This guide brings together fifteen Paris hotels our editorial team has stayed in and rated out of 10, from the palace hotel on avenue Montaigne to the boutique address in the 10th arrondissement. Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements that spiral outwards from the Louvre, and we give the number of each one so you can place the hotel on the map. For every address, on 20 September 2026 we recorded the lowest rate for one night for two people in November in the hotel’s own booking engine, so the choice rests on figures rather than on reputation.
- 🏅 Fifteen addresses tested by our editors · ratings from 7.1 to 9.9 out of 10, awarded after a stay against six criteria.
- 💶 From €147 to €2,200 a night · that is the gap we recorded between the first and the last of these fifteen addresses, for the same night and the same occupancy.
- 🏊 Eleven indoor pools · from 8 metres at Le Grand Mazarin to 30 metres at Cheval Blanc Paris, the facility that separates one address from another the most.
- 📉 Up to 30% swing depending on the date · on the same rooms, Cheval Blanc Paris moves from €3,000 in late September to €2,100 in mid-November, The Peninsula Paris from €2,474 to €1,700.
| Hotel | Neighbourhood | From, per night | La Revue rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Fondation | 17th · Batignolles | €390 | 9.9/10 |
| Le Grand Mazarin | 4th · Le Marais | €635 | 9.6/10 |
| The Peninsula Paris | 16th · Avenue Kléber | €1,700 | 9.5/10 |
| Hôtel Fouquet’s Paris | 8th · Champs-Élysées | €1,200 | 9.5/10 |
| Hôtel Eiffel Blomet | 15th · Vaugirard | €147 | 9.5/10 |
| Hôtel Lutetia | 6th · Saint-Germain-des-Prés | €1,360 | 9.2/10 |
| Cheval Blanc Paris | 1st · Quai du Louvre | €2,100 | 9.0/10 |
| Hôtel Duquesne Eiffel | 7th · Invalides | €210 | 8.9/10 |
| Nolinski Paris | 1st · Avenue de l’Opéra | €620 | 8.8/10 |
| Le Boudoir des Muses | 3rd · Upper Marais | €234 | 8.5/10 |
| Hôtel Plaza Athénée | 8th · Avenue Montaigne | €1,785 | 8.3/10 |
| Bloom House Hôtel & Spa | 10th · Château-Landon | €177 | 8.2/10 |
| Le Bristol Paris | 8th · Faubourg Saint-Honoré | on request | 8.1/10 |
| Hôtel La Fantaisie | 9th · Faubourg Montmartre | €400 | 8.0/10 |
| Ritz Paris | 1st · Place Vendôme | €2,200 | 7.1/10 |
Our method: the lowest rate displayed on 20 September 2026 in each hotel’s own booking engine, for the night of Tuesday 10 to Wednesday 11 November 2026, two people, one room, entry-level category. These rates are mostly prepaid offers, room only, except at Cheval Blanc Paris where breakfast is included. They move a great deal with the date. “On request” marks a house whose official engine quotes by enquiry rather than by the night.
La Fondation, Batignolles (17th)
Tested by LRDH9.9/10Opened in 2025 on rue Legendre, La Fondation occupies 10,000 m² between the parc Monceau and the village des Batignolles, and gathers a 58-key five-star hotel, a sports club and workspaces under one roof. It carries the highest rating in our Paris ranking, 9.9 out of 10. The 25-metre semi-Olympic indoor pool, the sauna, the hammam and the Biologique Recherche protocols make up a wellness offer the city did not have anywhere else on this scale.
The rooms, designed by Roman & Williams, favour raw materials and calm volumes rather than palace-hotel decoration. Three dining rooms share the building, from the ground-floor brasserie to the tenth-floor rooftop open over the skyline. The neighbourhood, residential and lively, sits fifteen minutes from the major museums, and that is precisely what lets the hotel hold its rates below those of the Golden Triangle.
Le Grand Mazarin, Le Marais (4th)
Tested by LRDH9.6/10On rue de la Verrerie, at the corner of rue des Archives, the Maisons Pariente address lines up 54 rooms and 7 suites behind a discreet façade. Our editors give it 9.6 out of 10, the best rating in the Marais. The decoration is the subject here: saturated colours, printed fabrics, antique furniture, right down to the 8-metre indoor pool covered by a fresco by the artist Jacques Merle, one of the few swimming pools in the district.
