Le Meurice

Le Meurice is a five-star hotel on the Rue de Rivoli in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, facing the Tuileries Garden between the Place de la Concorde and the Louvre. It is owned and operated by the Dorchester Collection and holds the French government's "Palace" distinction, awarded in 2011.

La Liste ranks it among the ten hotels tied at No. 1 in 2026, each with 99.5 out of 100. Time Out describes it as the "gilded grande dame opposite the Tuileries" and recalls that Salvador Dalí stayed there for a month every year.

The hotel traces its roots to the postmaster Charles-Augustin Meurice, who opened a coaching inn in Calais in 1771 and a Paris hotel in 1815 aimed at English travellers. It moved to its present site on the Rue de Rivoli in 1835. In the early 20th century the building was rebuilt behind its façade by the architect Henri Paul Nénot, with Louis XVI-style interiors; today it has 160 rooms and a staff of more than 400.

Sources of this text: Wikipedia · La Liste (France)