Hôtel Madame Rêve fills the upper floors of the Hôtel des Postes du Louvre, Julien Guadet's central post office on Rue du Louvre, in service from July 1888: cut-stone façades around a monumental iron frame, with stables for nearly 200 horses in the basement. La Poste closed it in 2015. From 2016 Dominique Perrault opened the courtyard to the sky and gave the top floor a new glass roof, and the restaurateur Laurent Taïeb launched the hotel in October 2021, with interiors he worked out with the designer Bruno Borrione. The post office came back to the ground floor too, open every day into the evening. The hotel is classed five-star and holds one MICHELIN Key.
There are 83 rooms and suites, including a 130 m² Penthouse, and 54 balconies, sold by what they look at. Garden View rooms face the hanging garden in the courtyard: the entry Superior is 27 m² with a bathtub, the Deluxe Balcony 26 m². Paris View rooms sit under the new glass roof, with sloping atelier windows that look straight out across the zinc roofs, Exceptional View rooms face landmarks such as Saint-Eustache, and some look west to the Eiffel Tower, from a 29 m² Executive Terrace to the 70 m² two-bedroom Suite Tour Eiffel. Expect golden-brown wood, made-to-measure fabrics, mosaic bathrooms and post-office motifs in the art and the carpets.
What makes it the new classic is that the whole building is in use. ROOF, the planted garden on top, looks over Saint-Eustache, the Centre Pompidou and the Panthéon, with the Eiffel Tower on the skyline, and pours cocktails until 1am all year. La Plume, on the third floor, looks across to Saint-Eustache and opens onto a planted open-air patio, where the executive chef, Benjamin Six, cooks French dishes with Japanese accents. On the ground floor, Restaurant Madame Rêve was relaunched in September 2026 with a menu by Tom Meyer, the Meilleur Ouvrier de France who won a MICHELIN star at Granite, also in the 1st. A 150 m² wellness area holds a gym, two treatment rooms and a sauna with a window on the city.
The trade is in what the price leaves out. There is no pool, and the spa is a small one. The entry rooms look at the courtyard garden rather than across Paris, so the views start a category or two up. ROOF and La Plume take outside bookings, so reserve a table even as a guest. A Superior was about €595 on a February night. Book it for a first or second Paris trip, to walk to the Louvre, wake up behind sloping glass above the 1st and end the evening upstairs on the roof.
