Luxury Hotels Palace city
Rank 13
Ritz Paris
Place Vendôme after Despont is still a hotel people perform in; Hemingway’s bar is the honest tell.
Photograph: Hôtel Ritz Paris by Wolfgang Jung, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Why it is here
Michelin’s 2025 France Key list retains Three Keys at Ritz Paris — 15 Place Vendôme, 142 rooms and suites after the Despont ‘modernisation with discretion’ (2012–2016 close). The inspector copy still names Bar Hemingway, Chanel’s historic suite logic, and Espadon. Condé Nast Traveler’s hotel page carries Triple Crown / Gold List history. Ranked a hair behind George V because the six-star restaurant stack and CNT 2024 worldwide Top 50 sit on avenue George V; exclusivity 9.2 is the smaller 142-key book and the Vendôme address. This is still a tourist-magnet public space — ranked because the house actually runs, not because the name is a trademark.
Who it is for
UHNW Paris stays that want Place Vendôme, a Chanel spa and Bar Hemingway, and who will accept a photographed lobby in exchange for 142 post-Despont keys.
Sources
- Ritz Paris — Paris MICHELIN Key hotelThree MICHELIN Keys retained 2025; Despont renovation; Bar Hemingway; 142-key Vendôme house.
- Ritz Paris — hotel reviewCNT Triple Crown / Gold List stack for the Place Vendôme palace.
