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Overview
From Andrew Harper
Andrew Harper's Paris: A Personal Guide to the Best of the City, a free app for the iPad and iPhone.
When the Hôtel Ritz opened in 1898, travelers were astonished by its opulence, and the myth of the Parisian luxury hotel was born. Today, however, the grandes dames face some stiff 21st-century competition from a new Mandarin Oriental on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, plus a new Peninsula on the Avenue Kléber (near the Arc de Triomphe), set to debut in 2013. Needless to say, the old guard isn’t standing still. The Bristol has been extensively remodeled and a new wing is complete, as well as an expanded spa. And both the Ritz Paris and the Hôtel de Crillon will be closed until late 2014, as they undergo comprehensive modernization.
Hotels
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Four Seasons Hotel George V ParisThis grand luxury 244-room hotel in a landmark 1928 building near the Champs-Elysées is lavishly decorated with crystal chandeliers, 17th-century tapestries, Louis XVI-style furniture, wonderful antiques, paintings and objets d’art. |
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Hôtel de CrillonResplendent and patrician 147-room Louis XV palace-hotel in the heart of the city overlooking the Place de la Concorde. |
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Hôtel Plaza Athénée ParisFashionable and flamboyant 191-room period hotel set on the boutique-lined Avenue Montaigne. Large rooms provide spacious closets and marble baths with separate black-tiled showers, double vanities and embroidered robes and towels. |
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Le Bristol ParisElegant, impeccably serviced hotel in a mid- 18th-century building near the shops of the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, with 188 recently refurbished accommodations, including 92 suites. |
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Le MeuriceThis stately 160-room palace hotel near the Tuileries Garden, Place Vendôme and the Louvre combines modern comforts and splendid 18th-century architecture. |
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Ritz ParisLegendary 159-room hotel (56 suites) in the Place Vendôme near the Louvre, the Tuileries and Rue de Rivoli. |
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