Paris,graded.
88 hotels, each written up in full and given a grade out of ten by the editor. These are the ten at the top.
Nos. 11 to 89
The rest of Paris, as the editor graded it on 29 October 2026. Equal grades stand in the editor's order. The Edit score is the editor's grade for the level of the hotel, out of ten. It weighs what the outside judges say (Michelin Keys, Forbes Travel Guide, World's 50 Best Hotels, Atout France palace status, La Liste), what changed in the last two years and what guests write now; where these and the editor's own judgement disagree, the editor decides. A spa with a pool worth booking for adds up to two tenths.
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The Paris hotels
88hotels
Arranged quarter by quarter, in the editors' sequence: an order for browsing, not a ranking.
Louvre, Vendôme & Concorde17 hotels
The historic heart of the Right Bank: the Tuileries, Place Vendôme, the Palais-Royal and the Seine at the Pont Neuf.
9.0Place Vendôme
Ritz Paris
Nearly all of the Ritz can be had without a room: the bars, the tea, even the pool by the day, and in 2018 its old furniture, by the lot. A room buys the one thing never sold by the piece: the night.
9.7Quai du Louvre
Cheval Blanc Paris
La Samaritaine’s riverside wing made into a Paris palace: 72 rooms and suites, three Michelin-starred restaurants and a pool beneath the street.
7.7Rue Saint-Honoré
Hôtel Costes
The hotel whose soundtrack and scent people take home, and the rooms upstairs from where they began.
8.3Rue du Louvre
Hôtel Madame Rêve
Eighty-three rooms and suites above the old Poste du Louvre, where the post office, a driving-test centre and a police station still work downstairs.
9.5Place de la Concorde
Hôtel de Crillon
Behind Gabriel's colonnade on the Place de la Concorde, a Paris palace restored to its grandeur and made easy to live in: a bar under a painted sky, a winter garden of amethyst, rooms finished like furniture.
8.2Rue du Mont-Thabor
Maison Barrière Vendôme
Twenty-six rooms and apartments on rue du Mont-Thabor, each dedicated to a woman, between Place Vendôme and the Tuileries.
8.7Rue de Rivoli
Le Meurice
A palace of 160 rooms on the rue de Rivoli, across from the Tuileries: the one that sells its view below suite level, and serves fruit that turns out to be pastry.
8.3Place Vendôme
1 Place Vendôme
Five rooms and ten suites above the Chopard boutique, in an eighteenth-century house on Place Vendôme, owned and run by the Scheufele family.
7.9Rue Saint-Roch
Le Roch Hôtel & Spa
Thirty-seven rooms and suites on rue Saint-Roch in the 1st, dressed by Sarah Lavoine in five palettes, with a library fire, a planted patio and a black lava-stone pool.
8.6Rue de la Paix
Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme
Five Haussmann buildings on the rue de la Paix, joined in 2002 into a hotel of limestone, mahogany and bronze that rewards the hand more than the eye.
8.6Rue Saint-Honoré
Mandarin Oriental, Paris
A hundred and thirty-five rooms and suites on rue Saint-Honoré, around a courtyard garden, with a fourteen-metre pool for guests and a renovation under way from late October 2026.
8.5Rue de Valois
Palais Royal
Fifty-nine rooms and suites in an eighteenth-century building on rue de Valois, beside the Palais-Royal, with a café terrace on Place de Valois and suites on the roof.
7.8Rue de la Paix
Hôtel Westminster
One hundred and two rooms and suites at 13 rue de la Paix, between Place Vendôme and the Opéra, with an English bar on the ground floor and a gym under the roof.
7.7Rue du Pont-Neuf
Maison Albar Le Pont-Neuf
Sixty rooms and suites on rue du Pont-Neuf in the 1st, behind an 1866 façade that once fronted the offices of Céline, with a pool under a light well and one room on the roof.
7.8Place des Pyramides
Hôtel Regina Louvre
Ninety-eight rooms and suites on place des Pyramides, opposite the Louvre and the Tuileries, in an apartment building turned into a hotel for the Exposition Universelle of 1900.
8.4Rue Saint-Roch
Château Voltaire
Thirty-one rooms and one suite on rue Saint-Roch in the 1st, in the former Zadig & Voltaire headquarters, with a brasserie, a cocktail bar and a small pool below ground.
