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Shangri-La Paris
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About Shangri-La Paris
A 100-room hotel in Prince Roland Bonaparte's former house on avenue d'Iéna, facing the Eiffel Tower across the Seine. It holds France's Palace distinction, a rating above five stars, and has a 17-metre pool and many rooms with Eiffel Tower views.
Best for
- Travellers who want a room facing the Eiffel Tower in a historic house.
- Families who need connecting suites, with babysitting available.
Know before you book
Check-in is from 3 pm and check-out is by noon. One pet up to 10 kg is allowed per room at no charge. It must be carried in a bag in the bar and restaurants and is not allowed in the spa. The hotel lists facilities for guests with disabilities but publishes no accessible-room details, so ask when booking.
- Palace
- 100 rooms and suitesIn a house built for Prince Roland Bonaparte.
- Views
- The Eiffel TowerMany rooms face it, some from terraces.
- Spa
- 17-metre poolPool open to hotel guests from 7 am to 9 pm.
Shangri-La Paris is at 10 avenue d'Iéna in the 16th arrondissement, on the hill of Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. The hotel says Iéna Métro station is a few minutes' walk away.
The 100 rooms and suites were designed by Pierre-Yves Rochon, and every bathroom has a walk-in shower and a separate bathtub. Rooms start at 36 m², and many categories look straight at the Eiffel Tower, some from private terraces. The largest suite, L'Appartement Prince Bonaparte, occupies 315 m² of Prince Roland Bonaparte's own rooms on the second floor, with ceilings 5 metres high.
Shang Palace serves Chinese cooking, Maison Roland is a French bistro, Les Salons du Prince serve meals and afternoon tea in Prince Roland Bonaparte's former reception rooms, and Le Bar Botaniste opens in the evening. The spa is built around a 17-metre pool lit by daylight.
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
Superior and Deluxe Rooms
36–40 m² · up to 2 guests · king or twin beds
Room details
Superior rooms look onto the courtyard or the glass cupola; Deluxe rooms onto the garden or the avenues.
02 / ROOM CATEGORY
Terrace Room and Eiffel View Room
45 m² · king bed
Room details
Either a private terrace over the garden or the avenues, or French windows facing the Eiffel Tower.
03 / ROOM CATEGORY
Terrace Eiffel View Room and Paris Panoramic Signature Room
54–55 m² · up to 2 guests · terrace facing the Eiffel Tower
Room details
The Panoramic Signature Room has a 43 m² terrace.
04 / ROOM CATEGORY
Junior Suites and Deluxe Suite
55–60 m² · king bed and sofa bed
Room details
The sofa bed takes two children under 12 or one adult. Some Junior Suites look partly towards the Eiffel Tower.
05 / ROOM CATEGORY
Terrace and Duplex Eiffel View Suites
70–80 m²
Room details
Views of the Eiffel Tower from a terrace or from windows two storeys high.
06 / ROOM CATEGORY
Signature suites
70–120 m² · terraces
Room details
La Suite Gustave Eiffel on the sixth floor, La Suite Chaillot and La Suite Shangri-La on the top floor, with a 100 m² terrace.
07 / ROOM CATEGORY
L'Appartement Prince Bonaparte
315 m² · two bedrooms
Room details
The prince's former apartment on the second floor, part of the listed historic monument, with balconies over avenue d'Iéna.
The practical details
Amenities & guest services
- Shang Palace Chinese restaurant
- Maison Roland bistro
- Les Salons du Prince
- Le Bar Botaniste
- Spa with 17-metre pool and steam room
- Fitness room, open 24 hours for guests
- 24-hour room service
- One pet up to 10 kg free of charge
Breakfast and meals
Breakfast is served from 7 am to 10:30 am. Maison Roland and Les Salons du Prince are open daily from noon to 10 pm. Shang Palace serves lunch and dinner from Thursday to Monday.
Bar
Le Bar Botaniste is open from 6 pm to 1 am.
Pool and spa
The spa is open from 9 am to 9 pm, and the pool from 7 am for hotel guests. Children under 18 are not allowed in the spa.
Families
Babysitting can be arranged, and connecting family suites sleep four to six.
