Voyages d'Affaires takes a look at the new hotels expected this year in and around Paris.
Mandarin Oriental Lutetia (early 2025)
This is anything but a recent opening, but a major event for the Paris hotel industry with this new guest of choice in the Mandarin Oriental hotel collection. At the beginning of the year, the Asian group will take over the management of this historic establishment on the Left Bank, becoming the first luxury brand to operate on both sides of the Seine. Completely restored a few years ago under the direction of architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, this a key destination for the world of culture and the artsThe Lutetia, with its legendary Art Deco style, will benefit from the aura of the Mandarin Oriental brand to raise its profile worldwide. In addition to its famous brasserie and its 184 rooms and suites, the Lutetia also has six meeting and event rooms, including the Cristal lounge, which can accommodate up to 350 people.
Maison Barrière Vendôme (early 2025)
After the Champs-Elysées and its legendary Fouquet's, the Barrière group is moving in January to another key location in the capital, between Place Vendôme and the Tuileries Gardens, at 17 rue du Mont Thabor. The former head office of Lacoste has been transformed into a a luxurious pied-à-terre with a feminine spiritWith its 26 rooms, suites and self-catering flats, the hotel is a tribute to the great ladies of bygone days. Designed by Daniel Jibert, this new boutique hotel has called on the best of French craftsmanship - Pierre Frey, Les Ateliers de Ricou, Declercq - to create rooms evoking Marie Curie, Simone de Beauvoir or Callas, suites in memory of Josephine Baker, Marlene Dietrich or George Sand, and the hotel's most spacious flat, which can accommodate private dinners for up to 12 people, as well as travellers in search of exclusivity. As for the restaurant, its décor features the colourful world of Frida Khalo.
SAX Hotel (during 2025)
Expected later this year in VIIe arrondissement, the Hôtel SAX Paris will be honouring other women in its own way: the "telephone ladies". At the beginning of the twentieth century, these women were busy working the telephone.e century to put the first subscribers of this revolutionary tool in touch with each other. former telephone exchange dating from the Belle Epoque period. Behind the listed façade of this historic building, a new hotel designed by Philippe Starck and the Niio agency is about to appear. This new high-end Left Bank destination will offer 120 rooms and suites and, what's more, a rooftop restaurant with views of the Eiffel Tower spanning more than 1,200 m², plus a spa area and a chic bar with an indoor garden. The hotel is expected to be operated under one or other of the Hilton Group brands.
L'Aventure (during 2025)
Beyond its name, this new hotel at the very top of Avenue Victor Hugo, overlooking Place de l'Etoile, is not launching out into the unknown. With the Costes brothers at the helm and Martin Brudnizki on the design side, the hotel's adventure is well mapped out and its path has already been mapped out: that of a "hotel of the future". trendy and VIP hotels. " More than a hotel, restaurant or club, it's an imaginary world and an exclusive universe that you can discover on every floor, in a hushed and intimate atmosphere." announces the Beaumarly group. Alongside its other hotels - the Thoumieux, Grand Amour and Amour in Paris, as well as the Amour Nice - this five-star hotel will offer around twenty rooms.
Experimental Marais (early 2025)
The Experimental Group is opening a new hotel in Paris, adding to its hotels on the Grands Boulevards and in Pigalle. Its lifestyle and top-of-the-range offer is being deployed in another of its signature districts, the Marais, with the takeover of the Sinner hotelacquired last October. Designed by interior architect Tristan Auer, the establishment draws its inspiration from the district's ecclesiastical history to create a neo-Gothic, almost monastic atmosphere. The hospitality is far from rigorous, with a spa and swimming pool, a restaurant in the style of the great New York restaurants, Temple & Chapon, run by chef Mélanie Serre, and, as usual, a cocktail bar.
