Ritz Paris
Founded by César Ritz in 1898, Ritz Paris remains one of the world’s defining grand hotels, pairing 142 individually styled rooms and suites with legendary bars, gardens and an iconic indoor pool.
Ritz Paris occupies 15 Place Vendôme in the heart of the first arrondissement, between the Tuileries, Rue Saint-Honoré and Opéra Garnier. The address has been synonymous with Parisian luxury since César Ritz opened the hotel in 1898.
The hotel has 142 room keys, with interiors that favor silk, fine woodwork, marble bathrooms and a distinctly residential interpretation of French classicism. Prestige Suites are dedicated to figures associated with the hotel, including Coco Chanel, Ernest Hemingway and Marcel Proust.
The Grand Jardin creates a rare private green space behind the Place Vendôme façade, while the Ritz Club & Spa centers on the hotel’s famous blue-tiled indoor swimming pool. Beauty, fitness and wellness are treated with the same ceremonial attention as the public salons.
Food and drink are inseparable from the Ritz myth. Espadon provides the gastronomic centerpiece, Bar Hemingway preserves one of Paris’s most famous cocktail traditions, and Salon Proust turns afternoon tea into a literary ritual.
Ritz Paris is not merely a luxury hotel in Paris; it is part of the city’s cultural mythology. Guests come as much for the history, atmosphere and rituals as for the rooms themselves.