Le Bristol Paris - An Oetker Collection Hotel

“9 day stay with reception and brunch”

Our third stay at Le Bristol, this time in connection with our daughter’s wedding reception and brunch the following day. The staff made the event wonderful and memorable. As we live in California, we were somewhat limited in what we could do leading up to the festivities. Salma coordinated perfec… more

Our third stay at Le Bristol, this time in connection with our daughter’s wedding reception and brunch the following day. The staff made the event wonderful and memorable. As we live in California, we were somewhat limited in what we could do leading up to the festivities. Salma coordinated perfectly, and we could not have done it without her. Philippe did an amazing job with the flowers, the concierge coordinated the transportation, and Sarah even assisted in arranging medical care for one of our guests. Their referral of Jazz Around Midnight for entertainment was excellent. The reception cocktail party was perfect, the dinner was superb, and the desserts were amazing. The brunch the next day was first rate and guests loved the omelette bar. We sincerely thank the Le Bristol staff. They did a remarkable job and we cannot recommend them highly enough. Our heartfelt thanks.

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“September Visit in Paris”

Paris is always a good time especially at Le Bristol Paris. Always enjoy my time at this property the staff, rooms, food, and pretty views. Highly recommend as one of the best properties in Paris. If you are someone that likes to treat themselves to 5 star properties then Le Bristol Paris should… more

Paris is always a good time especially at Le Bristol Paris. Always enjoy my time at this property the staff, rooms, food, and pretty views. Highly recommend as one of the best properties in Paris. If you are someone that likes to treat themselves to 5 star properties then Le Bristol Paris should be on top of your list.

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“Just Amazing”

Amazing property, great location but what sets it apart from other luxury options like George V, Crillion is the staff here. Always approachable, friendly but not stuffy. You almost forget you are in Paris 😉. Also a special shout out to housekeeping team. Have never found a room so perfectly clean … more

Amazing property, great location but what sets it apart from other luxury options like George V, Crillion is the staff here. Always approachable, friendly but not stuffy. You almost forget you are in Paris 😉. Also a special shout out to housekeeping team. Have never found a room so perfectly clean in my 25+ years of traveling. There was not a speck of dust anywhere, they didn’t miss anything. I am a clean freak that carries cleaning supplies on all travels and even the best hotels, there is always something I find but not here. It was perfection! Recommend tea time and all their restaurants. One opportunity to improve is use of fruit fly catcher. The pastries on display were covered with them and a simple fly trap whether a diy one or automatic ones will help.

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“Mixed but overall we were disappointed and felt a little let down”

We thought we would treat ourselves on our recent visit to France and stayed at Le Bristol. It was a mixed experience, some very good points but also some quite poor ones. The hotel is very grand. It is genuinely friendly. Lots of staff trying to help you. The lobby is great. It has nice features,… more

We thought we would treat ourselves on our recent visit to France and stayed at Le Bristol. It was a mixed experience, some very good points but also some quite poor ones. The hotel is very grand. It is genuinely friendly. Lots of staff trying to help you. The lobby is great. It has nice features, for instance a great bakery that does wonderful madelines (but terrible jam!). The cafe area is also pleasant, though see below. The room we were in was great. Large, well set out. Staff at reception were helpful is securing a late restaurant booking. The location is down to personal preference. Full of Hughenden shoos rather that patisseries for example. We prefer St Germain but it's personal choice. But there were some issues. Our shower did not work properly. It went from freezing cold but burning hot in a second (and vice versa) meaning you either got burnt or frozen. The pressure was incredibly high - a good point - but not when the temperature changes so quickly when you are not touching anything. I got scolded. It meant you couldn't relax - had to aim the shower into a corner and dip in when the right temperature was briefly hit and be ready to leap out again when it changed. We also had a problem with a taxi. We'd ordered it to go to a restaurant the day before. Thought all was fine. Then when we came down for it we were told there were no taxis due to an Olympics parade. Why did they not tell us this before the taxi was due? We had ordered it a day before. They then told us where a taxi rank was several streets away. We ended up speed walking 2 miles to St Germain and were so late the only table left was at the front next to the chain smokers, so we ended up trawling the streets looking for a good restaurant. The breakfast. Its pretty bad. My wife had a cheese and ham omelette for sixty euros. It was over cooked and you couldn't taste the cheese. I had scrambled eggs. It was just scrambled eggs on a plate, that was it. No bread or anything else. We had no choice but to go there the second day as had an early train but again was poor. We slipped the eggs this time. My granola was meant to be with red fruits but was dry and tasteless. Apparently you only get the fruit if you order yogurt with it, despite me pointing to the 'granola with red fruits' item on the menu. We spent £150 on breakfast for two pots of tea, a croissant, a few mouthfuls of bad granola and a few slices of bread (with runny jam). We raised these issues with hotel staff. Though they listened there was no "let us put this right for you 'attitude. Almost a shrug of shoulders. We were looking forward to coming here. We were expecting excellence. We'd had a bad few months recently due to some family related issues. But rather than relax us, our stress levels were often increased and we left feeling a little let down. A few days earlier we had stayed at Relais Christine. The experience there was massively better than at Le Bristol.

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