Hotel Marignan Champs-Elysées – Hotel Review

Paris’ Triangle d’Or, a triad of luxurious designer stores and expensive real estate in the city’s right bank, is a cradle of luxurious living. Amid the well-heeled locals that trot into designer stores or trawl the boulevards of the elegant 8th arrondissement in expensive cars sits Hotel Marignan Champs-Elysées, a glittering five-star boutique hotel offering expansive suites and impeccable service. Read on for the full review.

It isn’t hard to break the bank here, especially if you’re willing to pay to have the incredible Eiffel Tower views to yourself via a private balcony. If you’re happy to simply orbit near this level of luxury and skip splashing the cash, the “standard” rooms – with designer furniture, plush beds and marble bathrooms – are more than a cut above average.

Where is Hotel Marignan Champs-Elysées?

Paris’ so-named Triangle d’Or loops some of the most luxurious designer boutiques within its boundaries. That’s where you’ll also find Hotel Marignan Champs-Elysées – on the right bank in the elegant 8th arrondissement. The city’s main airports – Charles de Gaulle and Orly – are both less than 35 minutes away by car in opposite directions, the latter being a few minutes closer.

What’s near Hotel Marignan Champs-Elysées?

Retail therapy is on the agenda in this western clutch of Paris. Champs-Elysées, Avenue Montaigne (two minutes by foot) and rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré (15 minutes) and practically gleam for the amount of luxury boutiques that line their edges.

Room types

From the raw silk curtains to the mid-century furniture accents, it feels like no expense has been spared in Hotel Marignan’s chic, understated rooms. Comfy, spacious and sprinkled with goodies (Ex Voto amenities, bathrobes, rain showers or bathtubs, Nespresso machines), the standard rooms are lovely but the suites are something else – especially the Eiffel Terrace Suite. The seventh-floor beauty has 40 square metres of indoor space and a stunning private terrace, with a starring view of the Eiffel Tower and the city’s heritage rooftops.

Restaurants and bars

Limon, the hotel’s sultry on-site restaurant, serves Italian at night (and more international brekkie in the morning). Our pick? The gorgonzola-soaked ravioli to begin, a rich osso bucco with polenta for main, and, for dessert, a limoncello-drenched babà.

Travel for work

You won’t find cookie-cutter meeting rooms at Hotel Marignan. There’s a space for virtually every kind of event: a movie screening theatre for presentations, a light-flushed space with a soaring ceiling perfect for product launches, and an intimate breakout room with quirky touches for easy creative collaboration. The smallest can fit 12 for a formal dinner, while the largest accommodates 50 for a cocktail do.
Rooms have free wi-fi and small desk spaces (with very chic chairs) for solo remote workers, too.

What you need to know

Kids can bunk with you at Hotel Marignan too, with the adult rate kicking in for those aged 19 and over. (Little ones under two are free, however.)