Paris Digest
Paris city guide since 1997
Hotels near Champs-Elysées often combine luxury and proximity to great shopping venues and nightlife attractions. The Plaza Athénée and Royal Monceau are two mythical jet set hotels in this top fashion and shopping district. There are also a number of great apartments to rent in the district, directly bookable from this page. Hotels in Paris.
The Champs-Elysées are rightly one of the most prestigious and well known avenues in the world.
Les Champs, as they are called by parisians, are one of the top shopping avenues in the world. Champs-Elysées shops, car showrooms, restaurants, clubs, movie theaters animate the district day and night.
Stay in selected hotels near Champs-Elysées and immerse yourself in Paris most spectacular and animated district.
Most 5 star hotels in Paris are in the Champs-Elysées district.
The mythical Plaza Athénée features the Dior Institute spa, 5 restaurants. This famous hotel offers elegant accommodation with marble bathrooms and is a 5 minute walk from Avenue des Champs-Elysées.
Hotel Georges V is just steps from the Champs-Elysées, has private terraces with commanding city views, signature lavish flower displays, top-of-the-line spa treatments and Michelin-awarded dining. It redefines luxury in the City of Lights.
The fashionable Royal Monceau offers a cinema room, an indoor swimming pool and a library. The spacious, air-conditioned rooms boast hand-crafted furniture designed by famous French designer Philippe Starck.
Set on the Champs Elysees Avenue, Le Claridge Champs-Elysées offers fully equipped large suites for short or long-term stays with free Wi-Fi access. The suites all have a view of the avenue or the aparthotel’s patio. They feature a living area, a dining area, a kitchen and elegant marble bathroom. Facilities include satellite TV and a DVD player. Every morning, a buffet breakfast is served. There are many restaurants and cafes in the district. The Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre Museum and the Eiffel Tower are all close by.
Lovely Parisian hotel on Avenue Carnot near Champs-Elysées. Affordable for this Paris district. All rooms are equipped with a flat-screen satellite TV and a minibar. Some rooms have a balcony, and those overlooking Avenue Carnot offer a view of the Arc de Triomphe. A buffet breakfast is served each morning in the breakfast room. Guests may also enjoy drinks in the hotel’s lounge and bar.
Covering 1500 m², the Spa includes a 23 m infinity pool. Exclusive treatments, a fitness centre, relaxation rooms with a hammam and sauna are available.
Guests can dine at Il Carpaccio, the only Michelin-star Italian restaurant in Paris and sample Italian pastries prepared by superstar Pierre Hermé. The hotel has the first Matsuhisa restaurant in France, run by world renowned Chef Nobu Matsuhisa.
Rooms and suites overlook the quiet Avenue de Friedland or the hotel’s green interior courtyard. They come fully equipped with LCD flat screen TV, air conditioning, and tasteful furniture. The modern marble bathrooms have bathtubs, magnifying mirrors and bathrobes. The Bivouac Café offers gourmet cuisine. The bar has a sheltered terrace with a fountain.
The hotel is a 5 minute walk from Franklin D. Roosevelt Metro Station providing direct access to the Tuileries Gardens and the Louvre Museum. Free Wi-Fi access is available throughout the hotel. A buffet breakfast is served in the hotel’s luminous dining room. Starting in the afternoon until late in the evening, guests can also enjoy free non-alcoholic beverages and snacks in the hotel lobby.
Elegant, spacious. All rooms are in a classic Louis XV decor with elegant furniture and crystal chandeliers. They all have views over the streets of Paris or the inner courtyard. Guests are invited to relax with an aperitif in the classy Art-Deco styled bar, Le 47, or marvel at the glass-roof over the lobby, with its immense Baccarat lustre. A hot and cold buffet breakfast is served daily in the breakfast room.
70 meters wide, the Champs-Elysées run for 1910 meters in a straight line up hill from Place de la Concorde, the largest square in Paris, to Arc de Triomphe, the monumental arch built on the order of French Emperor Napoleon in 1806. The Champs-Elysées were commissioned in 1667 by Louis XIV, the Sun King who also commissioned Versailles Palace, to extend the perspective of the Louvre, his first royal palace.
The Champs-Élysées were originally marshy and uninhabited land. Marie de Médicis commissionned a long alley lined with elms and lime trees beyond the Tuileries Palace, along the Seine: the Cours la Reine was opened in 1615. Around 1670, André Le Nôtre, gardener to Louis XIV, was responsible for continuing to develop these lands. It traced in the axis of the central pavilion of the Tuileries Palace, from the current Place de la Concorde to the current Rondpoint des Champs-Élysées, towards the current Place de l'Étoile - a beautiful avenue bordered by land with alleyways of elm trees and grass carpets.
The current name of the "Champs-Élysées" appeared in 1694 but was not definitively fixed until 1709 as evidenced by the royal accounts. This name was chosen after the mythological term "Champs-Elysées" (equivalent of paradise) probably to take the opposite view from the marshy origins of the avenue.
On April 2, 1810, it was through the avenue, adorned for the occasion of a fictitious triumphal arch, that the new Empress of the French, Marie-Louise of Austria, entered the capital. Later, Russian Tsar Alexander I, King Frederick William III of Prussia and Prince Schwarzenberg took their places in a gallery set up near the Elysée Palace to watch the parade of Allied troops. These bivouaced in the gardens which they left in a deplorable state. Louis XVIII had them rehabilitated and opened Avenue Gabriel. To continue the development, the Prefect of the Seine had all of the gardens assigned to the City of Paris by a law of August 1828: “Place Louis XVI and the so-called Champs-Elysées promenade, as they are designated in the plan annexed to this law, including the constructions owned by the State and with the exception of the two ditches in the Place Louis XVI which border the Tuileries garden. The said concession is made at the charge of the city of Paris to provide for the costs of surveillance and maintenance of the places designated above; to carry out, within five years, embellishment work up to a sum of at least two million two hundred and thirty thousand francs; to keep their current destination for the land granted, which may not be alienated in whole or in part ”.
The Champs-Élysées are nowadays an emblematic artery and a must-see tourist site, with its shops, cinemas and theaters, cafes and restaurants, famous monuments such as the Grand Palais or the Arc de Triomphe, its gardens. The avenue is also a place dear to the hearts of the French for having hosted large popular gatherings, on the occasion of historical or sporting events. Every July 14, the French National Day military parade takes place. The Champs-Elysées are also the place of arrival of the last stage of the Tour de France cycling and the place of departure of the Paris Marathon. For the end-of-year celebrations, since 1980, commercial brands have offered the world magical Christmas illuminations, over 2 kilometers long, organized by the Champs-Elysées Committee. Every December 31, like a springboard into the future, on New Year's Eve the Champs-Elysées is open to nearly a million people who come to plunge into the hope of a happy New Year.
A wide range of leisure activities attracts crowds of all nations. Because they have been able to adapt to their times, the Champs-Elysées are today the flagship avenue and the example of perfectly mastered modernization.
