Paris, France

Maison Barrière Vendôme

Price per night from$667.83

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Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR575.26), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Femme de la crème

Setting

Place Vendôme in view

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In a quietly decadent address on the edge of Place Vendôme, Maison Barrière Vendôme is a love letter to Parisian femininity — inspired by notable muses, and dressed in silk, marble and golden light. Each room, suite and apartment channels a different grande dame, from poets to performers, and downstairs, the Mexico-infused courtyard restaurant and bar looks to Frida Kahlo for its colour-popping palette and spicy cocktails. Your heart-of-the-capital locale has equally siren-like allure. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

26, including 16 suites.

Check–Out

Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 4pm.

More details

Rates exclude breakfast, but a Continental spread is available for €42 each or a full American menu is €58, plus à la carte options.

Also

Rooms Marie Curie (403) and Mercedes Sosa (530) are designed for guests with limited mobility and can be accessed using the lift, plus the hotel’s common spaces and restaurant are wheelchair-friendly.

At the hotel

Courtyard, charged dry cleaning and laundry services, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, TV, Bluetooth speakers, minibar, free bottled water, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, writing desk (in some), bathrobes, slippers and Guerlain bath products.

Our favourite rooms

No two rooms at Maison Barrière Vendôme are alike, and each is dedicated to an impressive woman from the arts whose influence touched Paris (and vice versa), including French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, Hollywood legend Bette Davis and novelist George Sand. If you’re in town for a while, it’s worth plumping for one of the suites or apartments, which have the feel (and space) of a classic pied-à-terre. The most ‘mon dieu’ views are from the Grande Suite George Sand on the hotel’s top floor, which overlooks the Opéra, Vendôme column, Jardin des Tuileries and Montmartre, alongside an Eiffel Tower-spying balcony. If a bath tub is a deal breaker, this is also the bedroom to book for its freestanding roll-top, but there are also lovely tubs in the Grand Suite Marlène Dietrich and Grand Apartment (studded with mother-of-pearl terrazzo).

Poolside

You can look forward to a cold plunge pool opening with the spa later this year.

Spa

Coming soon, the spa will house four treatment rooms, an infrared sauna and a polished fitness studio.

Packing tips

You’re practically on Place Vendôme, which means glitzy-boutiques galore on your doorstep. If you’re planning to do more than window shop, save room in your suitcase (or bring another entirely) for the square’s high-end brands.

Also

As wardrobe space can be a little tight in some of the rooms, the hotel team is on hand to unpack (and pack) your luggage for you so that everything is in Parisian-perfect order.

Pet‐friendly

Well behaved chiens are welcome to stay in any room for €50 a night, which includes a bed and bowl. See more pet-friendly hotels in Paris.

Children

Welcome. Babysitting can be arranged with advance notice for up to three children for €150. The two-bedroom apartments and suites sleep up to four, and there’s a sofa-bed in the Grande Suite Sarah Bernhardt for two little ones.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Out on the terrace when the weather is fine, s’il vous plaît.

Dress Code

Look to Kahlo for statement jewellery, vibrant prints and elaborate hairstyles.

Hotel restaurant

Frida restaurant takes inspiration for its name, colour palette and menu from the Mexican painter’s surreal world. Murano chandeliers and cobalt-blue banquettes nod to the artist’s Casa Azul, and the courtyard’s vertical plant wall brings Mexico City’s luscious greenery to this candle-lit corner of Place Vendôme. Spicy, smoky cocktails lean into Kahlo’s Latin heritage, as do plates of sea bream ceviche in a zesty lime marinade. French flavours are also brought to the fore through crowd-pleasers such as the truffle croque monsieur and inventive desserts by celebrity pastry chef, Christophe Adam.

Hotel bar

Bar Frida is tucked into a cosy corner of the hotel’s restaurant, and serves well-spruced cocktails that pay tribute to women who have marked their era. The signature, Frida, is a punchy combination of jalapeño-infused tequila, peppery Ancho Reyes liqueur, lemon, sugar, and cucumber; you’ll find more floral notes in the Audrey cocktail (topped with orange blossom foam) if your palate is softer. There’s also a thoughtfully curated wine list which favours French labels, naturellement.

