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InterContinental Paris Le Grand
The hotel and the Café de la Paix from place de l'Opéra in April 2022.
The Atlas take
About InterContinental Paris Le Grand
A 458-room five-star hotel beside the Palais Garnier, opened in 1862 as the Grand Hôtel, with the Café de la Paix, a winter-garden restaurant, a spa and 24-hour room service.
Best for
- Opera-goers who want to stay beside the Palais Garnier.
- Travellers who want a large hotel with several restaurants, a spa and multi-bedroom suites.
Know before you book
IHG lists check-in from 3 pm and check-out by noon, while the hotel's own terms of sale say rooms are available from 5 pm, so confirm your arrival time. Only guide dogs are allowed. There is no hotel car park; the hotel lists public car parks on rue de Caumartin and place Vendôme.
- The hotel
- 458 rooms and 90 suitesOpened as the Grand Hôtel in 1862.
- Next door
- Palais GarnierOpéra-view rooms and suites are available.
- Dining
- Café de la PaixListed décor, open from 7 am to 11 pm.
InterContinental Paris Le Grand fills a whole block beside the Palais Garnier, between boulevard des Capucines, rue Scribe, rue Auber and place de l'Opéra. The hotel entrance is at 2 rue Scribe, and the Café de la Paix opens onto place de l'Opéra. The hotel lists Opéra Métro station (lines 3, 7 and 8) and Auber (RER A) as the nearest, and Gare Saint-Lazare as a 10-minute walk.
The hotel has 458 rooms, including 90 suites. Cosy rooms average about 20 m² and Classic rooms about 26 m²; Premium rooms average about 34 m², and one version faces the Opéra. Suites range from Junior Suites of about 42 m² to four historic Presidential Suites, one of them named after the actress Sarah Bernhardt, and duplex signature suites for up to nine guests.
The Café de la Paix, whose decorated room is a listed historic monument, serves from 7 am to 11 pm. La Verrière, an 800 m² winter garden, is open from 10 am to midnight, the bar from noon to midnight with live music from Thursday to Saturday, and room service runs around the clock. The spa has a hammam, a sauna and five treatment rooms, and the gym is open 24 hours.
Choose the right fit
Rooms at a glance
Compare the hotel’s room categories, then confirm your preferred configuration and dates directly with the hotel.
01 / ROOM CATEGORY
Cosy Room
About 20 m² · 2 guests · 160 × 200 cm bed
Room details
The smallest category. Club access can be added.
02 / ROOM CATEGORY
Classic Room
About 26 m² · 2 guests · 180 × 200 cm bed or twin beds
Room details
A balcony, club access or a view of the Palais Garnier can be added for a supplement.
03 / ROOM CATEGORY
Premium Room
About 34 m² · up to 3 guests · 180 × 200 cm bed or twin beds
Room details
The Premium Room Opera View has a balcony and looks onto the Palais Garnier.
04 / ROOM CATEGORY
Junior Suite and One-Bedroom Suite
About 42–50 m² · up to 3 guests
Room details
The Junior Suite has a bathroom with a vintage bath and an Italian shower. The One-Bedroom Suite has a separate living room. A balcony or Opéra view is available in some suites.
05 / ROOM CATEGORY
Ambassador, Royal and Presidential Suites
About 83–140 m² · up to 5 guests
Room details
The Royal Suite (about 115 m²) and the four Presidential Suites (about 140 m²) have two bedrooms. The Presidential Suites are named Sarah Bernhardt, Presidential, Imperial and Diplomatic.
06 / ROOM CATEGORY
Signature suites
82–229 m² · up to 9 guests
Room details
They include the Parisian Suite under the roof with an Eiffel Tower view, the Charles Garnier Suite with an Opéra view, and two four-bedroom duplexes, the Opera Suite and the Eugénie Suite, which has its own kitchen.
The practical details
Amenities & guest services
- 24-hour room service
- Spa with hammam and sauna
- Gym open 24 hours
- Club Lounge for club-level guests
- Café de la Paix
- La Verrière winter-garden restaurant
- Bar with live music
- Concierge
Café de la Paix
The café serves continuously from 7 am to 11 pm. The restaurant serves breakfast from 7 am to 10:30 am, lunch from noon to 3 pm and dinner from 6 pm to 11 pm.
Club Lounge
Open daily from 7 am to 9 pm for club-level guests, with a buffet breakfast from 7 am to 11 am and tea from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm. Children under 12 are not admitted.
Spa and gym
The Algotherm spa on the first floor has four single treatment rooms and one double, a hammam, a sauna and a relaxation area, and is open from 10 am to 8 pm. The gym is open 24 hours.
