The well-heeled needn’t accept five-star accommodations in France – they will go a step up and ebook right into a property given a ‘palace’ score by the French authorities. These accommodations are so superb they’re deemed to reinforce the repute of France around the globe.
Even the most cost effective room in any palace-rated lodge can be very swish, however right here we’re taking you thru the keyholes of the top-tier suites in 18 palace-rated properties – a glimpse of a few of France’s most heavenly lodge havens.
They do not come low-cost, costing from round £1,700 to £40,000 an evening. However you get what you pay for, and in these cases that is marble bathtubs, grand pianos, non-public gyms, furnishings by the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, landscaped gardens and breathtaking views…
Chateau Saint-Martin & Spa in Vence, Provence – Duplex Suite, from 2,000 euros (£1,720)
The Duplex Suite within the Chateau Saint-Martin & Spa lodge has a ‘charming’ secret bed room on the highest flooring of a tower – and a personal balcony adjoining the lounge with ‘beautiful’ views over the French Riviera. The bed room additionally provides ‘stunning views of the hills and the ocean’. The lodge says the lodging is ‘excellent for romantic stays, honeymooners, or households’
Grand-Resort du Cap-Ferrat, A 4 Seasons Resort – Palace Sea View Suite, from 3,900 euros (£3,360)
Followers of Emily in Paris might recognise this suite (No.306), because it was used as a filming location for episode two in season two. It provides ‘a wide ranging view over the Mediterranean’ and has ‘the sensation of a personal residence’. Options embody a spacious front room, marble rest room with a deep soaking tub, and a glass-enclosed walk-in bathe with Diptyque tub facilities
Resort Barriere Les Neiges Courchevel – La Suite Les Neiges, from 6,800 euros (£5,855) per night time
La Suite Les Neiges is ready on the highest two flooring of Resort Barriere Les Neiges within the ski village of Courchevel 1850, boasting 210 sq. metres (2,260 sq ft) of ‘magnificence, tranquillity and splendour with panoramic views’. There’s a double lounge with hearth, a eating space that may seat eight friends, and a master suite with a lounge space, open-plan rest room and dressing room. Charles Richez, Common Supervisor, declares: ‘[The hotel] has turn out to be a key participant when it comes to rising France’s enchantment as a vacation spot’
Resort Byblos Saint-Tropez – Missoni Residence Suite, from 5,000 euros (£4,300)
The Missoni Residence Suite is unfold over 1,950 sq ft (180 sq m) and includes two bedrooms, 4 bogs, a front room with a pool view and a ‘stunning’ non-public terrace. Keep 5 nights or extra and the worth features a helicopter switch from Good airport
Resort de Crillon, A Rosewood Resort – Les Grands Appartements de Karl Lagerfeld – from 47,000 euros (£40,000)
The fourth-floor Grands Appartements, with views of the Eiffel Tower and Place de la Concorde, had been designed ‘to interpret [the late] clothier Karl Lagerfeld’s private imaginative and prescient of French stylish and modernity’. There are three in whole, and when mixed, cowl 3,606 sq ft (335 sq. metres). Every options bespoke furnishings designed by Lagerfeld. The lodge reveals that one of many bathtubs (within the high two photos) was carved from a single slab of Carrara marble weighing in at over two tonnes and was lifted by way of a window by a crane. It was then positioned on two blocks of ice which, as they melted, made it doable for the bathtub to be manoeuvred into place with out damaging the ground
Resort du Cap-Eden-Roc, Antibes – Eden-Roc Suite, from 10,000 euros (£8,600)
The Eden-Roc Suite, renovated in 2022, is ‘an invite to meditation, with its light-blue tones and unbelievable view over the Mediterranean Sea and the Lerins Islands’. One of the eye-catching options is a terrace overlaying 200 sq. metres (2,152 sq ft) on which friends will discover a ‘magnificent panorama backyard’ and whirlpool tub
Resort Plaza Athenee, Dorchester Assortment, Paris – La Suite Haute Couture (No.361), from 12,000 euros an evening (£10,300)
E-book into La Suite Haute Couture (No.361), and you will find, says the lodge, that ‘the spirit of Haute Couture lives on in each personalised, hand-tailored element’. The lodge continues: ‘Elaborate moldings intensify great excessive ceilings, wealthy couture-house materials add a layer of luxurious delight and distinctive particulars… deliver this suite collectively to kind a chic private house and residing murals’
Resort Royal Evian, Evian-les-Bains – Royal Suite, from 7,620 euros (£6,560)
Friends entry the Royal Suite through a personal elevate, which deposits them within the Resort Royal Evian’s ‘most spacious and prestigious’ slice of lodging. The lodge reveals that it includes two giant bedrooms, every with marble bogs, a ‘huge’ front room with a bar, eating desk and pool desk – and a terrace from which the Alps and Lake Geneva could be admired
La Reserve Ramatuelle, close to Saint-Tropez – Taillat Suite, from 4,200 euros (£3,600)
The Taillat Suite ‘gives a singular, magnificent encounter with the Mediterranean’, declares La Reserve Ramatuelle, revealing that it has ‘elegant decor, designer furnishings, a softly luminous color scheme, giant image home windows and beneficiant areas, together with a big outdoors residing space’