Palladium Bus (autumn 2025)
Just ten years ago, in 2015, the Bains Douches rose from the ashes, this flagship club of the 80s having been transformed into a five-star boutique hotel. Very soon, another the Mecca of Parisian nightlifeThe Bus Palladium, a more rock and less fashionable venue, will also be offering hospitality. This Pigalle institution, closed for renovation since 2022, has begun its transformation, adding to its 400-seat concert hall a five-star boutique hotel with 35 rooms and suites, including the 80m² Magic Rock. The design, by studio KO, will reflect the spirit of the venue, with a raw, radical atmosphere featuring cork walls and bare ceilings. From March, visiting artists will also be able to record their next albums in another project supported by Chapitre Six hotels, the Folie Barbizon, a 4-star hotel with 21 rooms. on the edge of the Fontainebleau forestStudio Marion Collard and Sarah Valente are in the process of reimagining the building, while retaining its spirit as an artists' residence with music rooms, a painting studio and a recording room.
Élysée Montmartre Hotel (early 2025)
Even before the reopening of the Bus Palladium, another Parisian venue will be offering music-loving business travellers musical accommodation from January: the Elysée Montmartre. Relaunched in the middle of the last decade by producer Abel Nahmias and architect-entrepreneur Julien Labrousse, the Elysée Montmartre is the perfect place to enjoy a night out in the heart of Paris, this legendary venue is about to complete its metamorphosisThe new hotel, which was made necessary by a fire in 2011, offers an accommodation option in the same environment as the Elysée Montmartre and the Trianon, the neighbouring theatre. Close to the Gare du Nord station, the hotel offers 16 rooms - including four duplexes - with contemporary décor inspired by Japanese aesthetics, the majority equipped with desks, plus a lounge where you can work in peace and quiet, as well as a projection room.
The Foundation (early 2025)
Work, well-being, hospitality: the Foundation is laying the foundations for a new hybrid complex just a stone's throw from Parc Monceau and Les Batignolles, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.e arrondissement. In place of a former office building and car park, an all-in-one solution for both business and pleasure is in the process of being organised. On the one hand, there are hybrid workspaces, meeting rooms and an auditorium, and on the other, a five-star hotel with 58 rooms, including 3 suites. All brought together by the same contemporary spirit, by American interior architects Roman & Williams, already at work on the Standard and Ace Hotels in New York. The Foundation has also added top-of-the-range services with a spa, a sports club with a semi-Olympic swimming pool and a climbing wall, as well as a brasserie and a bistronomic restaurant. And, to top it all off, rooftop hanging gardens.
Hotel Théorème (first half)
Hotel buyout + renovation + new contemporary look = name change. It's a common formula in the hotel industry. Owner since 2023 of the Dream Hotel Opéra Paris, investor Extendam has undertaken to give the hotel a new name. a new impetus to this four-star hotel with 28 rooms. Soon to be renamed Théorème, this establishment on rue Le Peletier, a stone's throw from the Opéra and department stores as well as the offices of numerous companies, benefits from a convenient location for business travellers, as well as easy connections with the various stations. The investor has also given a new look to two other Parisian hotels, the Hôtel de la Gaité near Montparnasse station and the Hôtel de Charonne, not far from Place de la Bastille, which will be reopened as a three-star lifestyle hotel. And under a new name, not to be outdone: Hôtel Léonie.
The Glass Garden by Locke (early 2025)
Specialising in top-of-the-range aparthotels, Locke is breaking its glass ceiling in France with its first establishment in the heart of Paris. Expected to open next February in the Latin Quarter, close to the Pantheon and the Jardin des Plantes, this new establishment from the British Edyn group will revisit a former 18th-century town house.e century to make an ensemble in stark contrast to other urban residences. An interior courtyard, a restaurant in a light-filled atrium, a cocktail bar, as well as a gym and yoga studio: Le Jardin de Verre by Locke, decorated by the Fettle design studio, has a contemporary feel and will offer 145 rooms to travellers coming to Paris for short or long periods.
Lyf Paris Gambetta (spring 2025)
Another embodiment of the new wave of long-stay hotels, the lyf brand is arriving in Paris just a few minutes from Place Gambetta, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.e arrondissement. Inspired by the coliving trend, the Ascott Group's fast-growing chain is part of the transforming a former printing works into a contemporary living space. Redesigned by interior architect Fabien Roque in keeping with its industrial history, the building combines lively communal spaces and shared kitchens, a bar and coworking facilities, a gym and a karaoke room, all complemented by terraces on the 4th floor.e floor. This new lifestyle and upmarket establishment will offer travellers 139 flats with optimised space, the largest accommodating up to 8 people.
