Radisson SAS Dokhans sets itself apart—the feeling is less grand hotel, more private (...)
Pershing HallPershing Hall is named for the American general John Pershing, who used this nineteenth-century mansion as his headquarters during the First World War. (...)
Park Hyatt Paris - VendomeLeave the tourists to gawk at the ostentatious facade of the Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme. The smart money is on (and presumably in) the Park Hyatt (...)
One By The FiveIt had to come to this, didn’t it? Ever since luxury hotels began to shrink, emphasizing the privacy and exclusivity that only a small hotel can offer, (...)
LUMEN Paris LouvreA 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 (...)
Hospes LancasterThe Hospes Lancaster is Paris’ most sophisticated gem: small and flawless without dazzle. Since this 1889 mansion was converted by hotelier Emile Wolf (...)
Mama ShelterThere’s a widening gap between the picture-book Paris and the real one. As with many great cities, New York and London among them, the center has a (...)
Le Pavillon De La ReineThis 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 (...)
Le General HotelIt’s not just the design, by the Parisian architect Jean-Philippe Nuel, that’s turning heads — this stylish little boutique is garnering notices for (...)
Le BellechasseIt’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 (...)
L'hotel“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 (...)
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