Paris, France

Maison Proust Hotel & Spa

Price per night from$1,187.34

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR1,022.76), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Literati-loving lair

Setting

Gai Marais

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Marcel Proust wrote of eternalising a ‘luminous instant’ in time — a sensation emulated at homage-paying Maison Proust Hotel & Spa in Le Marais. At this Jacques Garcia-designed bolthole, individually styled bedrooms are resplendent with notable artworks and gilded furnishings; a golden, sun mural shines down over the library, and its dining salons radiate romance. The third arrondissement’s honey-hued rues enhance this effect, as do the mosaic-clad spa’s hammam and pool, which you’ll leave glowing —and just maybe feeling immortal.

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An hour’s private use of the spa each day, plus a welcome mocktail each at the bar

Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

23, including 12 suites.

Check–Out

Noon; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible on request, subject to availability and an extra charge (from €150).

More details

Rates at Maison Proust Hotel & Spa exclude breakfast; a Continental spread is €22 each or American-style is €36.

Also

Four Junior Suites are adapted with roll-in showers, and the communal salons are accessible (the spa and pool unfortunately are not).

At the hotel

Charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and bespoke bath products.

Our favourite rooms

With its vast collection of paintings and objets d’art, Maison Proust makes you feel like you’re staying in a collector’s townhouse. Each spacious Junior Suite is a sumptuous homage to a notable artiste — Renoir, Lemaire, Baudelaire — but you can get up close and personal with the man of the hour in a Marcel Proust Executive Suite, with its top-floor views, book-lined living area and bespoke lampshades that are decorated with lines of his prose.

Poolside

You’ll find a heated pool at the spa, flanked by monochrome-tiled columns. It’s open from 8am to 8pm, and you’ll get an hour’s private use each day included with your stay.

Spa

Spa La Mer is rather transportive: you’ll transcend to a higher state of relaxation with the brand’s bespoke treatment menu of massages and rituals, but you’re also teleported to Morocco with its hammam and ceramic-clad design (which was conceived by the same craftsmen who worked on the King of Morocco’s palaces). Its ornate tilework and grand columns still tie back to Proust, though: the space nods to his Aunt Léonie’s Orientalism-inspired salons, where he spent some of his childhood.

Packing tips

Leave your copies of Proust at home — you’ll find his words on lampshades and lining the library.

Also

Maison Proust shares arresting Jacques Garcia design with its Smith-loved sister Maison Souquet; but here, each room flaunts a piece by its namesake figure, such as a Jean Cocteau drawing, Jacques-Émile Blanche portrait or Charles Hermans composition.

Children

Welcome, but this romantic pied-à-terre is better suited to adults. Baby cots can be added to the Junior and Executive Suites, and the two- or three-bedroom options are best for bigger clans.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

In the Winter Garden for light-bathed breakfasts; the library is set for evening tête-à-têtes.

Dress Code

Take inspiration from the man himself with silk cravats and fine tailoring, but give them a modern makeover with your latest finds from the boutiques of Le Marais.

Hotel restaurant

There’s no formal restaurant at Maison Proust, instead you can pick from two Jacques Garcia-designed spaces to dine in all day: the Winter Garden is a bright space that lends itself well to Continental or American-style breakfasts; the library is dramatically dressed in Cordoba leather, wood panelling and a domed, gold-leaf ceiling, which pays homage to Opéra Garnier. A menu of small-but-decadent bites, such as Galician sardines or blinis topped with royal salmon roe, pairs well with the bar’s signature cocktails.

Hotel bar

Date nights at the old-world bar consist of cosying up on a midnight-blue-velvet banquette, intimate games of chess and reading romantic passages from the library’s selection to each other. La Madeleine de Proust — named after the French phrase for the sensation of a smell or taste triggering a long-lost memory, coined from In Search of Lost Time — might have you harking back to halcyon days with its (potent) blend of vanilla-infused vodka, Grand Marnier, Amaretto Adriatico and Pineau des Charentes. Every Friday, legendary mixologist Colin Field makes a guest appearance to shake things — well, arcane cocktails — up. 

