Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login “In Paris, it’s all about location,” says François Delahaye with the resolve of one who has lived in the city for the past 30 years – in Trocadéro, in fact, in the 16th arrondissement, just across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. The chief operating officer for the Dorchester Collection of hotels declines to name the best, most expensive hotel suites in Paris unless you can first explain what, exactly, you’re looking for.
“Which top suite to take in Paris is a very personal choice,” he continues. “First up, it will depend on where you want to be. Cheval Blanc’s Eiffel Suite comes with an outdoor terrace, walk-in Hammam-shower and Dior Beauty Bar.
“If that is the very best location in the city, then you’ll be at the Ritz Paris, or the Hôtel Plaza Athénée. “If it’s a smaller, more intimate experience you’re after, with a classic Paris view, then it might be a [55-square-metre] Junior Suite at the Shangri-La, which is near to Trocadéro”. The junior suites, which have a year-round average price of $4786 a night for two, offer partial Eiffel Tower views as well as other stereotypical Parisian panoramas, and outlooks over a manicured garden.
The 54-room hotel occupies the mansion built in 1896 for Prince Roland Bonaparte. A Junior Suite at the Regina Louvre, complete wit.
