Hotels & Hostels Paris Hôtel Costes

Hôtel Costes (Hotel)

  • Review & Booking
  • 239 rue St-Honoré, Louvre, 1er
    Paris 75001, FRANCE | View map
  • Price Range: Top end
  • Neighbourhood: 1er
  • Atmosphere: Opulent and Busy

Author pick

Lonely Planet Review

Quotes Jean-Louis Costes' eponymous 82-room hotel offers a 'luxurious and immoderate home away from home' to visiting ubermensch and A-listers. Outfitted in in the signature Second Empire colours of purple and gold with a Byzantine twist, it remains a darling of the rich and famous.

The dark and quite theatrical rooms of this opulent hotel with their red velvet, Middle Eastern wardrobes are almost vampiric. A fitting description perhaps considering the hours kept by the stars that stay here. Also note the large central Italian-style courtyard replete with classical statues and a delightful restaurant. Other amenities are excellent; the basement pool, with its Art Deco-ish lounge chairs, is gorgeous, and the bar legendary. And if you actually bother to leave the hotel, it's perfectly positioned for the chicest of Paris' shopping. A couple of rooms have been adapted for wheelchair access, and there's air-conditioning throughout.

Review by author Steve Fallon

How to book this property

This property has been reviewed and recommended by a Lonely Planet author. However it is not bookable online either with Lonely Planet or with a recommended hotel booking provider. In order to book this property please contact them directly.

  • Email: doc@hotelcostes.com
  • Website: www.hotelcostes.com

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Author Tip

L'Ardoise (28 rue du Mont Thabor, 1er), a little bistro one street to the southwest, has no menu as such (ardoise means 'blackboard'), but who cares? The food prepared by chef Pierre Jay (ex-Tour d'Argent) is superb and the set menu offers excellent value.

Curious Fact

In the centre of place Vendôme just northeast of the Hôtel Costes stands the 43.5m-tall Colonne Vendôme, which consists of a stone core wrapped in a 160m-long bronze spiral that's made from hundreds of Austrian and Russian cannons captured by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. The statue on top depicts Bonaparte in classical Roman dress.