Detailed Review
This truly Parisian luxury property filled with elegance and charm, is ideally located between the Avenue des Champs Elysees and the Eiffel Tower, at the crossroads of fashion, entertainment and business. With fine decor "à la parisienne", the Hotel Plaza Athenee features 188 guest rooms including 43 suites, offering views to the chic avenue Montaigne, the Westside of the Eiffel Tower or the charming courtyard.
Since its inauguration in 1911, the Plaza radiates an incomparable charm which has seduced an elegant Parisian and international clientele. The recent redecoration of the lobby recaptures the warm colour codes used by the hotel: “Plaza reds”, terracotta wares, gold and bronzes.To enchant every guest, the hotel mingles glamour and tradition with the most updated technology.
At the Hotel Plaza Athenee, the pleasure of luxury is celebrated, cultivated and expressed in four different venues supervised by the world-renowned Chef Alain Ducasse; each combining the art of living with delicious cuisine in a unique way.
The intuitive warmth of the 520 staff members also anticipates your every need with passion.
Independent Reviews
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“As one of Paris’s top grand dames, the hotel combines traditional furnishings with Art Deco splashes – a worthy rival to George V.”
Plaza Athenee
By Daniel Scott
The Plaza Athenee is the playful sister-hotel to the Hotel Meurice, located among the couture shops on the chestnut-tree lined Avenue Montaigne. Flamboyant in feel, as befits a hotel where you can fall out of bed and into stores like La Croix, the Plaza Athenee suffers somewhat from a confusion of identity, juxtaposing a largely classical interior with two Art Deco floors on its upper levels. The ultra-modern bar area typifies the paradox, full of sculpted sandblasted glass, tall metal stools and mood lighting in several shades of mauve, encased by the rooms original wood panelling. Nonetheless, it just about works (especially if you are staying here with romance in mind) and anyway the mismatch is hardly an issue when you open the shutters of your room to panoramic views of an illuminated Tour Eiffel.
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