A hotel since 1908, the Crillon is housed in a six-storey former palace on the Place de la Concorde, one block from the Tuileries and Champs-Elysées. The 147 guestrooms and suites retain Louis XV-style furnishings and offer views over Boissy d'Arras Street or one of two inner courtyards. All are equipped with dimmer switches, satellite television, Internet connections, minibars, and complimentary newspapers. Bathrooms include Italian marble baths with separate showers, bathrobes, and slippers. The Michelin-starred Les Ambassadeurs restaurant is situated in a former 18th-century ballroom with views of the Place de la Concorde. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served daily, accompanied by an extensive wine list, and a jacket is required for lunch and dinner. L'Obélisque is a wood-panelled, brasserie-style restaurant offering regional French cooking, open for lunch and dinner. The intimate Piano Bar serves light meals at lunch, and the Winter Garden serves coffee, cocktails, and champagne throughout the day. Set in a quiet inner courtyard, the Patio is open for simple, light lunches from May until September. The Hotel de Crillon has a 24-hour fitness centre, a speciality gift shop, a video and CD library and a business centre with computers, Internet access and secretarial services. The hotel can provide joggers with towels, bottled water, and a special map of the neighbourhood. One block away are the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in the Tuileries Gardens, and the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in the gardens of the Champs-Elysées. The Louvre is four blocks away. Roissy-Charles de Gaulle International Airport is 30 kilometres away and can be reached by car in approximately 40 minutes. The hotel provides an airport shuttle (surcharge) on request.
What's Great Travel + Leisure says...
"Grand Louis XV-commissioned palace on the Place de la Concorde, with the most impressive architecture of the city's top hotels.
Rooms to Book-For Eiffel Tower views, Nos. 409 and 511; No. 431 has a view of the charming Rue Boissy d’Anglas.
Insider Tip-Don't miss the elaborate Sunday brunch in Les Ambassadeurs restaurant.
This Place de la Concorde landmark, built at the direction of King Louis XV in 1758, hasn’t lost its ornate air, despite a 2008 overhaul by French architect Thierry Despont. Flat-screen televisions and high-speed Internet access bring modern touches to suites and salons still filled with gilt, mirrors, and Baccarat crystal, in addition to genuine Aubusson carpets and Wedgwood medallions. Even the entry-level rooms, at 115 square feet, are not unusually large, but have sitting areas and dressing rooms. The Sonia Rykiel–designed Bar du Crillon is nothing short of elegant, with its mirrored mosaics, red velvet–covered chairs, and dripping chandeliers. Request a song at the piano, then sit back on a settee and sip a Duc de Crillon (Armagnac and Taittinger champagne).
Room to Book: Request Nos. 409 or 511 for windows that look out on Place de la Concorde.
Insider Tip: Don’t miss the elaborate Sunday brunch at Les Ambassadeurs—with formal silver service, house-made croissants and preserves, smoked salmon carved to order, baked eggs, and a to-die-for cheese plate."
-From www.travelandleisure.com
Location Located in the prestigious Paris shopping street of Rue de la Paix, Park Hyatt Paris Vendome is a modern hotel with typically Parisian neo-classical white- stone frontage and balconies of wrought iron. Place Vendôme and Place de l'Opéra are within 50 metres of the hotel.
Hotel Features Park Hyatt Paris Vendome's bar has wood-panelled walls with expressionist paintings and serves a variety of cocktails. The hotel spa features gilded cornices, and offers limestone saunas, a whirlpool bath, a relaxation room and a Turkish bath. Coaching sessions are available in the gym, and massage and beauty treatments are available including body scrubs, mud wraps, hot stone, aromatherapy and Shiatsu. Practical amenities include wireless Internet access and a complimentary garage parking.
Bistro-style cuisine is served in beneath the glass-ceiling of the Les Orchidées restaurant and seasonal dishes grilled over Tuscan vine shoots are served in Pur'Grill which has a central show kitchen. Al fresco dining is also available on the patio terrace shaded by olive trees.
Guestrooms Park Hyatt Paris Vendome has 178 guestrooms and suites, over seven floors. Decor combines classic French influences with contemporary design, wood and bronze touches, French sculptures and gold-leaf carved cornices. Floor-to-ceiling windows feature views of Paris streets or the central courtyard. Amenities include air conditioning, high-speed Internet connections (surcharge), CD/DVD players, satellite television and minibars. French limestone bathrooms include baths, stone-enclosed rain showers and under- floor heating.
Expert Tip. Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré is 50 metres from the hotel and is considered to be one of Paris' most fashionable streets due to its exclusive boutiques and designer shops.
What's Great Travel + Leisure says...
"Contemporary 6-story hotel off Place Vendôme, inspired by classic Haussmann-era architecture, with sleek interiors—a rarity among the city's palace hotels.
-From www.travelandleisure.com
Location The opulent Le Meurice hotel is located in the centre of Paris, France, across the street from the Tuileries Gardens, The Louvre museum and the Musee d'Orsay. The hotel is two blocks from Place Vendome and 800 metres from the Avenue des Champs-Elysees.
