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Hôtel Dupond-Smith
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About Hôtel Dupond-Smith
Hôtel Dupond-Smith is a five-star hotel with eight rooms and suites on rue des Guillemites in the Marais, in Paris's 4th arrondissement. Its rooms are named after pen names and aliases, and breakfast, meals and massages are all available in the room.
Best for
- Couples who want a very small hotel in the middle of the Marais, with breakfast and treatments brought to the room.
- Small families who book one of the three suites, which have a living room with a sofa bed.
Know before you book
Check-out is at noon, and a later departure depends on availability. The hotel does not publish a check-in time. Smoking is banned indoors, and the hotel adds a flat cleaning fee to the bill if a room smells of tobacco. Guests may smoke only on the balconies of Joseph L'Estrange, Lord R'Hoone and Saint Léger Léger.
- The hotel
- 8 rooms and suitesFrom rooms of about 18 m² to suites of 39 m².
- Classification
- Five starsClassified by Atout France, France's national tourism agency, on 23 December 2024.
- Room names
- Pen names and aliasesLord R'Hoone, Clara Gazul and John Doe are three of the eight.
The hotel stands at 2 rue des Guillemites, on the corner of rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie. Saint-Paul (Métro line 1) and Hôtel de Ville (lines 1 and 11) are each about 400 meters away in a straight line, and Rambuteau (line 11) and Pont Marie (line 7) are under 500 meters. From Charles de Gaulle airport, the hotel suggests RER B to Châtelet-Les Halles, a ride of about 50 minutes. That station is about 860 meters from the hotel. The Musée national Picasso-Paris is about 400 meters away and the Centre Pompidou about 450 meters.
The eight rooms come in three groups: two Alias rooms, three Incognito rooms and three Intuitu suites. Every room has a king-size bed or two single beds, a rain shower, a separate toilet, an espresso machine, a minibar and its own air-conditioning control. Each suite adds a living room with a sofa bed, divided from the bedroom by sliding mirrors, as well as a walk-in closet and a bathtub.
The hotel lists no restaurant, bar or spa. Breakfast is served all day, dishes can be ordered to the room at any hour, and massages and beauty treatments take place in the room. The concierge is available at any hour.
Choose the right fit
Rooms at a glance
Compare the hotel’s room categories, then check your preferred configuration and dates when booking.
01 / ROOM CATEGORY
Joseph L'Estrange (Alias)
About 18 m² · balcony of about 5 m² · rain shower
Room details
The smallest room, with a balcony over the street and the rooftops of the Marais.
02 / ROOM CATEGORY
Alan Smithee (Alias)
About 23 m² · rain shower
Room details
The hotel lists it as a full-access double room. Confirm its accessibility features when you book.
03 / ROOM CATEGORY
Lord R'Hoone (Incognito)
About 21 m² · balcony of about 6 m² · rain shower
Room details
The hotel says the room also has a small courtyard garden.
04 / ROOM CATEGORY
Mr Mojo Risin (Incognito)
About 25 m² · rain shower
Room details
Decorated with marble, ceramics, wood and emerald velvet.
05 / ROOM CATEGORY
Clara Gazul (Incognito)
About 28 m² · rain shower
Room details
The largest Incognito room, under the roof, with varnished beams and cement tiles.
06 / ROOM CATEGORY
Saint Léger Léger (Intuitu suite)
About 39 m² · balcony of about 6 m² · sofa bed · bathtub and rain shower
Room details
A corner suite with windows on rue des Guillemites and rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, and a balcony over the courtyard.
07 / ROOM CATEGORY
James Jewel (Intuitu suite)
About 39 m² · sofa bed · bathtub and rain shower
Room details
Decorated in cadmium yellow with wood paneling.
08 / ROOM CATEGORY
John Doe (Intuitu suite)
About 38 m² · sofa bed · bathtub and rain shower
Room details
The hotel describes a view over the rooftops of Paris.
The practical details
Amenities & guest services
- Concierge available at any hour
- Free Wi-Fi
- Individual air-conditioning control
- 24-hour room service
- In-room massage and beauty treatments
- Espresso machine and minibar in every room
- One room for guests with reduced mobility
- Dogs accepted
Breakfast
Served from 7 am and all day, in the room or the ground-floor lounge. The three set menus cost €12, €19 and €25.
Room service and laundry
Hot and cold dishes can be ordered 24 hours a day and arrive within 45 minutes. Laundry left before 10 am comes back the same day by 7 pm, except on Sundays and public holidays.