Last orders

Frida opens for breakfast, lunch and dinner from 7am to 10pm.

Room service

The full menu, including sweet treats by Christophe Adam, can be ordered to your room around the clock.

Location

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Address
Maison Barrière Vendôme
17 Rue du Mont Thabor
Paris
75001
France

Maison Barrière Vendôme is tucked down Rue du Mont Thabor, an elegant cut-through between Place Vendôme and Jardin des Tuileries in Paris’ 1st arrondissement.

Planes

Both Paris’ Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports are just under an hour’s drive from the hotel, which offers transfers for €200 each way.

Trains

Gare du Nord is an international hub, welcoming speedy Eurostar services from London St Pancras in under two-and-a-half hours. Staff can help with one-way transfers for €130, or you can take the metro on line E from Magenta station to Haussman Saint-Lazare and walk 10 minutes to the hotel.

Automobiles

If you’re bringing your own wheels, Maison Barrière Vendôme’s secure, valet parking (€55 a day) is worth every cent to avoid navigating narrow street parking spaces yourself.

Worth getting out of bed for

Step out onto Place Vendôme and you’re mere moments from Maison Barrière Vendôme’s haute neighbours — Chanel, Dior, and Boucheron sparkle just steps away,. The Jardins des Tuileries offer a leafy pause en route to the Louvre (don’t miss the museum shop at the Musée des Artes Décoratifs which is tucked into the Louvre’s western wing). Tour the Opéra Garnier or pre-book tickets for a classical concert or ballet to sit beneath its Chagall-painted ceiling in awe. Dedicate a few hours to perusing the Galerie Vivienne, a covered passageway of curated boutiques and bookshops that feels like a portal to 19th-century Paris. Nearby, Palais Royal delivers sculpture-dotted serenity and under-the-radar design ateliers.

Local restaurants

A few boulevards away, Tracé serves prettily presented plates in a minimalist, gallery-like setting. Its rising-star chef, Clément Vergeat, is one to watch, and the organic wine list is refreshingly different for the French capital. For something heartier but no less refined, La Régalade reinvents classic bistro fare, combining generous portions with market-fresh ingredients. Just around the corner from the hotel, Le Soufflé is a Parisian institution dedicated entirely to the cloud-like dish — savoury or sweet, served in stylish silver ramekins.

Local cafés

While on the Palais Royal (because you’ll find yourself there, inevitably), pop into Japanese-inspired Café Kitsuné for immaculately brewed coffee sipped (largely by fashion editors) in the arcades of the garden. A short walk away, Café Verlet has been roasting since 1880 and its Rue Saint-Honoré address looks every inch the old-world hideout with its mahogany counters and mirrored walls.

Local bars

Slip into Bar Hemingway at the Ritz for a nightcap (ladies’ drinks are garnished with a rose, how romantique), or people-watch from the moody, red-velvet bar at Hôtel Costes, which hosts a different DJ every night.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this femme-first hotel in the 1st arrondissement and unpacked their glittering gems and haute watches, a full account of their achingly chic city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Maison Barrière Vendôme in Paris…

Third-generation diamond dealer and fine jeweller, Corinne Evens, took over the pretty mansion that Maison Barrière Vendôme now occupies from Lacoste, and the female-owned hotel still very much blends in with its fashion-house and jewellery-shop neighbours on glittering Place Vendôme. Interior designer Daniel Jibert has crafted 26 bespoke rooms and suites, each paying homage to an iconic woman — from Agnes de Simone and Audrey Hepburn to Marie Curie — imbued with Pierre Frey fabrics, Lalique lighting and hand-painted, wallpaper-mimicking murals by Atelier de Ricou. 

Part of the 20-strong team of artisans who beautified the property is Parisian sculptor, Clémentine de Chabaneix, the whimsical hand behind many of the archways and ornately carved details — all set against original oak beams and Versailles parquet floors. Femme-focused features flow through to Frida restaurant and bar, with paintings by Kahlo in the form of stained glass windows shedding light on the fusion dishes and sweet treats whipped up by the resident (and renowned) pastry chef.

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