Hotel Features The lobby in the fashionable Le Meurice hotel has a view of the glass ceiling in the winter garden. Discreet concierge staff can provide information on Paris attractions, and there is a currency exchange and safe at reception. Wireless Internet access is available in public areas.
Restaurant Le Meurice offers classic French cuisine and is decorated by Philippe Starck. Restaurant Le Dali offers traditional dishes, and cocktails are available at Bar 228. Room service is available 24 hours a day.
Le Meurice hotel provides laptops and faxes for use in guestrooms. Four elegant salons are available for meetings.
The hotel's Well-Being Centre offers beauty treatments and massages. Masseuses are specially trained in 'vinotherapy', which uses grape seed extracts. There is also a fitness room, sauna, steam room and spa.
Guestrooms Le Meurice hotel's 160 climate-controlled guestrooms have entry foyers, seating areas, televisions with Internet access, minibars and safes. Marble and mosaic- tiled bathrooms have bathrobes and designer toiletries.
Expert Tip. The concierge can map out a number of unique shopping galleries within a few blocks of the hotel, including the galleries of the Jardin du Palais Royal and Galerie Vivienne.
What's Great Travel + Leisure says...
"Renovated Hotel. Just as we were getting ready to write Philippe Starck off as too nineties for words, he bounces back with a tonic redo of this Paris insitution’s principal public spaces. Starck is not in the habit of having his thunder stolen, but he makes a familial exception here. Covering the famous glass dome in the formerly very buttoned-up Jardin d’Hiver dining room (now the witheringly scene-y Le Dalí) is a heroic canvas painted by his daughter Ara in the manner of Chagall. If you’ve ever questioned the power of design to shake up a hotel’s constituency, stop by for a drink in the bar Le 228: overnight, the crowd has gone from fuddy to fabulous, even if everyone forgets to notice that some of Starck père’s visual jokes are a little stale (by our reckoning, it’s time to take the mirror off the floor and hang it on the wall again). Rather more urgently, someone has to resolve the disconnect between the ironic new common areas and old-school Frenchiness of some of the guest rooms (we’re told all are due for an overhaul)." -From www.travelandleisure.com, It List 2008
Travel + Leisure says... "Philippe Starck’s public-space redo of this Paris institution, adjacent to the picturesque Tuileries gardens—including the bar and three-Michelin-starred restaurant—brought surreal new touches like a refrigerator-cooled mirror that’s literally frosted, and three-legged tables dressed in fancy shoes. All tradition wasn’t cast aside: Italian craftsmen were brought in to restore the lobby’s green-and-white marble floors. Rooms, which were themselves renovated in 1998, are starting to show their age, so modern touches like iPod docks set upon the 18th-century furnishings are welcome. It’s all complemented by lots of gilt, and no less than 100 yards of Rubelli and Branquenié fabrics in each room. For such upscale digs, the Meurice is surprisingly family-friendly, offering plenty of family packages and loaning custom-made boats for sailing in the adjacent Tuileries’ boat pond. Room to Book: The Belle Etoile suite on the seventh floor has a magnificent 3,200-square-foot landscaped terrace. Insider Tip: A jazz duo plays nightly at Bar 228. Stop in for some music and its specialty cocktail, made with pear liquor, pear juice, and champagne." -From www.travelandleisure.com
Steps from the Champs-Elysées, with private terraces that command all Paris; 17th-century tapestries, lovingly restored; and a spirit that lives on in thoroughly reborn, highly advanced spaces, Four Seasons George V Paris redefines luxury service in the City of Lights.
What's Great Travel + Leisure says...
"Ornate 1928 landmark with unbeatable Eiffel Tower views and superb amenities (top-notch spa, Michelin 2-starred restaurant), near the Champs-Élysées.
In an unbeatable location near the Champs-Élysées, this majestic 1928 white-stone hotel redefined elegance when it reopened its doors as a Four Seasons in 1999. Today, it’s tops with couture-clad jet-setters and bons vivants seeking a hushed city retreat with all the modern conveniences. Guests are greeted—and treated—to an eyeful of blooms upon arrival in the marble lobby; expect a sumptuous flurry of Flemish tapestries, crystal chandeliers, 19th-century furniture, and brocade fabrics throughout the public spaces. The 245 spacious rooms (doubles average a spacious 500 square feet) echo the same luxe detailing, and many rooms have private terraces overlooking the courtyard and rooftops beyond. And a heaven-can-wait full-service hotel spa adjoins an indoor pool ringed by a mural of the gardens at Versailles. But it’s chef Eric Brifford—who oversees the hotel’s Michelin two-starred restaurant, Le Cinq—who approaches godliness for his divine creations: fillet of red tuna with caviar from the Sologne region and tangy marinated vegetables, and Manjari chocolate soufflé and black-currant pulp. Lucky are the diners who can float upstairs to their rooms.
Insider Tip: Don’t miss an Australian Sodashi body scrub in the sumptuous beige-hued spa.
Room to Book: Any Duplex Suite is worth the upgrade for space and skyline views. Book the popular Honeymoon Suite, with Eiffel Tower vistas, for the ultimate romantic stay."
-From www.travelandleisure.com
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