Treatments in the room
Reception can book a masseur, make-up artist, manicurist or hairdresser to come to the room. In the suites, a personal trainer can also lead a stretching or light exercise session.
Children
A cot for children under three, a baby bath, a bottle warmer and a high chair are available on request. The suites have sofa beds for older children, and the hotel can book multilingual babysitters.
Accessibility
One room is designed for guests with reduced mobility. Reception can provide a portable hearing loop, a wheelchair and a vibrating alarm clock.
Parking
Secure parking is available about five minutes from the hotel. Ask for details on arrival. The nearest public car park is about 400 meters away.
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History & cultural connections
The history of Hôtel Dupond-Smith and rue des Guillemites
Today's rue des Guillemites, a street 88 meters long, already existed in 1250 under another name. It was called rue Pierre d'Estampes in 1269 and rue des Singes by about 1300. It was still rue des Singes in 1868.[1]
The name rue des Guillemites first belonged to a neighboring street, opened in Year X of the French revolutionary calendar (1801–1802) on the gardens of the Blancs-Manteaux convent. That street was named after the convent's monks, the Guillemites. An order of 2 April 1868 extended the name to rue des Singes and joined both into one street. When an order of 6 May 1952 removed the original section, north of rue des Blancs-Manteaux, only the old rue des Singes kept the name.[1]
The hotel's building at 2 rue des Guillemites stands on the corner of rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie. It has a ground floor and four upper floors over a basement, and it was already a hotel before it became Hôtel Dupond-Smith. France's business register, Sirene, records that FH Hôtellerie, a hotel company based in Reims, opened a hotel business here in March 2010 under the sign Hôtel du Lion d'Or. The same company runs Hôtel Dupond-Smith today.[2][3][4]
In May 2011 the City of Paris granted a permit to renovate the hotel. The permit covered changes to how the floors connect, a rearranged interior and an altered shopfront. It also allowed the removal of a mezzanine floor on the courtyard side and a new roof terrace and glass roof at first-floor level. A separate permission in 2013 covered cleaning and repairs to the street and courtyard façades.[2]
By April 2014 the hotel was taking online bookings as Hôtel Dupond-Smith, for eight rooms and suites. The hotel credits its architecture and decoration to Anne Peyroux and Emmanuèle Thisy.[5][6]
Sources for this history
- 1.Ville de Paris open data: street names and origins (rue des Guillemites)
- 2.Ville de Paris open data: planning permissions, 2 rue des Guillemites (permit PC 075 104 10 V0031, granted 5 May 2011; declaration DP 075 104 13 V0103, 2013)
- 3.INSEE Sirene register via the French government company search: FH Hôtellerie, establishment 520 441 254 00023 at 2 rue des Guillemites (sign: Hôtel du Lion d'Or)
- 4.Hôtel Dupond-Smith: legal notice (FH Hôtellerie, Reims)
- 5.Hôtel Dupond-Smith website, homepage as archived on 11 April 2014, with its booking button (Wayback Machine)
- 6.Hôtel Dupond-Smith: credits (architecture and decoration)
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Notre-Dame de Paris
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Useful questions, clear answers
Where is Hôtel Dupond-Smith?
The hotel is at 2 rue des Guillemites, 75004 Paris, in the Marais. The nearest Métro stations, Saint-Paul and Hôtel de Ville, are about 400 meters away.
How many rooms does the hotel have?
It has eight: five rooms of about 18 to 28 m² and three suites of 38 to 39 m² with a separate living room.
Does the hotel have a restaurant?
No restaurant is listed. Breakfast is served from 7 am in the room or the ground-floor lounge, and room service runs around the clock.
What are the check-in and check-out times?
Check-out is at noon. The hotel does not publish a check-in time, so ask when you book.
Are dogs allowed?
Yes. Dogs are accepted, and the hotel can provide items for them on request.
Why are the rooms named after pen names?
The hotel's theme is discretion, so each room takes the name of an alias. Honoré de Balzac signed his early works of the 1820s as Lord R'Hoone, and the writer Prosper Mérimée invented both Joseph L'Estrange and Clara Gazul. Mr Mojo Risin is an anagram of Jim Morrison, the singer of the Doors, and the poet Saint-John Perse used the name Saint Léger Léger. None of these people is known to have stayed in the building.
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- An AI-generated view of a suite at Hôtel Dupond-Smith, with its sitting area and bedroom.The Paris Atlas, AI-generated illustration based on visual references.
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