The wellness floor adds a hammam, a jacuzzi, a treatment room and a gym to the pool, plus an Oh My Cream beauty counter. On the ground floor, Boubalé serves Mediterranean and Levantine cooking that has become a neighbourhood address in its own right, extended in the evening by a bar with a cabaret spirit. The hotel appears in the 2026 MICHELIN Keys selection.
The Peninsula Paris, avenue Kléber (16th)
Tested by LRDH9.5/10A hundred metres from the Arc de Triomphe, the palace hotel on avenue Kléber occupies a 1908 Haussmann building restored over four years. Its 200 keys, 93 of them suites, make it the largest palace hotel in this guide. The house presents its spa as the largest hotel wellness area in the city, with a 20-metre indoor pool, two vitality pools and two jacuzzis.
The gastronomic table L’Oiseau Blanc, two MICHELIN stars under David Bizet, sits on the top floor facing the Eiffel Tower, while Lili serves a Cantonese menu and the Kléber terrace extends the lobby in fine weather. Our rating of 9.5 out of 10 rests first of all on the consistency of the service, a point on which the house holds steady from one season to the next.
Hôtel Fouquet’s, Champs-Élysées (8th)
Tested by LRDH9.5/10Raised to palace status, the Barrière house at 46 avenue George V has been entirely rethought around the brasserie opened in 1899, which remains its heart and its entrance. We give it 9.5 out of 10, the best rating among the Golden Triangle palace hotels. The spa spreads 750 m² over two levels, with a 15-metre heated indoor pool, a sauna, a hammam, an ice room and an ice wall.
The 101 rooms and suites enjoy a dual aspect that is rare on the Champs-Élysées, one side over the avenue, the other over silent inner courtyards. At the table, the historic brasserie sits alongside the restaurant Joy and two bars, including L’Escadrille. This is the address to remember for anyone who wants the most central district of western Paris with a real swimming pool, a combination less common than you might think.
Hôtel Eiffel Blomet, Vaugirard (15th)
Tested by LRDH9.5/10On rue Blomet, on the site of a Roaring Twenties dance hall, the Art Deco house lines up 78 rooms and 9 suites around a 14-metre heated pool covered by a glass roof and dressed in azure mosaic. At the €147 a night we recorded, it is the best value for money in our Paris ranking, rated 9.5 out of 10. A sauna, a hammam and a gym complete the wellness area, open to residents only.
The hotel keeps no restaurant and owns that choice: an honesty bar in the lounge, room service with a menu signed by chef Laurent Azoulay, and the Vaugirard district all around, thick with neighbourhood tables. The Eiffel Tower is a twenty-minute walk away, the Volontaires metro station is two streets away, and the suite with a terrace remains one of the most requested rooms in the house.
Hôtel Lutetia, Saint-Germain (6th)
Tested by LRDH9.2/10Opened in 1910, the great liner of boulevard Raspail remains the only palace hotel on the Left Bank, and it now flies the Mandarin Oriental colours. Our editors rate it 9.2 out of 10, the best rating on the Left Bank. The 700 m² spa holds a 17-metre indoor pool, a hammam, a sauna, a jacuzzi and five treatment rooms, alongside a hair studio signed Christophe-Nicolas Biot.
Bar Joséphine and its restored frescoes remain one of the most photographed rooms in Paris, Brasserie Lutetia plays a classic French menu under Patrick Charvet, and the Salon Saint-Germain adds an Italian menu and an afternoon tea. The upper rooms on the boulevard side look out over the rooftops, a view the Right Bank charges considerably more for.
Cheval Blanc Paris, quai du Louvre (1st)
Tested by LRDH9.0/10Set inside La Samaritaine facing the Pont-Neuf, the palace hotel at 8 quai du Louvre holds only 72 rooms and suites for a building of that size, which gives it exceptional volumes and a view of the Seine from almost every room. No other Paris house gathers six MICHELIN stars under one roof. The Dior Spa Cheval Blanc and its 30-metre pool form the largest hotel pool in the city.
Plénitude, three stars, and the pastry of Maxime Frédéric carry the signature of Arnaud Donckele, joined by Hakuba, two stars, Le Tout-Paris on the roof and Langosteria. Our rating of 9.0 out of 10 salutes that gastronomic density and the view, with a reservation on a rate that stays among the highest in this guide, €2,100 for the night we recorded, breakfast included.