L’Apogee Courchevel, Courchevel 1850, The Penthouse – from 12,000 euros (£10,330)
Friends reserving into The Penthouse in L’Apogee Courchevel, in a wooded space in swanky ski resort Courchevel 1850, ‘get pleasure from extraordinary views all the way in which down the attractive valley’, the lodge says. What’s extra, ‘the recent tub on the roof terrace means they will immerse themselves within the extraordinary Alpine surroundings whereas soothing their limbs’. The lodge provides that the suite is completed in ‘plush delicate supplies’ and comes full with a ‘trendy eating room’
Le Bristol Paris – Suite Paris, from 11,000 euros (£9,500)
The ‘beloved’ Paris Suite, refurbished in 2020, options embroidered draperies on the French doorways, ‘wealthy’ wooden parquet (the identical as is seen within the Palace of Versailles, apparently) and a silk rug. If the adjoining Junior Suite is related, the ground house covers 200 sq. metres (2,152 sq. ft)
Resort Le K2 Palace Courchevel, Courchevel 1850 – Suite K3, from 8,810 euros (£7,650)
The design of Suite K3 ‘echoes the distant Himalayas with shimmering hues and luxurious materials impressed by the fantastic thing about pure supplies’, says Resort Le K2 Palace Courchevel. The suite covers three storeys and 300 sq. metres (3,229 sq ft), with the lodge including that the worth ‘features a private butler who will serve breakfast on to Suite K3 every morning’
Le Meurice, Dorchester Assortment, Paris – Belle Etoile Suite, from 25,000 euros (£21,700)
The Belle Etoile Suite ‘is kind of merely stunning’, gushes Le Meurice, which continues: ‘Each element has been fastidiously chosen to create a wide ranging setting, combining trendy touches with classical options. The unbelievable terrace with a 360-degree view of Paris is the one sightseeing you’ll want on a high quality day – taking in all the enduring landmarks of town. Collectively the suite and backyard cowl a powerful 620 sq. metres/6,674 sq ft, making it one of the spacious suites in Paris’
Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris – Raffles Personal Residence, from 20,000 euros (£17,400)
Raffles Personal Residence is ‘the very best non-public tackle’, declares Le Royal Monceau. It continues: ‘It is splendidly elegant and splendid, but understated and really welcoming. Constructed as a personal residence, the Raffles Personal Residence is tucked inside an intimate enclave nestled within the coronary heart of Paris’s most prestigious neighbourhood between the Parc Monceau and the Champs-Elysees. Combining final consolation and a focus to the smallest element, this pied-a-terre consists of three bedrooms and bogs, a personal health room and two cosy residing rooms’
Mandarin Oriental, Paris – the ‘Parisian Residence’, from 26,000 euros (£22,650)
Mandarin Oriental payments the 430-square-metre (4,628 sq ft) Parisian Residence as ‘among the many largest and most spectacular suites in Paris’, revealing that it overlooks the lodge’s ‘lush’ inside backyard and Rue Saint-Honore. There are 4 ‘elegant’ bedrooms and bogs, an ‘expansive’ reception space, a eating room and totally geared up kitchen. The furnishings has been customed designed by Patrick Gilles of acclaimed French company Gilles & Boissier
Park Hyatt Paris-Vendome – Suite Presidentielle, from 15,000 euros (£13,000)
The Park Hyatt Paris Presidential Suite is, says the lodge, an ‘ultra-luxurious haven with two balconies that boast views of the Eiffel Tower, Vendome Column and Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris’. There’s a ‘beautiful’ vestibule’, a ‘well-appointed’ kitchenette and a ‘spacious’ front room with two fireplaces. The 2-storey suite additionally comes with a master suite that boasts an in-suite spa with a whirlpool, steam room, therapeutic massage desk and gymnasium. The lodge concludes: ‘It is an unbelievable residence for an extended keep’
Shangri-La Paris – La Suite Shangri-La, from 14,000 euros (£12,200)
La Suite Shangri-La boasts ‘unobstructed chicken’s eye views of the stately Eiffel Tower’ due to its lofty place on the seventh flooring of the lodge and a 14-metre-long (45m) panoramic window. The lodge provides: ‘Probably the most iconic monument of the capital could be admired from anyplace within the suite or from its non-public terrace’
The Peninsula Paris, The Peninsula Suite – from 15,000 (£13,000) to 30,000 (£26,000) euros
The Peninsula Paris lodge says of its high suite: ‘The Peninsula Suite is a very luxurious residence of 318 sq m (3,423 sq ft), it provides an immense reception room full with grand piano, an unlimited eating room seating as much as 10, a chic workplace and a spacious bed room full with two giant dressing rooms and two marble bogs. This spectacular and vastly spacious suite has the power to adapt in keeping with the variety of its occupants. Ideally designed for 2 adults, every of whom has entry to their very own devoted amenities and gear, it additionally conveniently connects to 2 adjoining rooms to supply a big, shared haven of tranquility. Final however not least, every part has been designed to make sure the protection and privateness of our most prestigious friends’
Costs right at time of going to press.