Paris, France · Five-Star Hotel · ★★★★★
The Peninsula Paris
The Peninsula's flawless technical standard applied to a 1908 Haussmann palace. The result is what perfection looks like when it has a view.
The Peninsula's flawless technical standard applied to a 1908 Haussmann palace. The result is what perfection looks like when it has a view.
"The Peninsula group makes hotels the way Swiss watchmakers make watches — with an obsessive precision that you only fully appreciate once you've experienced it. Paris, for once, had a building grand enough to match the ambition."
The building at 19 Avenue Kléber was constructed in 1908 as one of the 16th arrondissement's grand Haussmann residential palaces, a few minutes' walk from the Arc de Triomphe. When The Peninsula Hotels — the Hong Kong-based group that operates some of the most technically refined hotels in the world — opened their first European property here in 2014, it had been seven years in the making. The renovation consumed more than 200 artisans and craftspeople across three years. The result is a building that looks as it always should have.
The 200 rooms include some of the most technically sophisticated hotel rooms in Paris. The Peninsula group is known, across its properties in Hong Kong, New York, and Shanghai, for rooms that anticipate needs through design rather than service: a tablet that controls every system, a bathroom television that doesn't miss a frame when you move through the room, a nail dryer in the vanity because it turns out people want one. The details are thought through, not gestural.
The in-room amenities use Oscar de la Renta toiletries — a distinctive choice that signals the hotel's American luxury market orientation alongside its European heritage. The marble bathrooms feature separate rain showers and deep soaking bathtubs. The rooms' artworks are curated from French artists. The overall effect is of a hotel that has considered every element and then chosen deliberately rather than conventionally.
The rooftop bar LiLi serves modern Chinese cuisine and is one of the more unexpected restaurant experiences in Paris — the view over the 16th arrondissement rooftops and towards the Eiffel Tower, combined with genuinely accomplished Cantonese cooking, is a contrast that works. L'Oiseau Blanc, the rooftop terrace restaurant with views over the city, is among the best dinner settings in Paris on a clear evening. The lobby bar serves exceptional cocktails in a room of restrained grandeur.
The Peninsula Spa occupies two lower floors and offers a full range of Ayurvedic and European treatments, a sauna, steam room, and hot tub. The fitness centre is among the best-equipped in Paris. The 24-hour business centre reflects the hotel's significant corporate clientele: the Peninsula Paris does more group and conference business than most palace hotels, which keeps it lively without being intrusive. The Champs-Élysées is a ten-minute walk. The Trocadéro is five minutes in the other direction.
Book a suite with Eiffel Tower views and reserve L'Oiseau Blanc for the first evening. The rooftop terrace at dusk, with the tower and the 16th arrondissement spread out below, is the Peninsula Paris at its most cinematic. The room technology means you will never need to call reception for anything — which, on a honeymoon, is either irrelevant or essential depending on your priorities.
The Peninsula Paris is one of the best-equipped business hotels in Paris. The 24-hour business centre, meeting rooms, and reliable connectivity serve the corporate traveller as well as any property in the city. The location near the Arc de Triomphe and major corporate headquarters in the 16th makes it practical. The lobby closes deals — this is a hotel that signals success without requiring you to explain what you do.
The combination of LiLi and L'Oiseau Blanc gives the Peninsula Paris two exceptional dinner options — one unexpected (the Cantonese rooftop restaurant), one conventionally romantic (the terrace with the Paris skyline). The spa's couples treatments are among the best in the city. For an anniversary that combines genuine luxury with a view most Paris hotels cannot offer, this is the correct address in the 16th arrondissement.
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The King's Suite
Monthly. No noise.