Amy Adejokun
Section editor
This is a perfect hotel for businessmen and women with meetings to attend in the neighbourhood, and has the added advantage of being very quiet.
La Maison Champs-Elysées - ©Pascal Otlinghaus/Blind/2010
La Maison Champs-Elysées - ©Pascal Otlinghaus/Blind/2010
This is an upmarket part of the 8th arrondissement, and guests are sure to appreciate the quiet and above all luxurious surroundings of this neighbourhood. Between the Grand Palais and Avenue Montaigne, there are lots of shops selling luxury goods and fashionable restaurants.
The 40 guest rooms are split into the superior, deluxe and junior suite categories, each being larger than the last (they range from 21 to 35m²). The rooms all have a similar appearance featuring modern, efficient decor lacking originality. For the time being, there is no mini-bar, but the hotel does provide a complementary welcome tray and a bottle of water. The safe can be secured using a bank card. The bathrooms are all fitted with a bathtub with a shower screen and a full set of Exclusive Hotels hospitality products, including a hair-dryer, bathrobes and slippers. A special mention goes to the very comfortable beds, all of which are fitted with a mattress overlay. All the rooms overlook the trees in the hotel courtyard. In terms of room service, guests can order drinks and food from the restaurant menu 24 hours a day.
This hotel is perfectly suited to business guests because it caters to the fact their priority lies in the functional convenience of the facilities rather than in the character of the place. The amenities are all in place: an on-site self-service business centre, 1000m² of lounges including the famous Empire lounge that was regilded with gold leaf in 1991, a charged private car park, free Wi-Fi access, etc. The hotel offers standard modern comfort. There are plans to carry out major renovation which will spruce up the communal spaces and increase the number of guest rooms.
For the time being, the restaurant is in the same room as Media's bar. Jean-Francois Rigal prepares affordable French cuisine, with a starter + main course or main course + dessert setting you back ?24 and the starter + main course + dessert priced at ?30. The large, shaded terrace very discreetly positioned next to the courtyard is popular with both locals and guests staying at the hotel At the moment, the restaurant is only open for lunch.
The hotel is located within the 'Maison des Centraliens', and the 3rd and 4th levels of the building are given over to activities of the École Centrale Paris engineering school. It has also long been the home of the 'Press Club de France'.
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