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Hôtel Plaza Athénée
Avenue Montaigne’s grande dame, with the Eiffel Tower as a private encore.
- Location
- Avenue Montaigne, Paris
- Style
- Palace hotel · Honeymoon · Haute couture
Why we love it
At the end of Avenue Montaigne, the Eiffel Tower twinkles like a private encore. Step inside Plaza Athénée and the city hushes. This is not a hotel that announces itself loudly; it welcomes you the way a beautiful Parisian home does – intimate, refined and immaculately run, with service that anticipates what you need before you have said it.
Highlights
A Paris icon since 1913 – part of the Dorchester Collection and awarded France’s Palace distinction in 2012, with 154 rooms and 54 suites across eight floors, including Eiffel Tower suites.
Le Relais Plaza – the Art Deco brasserie, opened in 1936 and modelled on the first-class dining hall of the SS Normandie, alongside Jean Imbert au Plaza Athénée, La Galerie and La Cour Jardin.
The Dior connection – Christian Dior opened his couture house directly across the street in 1947, and the hotel is home to the Dior Spa, Dior’s first in Europe.
Winter on ice – each season La Cour Jardin becomes an intimate ice rink, made famous by Emily in Paris.
For a honeymoon
Book the room with the French doors. Order breakfast in bed. Stay one night longer than you planned.