8.0Place André-Malraux
Hôtel du Louvre
A hundred and sixty-four rooms and suites facing the Louvre, at the foot of avenue de l'Opéra, where Pissarro painted the street from his window.
Opéra & Madeleine9 hotels
The Palais Garnier, the department stores of the boulevard Haussmann and the Madeleine: shopping by day, the opera at night.
7.7Place de l'Opéra
InterContinental Paris Le Grand
The Grand Hôtel of 1862, across the square from the Palais Garnier: a big, classical hotel built for going out into Paris and coming back again.
8.6Avenue de l'Opéra
Nolinski Paris
Forty-five rooms and suites on avenue de l'Opéra, dressed by Jean-Louis Deniot as a Paris apartment, with a pool beneath and Pyramides métro at the door.
8.2Rue Duphot
Le Burgundy
Fifty-nine rooms and suites on rue Duphot, between the Madeleine and Place Vendôme, with a courtyard, a glass-roofed atrium and a pool below.
8.2Place de la Madeleine
Fauchon L’Hôtel Paris
Fifty-four rooms and suites in two Haussmann buildings on Place de la Madeleine, with a Gourmet Bar in every room and a café terrace facing the church.
7.9Boulevard des Capucines
Kimpton St Honoré Paris
One hundred and forty-nine rooms and suites on the boulevard des Capucines, in the 1917 Samaritaine de Luxe, with a Californian restaurant below and a bar on the tenth floor.
7.9Rue Scribe
Sofitel Le Scribe Paris Opéra
Two hundred and one rooms and suites at 1 rue Scribe in the 9th, in an 1863 building of the Opéra quarter, with a restaurant under a glass roof and a weekday café on the street.
8.0Rue d'Anjou
Maison Delano
Fifty-six rooms and suites in an eighteenth-century mansion on rue d'Anjou, a few steps from the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, around a courtyard restaurant.
8.3Rue du Quatre-Septembre
Hotel Hana
Twenty-six rooms on rue du Quatre-Septembre, between the Opéra and the Japanese quarter, with Hanabi downstairs and a small pool below.
8.0Boulevard Malesherbes
Hyatt Paris Madeleine
Eighty-five rooms and suites at 24 boulevard Malesherbes in the 8th, in a bankers' house of 1860 that became serviced apartments in 1927 and kept the glass roof it gained then.
Faubourg Saint-Honoré5 hotels
The rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and the side streets around the Élysée: fashion houses, embassies and gardens behind high walls.
9.6Faubourg Saint-Honoré
Le Bristol
A family-owned house of 1925 on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, built around a French garden and run by staff who seem glad you came.
8.2Rue du Cirque
Hôtel Splendide Royal Paris
Twelve suites in an 1897 town house on rue du Cirque, between the Faubourg Saint-Honoré and avenue Gabriel, run by the Italian Naldi family with an Italian restaurant, Tosca, on the ground floor.
9.6Avenue Gabriel
La Réserve Paris
Forty keys in a nineteenth-century mansion off the Champs-Élysées, a three-star dining room of fewer than ten tables, and very few other guests to share any of it.
7.9Rue Boissy d'Anglas
Sofitel Paris Le Faubourg
An eighteenth-century house on rue Boissy d'Anglas, between Place de la Concorde and the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, with fashion photographs on the walls and a glass roof over the lobby.
8.1Rue d'Aguesseau
Les Jardins du Faubourg
Thirty-six rooms and suites on rue d'Aguesseau in the 8th, split between a Haussmann house on the street and a modern wing across a planted courtyard, with a Shiseido spa below.
Golden Triangle10 hotels
Avenue Montaigne, avenue George V and the Champs-Élysées. Fashion houses, grand palaces and the city's highest prices.
9.0Avenue Montaigne
Plaza Athénée
Behind the famous red awnings, a palace the city treats as its own meeting place.
8.5Rue François 1er
Grand Powers
Fifty rooms and suites on the corner of rue François-Ier and rue Pierre-Charron, a hotel since 1920, with a café terrace and a marble spa below.
9.4Avenue George V
Bvlgari Hotel Paris
The Roman jeweller's Italian house on the avenue George V, the same in Paris as in Milan, and deliberately so.
9.5Avenue George V
Four Seasons Hotel George V
A 1928 house in the Golden Triangle, with flowers remade every month, three restaurants around a marble courtyard and 243 renewed rooms and suites.
