Le Meurice

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  228 Rue de Rivoli, overlooking the Tuileries Garden between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, part of Dorchester Collection. Salvador Dalí stayed here on and off for more than thirty years, and his favourite suite now bears his name. The two-Michelin-starred Restaurant le Meurice Alain Ducasse, led by chef Amaury Bouhours, sits under a Versailles-inspired painted ceiling; Philippe Starck's Restaurant Le Dalí and pastry chef Cédric Grolet's trompe-l'oeil fruit desserts are equally signature.

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• The hotel's decor is often described as a modern-day Versailles, facing the Tuileries — the oldest garden in Paris — between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde. Salvador Dalí is its most famous regular: he stayed here on and off for more than thirty years from the 1930s onward, and the surrealist spirit he left behind still runs through the place.

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  The two-Michelin-starred Restaurant le Meurice Alain Ducasse, overseen by Alain Ducasse and led by chef Amaury Bouhours since 2020, sits beneath a painted ceiling and crystal chandeliers inspired by Versailles — one of the defining fine-dining rooms in Paris.

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  The menu favours precision over spectacle, letting seasonal ingredients speak through restrained, exacting plating.

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  Restaurant Le Dalí, designed by Philippe Starck and inspired by the artist, serves seasonal French cuisine; Bar 228 is a Parisian favourite for leather armchairs and live jazz; and pastry chef Cédric Grolet's trompe-l'oeil fruit desserts, famous across social media, have their own boutique inside the hotel.

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• La Maison Valmont pour Le Meurice brings the Swiss beauty house Valmont into the hotel's spa, within walking distance of the Champs-Élysées and Rue Saint-Honoré.

• 21 room categories span four tiers: Rooms — Classic (30㎡), Superior (35㎡), Deluxe (40㎡), Executive (45㎡, several with Eiffel Tower views); Junior Suites — Junior, Deluxe Junior, Executive Junior (from 52㎡, dressed by designers Lally & Berger); and several tiers of standard suite.

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  The Presidential Apartment Dalí, at 160 square metres, was Salvador Dalí's own favourite — two high-ceilinged reception rooms facing the Tuileries, furnished in a way that still carries the artist's distinctive imprint.

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  The Belle Etoile Penthouse Suite, at 620 square metres including a 300-square-metre terrace, sits on the hotel's highest floor with a 360-degree view of Paris from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower. It has its own private kitchen and sleeps up to 8 — one of the most celebrated hotel suites in Paris.

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Le Meurice suits travellers drawn to a good art story who also want to stay at the dead centre of Paris — Dalí's legend, the two-Michelin-starred restaurant, Cédric Grolet's pastry boutique all reward unhurried attention. For a quieter, less landmark-adjacent stay, a boutique property set further from the main sights is worth considering instead — but for settling into a slice of art history between the Louvre and the Tuileries, this is a strong fit.