Five-star Marais hotels at much the same rate, one lively, one quiet. Le Grand Mazarin, from about €525, if you want Martin Brudnizki's tapestry-canopied rooms, a mosaic pool and DJs from Thursday to Saturday; Le Pavillon de la Reine, from about €550, if you would rather have a house set back across a courtyard garden behind the Place des Vosges, with a hammam, a jacuzzi and a starred dinner at Anne.
The design oneMartin Brudnizki's maximalist Marais hotel: tapestry canopies over the beds, and a mosaic pool under a painted vault downstairs.
€€From about €525 a night
Choose Le Grand Mazarin if
The catch
The entry Classic Room is 20 m², and the space starts at the Prestige Room.
The romantic oneThrough the 17th-century Place des Vosges arcade and across a cobbled courtyard garden to a house green with creeper from late spring to autumn, with a MICHELIN-starred table inside.
€€From about €550 a night
Choose Le Pavillon de la Reine if
The catch
Entry rooms are small: the Classic is an attic room of about 21 m² on the top floor, and the Superior is 22 m².
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The verdict
Five-star Marais hotels at much the same rate, one lively, one quiet. Le Grand Mazarin, from about €525, if you want Martin Brudnizki's tapestry-canopied rooms, a mosaic pool and DJs from Thursday to Saturday; Le Pavillon de la Reine, from about €550, if you would rather have a house set back across a courtyard garden behind the Place des Vosges, with a hammam, a jacuzzi and a starred dinner at Anne.
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Five-star Marais hotels at much the same rate, one lively, one quiet. Le Grand Mazarin, from about €525, if you want Martin Brudnizki's tapestry-canopied rooms, a mosaic pool and DJs from Thursday to Saturday; Le Pavillon de la Reine, from about €550, if you would rather have a house set back across a courtyard garden behind the Place des Vosges, with a hammam, a jacuzzi and a starred dinner at Anne.
Book Le Grand Mazarin for the rooms themselves, a maximalist set piece made by French workshops, with a mosaic pool beneath them and the Marais at the door. Pay for a Prestige Room, ask for the winter-garden side, and you have the best of it. A 61-room Marais hotel where the decoration is the reason to stay, with a bar and DJ nights that keep it lively. You live in the neighbourhood rather than the hotel, and come back to a small pool and a room that looks like nowhere else.
It has an indoor pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
A private house behind the Place des Vosges, with a starred dining room inside and the Marais at the gate. Spend on a Junior Suite rather than the attic Classic, and plan Sunday and Monday dinners elsewhere. A small, quiet, family-run house behind the arcades of the Place des Vosges that feels more like a private residence than a grand hotel. The starred dining room is a reason to stay in one night; the rest of the time the Marais is at the gate.
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.