9.0Rue Jean Goujon
Maison Villeroy
Eleven rooms, suites and apartments in a listed mansion on rue Jean Goujon, a street from avenue Montaigne, with butlers around the clock.
8.0Rue de Marignan
Hôtel Marignan Champs-Élysées
Fifty rooms and suites on rue de Marignan in the 8th, an eighteenth-century house redesigned in 2012 by Pierre Yovanovitch, with terraces facing the Eiffel Tower on the top floors.
8.0Avenue George V
Prince de Galles
On the avenue George V, an Art Deco hotel of 1929 built around a mosaic courtyard, lighter and less formal than its neighbour.
8.0Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie
Hôtel de Sers
Fifty-two rooms and suites on avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie in the 8th, in a mansion built in 1880 for the Marquis de Sers and reworked in 2025 by Pascal Allaman.
8.2Rue Jean-Goujon
Hôtel San Régis
Forty-two rooms and suites in an 1857 private house on rue Jean-Goujon in the 8th, a hotel since 1923 and run by the Georges family since 1984.
8.9Champs-Élysées
Fouquet's Paris
Behind the red awnings of the most famous brasserie in Paris, a Garcia hotel built around quiet courtyards.
Champs-Élysées & Étoile15 hotels
North of the Champs-Élysées, up to the Arc de Triomphe and the Parc Monceau: quieter streets a few minutes from the avenue.
8.1Rue Vernet
Hôtel Vernet
Fifty rooms and suites on rue Vernet in the 8th, a hotel since 1913, with a restaurant beneath a glass roof and a bar beneath a painted ceiling.
9.0Avenue Hoche
Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris
A hotel of 1928 on avenue Hoche, near the Étoile, refitted by Philippe Starck in 2010: rooms supplied with books, art and an acoustic guitar, a 99-seat cinema, an art concierge, Il Carpaccio, Matsuhisa and a 1,500 m² spa around a 23-metre pool.
7.7Rue de Courcelles
Hôtel du Collectionneur
Four hundred and ninety-seven rooms and suites on rue de Courcelles in the 8th, styled on the 1930s liners, with an 800 m² garden and a spa with an indoor pool.
7.7Avenue des Champs-Élysées
Paris Marriott Champs-Élysées
192 rooms and suites behind the listed 1914 front of the former Vuitton building at 70 avenue des Champs-Élysées, rebuilt around a glass-domed atrium and redesigned by Muza Lab in 2026.
8.3Rue Washington
Monsieur George
Forty-six rooms and suites on rue Washington, a minute from the Champs-Élysées, dressed by Anouska Hempel in green velvet below and ivory under the roof.
7.9Avenue Marceau
InterContinental Paris Champs-Élysées Étoile
Fifty-five rooms and suites in three historic buildings on avenue Marceau in the 8th, gathered around a courtyard, with painted ceilings upstairs and a glass-roofed Nikkei restaurant below.
8.3Rue Vernet
Château des Fleurs
Thirty-seven rooms on rue Vernet, a minute from the Champs-Élysées, named after a nineteenth-century pleasure garden and dressed by Quintana Partners of Barcelona.
7.9Rue de Berri
Hôtel de Berri
Seventy-five rooms and suites on rue de Berri in the 8th, behind a preserved 54-metre office façade, where Elsa Schiaparelli once lived and a 3,000 m² garden still grows.
7.9Rue de Berri
Hôtel Lancaster Paris
A private mansion off the Champs-Élysées, a hotel since 1925, with fifty-odd rooms and suites, a planted patio and a private spa on the top floor.
8.1Avenue Victor-Hugo
Hôtel L'Aventure
Fifteen rooms and suites over five floors of an 1870 Haussmann building at the top of avenue Victor-Hugo, above the Costes family's restaurant and a members' club.
8.3Rue Balzac
Norman Hôtel Paris
Thirty-seven rooms and suites at the corner of rue Balzac and rue Châteaubriand, designed by Thomas Vidalenc in homage to the Yale graphic designer Norman Ives, with Thiou’s Thai restaurant on the ground floor.
8.1Rue Kepler
Hôtel Keppler
Forty-seven rooms and suites in a Haussmann building on rue Kepler in the 16th, with a glass-roofed lounge, a library bar and, below ground, a pool and jacuzzi.
