The grandest addresses are on the Right Bank, west of the Louvre. Hôtel de Crillon holds the western corner of Ange-Jacques Gabriel's 18th-century façade on the Place de la Concorde, and Le Bristol is 12 minutes' walk away on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Hôtel Madame Rêve is in the old Louvre post office on the Rue du Louvre, in the 1st, between the Louvre and Les Halles, 12 minutes on foot from the Louvre Pyramid. Across the river, the Mandarin Oriental Lutetia stands by Le Bon Marché, 11 minutes from the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés: the Left Bank of bookshops, galleries and cafés. The Marais has two: Le Grand Mazarin, 11 minutes from Notre-Dame, and Le Pavillon de la Reine on the Place des Vosges. The 16th is the residential west: Shangri-La looks across the Seine at the Eiffel Tower, a 13-minute walk, and Hôtel Molitor is at Auteuil by Roland-Garros, 23 minutes by car from Notre-Dame. Le Pigalle is in South Pigalle, in the 9th, at the foot of Montmartre and 12 minutes' walk from the Sacré-Cœur, and Grands Boulevards Experimental is set back from the Boulevard Poissonnière in the 2nd, among theatres and covered passages, 15 minutes from the Opéra.
Eurostar arrives at Gare du Nord, five minutes by taxi from Grands Boulevards Experimental and from Le Pigalle; Métro line 4 runs straight to Les Halles for Madame Rêve and to Saint-Sulpice for the Lutetia, and line 5 to Bréguet-Sabin for the Pavillon de la Reine. From Charles de Gaulle, the RER B takes 25 to 30 minutes into Paris, by way of Gare du Nord and Châtelet-Les Halles, on the €14 airport ticket, and a taxi from the Terminal 2 rank reaches the ten in 33 to 41 minutes with the roads clear, at a flat €56 to the Right Bank or €65 to the Left. Orly is nearer by road to all ten, 21 minutes from the Lutetia and 24 from Molitor, at €36 to the Left Bank and €45 to the Right, and Métro line 14 reaches the centre in about 20 minutes, also for €14.
Within the centre, walk: the Concorde to the Louvre Pyramid is 21 minutes and Saint-Germain-des-Prés to Notre-Dame 18. Eight of the ten have a Métro station within four minutes' walk: Les Halles (line 4) for Madame Rêve, Pigalle (2 and 12) for Le Pigalle, Grands Boulevards (8 and 9) for its namesake, Concorde (1, 8 and 12) for the Crillon, Iéna (9) for Shangri-La, Sèvres-Babylone (10 and 12) for the Lutetia, Hôtel de Ville (1 and 11) for Le Grand Mazarin and Miromesnil (9 and 13) for Le Bristol. The Pavillon de la Reine is five minutes from Chemin Vert (8) and Molitor eight from Porte d'Auteuil (10). A Métro-Train-RER ticket is €2.55, with two hours of changes underground, and buses and trams take a separate €2.05 ticket. Both load on to a €2 Navigo Easy card or a phone; the paper carnet has gone, and a contactless bank card opens the Métro gates only on the way out at Orly. Nobody here needs a car.
Every night carries the city tax, per adult: €15.93 at the four Palaces, which are the Crillon, Le Bristol, Shangri-La and the Lutetia; €11.70 at the five-star Madame Rêve, Le Grand Mazarin, Pavillon de la Reine and Molitor; and €8.45 at the four-star Grands Boulevards Experimental and Le Pigalle. Under-18s pay nothing, and the city has kept the same rates for 2027. VAT is already in the room price; breakfast usually is not, and at Grands Boulevards Experimental it comes only with the bed-and-breakfast rates.
The honest part. Rooms run small: a double at Grands Boulevards Experimental starts at 14 m², and the Classic rooms at the Pavillon de la Reine are about 21 m², under the roof. The fashion weeks are the dates to watch, men's from 19 to 24 January 2027 and women's from 1 to 9 March and 27 September to 5 October, and the Salon de l'Agriculture runs from 27 February to 7 March. Some kitchens close in August: in 2026 the Sunday brunch at the Pavillon de la Reine stopped from 4 to 31 August. The Foreign Office warns that pickpockets work the Métro, the RER and the main stations.