Hôtel Duquesne Eiffel, Invalides (7th)
Tested by LRDH8.9/10On avenue Duquesne, between Les Invalides and the École Militaire, this 40-room house from the Decoeur collection plays a simple and effective card: the Eiffel Tower framed by the window. It is the most affordable address in this guide with a direct view of the monument. Room 55 is the one to ask for, it faces the north pillar.
The wellness area in the basement is booked privately by the hour, a formula that works better than a shared spa for a short stay. The house prepares picnic hampers for the Champ-de-Mars, five minutes away, and leaves dinner to the neighbourhood. The district, quiet in the evening, remains one of the best served on the Left Bank for a first stay in Paris.
Nolinski Paris, avenue de l’Opéra (1st)
Tested by LRDH8.8/10The first house of the Evok collection, opened in 2016 at 16 avenue de l’Opéra, the Nolinski counts 45 keys spread over six floors, three minutes from the Louvre and the Palais-Royal. It holds the most central location in this guide. The myBlend spa occupies the basement with a 15-metre indoor pool open from 7am to 11pm, a sauna, a hammam and treatment rooms.
The restaurant Charbone, led by chef Adam Bentalha, serves seasonal French cooking, extended by the Grand Salon and its pastry menu signed Fabien Emery. Our rating of 8.8 out of 10 rewards a five-star hotel that plays the town house rather than the palace, with compact rooms that are perfectly soundproofed on a busy avenue.
Le Boudoir des Muses, Le Marais (3rd)
Tested by LRDH8.5/10On rue de Saintonge, in the heart of the upper Marais, this 28-key house with four suites and a 72 m² loft cultivates the look of an artist’s studio, furnished piece by piece. It is the smallest property in this guide, and the most personal. Its signature lies in two private bath salons hired in 90-minute sessions, Vénus with a jacuzzi and a sauna, Hédoné with a pool and a hammam under stone vaults.
That formula changes everything compared with a classic hotel spa: the space is yours alone, and residents get a reduced rate. The house serves a cocktail bar and a breakfast that runs until late morning, and leaves dining to a district where street-level tables run into the dozens within five minutes.
Plaza Athénée, avenue Montaigne (8th)
Recommended8.3/10At 25 avenue Montaigne since 1913, the Dorchester Collection palace hotel remains the address of Paris couture, between Dior, Chanel and the Seine. Its 208 rooms and suites make it the largest house on the avenue, and the entry rate we recorded, €1,785, places it below the Ritz and Cheval Blanc. The Dior Spa and its fitness studio occupy the first floor, where wellness is a matter of treatments rather than swimming, worth knowing before you book if a pool counts in your choice.
La Grande Table du Plaza Athénée holds a MICHELIN star under executive chef Jocelyn Herland, with desserts by Angelo Musa, and La Cour Jardin opens its terrace in fine weather under the Virginia creeper. Le Relais Plaza, an Art Deco room from 1936, remains the most sought-after lunch table in the district, bookable independently of a stay.
Bloom House, Château-Landon (10th)
Tested by LRDH8.2/10On rue du Château Landon, between the Gare de l’Est and the Gare du Nord, this 90-room house offers what Paris four-star hotels rarely propose: an 18-metre indoor pool under a glass roof. At the €177 a night we recorded, it is the lowest entry rate in this guide for an address with a swimming pool. The Bloomy Spa adds a sauna, a hammam and two treatment rooms, one of them a double.
The restaurant Bloom Garden, under chef Olivier Streiff, serves a Mediterranean menu at lunch and dinner, and the house appears in the MICHELIN Guide hotel selection. The district is lively rather than chic, and that is exactly what explains the rate gap with the central addresses, twenty minutes by metro from the same museums.
Le Bristol, Faubourg Saint-Honoré (8th)
Tested by LRDH8.1/10The first French property to receive the palace distinction, the Oetker Collection house lines up 188 keys including 100 suites around a 1,200 m² French formal garden found nowhere else in the 8th arrondissement. The sixth-floor pool, designed like a ship’s deck, opens onto the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur. The spa carries the La Mer signature.