7.6Rue Beaujon
Sofitel Paris Arc de Triomphe
One hundred and twenty-four rooms and suites behind a Haussmann façade on rue Beaujon in the 8th, redesigned by Studio Putman in 2013, a short walk from the Arc de Triomphe.
7.9Avenue de Friedland
Hôtel Napoléon
Ninety-six rooms and suites on the avenue de Friedland, two minutes on foot from the Arc de Triomphe, in a 1928 building furnished in honour of Napoleon.
8.4Rue Balzac
Hôtel Balzac
Fifty-eight rooms and suites on rue Balzac, a minute from the Champs-Élysées, with Pierre Gagnaire's restaurant through a door in the lobby.
Trocadéro & the West7 hotels
Quiet, residential and grand, with the Eiffel Tower across the river. A taxi ride from the centre.
9.1Avenue Kléber
The Peninsula Paris
On the avenue Kléber, a restored Belle Époque palace run on the Peninsula's Hong Kong idea of service.
8.0Rue Nungesser et Coli
Molitor
A hundred and twenty-four rooms and suites in the 16th, built around a 46-metre outdoor pool and a 33-metre indoor one, shared with a private sports club beside Roland-Garros.
8.4Rue Jean Richepin
Brach Paris
Fifty-nine rooms and suites in a former postal sorting centre in Passy, by Philippe Starck, with a sports club below and a kitchen garden on the roof.
7.9Rue La Pérouse
Majestic Hôtel-Spa
A smaller house on rue La Pérouse in the 16th, run by the family that once ran the grand hotel opposite, with kitchens in many of its rooms and a pool below street level.
9.2Avenue Bugeaud
Saint James Paris
A château of 1892 in its own garden, run as a private club whose hotel guests become members for as long as they stay.
7.8Avenue Kléber
Sofitel Paris Baltimore Tour Eiffel
An 1892 private house on avenue Kléber in the 16th, a hotel since the 1920s, where the tower is sold by room category rather than by address.
9.0Avenue d'Iéna
Shangri-La Paris
One hundred rooms and suites in Prince Roland Bonaparte's listed house on the avenue d'Iéna, where the Eiffel Tower comes with named categories only.
Left Bank11 hotels
Saint-Germain, galleries, bookshops and the Jardin du Luxembourg. Smaller hotels, longer lunches.
8.8Boulevard Raspail
Mandarin Oriental Lutetia
The Left Bank's grand hotel, across the square from Le Bon Marché, where the bar and the brasserie belong to the neighbourhood.
8.4Rue Christine
Relais Christine
A small, quiet house in Saint-Germain whose courtyard, lounges and neighbouring kitchens serve every guest, and whose garden is closed to all but four rooms.
7.9Rue des Beaux-Arts
L'Hôtel
Twenty rooms dressed by Jacques Garcia around a spiral staircase, on a quiet street of galleries by the Seine.
8.9Rue de Lille
J.K. Place Paris
Twenty-nine rooms on the rue de Lille, furnished like a collector's house and run with Italian warmth.
8.3Rue Dauphine
Hôtel d'Aubusson
Forty-four rooms and suites in a 17th-century house on rue Dauphine, a few steps from the Pont Neuf, with a planted courtyard, a jazz bar and a 20-metre pool.
8.5Avenue de Saxe
SAX Paris
One hundred and eighteen rooms and suites on avenue de Saxe in the 7th, in the former Ségur telephone exchange, with a planted courtyard pool, an all-day restaurant and a Japanese restaurant on the roof.
8.2Boulevard de La Tour-Maubourg
Le Narcisse Blanc
Thirty-seven rooms and suites behind a Haussmann façade on boulevard de La Tour-Maubourg, with a restaurant, a small bar and a pool below ground.
8.0Rue de Montalembert
Hôtel Montalembert
Fifty rooms and suites on rue de Montalembert in the 7th, in a house opened in 1926, furnished by Christian Liaigre in 1990 and given colour again for its ninetieth year.
7.9Rue Saint-Sulpice
Esprit Saint Germain
A small Left Bank house where the drinks by the fire are on the house and the neighbourhood does the rest.
7.6Rue de Montalembert
Hôtel Pont Royal
Seventy-five rooms and suites on rue de Montalembert, a few steps from rue du Bac, with a cocktail bar, a library lounge for jazz and L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon beside the lobby.
