Hotel de Crillon Paris Luxury Hotel

Neo-Classic opulence

The Hotel de Crillon is set right on the Place de la Concorde, just a stone’s throw from the Champs-Elysees, Madeleine, the Louvre Museum and the fashionable Rue du Faubourg St. Honore with its designer shops. The Jardin de Tuileries is also close by for pleasant walks, as is the River Seine.

This award-winning luxury hotel in Paris’s 8th district is located in a magnificent 18th century Louis XV Palace. It was built in 1758 by the architect, Jacques-Ange Gabriel, along with a matching Palace next door. Together the two buildings total almost 100 metres in length and each Palace is fronted with an impressive colonnade. The building was commissioned for the Duc d’Aumont, who spared no expense in decorating it lavishly. In 1788 it was acquired by the Comte de Crillon, hence the name, and it remained in the Crillon family until 1907. It opened as a luxury hotel in 1909 and has been wowing guests ever since. The hotel is described as a ‘jewel in the heart of Paris’ and is surrounded by equally magnificent buildings, statues and fountains on all sides.

The rooms of the Hotel de Crillon are splendidly decorated, with rich satin fabrics and velvet-covered chairs. The bathrooms are a vision of marble walls and luxurious fixtures. The Presidential and Signature suites are truly fit for royalty, with gold bathroom fitments, beautiful rugs and French antique furniture. In keeping with the standards of the Hotel de Crillon, the Michelin starred restaurant, Les Ambassadeurs, serves exquisite gourmet French cuisine.

Beyond the privacy of your room the excellent facilities include a state-of-the-art fitness centre which is open 24 hours a day. The public reception rooms are a match for any in Versailles, with breathtaking décor and wonderful furniture. For a special occasion which warrants the very best, the luxury Hotel de Crillon offers history, beauty, comfort and exemplary service which cannot be beaten.

Presidential and Signature suites that fit for royalty

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Independent Reviews

One of the capital’s great gastronomic stages
By Nigel Tisdall

Spend money in Paris - it’s so very easy. See the great 19th century French canvases in the Louvre (rooms 74/75), go shopping in the Marais, then have dinner at Les Ambassadeurs restaurant in the Hotel Crillon, one of the capital’s great gastronomic stages. Nigel Tisdall

• Hotel de Crillon
  By Matthew Barker

  Impeccably noble palace overlooking the fabled Parisian square. The Louis XV-style interiors, having been given the Sonia Rykiel treatment, are impressive, and the marble reception is a glorious slice of blue-blooded grandeur. The Bernstein and Louis XV suites come with their own terrace and salon; Dali, Miro and Braque adorn the walls of the Presidential. Member of The Leading Hotels of the World. They say: "It glitters with Baccarat glass and resounds with the tap-tap-tap of expensive shoes on polished marble" (Tatler) Hotel Attractions: Dominique Bouchet, executive chef at the stately Les Ambassadeurs restaurant, has created a suitably well-to-do menu (spider crab aspic with saffron; veal sweetbreads casserole with flakes of truffle), while the cellar houses over 60,000 bottles. The other eatery, l’Obelisque, equally grand; and the Bar du Crillon is fashionable for cocktails and light lunches, the Winter Garden Salon de the, with in-house harpist, for tea. Fitness centre is basic but with all the essentials.

• Hotel Crillon
  By Jamie Dunford Wood

  One of just six ’Palace Hotels’ in Paris, the Crillon is the only one still in French hands, owned by the Taittinger family. Perfectly positioned on the Place de la Concorde, it has for a while been trying to refashion its identity, faced by the brasher more corporate go-getting marketing strategies of its wealthy cousins. The luxury comfort of the rooms might not be quite as highly cranked as at the George V, nor the glamour quite as pronounced as the Ritz, but the Crillon still stands as the most famous hotel landmark, a place of tradition and occasion. Government ministers regularly lunch in its two star Michelin Restaurant, and it remains the hotel of choice for honeymooners who want bragging rights. It has also managed to retain a family feeling - the reception staff are young, mostly female, highly educated and extremely personable - none of the professional masks you find in other 5 star hotels - they even blush. This traditional charm, where the hotel is more of a ’house’ than a hostelry, has long since disappeared in most 5 star properties - the Gritti in Venice is one other remaining example. The only drawback here is that despite its pre-eminent position, hardly any rooms have good views - you have to fork out for one of the suites for this. Still, to walk out of the front door straight onto the Place de la Concorde beats many other experiences in this city of Light, and sipping a kir royale on the terrace of the Louis XV suite with the obelisk, pyramid, national assembly, arc de triomphe and tomb of Napoleon all in sights is one of the best views anywhere in the world.

• "Top Paris Grand Dame, heavily decorated and marbled with a fabled dining room"