Ritz Paris★★★★★
The Ritz on Place Vendôme is still the reference point against which the others are measured, and nothing else on this list has quite its combination of history and current form after the long restoration that reopened it in 2016. César Ritz built his name here, Hemingway drank at the bar that now carries his name, and Coco Chanel kept a suite upstairs for over thirty years; none of that is decoration, it is the actual texture of the place. Rooms mix Louis XVI furniture with quietly modern bathrooms, the Bar Vendôme spills onto a courtyard that feels like a private garden in the middle of the city, and the service moves at the unhurried pace of a house that has never had to prove itself. This is the choice for anyone who wants the Paris grand hotel experience without qualification, and who wants to be within a two-minute walk of the Tuileries and the Place Vendôme jewellers.》Book it if you want the archetype rather than a modern reinterpretation of it.
