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Hôtel Le Ballu
The hotel on rue Ballu in August 2026.
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About Hôtel Le Ballu
A 35-room five-star hotel near place de Clichy, in two joined buildings on rue Ballu, one of them a painter's house of 1891, with a covered pool, a garden restaurant and apartments for families.
Best for
- Families and small groups who need an apartment or connecting rooms with a kitchenette.
- Travellers who want a hotel pool within walking distance of Montmartre and Pigalle.
Know before you book
The hotel's website does not give check-in and check-out times, parking or lift information, so ask before booking. The café called Le Ballu at 1 rue Ballu is a different business.
- The hotel
- 35 roomsIncluding apartments for up to five.
- Pool and sauna
- Open 7 am to 10:45 pmA covered, heated pool with private 45-minute sessions.
- Restaurant
- Noon to 11 pmInside or in the garden, with a Sunday brunch.
Le Ballu is at 30 rue Ballu in the 9th arrondissement, at the foot of Montmartre, and takes up numbers 28 and 30. Place de Clichy (lines 2 and 13) and Blanche (line 2) Métro stations are a 4-minute walk away. The hotel gives walking times of 5 minutes to the Moulin Rouge and 6 minutes to the Musée de la Vie romantique.
The 35 rooms, 2 of them adapted for guests with reduced mobility, range from 18 m² doubles to 47 m² apartments with a separate living room. Every room has a kitchenette with a microwave, fridge, kettle and Nespresso machine. The architect Thomas Vidalenc converted the two buildings, numbers 28 and 30 rue Ballu, into the hotel, which opened in 2019. He designed much of the furniture and mixed it with pieces by designers from Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Bosnia. The hotel says its decoration mixes old comic-strip graphics with 1960s Eastern European design, as a nod to Syldavia, the imaginary Eastern European country in Hergé's Tintin comic books.
The restaurant serves a seasonal menu from noon to 11 pm without a break, inside or in the garden, with a brunch on Sundays. The covered, heated pool measures 8 metres by 2 metres and has a sauna beside it. Guests can reserve the pool for a private 45-minute session.
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
Standard Double
18 m² · 2 guests · king bed · walk-in shower · street view
Room details
The smallest category.
02 / ROOM CATEGORY
Superior Double or Twin
20 m² · 2 guests · king bed or two singles · walk-in shower
Room details
Looks onto the street or the garden.
03 / ROOM CATEGORY
Deluxe Double or Twin
25 m² · king bed or two singles · walk-in shower
Room details
The hotel lists this room for two but also shows an extra single bed; confirm the occupancy when you book.
04 / ROOM CATEGORY
Junior Suite
29 m² · 3 guests · bathtub
Room details
Looks onto the garden. A Junior Suite with a private terrace is also available.
05 / ROOM CATEGORY
Apartment
47 m² · 4 guests · bedroom and living room · walk-in shower
Room details
A king bed in the bedroom and a sofa bed in the living room. The Apartment with Terrace, on the garden side, takes up to five.
06 / ROOM CATEGORY
Communicating Rooms
50 m² · up to 6 guests · walk-in shower
Room details
Connected rooms for larger families or groups, with street and garden views.
The practical details
Amenities & guest services
- Covered heated pool and sauna
- Restaurant and garden
- Kitchenette in every room
- Private lounge for up to 12
- Air conditioning and soundproofing
- Free Wi-Fi
- Two rooms adapted for reduced mobility
- Pets accepted for a fee
Breakfast
Served from 7:30 am to 10:30 am on weekdays and until 11 am at weekends.
Private lounge
A lounge looking onto the garden seats up to 12 for a private meal or a meeting, with a projector, screen and conference phone.
Pets
Pets are accepted for €20 a night.
