Hôtel de Crillon

On the Place de la Concorde, in the 8th arrondissement, the Hôtel de Crillon welcomed its first guests in 1909. It has 78 rooms and 46 suites, ten of them Signature Suites, according to an article on its website; the MICHELIN Guide gives it two Keys. It has a pool, at Sense, A Rosewood Spa, but does not say who may swim. For dining: Nonos par Paul Pairet, selected in the MICHELIN Guide without a star, Jardin d’Hiver, Bar Les Ambassadeurs and Butterfly Pâtisserie.

The hotel describes 23 categories, all in our table with the occupancy it publishes: four listed as rooms, the Junior Suite among them, three suites, ten Signature Suites and six family suites, which combine several of them.

The Deluxe Room, the Premier Room, the Deluxe Suite and the ten Signature Suites sleep two; the Grand Premier Room, the Junior Suite and the Premier and Grand Premier Suites, up to three, the third on an extra bed or sofa bed subject to availability. An extra bed costs €200 a night from age 14, in certain categories. The Place de la Concorde appears only in the view line of four Signature Suites, from 116 to 238 m²; the rooms and suites look onto the courtyards or rue Boissy d’Anglas.

Sense, A Rosewood Spa brings together a pool, a sauna, a steam room, experience showers and a resting area with a Himalayan salt wall. An article on the website describes a long pool lit by a glass roof; no page gives its size or hours of its own.

No page says whether the pool is for hotel guests only, or whether you can come without staying. The treatment menu sells “Sense Journeys”, a treatment followed by access to the relaxation area, from €300, with no residence condition written; private sessions at the pool are for hotel guests only. Complimentary access to the spa facilities is mentioned only for the Advance Purchase rate.

Online, no category sleeps more than three. The six family suites, for four to six guests, combine a room or a Junior Suite with a suite, or several Signature Suites; they are requested by e-mail, with no booking engine. To reach six guests, some rely on extra beds or sofa beds, on request and subject to availability.

An extra bed costs €200 a night from age 14. The hotel’s Le Petit Crillon programme provides children’s items (bibs, sleeping bags, bed bumpers, tipis) and a children’s menu at Jardin d’Hiver, Nonos, Butterfly Pâtisserie and in-room dining; the page gives no age, price or terms. The hotel publishes no free-stay age, no babysitting service and no rule for children at the pool.