France: hotels expected in the regions in 2024

From Lille to Nice, via Lyon and Marseille, a selection of the best hotel openings in 2024 in France's major cities.
The Maison Heler in Metz, one of the major openings expected in France in 2024.
The Maison Heler in Metz, one of the major openings expected in France in 2024.

AJACCIO

Holiday Inn Express Ajaccio (during 2024)

The IHG Group's budget brand heading for Corsica with a 71-room hotel featuring a lobby bar. Located close to both the seafront and the port of Ajaccio, the Holiday Inn Express will also have a meeting room and offer guests a buffet breakfast included in the room rate.

BORDEAUX

Fairfield by Marriott Bordeaux Gare (4e quarter)

After making its European debut in Amsterdam and Copenhagen in 2023, Marriott's budget brand Fairfield is coming to France at the end of the year, in Bordeaux. With a prime location for business travellers, the area around the Saint-Jean stationA new 191-room hotel with restaurant and meeting rooms.

BREST

B&B Brest Gouesnou (June 2024)

B&B HOTELS is returning to its roots. This year, the budget chain will open its fourth hotel in the town where it was born. At the same time, B&B will continue to expand its network in France at a good pace, with around thirty new establishments planned for 2024, including Mulhouse Basel airport in early May, Annecy Ouest in June and Villefranche sur Saône in the first half of the year.

CANNES

MOB Hotel Cannes (spring)

After Saint-Ouen and Lyon, the lifestyle concept launched by Cyril Aouizerate, is moving to the Mediterranean with its first establishment in Cannes, on Avenue de Lyon. True to its ecological and social commitmentsThe MOB brand is renovating an old residence while preserving the existing features, adding around fifty photovoltaic panels and covering the whole with thermal paint for added freshness. Located in the Cannet district, the MOB Hotel Cannes will offer 43 rooms and flats, an organic restaurant and barbecue in fine weather, and a swimming pool, all set in a huge garden with a vegetable patch.

DIJON

Aloft Dijon (2e quarter)

While the former offices of the Caisse Primaire de l'Assurance Maladie are now home to a Mama Shelter since last year, the former Dijon post office is also rewriting its history as a lifestyle hotel. Dating back to the earlye Built in the 19th century, the building is preparing to house around a hundred rooms and all the components of the contemporary offering of the Aloft brand, part of the Marriott group. A little cousin of the luxury brand W, Aloft is coming to the Burgundy town with its own assets, such as a trendy bar, a wellness offer with indoor swimming pool, fitness, sauna and hammam, and the hotel is adding meeting spaces to its attractive facilities.

LILLE

Hilton Lille (summer)

Business travellers arriving at Lille Europe TGV station will be able to see the handover from Crowne Plaza to Hilton at the head of the grand business hotel next to the rail hub. Following renovation, the Hilton brand will preside over the new destiny of this 124-room establishment, which will also feature seven meeting rooms and a new executive lounge.

Oceania Lille Les Augustins (end 2024)

Scalbert-Dupont, a major financial institution in northern France, is to see its former head office demolished. change function. Swimming pool in the vaultThis Art Deco building, part of Lille's architectural heritage, will be reborn as a top-of-the-range hotel under the management of the Océania group, as part of a low-carbon project. In addition to a vast wellness area in the basement, the hotel will retain its original professional dimension, with two intimate lounges dedicated to coworking and two seminar rooms.

LYON

Cour des Loges Lyon, A Radisson Collection Hotel (3e quarter)

One of the most charming boutique hotels in Vieux Lyon, La Cour des Loges has recently been preparing for a new lease of life under the Radisson Collection luxury brand. Closed for renovation, this hotel several medieval and Renaissance buildings will be returning to the Lyon hotel scene this year, along with its Michelin-starred Les Loges restaurant, run by chef Anthony Bonnet, and a lounge bar and bistro, Le Comptoir.

Fort Saint-Laurent Hotel & Spa Lyon (mid 2024)

Expected in Paris, theHandwritten CollectionAnother of the Accor group's first developments in France will be in Lyon. Montmartre in Paris, the Croix-Rousse: the new brand focused on boutique hotels chooses districts that reflect its image: charming, picturesque, full of history. In this case, the future hotel will be located in the transformation of Fort Saint-LaurentThis former barracks, a military stronghold built in the hills above Lyon at the beginning of the 19th century, was owned by the French state until recently. Owned by the state until 2015, this former barracks will now house a four-star hotel with 36 rooms, a spa and a summer bar in its vast garden. All with views over the streets and rooftops of the district.

