In 2025, Île-de-France filled 72.9% of its hotel rooms, ahead of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (63.1%) and Corsica (62.0%). Occitanie came last (54.6%). The full regional ranking.
On a Saturday in February 2027, Les Arcs is 4h 56m from Paris by train, Méribel and Courchevel 5h 21m, Font-Romeu 9h 05m. 15 resorts ranked, station by station.
A night for two in a five-star hotel costs €1,044 on average in the United Kingdom, 4.4 times more than in Portugal. Our survey of 15 European countries, with mean and median.
In France, hotel prices rose by 26% between 2019 and 2025, against 16% inflation. Portugal +48%, Spain +46%, EU +37%: the year-by-year and country-by-country breakdown.
In 2025, 78% of French people aged 15 or over went away for at least one night; 11.6 million did not. 85% of trips stay in France, Spain and Italy lead abroad, where hotels host 61% of holidays.
From €27 at the Lutetia's Bar Joséphine to €48 at the Ritz's Bar Hemingway: the price of a glass of champagne taken from the official menus of 12 grand hotel bars in Paris, adjusted to a 10 cl pour.
Paris proper had 87,546 hotel rooms on 1 January 2026, as many as central London. Our comparison of 7 major European cities, with official figures, boundaries and star ratings.
