The Peninsula Paris

The Best Hotels in Paris | Vogue

"A stone’s throw from the Arc de Triomphe and housed in the former palace of the exiled Queen Isabella II of Spain (later the Hotel Majestic, where George Gershwin wrote An American in Paris, and then the Ministry of Defense), this hotel manages to honor its illustrious past while operating as thoroughly modern: one minute I’m gazing out a Beaux-Arts balcony dreaming of Brassai’s Paris At Night, another I’m using the in-room iPad to submit requests that are executed within minutes (I’ve never had a pair of pants pressed faster in my life). Whenever friends travel to Paris for both business and pleasure, I tell them I know just the place." - Vogue