Last orders

Breakfast is between 7am and 11am; an all-day menu is served from 11am to 12.30am. The bar pours from 5pm to 1am.

Room service

You can dine in your room around the clock.

Location

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Address
Maison Proust Hotel & Spa
26 Rue de Picardie
Paris
75003
France

Maison Proust Hotel & Spa is set on a tree-lined street in Le Marais, a stroll from the neighbourhood’s cool cafés and boutiques, and within easy reach of the capital’s big hitters.

Planes

Orly Airport is a 40-minute drive, and Charles de Gaulle is an hour away by car; staff can arrange transfers from either from €200 each way.

Trains

Your closest Métro hub is République, a five-minute walk away; from here, lines three, five, eight, nine and 11 will zip you around the city. The Eurostar calls at Gare du Nord and routes from Orly Airport at Gare de Lyon; both stations are a 15-minute drive from the hotel.

Automobiles

Save yourself driving-induced cries of ‘Mon Dieu!’ and rely on taxis or public transport to whizz you about. Should you choose to drive, Interparking Temple is your closest public carpark, a 10-minute walk away.

Worth getting out of bed for

You’ll find an impressive art collection, stylish crowd and covetable design within Maison Proust’s embrace, but the same can also be said of its middle-of-Le-Marais locale. Find the former in mansion-set Musée Carnavalet or oeuvre-studded Musée Picasso; until cultural behemoth Le Centre Pompidou reopens its doors, seek out more contemporary works at Maison Européenne de la Photographie. You’ll find a fashionable sect along Rue de Turenne, in its neighbouring boutiques — concept store Merci, curated vintage haven The Room — and epicure’s-favourite Marché Couvert des Enfants Rouge.

Local restaurants

Fuss-free, French home cooking draws a crowd to Bouillon République, a traditional eatery with old-world decor, soul-warming classics and pitchers of wine. Lady in red Maslow Temple tempts with plant-based sharing plates, photogenic interiors (and exterior) and a cool crowd. Chez Janou is the neighbourhood go-to for cosy dinners of escargots, a generous dollop of chocolate mousse and long list of pastis.

Local cafés

South American bites and beans mark mornings at Los Andes Coffee. Set in the Swedish Institute, Fika’s courtyard seating sets the scene for Scandi-style buns, breakfasts and tartines.

Local bars

Speakeasy Moonshiner sits behind a vault door in a pizza restaurant, pouring terroir-inspired cocktails until the early hours (with sizzling slices on hand for your journey home). Mezcal-laced tipples and glasses of natural wine are your apéritifs at Bar Principal, best sipped at the candlelit counter.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

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 homage-spinning hotel in Le Marais and unpacked their copies of Proust and La Mer beauty products, a full account of their romantic city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here’s a quick peek inside Maison Proust Hotel & Spa in Paris… 

Collection Maisons Particulières, the creative masterminds behind made-for-sybarites Maison Proust Hotel & Spa and its Smith-approved sister Maison Souquet, are as skilled at storytelling as they are design — and with Jacques Garcia at the stylistic helm, the interiors are a dazzling spectacle. 

Across the two boutique hotels, the owners wanted to capture the essence of how a Belle Époque aristocrat might have lived from dawn to dusk. Maison Proust emulates the elegant palaces that would host socialites and artistes for cultured conversations, which now take place in the mural-crowned library or tucked away in the velvet-dressed bar. And breakfast in the Winter Garden and private hours at the spa offer daytime indulgence. 

Maison Souquet nods to late-night revelry, with its Pigalle setting and salacious heritage, but Maison Proust also has a seductive streak: legendary bartender Colin Field mixes his signature cocktails every Friday evening, and the opulent boudoirs are made for timeless romancing. 

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