Epicure, three MICHELIN stars, and 114 Faubourg, one star, are led by chef Arnaud Faye, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, and Café Antonia serves all day. Our rating of 8.1 out of 10 reflects service of rare consistency, with a reservation on rate visibility: it is the one house in this guide whose official engine quotes by request rather than by the night. Its Offers page does price packages, from €1,272 per stay.
Hôtel La Fantaisie, rue Cadet (9th)
Tested by LRDH8.0/10On rue Cadet, the Leitmotiv group house counts 63 rooms and 10 suites, and its open-ground garden is a rarity at this address in the 9th arrondissement. Martin Brudnizki’s decoration installs a joyful rather than solemn kind of luxury. The basement spa gathers an indoor pool, hot and cold baths, a flotation bath, a hammam, an infrared sauna and a Holidermie boutique.
The house restaurant, the café bar and the rooftop bar, open onto the Sacré-Cœur, share the rhythm of the day. Our rating of 8.0 out of 10 owes as much to the mood of the place as to the comfort: you come back for the atmosphere, in a lively shopping district, ten minutes on foot from the Grands Boulevards and the department stores.
Ritz Paris, place Vendôme (1st)
Tested by LRDH7.1/10On place Vendôme since 1898, the Ritz remains the best-known name in Paris hotel keeping, with 142 keys and a spa installed at number 17 on the square, around a 16-metre indoor pool. It is the only palace hotel in this guide to publish its rates day by day on its own site. That public calendar lets you spot the quiet dates several months ahead, which no other house makes possible.
L’Espadon holds a MICHELIN star under chef Eugénie Béziat, Bar Hemingway remains a cocktail institution, and Salon Proust serves one of the most requested afternoon teas in the city. Our rating of 7.1 out of 10 is the most demanding in this guide: it reflects value for money that trails the field, at the highest entry rate in our survey, €2,200 a night.
Which address for which trip
- The best value for money · Hôtel Eiffel Blomet, rated 9.5 out of 10, recorded at €147 a night with its 14-metre heated pool under a glass roof. Bloom House follows at €177, with 8.2 out of 10 and an 18-metre pool.
- For a first trip to Paris · the Nolinski, three minutes from the Louvre and the Palais-Royal, recorded at €620. On a tighter budget, Hôtel Duquesne Eiffel, between Les Invalides and the Champ-de-Mars, at €210.
- For a starred dinner without going out · Cheval Blanc Paris and its six MICHELIN stars gathered under one roof, led by Plénitude. Le Bristol follows with Epicure, three stars, and 114 Faubourg.
- For a pool and a spa · La Fondation and its 25-metre semi-Olympic pool, the most complete in the city, ahead of the 30 metres at the Dior Spa Cheval Blanc and the 20 metres at The Peninsula.
- For a view of a monument · Hôtel Duquesne Eiffel, whose room 55 faces the Eiffel Tower, and La Fantaisie, whose rooftop bar opens onto the Sacré-Cœur.
What to know before you book
- 🏛️ What the palace title covers · it is an official French distinction, awarded by Atout France above the five-star classification and reviewed periodically. It judges the location, the history of the building, the quality of the public areas and of the service. Around thirty properties hold it in France, five of which appear in this guide.
- 📅 When rates fall during the year · we compared two readings on the same rooms: Cheval Blanc Paris moves from €3,000 in late September to €2,100 in mid-November, The Peninsula Paris from €2,474 to €1,700, the Ritz from €2,700 to €2,200. The quiet spells fall in January and February outside Fashion Week, in the second half of July, in August and in the first half of December. The peaks land on the two Fashion Weeks, in late February and late September, on the big trade fairs and between Christmas and New Year.
- 📍 Neighbourhoods we suggest · the 1st and 2nd arrondissements to walk to the Louvre and the Opéra, the 6th and 7th for a quiet first stay, the 3rd and 4th for evenings in the Marais, the 9th, 10th and 15th for a contained budget with the same metro access.
- 🛏️ Booking direct · the houses in this guide apply a best-rate guarantee on their own sites, and keep upgrades and complimentary breakfasts for it. The “official site” link on each card leads straight there.
Travelling with children or with your dog? Le Bristol features in both our family hotels guide and our dog-friendly luxury hotels guide, along with the Crillon and the Versailles addresses.
