Opened in 2021 and 2023, each five-star with one MICHELIN Key, about €70 apart. Hôtel Madame Rêve, from about €595, if you want the 1888 Louvre post office, a Paris View room under the new glass roof and cocktails on ROOF over the 1st; Le Grand Mazarin, from about €525, if you would rather sleep under Martin Brudnizki's tapestry canopies, take a dip downstairs and spend evenings in the Marais.
The new classicThe 1888 Louvre post office, now a five-star hotel with rooms under a new glass roof and a rooftop garden bar.
€€From about €595 a night
Choose Hôtel Madame Rêve if
The catch
The entry Superior and Deluxe Balcony rooms look onto the courtyard's hanging garden, not across Paris; the city views start with the Paris View rooms.
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.
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Hôtel Madame RêveLe Grand Mazarin
Hôtel Madame Rêve
Le Grand Mazarin
The verdict
Opened in 2021 and 2023, each five-star with one MICHELIN Key, about €70 apart. Hôtel Madame Rêve, from about €595, if you want the 1888 Louvre post office, a Paris View room under the new glass roof and cocktails on ROOF over the 1st; Le Grand Mazarin, from about €525, if you would rather sleep under Martin Brudnizki's tapestry canopies, take a dip downstairs and spend evenings in the Marais.
Questions people ask
Opened in 2021 and 2023, each five-star with one MICHELIN Key, about €70 apart. Hôtel Madame Rêve, from about €595, if you want the 1888 Louvre post office, a Paris View room under the new glass roof and cocktails on ROOF over the 1st; Le Grand Mazarin, from about €525, if you would rather sleep under Martin Brudnizki's tapestry canopies, take a dip downstairs and spend evenings in the Marais.
Madame Rêve puts a landmark of the 1st to work: a post office downstairs, rooms under a new glass roof and a garden bar on top. Pay for a Paris View room, because the view is the point, and plan spa time elsewhere. A design-led 83-room hotel in a 19th-century post office in the middle of the 1st, priced as a five-star and busy in the evenings on its roof. The draw is the building, the views and the walkable address, not a spa or a pool.
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
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.