The Paris Atlas · Beyond the booking
History & cultural connections
The history of the Grand Hôtel
The banking brothers Émile and Isaac Pereire had the Grand Hôtel built in 1861–1862 beside the site of the future opera house. It had about 800 rooms. The hotel dates its inauguration by Empress Eugénie to 5 May 1862; a City of Paris history panel outside the hotel gives 14 July 1862.[1][2][3]
Most histories name Alfred Armand as the architect, while the French heritage register credits Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Charles Rohault de Fleury. The façades, the former dining room, now the Opéra Ballroom, and the decorated room of the Café de la Paix have been listed historic monuments since 1975.[2][4]
In October 1869 the journalist Henry Morton Stanley came to the Grand Hotel to see James Gordon Bennett Jr., the young manager of the New York Herald. In How I Found Livingstone (1872), Stanley describes knocking at Bennett's door here and being told to go to Central Africa and find the explorer David Livingstone.[5]
Victor Hugo hosted suppers at the Grand Hôtel to mark three theatre milestones: the revival of his play Hernani in December 1877, the 100th performance of a stage version of Notre-Dame de Paris in October 1879, and the 100th performance of Quatrevingt-treize in March 1882. The Maison de Victor Hugo holds an engraving of the 1879 supper and the printed invitation to the 1882 one.[6][7][8]
PhotographLiterary inspiration
Émile Zola
In Zola's novel Nana (1880), the title character, a fictional actress, dies of smallpox in room 401 of the Grand Hôtel.[9]
Literary inspiration
Ernest Hemingway
In The Sun Also Rises (1926), the narrator Jake Barnes and his friend Robert Cohn, both fictional, walk up to the Café de la Paix for coffee after lunch.[10]
Sources for this history
- 1.InterContinental Paris Le Grand — history
- 2.Wikipedia — InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel
- 3.Wikimedia Commons — City of Paris history panel outside the Grand Hôtel
- 4.French Ministry of Culture, Mérimée database — Grand Hôtel (PA00088909)
- 5.Henry M. Stanley, How I Found Livingstone (1872), introduction (Project Gutenberg)
- 6.Paris Musées, Maison de Victor Hugo — Le dîner d'Hernani (dinner of 11 December 1877 at the Grand-Hôtel)
- 7.Paris Musées, Maison de Victor Hugo — La centième de Notre-Dame de Paris, souper offert par Victor Hugo au Grand-Hôtel (1879)
- 8.Paris Musées, Maison de Victor Hugo — invitation to supper at the Grand Hôtel, 26 March 1882
- 9.Émile Zola, Nana (1880), chapter 14 (Project Gutenberg)
- 10.Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926), chapter 5 (Project Gutenberg)
See where you’ll be
Paris, just outside the door
Places to discover nearby
theatre · Opéra
Palais Garnier
The Paris opera house — Charles Garnier's Second Empire palace on the place de l'Opéra, inaugurated on 5 January 1875 and the home of the Paris Opera ever since.
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hotel · Opéra (behind the Palais Garnier)
Hôtel Scribe
A grand hotel behind the Opéra, on the rue Scribe. In Down and Out in Paris and London it is the good job that keeps slipping away — where Boris earned a hundred francs a day in tips before he fell ill, and where he and George Orwell stood on the pavement for an hour hoping the manager would come out and hire them.
Explore this place
office · Opéra (2nd)
Nadar's studio, 35 boulevard des Capucines
The photographer Nadar's former studio, where thirty artists mounted the independent exhibition of April 1874 that got them the name Impressionists.
Explore this placeBefore you go
Useful questions, clear answers
Where is InterContinental Paris Le Grand?
The hotel entrance is at 2 rue Scribe, 75009 Paris, beside the Palais Garnier. The Café de la Paix is at 5 place de l'Opéra, on the same block.
Is the Café de la Paix part of the hotel?
Yes. The Café de la Paix is the hotel's café and restaurant, open from 7 am to 11 pm, and its decorated room is a listed historic monument.
Which rooms look at the Palais Garnier?
The Premium Room Opera View faces the Palais Garnier, and an Opéra view can be added to Classic rooms and to some suites for a supplement. The Charles Garnier Suite and the Royal Suite also have Opéra views.
What are the check-in and check-out times?
IHG lists check-in from 3 pm and check-out by noon. The hotel's own terms of sale say rooms are available from 5 pm, so confirm the time with the hotel.
Are pets allowed?
Only guide dogs are allowed, according to the hotel's terms of sale.
Did Victor Hugo stay at the Grand Hôtel?
No stay is documented. Hugo hosted suppers there in 1877, 1879 and 1882 to celebrate performances of his work.
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Sources & image credits
Hotel information reviewed .
Hotel information & sources
Image credits
Illustrations and reconstructions are labelled throughout this page.
- The hotel and the Café de la Paix from place de l'Opéra in April 2022.Arthur Weidmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
- The entrance at 2 rue Scribe in April 2017.Thomon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
- The Grand Hôtel at the corner of rue Scribe and boulevard des Capucines, photographed between 1900 and 1920.Attributed to Charles Lansiaux, Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
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