Amy Adejokun
Section editor
Despite its contemporary design, this hotel has kept a classic look and subtle class, as exemplified by the staff who are right on top of their game but come across as relaxed and spontaneous.
Majestic Hotel - © Preschesmisky / Hôtel Majestic
Majestic Hotel - © David Grimbert / Hôtel Majestic
The hotel entrance is on Rue de la Pérouse, a few minutes from the Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elysées and a short distance from the noise of the major roads. There are plenty of luxury shops and restaurants in the area.
The rooms are very spacious and bright, and are furnished with items bought from antique dealers and given a decidedly contemporary look by the fabrics and thick, delicately patterned draperies. All the rooms (the smallest having a surface area of 20 m2) have a very well stocked mini-bar and tea and coffee-making facilities, as well as very spacious, functional cupboards. The bathrooms are in keeping with the sophistication of the place, with pebbles paving the floor around the shower cubicle and white tiling with an Art Deco frieze on the walls. Fragonard hospitality products are also provided. Rooms in the first category have a shower instead of a bathtub. The villa housing the 27 residential apartments has retained the generous proportions that were the hallmark of Haussman's buildings. The apartments have a small kitchen with a hotplate, oven and microwave, as well as a dishwasher. An iron and ironing board are also provided. The lounge includes a very large fold-out sofa. The classic look of the place has been maintained, while more recent additions provide a very refined contemporary setting.
Through the high-class reception hall with its marble floors and delicate drapes, the very pleasant bar has found a home by the fireplace. Breakfast can also be taken here. Next comes the restaurant, in a very attractive and brightly lit area. It opens for lunch and dinner both to guests and the general public. Special effort has been made in the basement well-being area, MajClub, which offers many treatments from 9:00 am to 9:00pm, ranging from acupuncture with gold needles by Céline Claret Coquet to Chinese massages and beauty treatments. These therapies use products by the cosmetics brand Clé des Champs. There is also a fitness coach who prepares customised fitness regimes and offers classes to small groups. The hammam's two rooms are provided with integrated massage tables covered with blue ceramic, for black soap massages. Two saunas are also provided, one conventional and the other designed to cater for guests with disabilities. The best feature of MajClub, though, is the indoor swimming pool and its counterflows, which is sure to guarantee a tough work-out! If this sounds too much like hard work, relax on one of the large cushioned recliners and disconnect from it all, watching the curtain of water run down the pebble wall... The Majestic also has car parking spaces under the hotel.
The restaurant prepares traditional French cuisine for lunch and dinner. Most of the ingredients used are organic. The space itself is nice and bright. Breakfast is served as a hot or cold buffet in the same place, or can be taken beside the fireplace in the bar.
The Majestic has 52 rooms. The 1960's building houses the bar and restaurant, as well as 25 of the guest rooms, while the Haussmannian building is reserved for the 27 residential apartments. Most of the hotel guests are corporate clients or famous people, and the establishment offers apartments that can be transformed thanks to moveable partitions. In total there are 450 m2 of terraces that can be closed off as required. The hotel also has a private car park underneath for discreet arrivals and departures. Perfection is strived for in all the services on offer, but in particular in the MajClub treatment area.
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