Business travelers and corporate executives accustomed to frequenting the La Défense district will soon see a major change near the Grande Arche and the Plenitude Arena. Neighboring the Société Générale towers, the Renaissance hotel will soon change its name. The ongoing acquisition of the property by Leonardo Hotels Central Europe – all that remains is to lift the suspensive conditions to complete the transaction – will lead the hotel to adopt the name Leonardo Royal Paris La Défense starting on 1er January 2027.
Opened at the turn of the 2000s, this high-end establishment boasts nearly 330 rooms and, naturally, as La Défense demands, a large meeting and event space, 1000 m², making it «the largest conference center» among the hotels in the neighborhood according to its website. Bar, restaurant, fitness: numerous services complement this hotel, which until now was part of the Marriott group and which had notably completed a large-scale renovation in 2017. Will it undergo another renovation after this acquisition? This possibility is still under consideration.
This business hotel will therefore be joining the Leonardo Hotels group at the beginning of the year. A group that is starting to make its presence felt in France with the purchase of the Prelude Opera hotel in 2024, which became the Leonardo Boutique Hotel Paris Opera, and then the takeover of the Hilton Evian-les-Bains last August. Currently known as the Évian-les-Bains hotel by Leonardo Hotels, the latter is expected to be part of the NYX Hotels by Leonardo Hotels lifestyle brand, while the former Renaissance La Défense will be part of the premium Leonardo Royal brand.
This is the case of a group of more than 330 establishments, including about forty in Israel and all the others in Europe, notably in Germany with nearly 80 hotels and in the British Isles with about sixty establishments. A portfolio that has included, among others, the Jurys brand in the United Kingdom in 2017 and Queens Moat Houses in Germany in 2013 or, more recently, about twenty establishments of the German hotel operator Revo, declared insolvent in January 2026. In the meantime, before crossing the Atlantic soon, since the Fattal group acquired the Blakely Hotel in New York, located in Midtown, and is expected to reopen in the middle of next year after renovations.