The Paris Atlas · Beyond the booking
History & cultural connections
The history of 28 and 30 rue Ballu
Rue Ballu was opened in 1841 as rue de Boulogne, on land belonging to the Greffulhe brothers and Paul de Ségur. In 1886 it was renamed after Théodore Ballu (1817–1885), the architect who was put in charge of rebuilding the Hôtel de Ville of Paris in 1872.[1]
The hotel's older building, number 28 rue Ballu, was built as a house and studio for Charles Wislin (1852–1932), a landscape painter who showed at the Salon des artistes français from 1880 to 1909. His architect, Gaston Dézermaux, applied for the permit in July 1890. The gable and a small tower rose more than three metres above the height allowed by the 1884 building rules, but the French government's buildings council approved the design for its artistic character. The house was finished in 1891. Iron wall ties on the gable are shaped to spell out that date, and a large W for Wislin is carved on the front. The brick-and-stone front is in a Flemish style, although Wislin came from Franche-Comté in eastern France, not from Flanders.[2]
By the 2010s numbers 28 and 30 rue Ballu were offices belonging to Sacem, the French society that collects music royalties. Sacem sold them in 2015 to the developer Aream, which obtained a permit for a hotel. In 2016 Aream sold the project to Hôtelière de l'Étoile, a company headed by Edith Vidalenc, and the architect Thomas Vidalenc designed the conversion. The hotel opened in 2019 with four stars and was classified five-star in May 2024.[3][4][5][6]
Paul Cézanne took an apartment across the street, at 31 rue Ballu, in October 1899. From 1904 the Boulanger family lived at 36 rue Ballu, where Nadia Boulanger taught music for most of her life. In 2021 the corner where rue Ballu meets rue de Vintimille was renamed place Lili-et-Nadia-Boulanger, for her and her sister, the composer Lili Boulanger.[7][8]
PhotographSources for this history
- 1.Ville de Paris open data — street names and origins (rue Ballu)
- 2.Claude Mignot, "Un Flamand à Paris", 9ème Histoire (21 October 2016), archived copy
- 3.Lettre M2, FLASH of 29 November 2016 — "Rue Ballu, Paris : bureaux en hôtel"
- 4.Vidalenc Architectes — Hôtel Le Ballu project page (delivered 2019)
- 5.Internet Archive — Le Ballu website, 20 September 2019 (four stars)
- 6.Atout France — register of classified hotels (Hôtel Le Ballu, five stars, classified 21 May 2024)
- 7.The Paris Atlas — 31 rue Ballu, Cézanne's last Paris address
- 8.The Paris Atlas — Nadia Boulanger
See where you’ll be
Paris, just outside the door
Places to discover nearby
nightclub · Pigalle
Moulin Rouge
Where Colette's 1907 mime with her lover Mathilde de Morny set off a riot and was banned by the police — her most notorious Paris performance.
Explore this place
square · Clichy — Montmartre's edge
Place de Clichy
The crossroads where four arrondissements collide — and where Louis-Ferdinand Céline opens Journey to the End of the Night at a café table, with a recruitment parade passing and his narrator Bardamu jumping up to join the war.
Explore this place
school · Montmartre (18th)
Atelier Cormon, 104 boulevard de Clichy
The open studio of the academic painter Fernand Cormon, on the ground floor at 104 boulevard de Clichy, where Vincent van Gogh worked from March 1886 alongside Toulouse-Lautrec, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin.
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Useful questions, clear answers
Where is Le Ballu?
The hotel is at 30 rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, in the 9th arrondissement near place de Clichy. Place de Clichy and Blanche Métro stations are a 4-minute walk away.
Is Le Ballu in Montmartre?
No. It is at the foot of the hill in the 9th arrondissement. The hotel puts Montmartre about 19 minutes away on foot and the Sacré-Cœur about 24 minutes.
Does the hotel have a pool?
Yes. The covered, heated pool is 8 metres by 2 metres, with a sauna, and is open from 7 am to 10:45 pm. Guests can book it for a private 45-minute session.
Can non-guests eat at the restaurant?
The restaurant takes table bookings for its seasonal menu and Sunday brunch, served from noon to 11 pm.
Which rooms suit a family?
The Junior Suites sleep three, the Apartments four or five, and the Communicating Rooms up to six. Every room has a kitchenette.
Are pets allowed?
Yes, for €20 a night.
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Sources & image credits
Hotel information reviewed .
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Image credits
Illustrations and reconstructions are labelled throughout this page.
- The hotel on rue Ballu in August 2026.GFreihalter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
- The gable of Charles Wislin's house, with its date in iron anchors, in October 2022.GFreihalter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
- Numbers 28 and 30 in 2011, when the buildings were offices, before the hotel conversion.MOSSOT, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
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