Montalembert

Montalembert is a Hotel in Paris, Ile de France of 56 rooms, with prices starting 300 pounds sterling.

Montalembert Quality Rating: 4
Number of Bedrooms in Montalembert: 56
Child Rate Available: No or Not Known

Description of Montalembert:
"The Hotel Montalembert has long been an historic landmark on the Left Bank of Paris. From its inception, the Montalembert has been a favorite retreat for writers and artists; today the Hotel continues to attract some of the most famous and prestigious names from around the world. "What we have created," explains Mrs. Leo-Andrieu," is a hotel which would integrate a contemporary style and look -luxurious, chic and simple - into the original elegant framework of the beautiful Montalembert."

Reviews of Hotel Montalembert

Joanna Monkhouse
The Montalembert was the first of the ‘boutique’ hotels in Paris and after its 2002 refurbishment is running once more alongside its imitators that had begun to overtake the original. The spirit remains the same but the décor is now an example of that pared down yet luxurious style - seemlessly blending modern design with the period Art Deco features of the 1926 building. The polished marble floor of the lobby reflects the attitude of the attentive Prada-clad staff. A salon area with low backed white leather chairs and an angular veet sofa leads into the stylish café and bar, hung with large black and white photographs and furnished with dark wood. The fire burning in the intimate library draws guests. In summer months, the café also serves on the terrace at the front of the hotel.

Two tiny Parisian lifts (each just big enough for three, without bags, if you breathe in) pass the pretty ironwork balustrade and the Deco windows of the staircase. Solid dark wood cupboards and high bed heads dominate the modern rooms, softened by the taupe, purple and blue fabrics. The traditional rooms have retained the pre-refurbishment Louis Phillipe antique furniture, and have a cream, cinnamon and olive color scheme. Both types feature imaginative, contemporary lighting. The Montalembert’s 50 rooms and 6 suites are not the most spacious in Paris – deluxes have a small hall, reducing any noise from the corridor, but the bedroom is about as small as the standard rooms – but the corner suites are better with large windows in bedrooms and sitting rooms. Rooms on the courtyard side have less of a view but are very quiet. The luxurious bathrooms have deep baths, marble floors, acres of mirror on the walls and tall pivoting ones. The combination of mirrors, downlighters and chrome can have you reaching for your shades early in the morning. Satellite tv, video (soon to be dvd), minibar and safe are discreetly housed inside the large cupboards and internet, phone and fax lines are standard. The turn down service also turns on the music system in the evenings, a thoughtful touch.

Popular with the fashion crowd throughout the year, reservations during the shows must be made far in advance. Impeccably placed just off the Rue du Bac and the Boulevard St Germain, the Montalembert is a 10 minute walk west of the galleries and boutiques of St Germain, south of the Musee du Louvre and south-east of the Musee d’Orsay.