PhotographThe Paris Atlas · Beyond the booking
History & cultural connections
The history of Prince Roland Bonaparte's house
Avenue d'Iéna takes its name from the nearby Pont d'Iéna and was created by a decree of 1864. Rue Fresnel, behind the hotel, is named after the engineer and physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827).[1]
Prince Roland Bonaparte (1858–1924), a geographer and botanist from the Bonaparte family, commissioned the house from the architect Ernest Janty in 1892. It was built for his family, his geography library and his collections of dried plants. Members of the Société centrale des architectes visited it in June 1896, while it was still being built. The house runs from avenue d'Iéna down to rue Fresnel, fifteen metres lower.[2][3]
Roland Bonaparte's daughter, Marie Bonaparte, lived in the house until she married Prince George of Greece in December 1907. She later became a psychoanalyst and helped Sigmund Freud leave Vienna in 1938. King George I of Greece, the father of her future husband, came to lunch there in November 1907. Roland Bonaparte died in the house on 14 April 1924.[4][5][6][7]
By 1926 the house belonged to the Suez Canal Company, which had the architect Michel Roux-Spitz add storeys. It later held the offices of France's foreign-trade agency, the Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur. Its façades, its grand staircase and its main reception rooms have been a listed historic monument since 2009.[8][9][2]
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, a group based in Hong Kong, restored the building over four years and opened its first European hotel there on 17 December 2010, with 81 rooms and interiors by Pierre-Yves Rochon. An extension into the neighbouring building at 8 avenue d'Iéna later brought it to 100 rooms. According to the hotel, its Shang Palace restaurant held a Michelin star from 2011 to 2024.[10][11][12]
PhotographSources for this history
- 1.Ville de Paris open data — street names and origins (avenue d'Iéna; rue Fresnel)
- 2.French Ministry of Culture, Mérimée database — Ancien hôtel particulier de Roland Bonaparte (PA75160005)
- 3.Le Figaro, 17 June 1896, p. 1 — "Le palais du prince Roland" (Gallica)
- 4.Istanboul, 13 December 1907, p. 1 — Marie Bonaparte at 10 avenue d'Iéna (Gallica)
- 5.La Volonté nationale, 16 November 1907, p. 2 — lunch for the King of the Hellenes (Gallica)
- 6.Le Matin, 15 April 1924, p. 1 — death of Prince Roland Bonaparte at 10 avenue d'Iéna (Gallica)
- 7.The Paris Atlas — Sigmund Freud
- 8.Le Moniteur des travaux publics, 11 March 1926, p. 39 — permit for the Compagnie du Canal de Suez, 10 avenue d'Iéna (Gallica)
- 9.Ville de Paris open data — protected buildings of the local urban plan, 10 avenue d'Iéna
- 10.PR Newswire — "Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts opens Shangri-La Hotel, Paris on 17 December 2010" (18 November 2010)
- 11.Ville de Paris open data — planning permits, 8 avenue d'Iéna / 12 rue Fresnel (extension of the hotel, approved 17 March 2010)
- 12.Shangri-La Paris — awards
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Eiffel Tower
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Where Edith Wharton stayed with her brother when she arrived in Paris in 1906 — the beginning of the move that would take her out of America permanently.
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The apartment Paul Gauguin and Mette Gad took after the birth of their first child — an expensive address near the Arc de Triomphe, and the setting of his 1875 portrait of his sleeping wife.
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Useful questions, clear answers
Where is Shangri-La Paris?
The hotel is at 10 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. Iéna Métro station is a few minutes' walk away.
Is Shangri-La Paris a Palace hotel?
Yes. It is on France's official list of Palace hotels, a distinction above five stars.
Which rooms face the Eiffel Tower?
The Eiffel View rooms and suites, the Paris Panoramic Signature Room and the signature suites on the upper floors look towards the Eiffel Tower, several from terraces.
Does the hotel have a pool?
Yes. The spa has a 17-metre pool, open to hotel guests from 7 am to 9 pm.
Who lived in the building?
Prince Roland Bonaparte, the geographer and botanist who built it, lived there until his death in 1924, and his daughter Marie Bonaparte grew up there.
Are pets allowed?
One pet up to 10 kg per room is allowed at no charge, but not in the spa.
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Sources & image credits
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Image credits
Illustrations and reconstructions are labelled throughout this page.
- An AI-generated view of the entrance to Shangri-La Paris on avenue d'Iéna.The Paris Atlas, AI-generated image based on visual references.
- The hotel on avenue d'Iéna in September 2020.Polymagou, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
- The grand staircase of the former Bonaparte house, part of the listed historic monument, in January 2014.FLLL, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
- Prince Roland Bonaparte's house on avenue d'Iéna in 1896, before it was raised.Unknown photographer, 1896, public domain, Bibliothèque nationale de France via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
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