Best hotels in Paris 2025, handpicked by our experts
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More chimney pot views than a Mary Poppins film, cocktails that would make Hemingway swoon and a whole lot of Hausmann – these are the best hotels in Paris for 2025 stays. It can be a challenging task to book somewhere to stay in Paris, especially when factoring in that you have more than 1,600 hotels to contend with. Palaces, manoirs, a rooftop terrasse every which way you look. New openings saturate the market, each claiming to be bigger and better than the last (the number of hotels grew by more than 200 between 2022 and 2023), and some 40 million tourists flock to Paris each year.
![[Dame des Arts’ rooftop provides some of the most picturesque views of Parisian architecture]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/08/28/09/newFile-3.jpg)
A veritable encyclopedia of information awaits those who delve into Google reviews; in fact, booking a trip now requires the reading time of an encyclopaedia. As if the arrondissement wasn’t already hard enough to pick — should you stay in fashionable Saint-Germain-des-Pres, chic Le Marais or edgy, distinctly un-Parisian Belleville — there’s the new Michelin ‘key’ ranking system to contend with.
![[Head to Hotel Lancaster for a tipple at the CopperBay bar]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/08/27/16/newFile-1.jpg)
Whether it's a new name on the scene or an establishment as ingrained into Paris’s fabric as a classic tweed Chanel skirt suit, we’ve rounded up the best Parisian hotels, be your budget champagne or chocolat chaud. If you were going to make a movie about an idyllic Parisian life, it would likely be at Hôtel Dame des Arts, where sipping a ‘Spritz des Dames’ at their rooftop bar, the spires of Notre-Dame (scaffolding-free, even if AI had to help you with that part), the towers of Saint-Sulpice and the zinc rooftops of the Haussmann buildings formed the backdrop. It’s a shame that on screen you’d miss the hotel’s heady signature scent, which perfumes the whole building.
![[Hotel Rochechoart provides some of the best views over the Sacré-Cœur from their rooftop]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/08/27/16/newFile-3.jpg)