8.6Rue de Buci
Villa-des-Prés
Thirty-four rooms, suites and apartments in a 1911 building on rue de Buci, with a bar and patio on the ground floor and a pool one floor below.
The Marais8 hotels
Seventeenth-century mansions around the Place des Vosges, the best food shopping in Paris and lively evenings.
8.1Place des Vosges
Le Pavillon de la Reine
Behind the Place des Vosges, an ivy-covered house with a garden courtyard, a starred restaurant and somewhere quiet to return to.
7.8Rue Agrippa d'Aubigné
SO/ Paris
A hundred and sixty-two rooms and suites in a converted 1960s administrative tower on the Seine in the 4th, with a public restaurant, bar and club on the top two floors.
8.4Rue du Bourg-l'Abbé
Les Bains
Thirty-nine rooms and suites in the old Bains Douches on rue du Bourg-l'Abbé, a bathhouse from 1885 and a club from 1978, with the club still downstairs.
8.0Rue Bréguet
Maison Bréguet
Fifty rooms and suites on rue Bréguet in the 11th, in a former laundry-machinery factory turned hotel in 2017, with a glass-roofed restaurant at its centre and a counter-current pool below.
8.7Rue de la Verrerie
Le Grand Mazarin
A Marais hotel made for a few days off: a painted pool, rooms full of colour and a restaurant that turns into a party.
7.8Place des Vosges
Cour des Vosges
Twelve rooms in one of the original houses of the Place des Vosges, with the square's garden outside every window.
8.4Rue de Picardie
Maison Proust
Twenty-three rooms and suites on rue de Picardie, opposite the Carreau du Temple, each dressed for a guest at Proust's imaginary dinner party.
7.7Rue du Temple
Experimental Marais
Forty-three rooms on rue du Temple in the Haut Marais, the former Sinner, reworked in 2025 by the designer who created it.
Pigalle & Montmartre6 hotels
South Pigalle's bars, the slopes of Montmartre and the Batignolles beyond: smaller hotels, later evenings, a village feel.
7.8Avenue Junot
Hôtel Particulier Montmartre
Five suites in a Directoire-style house behind a gate off avenue Junot, set in a garden by Louis Benech, with a restaurant and a cocktail bar that bring Paris in.
8.4Rue de Bruxelles
Maison Souquet
Twenty rooms and suites on rue de Bruxelles in the 9th, dressed by Jacques Garcia as the Belle Époque house of the hotel's own legend, with three salons and a pool below.
7.9Rue Legendre
La Fondation
Fifty-eight rooms and suites on rue Legendre in the 17th, in a 1960s office block joined to an old car park, with a sports club below and a bar on the roof.
8.2Rue Ballu
Le Ballu
Two townhouses on rue Ballu in the 9th, joined by their architect-owners into a hotel that borrows from Tintin's Syldavia, with a garden restaurant at ground level and a small pool below.
8.2Rue Cadet
La Fantaisie
Seventy-three rooms and suites around a hidden garden on rue Cadet, a market street in the 9th arrondissement, with baths below and a bar on the roof.
8.0Rue Pierre-Fontaine
Bus Palladium
Thirty-five rooms and suites on rue Pierre-Fontaine in the 9th, stacked above the club that has carried the name since 1965 and a restaurant built around a wall of records.
More Paris hotels are being written. Each appears here once its page is complete.
The city
The city that invented
the grand hotel.
Paris has more great hotels than any other city, and more ways to choose badly. Since 2011, France has awarded the Palace distinction to the very best of its five-star hotels, judged on history, service, setting and the quality of everything from the linen to the kitchens. In 2026, thirteen hotels in Paris hold it: Le Bristol, the Crillon, the George V, Le Meurice, the Plaza Athénée, La Réserve, the Lutetia, the Peninsula, the Royal Monceau, the Shangri-La, and, new this year, Cheval Blanc, the Bvlgari and Fouquet's.
The Palace label tells you a great deal, but not everything. The Ritz, the most famous hotel in Paris, does not hold it, and some of the most memorable stays in the city are in houses of twelve or twenty rooms with no pool and no restaurant. So we are building this guide hotel by hotel, and we will tell you the room to ask for, and the room to avoid, as each one is reviewed.