Who can swim without staying, at what price, at what hours and with which children: we read the official pages of seven hotels, and every answer is dated.
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Sorted by the first question: can you swim without being a hotel guest? Six of the seven pools are indoor, according to the hotels’ pages; for Shangri-La Paris, this is not stated.
| Hotel | Without a stay | The pool | Hours (guests) | Children |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day pass | ||||
| Ritz Paris1st arr. | €300 Monday to Thursday, €350 Friday to Sunday and public holidays, per person | Indoor; length not published | Not stated | Official pages conflict |
| Shangri-La Paris16th arr. | €250 for the day, €195 for a weekday half-day | Size not verified | 7am–9pm; outside guests 9am–9pm | Official pages conflict |
| With a booked treatment | ||||
| Four Seasons Hotel George V8th arr. | With a treatment: “L’Heure Suspendue”, from €400 | Indoor; size not published | 6.30am–10pm | No rule published |
| Annual membership | ||||
| Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris8th arr. | Membership from €8,000 the first year (Monday to Friday) | Indoor, 23 m | 6.30am–10pm | Hotel children: 10am–5pm, with a parent |
| The Peninsula Paris16th arr. | Membership from €7,900 a year (Monday to Friday) | Indoor, 20 × 5 m, level −1 | 6.30am–10pm | Always with an adult |
| Hotel guests only | ||||
| Le Bristol Paris8th arr. | No: a spa treatment does not open the pool | Indoor, sixth floor | Not stated | Under 16s accompanied and supervised |
| Mandarin Oriental, Paris1st arr. | No: treatments take place in private suites | Indoor, 14 m, 1.2 m deep | 7am–10pm | From 3, with an adult under 16 |
Official pages read from to · All sources
Day pass, booked treatment or annual membership: five of the seven hotels open their pool to people not staying, on very different terms.
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Day pass
The pool day pass costs €300 per person Monday to Thursday (public holidays excepted) and €350 Friday to Sunday and on public holidays, without a treatment. It must be booked ahead and depends on availability; packages with a treatment are separate offers.
Source: Pool & Fitness, read on
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Day pass
Chi, The Spa sells people not staying at the hotel day access at €250, from 10am to 8pm, and a half-day at €195 Monday to Friday, on reservation and subject to availability; the price list does not say “per person”. They swim from 9am to 9pm; hotel guests from 7am.
Source: Chi, The Spa at Shangri-La Paris (spa site), read on
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With a booked treatment
No day pass: the pool is for hotel guests, from 6.30am to 10pm. Without a stay, it opens only with a booked treatment: “L’Heure Suspendue” gives one hour of pool and relaxation areas, from €400, subject to availability.
Source: The Spa — Four Seasons Hotel George V, read on
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Annual membership
No day pass on the official pages: non-residents swim through an annual Raffles Club & Fitness membership, from €8,000 the first year for Monday to Friday, or €9,200 for seven days a week. Residents have the 23-metre pool from 6.30am to 10pm. Only the French page announces a summer closure of the pool, from 27 July to 27 August.
Source: Spa at Raffles Paris, read on
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Annual membership
No day pass either: the spa’s annual membership starts at €7,900 for Monday to Friday and €9,900 for seven days a week. The 20-by-5-metre pool, on level −1, is open to hotel guests and members from 6.30am to 10pm.
Source: The Pool — The Peninsula Paris, read on
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To swim, you have to stay: a spa treatment is not enough.
Hotel guests only
The sixth-floor pool is for hotel guests only. Booking a spa treatment does not give access to it, and temporary closures remain possible.
Source: Pool, read on
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Hotel guests only
The 14-metre pool, 1.2 metres deep, is for hotel guests, from 7am to 10pm. Non-residents can book a treatment in a private spa suite, which has its own vitality pool and steam room, but not the pool.
Source: Wellness, read on
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The rules hotels publish, and the ones they do not.
For Ritz Paris and Shangri-La Paris, the official pages contradict each other: we keep no rule.
For Four Seasons Hotel George V, the pages we read give no rule.
Either way, check with the hotel before bringing a child.
A documentary check, without a visit.
We have neither swum nor stayed at these hotels: we read their official pages, record the date of each reading and keep only what they state clearly. When two pages contradict each other, we say so instead of choosing. Published prices can change: check them with the hotel before you go. How we verify
Pages read for this page, with their consultation date.
1 / 7 Ritz Paris · The indoor pool · © Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0
2 / 7 Shangri-La Paris · The spa pool
3 / 7 Four Seasons Hotel George V · The indoor pool
4 / 7 Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris · The spa’s indoor pool
5 / 7 The Peninsula Paris · The length of the pool
6 / 7 Le Bristol Paris · The indoor pool
7 / 7 Mandarin Oriental, Paris · The indoor pool
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