Two hotels sold by what the window looks at, and in both the Eiffel Tower costs more than the entry room. Shangri-La Paris, from about €1,730, if you want the tower about 600 metres away across the Seine from the Eiffel View rooms, and an indoor pool; Hôtel Madame Rêve, from about €595, if you would rather sleep under the new glass roof of the 1888 Louvre post office, look over the zinc roofs of the 1st and take a cocktail on ROOF until 1am.
The viewPrince Roland Bonaparte's palace in the 16th, booked for one thing above all: the Eiffel Tower in the window.
€€€€From about €1,730 a night
Choose Shangri-La Paris if
The catch
The entry Superior Room, 36 square metres, looks onto the courtyard or the glass cupola, and the tower view starts with the Eiffel View Room at about €3,005 against €1,730 on the same February night.
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.
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The verdict
Two hotels sold by what the window looks at, and in both the Eiffel Tower costs more than the entry room. Shangri-La Paris, from about €1,730, if you want the tower about 600 metres away across the Seine from the Eiffel View rooms, and an indoor pool; Hôtel Madame Rêve, from about €595, if you would rather sleep under the new glass roof of the 1888 Louvre post office, look over the zinc roofs of the 1st and take a cocktail on ROOF until 1am.
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Questions people ask
Two hotels sold by what the window looks at, and in both the Eiffel Tower costs more than the entry room. Shangri-La Paris, from about €1,730, if you want the tower about 600 metres away across the Seine from the Eiffel View rooms, and an indoor pool; Hôtel Madame Rêve, from about €595, if you would rather sleep under the new glass roof of the 1888 Louvre post office, look over the zinc roofs of the 1st and take a cocktail on ROOF until 1am.
Book Shangri-La Paris for the Eiffel Tower in the window of a prince's house, and pay for a room named Eiffel, as high up as you can, to get it. Without the view, you are paying palace rates for a courtyard or garden outlook. A polished, quiet palace in a prince's house, priced at the top of the market, where the room you book decides the stay. The draw is the tower in the window and the heritage around it, not the kitchen or the nightlife.
It has an indoor pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
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.
