How we chose these hotels
The list starts from a circle of 600 m around the Louvre pyramid (48.8611, 2.3358, from Wikidata), measured in a straight line from each hotel’s coordinates. Inside it, the selection took the hotels checked by hand first, then rotated through the categories from five stars to one, the closest first in each, up to twenty candidates; the page shows them with the hand-checked hotels first, then by stars, then by distance. Sixteen of the twenty have a file and all sixteen are described. Four have none and cannot be described: Hôtel du Louvre (five stars), Timhôtel le Louvre, La Dépendance and Londres Saint-Honoré (three stars). Two more hotels of the circle with a file, Le Pradey and Résidence l’Empire, fall outside the twenty. Résidence La Clef Louvre (five stars, 323 m from the pyramid, checked by hand) is not among them: Atout France classes it as a tourist residence, not a hotel, so the rule did not draw it. The distances in the notes are calculated from the coordinates, not taken from a map app, and walking times are those of the nearest metro station.
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Hotels we checked by hand are described with their confirmed facilities. For the others we state only what is recorded: the official category, the number of rooms, the address, the metro and the dated facts published on the hotel’s site. Where a house says something about itself, we say “the hotel says”. Stars come from the Atout France register, with the date of the decision shown on each card. We publish no prices, as they change nightly.
Which part of the Louvre district suits whom
Our Louvre and Tuileries area is the 1st arrondissement, with its four administrative districts: Place-Vendôme, Palais-Royal, Les Halles and Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois. According to our data, it suits a first visit and couples well, and is only possible for families: the Tuileries garden is free, but the supply is mostly four and five stars.
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- First visit. The Louvre, the Tuileries and the Palais-Royal are on foot, lines 1, 7 and 14 meet the Châtelet interchange, and the airports are reached without a change: line 14 for Orly, RER B at Châtelet-Les Halles for Charles de Gaulle.
- Couples. Our data records hotels with views of the Tuileries, the Seine or the Palais-Royal, and the gardens of the Palais-Royal and the Tuileries are close.
- Budget. Not recommended by our data: 21 of the 71 classified hotels have one to three stars.
- Shopping. Two international tourist zones, Saint-Honoré – Vendôme and Les Halles, allow shops to open on Sundays.
The drawbacks are listed too. The Louvre and the Tuileries are named by the Japanese foreign ministry among the sites where its nationals suffer thefts, and the British FCDO warns of pickpockets in the metro and RER. Central Paris is a limited-traffic zone since 5 November 2024: through traffic is banned, but you may drive in to reach your hotel, and taxis are exempt. For other bases, see hotels in the 1st arrondissement or hotels in central Paris.
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