travel42 Hotel Review: Hotel Le Bristol

Hotel Le Bristol travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Across from the Elysee Palace in the 8th arrondissement, in the high-fashion and highly guarded diplomatic zone, this is one of the world's most impressive hotels, a limestone palace of pomp and pampering that was among the first to receive France's highest hotel rating: designation as one of only a handful of "palace hotels" in Paris.

Owned by one of Europe's richest families, the German-based Oetkers, it is by any measure one of the world's most impres...