- 208 rooms and suites, 8e arrondissement
- Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée, 3★ Michelin
- Dior Institut spa
- Dorchester Collection
The geraniums on the façade are the most recognisable image of any Paris palace, and the courtyard remains the most cinematic room in the city for a coupe at 18h. Ducasse's three-star room upstairs is, in its current vegetable-first configuration, divisive — but the hotel does not need the kitchen to justify itself.
Book a courtyard suite, take the Eiffel Tower view if it is offered, drink at the bar rather than in the courtyard for the long evening. The address is the Avenue Montaigne ritual that a serious shopping trip still demands.
The room for the shopping week.
