Best Hotels in
Paris

A discreet gem tucked behind a vine-covered courtyard off Place des Vosges. The rooms blend dark wood beams with contemporary textiles, and the spa feels like a secret known only to insiders. The most romantically Parisian hotel in the city.

• Couples
• Boutique lovers
• Le Marais

The crimson awnings on Avenue Montaigne are a Paris icon. Inside, it's all Alain Ducasse dining, a Dior spa, and suites where the Eiffel Tower fills the window like a painting. Unapologetically palatial.

• Ultra-luxury
• Eiffel Tower views
• Haute couture

An 18th-century townhouse reimagined as a rooftop-bar-first social hotel. The rooms are compact but clever — toile wallpaper meets Hay furniture — and the Italian restaurant downstairs packs out nightly. Proof Paris can do cool without being cold.

• Social scene
• Design lovers
• Rooftop bar

Christian Lacroix turned a former bakery into 17 rooms of maximalist theatre. Every room is different — toile meets pop art, stripes clash with florals — yet somehow it all coheres into something deeply, joyfully Parisian.

• Boutique
• Design-forward
• Le Marais

A tranquil left-bank retreat steps from the Jardin des Plantes. The rooms are dressed in sage greens and creamy stone, the breakfast courtyard is an Instagram trap, and the neighbourhood feels like the Paris of Hemingway's memoirs.

• Quiet luxury
• Latin Quarter
• Book lovers

The chicest hostel-hotel hybrid in Paris. Private rooms with en-suite bathrooms, a massive ground-floor café-bar, and a rooftop terrace overlooking Buttes-Chaumont. Budget travel with zero compromise on style.

• Budget
• Solo travelers
• Social

A family-friendly base in the 9th with interconnecting rooms, cribs on request, and a location that puts you 10 minutes from Galeries Lafayette and the Opéra. The rooms are modern and uncluttered — exactly what families need after a long day.

• Families
• Opéra district
• Value

Napoleon's grand-nephew's former palace, now a hotel with the single best Eiffel Tower view in Paris — framed by every window on the river side. The Cantonese restaurant is the best Asian dining in the city, and the spa is a marble temple.

• Eiffel Tower views
• Ultra-luxury
• Families

The budget secret of Le Marais. Modest rooms but an unbeatable location on one of Paris's prettiest squares, with a breakfast room that feels like a grandmother's dining room. Book months ahead — regulars hoard this place.

• Budget
• Le Marais
• Charm

A Haussmannian mansion reborn as a 40-suite sanctuary, each room decorated like a private apartment with Carrara marble, Goyard trunks, and silk wall panels. The library-bar serves the best cocktails in the 8th. Discretion is the currency here.

• Ultra-luxury
• Privacy
• Design

A design-centric hotel in the Upper Marais where the rooms are deliberately pared back — concrete, brass, linen — but the rooftop restaurant overlooking Paris's zinc roofscapes is pure theatre. One of the best hotel restaurants in the city.

• Design lovers
• Rooftop dining
• Upper Marais

A pocket-sized left-bank hotel where every surface drips with character — exposed stone walls, antique mirrors, velvet headboards. Steps from Café de Flore, the Luxembourg Gardens, and some of the best bookshops in the world.

• Couples
• Saint-Germain
• Literary Paris