The Hôtel de Crillon holds the western end of the two colonnaded façades that Ange-Jacques Gabriel designed for Louis XV on what is now the Place de la Concorde: the corner pavilion on Rue Boissy d'Anglas and the first bays of the colonnade. Behind them, Louis-François Trouard built the house from 1775 for the Duc d'Aumont, and the Crillon family bought it in 1788. It opened as a hotel in March 1909 and lodged members of the American delegation to the 1919 peace conference. It closed in 2013 for four years of restoration under the architect Richard Martinet, reopened in July 2017 under Rosewood, and holds the state's Palace distinction and two MICHELIN Keys.
There are 78 rooms, 36 suites and 10 signature suites, and the outlook separates them. The entry Deluxe Room is 32 m² on the inner courtyards. The Premier Room, about 35 m², and the 42 m² Grand Premier Room look onto a courtyard or the pedestrian Rue Boissy d'Anglas, and the standard suites run from 45 to 72 m². The rooms and standard suites have marble bathrooms with a soaking tub, and every room comes with a butler and a WhatsApp line to the hotel. The square is kept for the signature suites: Karl Lagerfeld's two Grands Appartements on the fourth floor, and the Louis XV and Bernstein suites on the sixth, whose terraces look across the Concorde to the Eiffel Tower.
What you pay for is the building. Upstairs, the restored Salon des Aigles and Salon Marie-Antoinette, listed in 1964, look onto the square under their original ceilings of 1775 to 1776, more than six metres high. Lagerfeld designed the furniture for the Grands Appartements, and the bath in one was carved from a single block of Carrara marble weighing over two tonnes. Bar Les Ambassadeurs pours cocktails under a painted ceiling and on a terrace beneath the arcades. Below the Cour Gabriel, the Sense spa's long lap pool is lit by a glass roof, with blue ceramic walls by Peter Lane and a floor of 17,600 gold mosaic shells.
The trade is price and outlook. An entry Deluxe Room came to about €2,190 for a February weeknight, the cheap end of the year, before the Palace city tax of €15.93 per adult per night. The kitchen is between chapters: L'Écrin, the starred dining room, closed at the end of 2025 and the new gastronomic restaurant is due in 2027, so for now the main restaurant is Paul Pairet's grill, Nonos. Book it for a first big Paris trip or a milestone, when the address and the history are the point. If the Concorde from your window matters, budget for a signature suite.
