Club rules still apply if eating in the restaurant, which is reserved for guests and members only, and features an amazing terrace. Signed celebrity photos thanking the hotel hang in the bar, confirming its place as a regulars favourite.
Telephone: +33 (0)1 44 05 81 81
Price: from EUR 390
Receive a free Hg2 guide when you book a room online
A Parisian family bought this 100-year-old château and converted it into a luxury hotel in 1990 – previously it belonged to an Englishman who ran it as an old-fashioned gentleman’s club.
The club atmosphere still prevails, with a grand staircase and dark wood-panelled bar surrounded by old bookcases (where you can listen to live jazz every Friday night). A British pillar-box greets you at the entrance gate and an abandoned red phone box stands silently in the garden. It’s still run as a private club, and the Parisian elite hold business lunches here (the restaurant is only open to members and hotel guests).
Many of the guests are regulars, always staying in the same room, which gives it an added ‘members only’ feel, and the sense of exclusivity is compounded by the fact that it is surrounded by high walls and its own garden (it is the only château-hotel in Paris).
The rooms are like huge apartments, and those facing the indoor ‘winter garden’ have their own indoor terraces with armchairs, cornered off by curtains. A small gym and a free sun bed help to gloss over too many late nights.