Courtyard by Marriott Lyon Est (2e quarter)

As the Courtyard by Marriott brand begins to roll out in Europe a new contemporary approachThe Courtyard Lyon Est will be one of the first hotels to introduce this new design, with around 100 rooms located close to Lyon Eurexpo.

MARSEILLE

Baron Amédée Armand Hotel & Spa - MGallery

The embodiment of an intimate luxury hotel experience, MGallery has found a venue to match its image in Marseille, one of the world's largest and most prestigious private mansions of the city of Toulon. After repelling the English in Toulon, Napoleon, who was just breaking through under Bonaparte, stayed there for several years at the invitation of the Chevalier de Cipières. Then it was the turn of a wealthy industrialist, Baron Amédée Armand, to redesign the place to suit the taste of the Second Empire. Now the Accor brand has the privilege of occupying this building steeped in history, with 49 rooms and suites, a restaurant and a swimming pool in the courtyard, as well as three prestigious lounges for meetings and corporate events.

EasyHotel (end 2024)

After extending its offer to the Paris region, in Aubervilliers and near Paris CDG, the budget brand easyHotel expects to set up its first facility in Marseille, close to the Euromed business district.

METZ

Maison Heler Metz, a Curio by Hilton Collection

The town of Lorraine is set to see the opening of a long-awaited hotel, the Maison Heler. This ambitious project, led by Philippe Starck on the design side and recognisable by the replica of a 19th century bourgeois housee century on its roofThe building will be crowned by a tree-lined rooftop with a panoramic restaurant. Crowned by a tree-lined rooftop hosting a panoramic restaurant, the building will house 104 rooms and suites on its floors, as well as meeting spaces. A new base for business travellers to Metz and visitors to the Centre Pompidou, next door to the top-of-the-range hotel, which is part of the Hilton Curio Collection.

NICE

Le Victoria (March)

The new flagship of the Maison Albar collection. Previously the Boscolo B4 Nice Park, this hotel taken over by the Centaurus group has undergone a radical transformation to become a new luxury establishment in the Côte d'Azur city. Located in the heart of Nice's Carré d'Or districtSituated between the Promenade des Anglais and Place Masséna, this urban resort has been redesigned by architect Jean-Paul Gomis and studio MHNA to include 132 rooms and suites and everything you need to satisfy both business and leisure travellers. A 600 m spa2 and seminar rooms, a rooftop restaurant and swimming pool, unrivalled views of the Mediterranean and a dozen upmarket boutiques on the ground floor: this future member of the L.V.X. Collection of Preferred Hotels has everything it takes to establish itself as one of the leading hotels on the Côte d'Azur.

Hôtel du Couvent - The Luxury Collection (summer)

Anantara Plaza end 2022The luxury hotel industry in Nice is in full swing. Especially as a new player is also set to appear around the summer, the Hôtel du Couvent. A place out of time, conducive to reflection and top-of-the-range relaxation, with the conversion of the Convent of the Visitation. Situated in the heights of Old Nice, this convent dating back to the XVIe century is currently being redesigned by the Perseus group and Studio Méditerranée, drawing inspiration from past methods and local materials, including a monastic atmosphere. Affiliated with Marriott's Luxury Collection, the hotel will offer 88 rooms, several restaurants, Roman baths and swimming pools in the courtyard garden, as well as five meeting rooms, the largest of which can accommodate 160 people.

Mama Shelter Nice (June)

Nice is not just a magnet for the luxury sector. The lifestyle hotel sector is also making its mark. After Rennes and Dijon, Mama Shelter will be adding a new address in France this year, on the French Riviera. Located 600 m from the Vieux Port, in the Riquier districtThe brand, founded by Serge Trigano and now part of the Accor group, is bringing its innovative spirit to a former administrative building. On the programme: 102 rooms, presented as "colourful".

ROUEN

Novotel & Adagio Access Rouen Centre Cathédrale

Combos" combining two hotel brands often involve new buildings. In Rouen, it's a historic site, the Consuls' PalaceThe hotel will be home to two Accor brands, Novotel and Adagio Access. Dating back to the XVIIIe After the war, the building was rebuilt in Art Deco style to house the offices of the Rouen Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Located on the Quai de la Bourse, its transformation will make way for an 82-room Novotel and a 75-room Adagio Access, complemented by shared services including a restaurant, bar, swimming pool and meeting rooms.