Right Bank:
Champs-Élysées to Louvre

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Hotel Vendome

ABOVE: The Hôtel Vendôme, a luxurious boutique hotel on the Place Vendôme, has only 18 rooms and 11 suites.

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1st, 2nd, and 8th arrondissements

The stretch of the Right Bank from the Arc de Triomphe to the Louvre Museum is home to some of the most upscale neighborhoods, shopping streets, and hotels in Paris.

If you're a perfume executive, an haute couture shopper, or a bailed-out bank CEO with a government-funded expense account, you'll probably be sleeping in the 1st, 2nd, or 8th arrondissement--possibly in one of the stratospherically-priced hotels that are listed on our Paris 5-Star Hotels resources page.

The 1st arrondissement is prime riverside territory, with such attractions as the Jardins des Tuileries, the Louvre Museum, and the Palais-Royal with its gardens (where a cannon is fired at noon daily). Venere's 1st arrondissement hotel map shows nearly four dozen properties, some in the high-priced range--such as the Hôtel Vendôme, shown at the top of this page--but some quite reasonable.

The 2nd arrondissement is just north of the 1st district and a bit farther from the Seine. As you move east through the 2nd, you'll come to an area of pedestrian streets around the rue Montorgueil with interesting food shops such as the historic Stohrer pâtisserie, near the district's border with Marais. Venere's 2nd arrondissement hotel map lists about 20 hotels, mostly in the western half of the district toward the Ópera Garnier.

The 8th arrondissement is to the west of the 1st, 2nd, and 9th, with the Avenue des Champs-Élysées running diagonally from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de La Concorde. The fashionable Faubourg Saint-Honoré parallels the Champs-Élysées, and the Gare Saint-Lazare is in the northeastern corner of the district. Venere's 8th arrondissement hotel map showed more than 80 hotels the last time we checked, mostly in the three- and four-star categories. (Some of the most expensive hotels in Paris, such as the Crillon and the Plaza Athenée, are also in the 8th.)

Transportation: From Charles de Gaulle Airport, the quickest way to reach the Arc de Triomphe and the western end of the Champs Élysées is by Air France bus; if you're staying near the borders of the 1st, 8th, and 9th, the Roissybus to Ópera will be more convenient. To reach the eastern part of the 1st and 2nd, take the RER "B" train to Châtelet-Les Halles. See our CDG airport ground transportation article for more information.

Next page: Right Bank: Ópera

In this article:

Introduction

Types of accommodation

Left Bank: Latin Quarter, St-Germain

Left Bank: Eiffel Tower, Invalides

Right Bank: Champs-Élysées to Louvre

Right Bank: Ópera

Right Bank: Marais

Île de la Cité, Île Saint-Louis

Montmartre

Charles de Gaulle, Orly, and Beauvais Airports

Other areas of Paris and its suburbs

Also see:

Paris Accommodations Directory