Business travel hotels: every ranking
Each list starts from the district where you work and ends with what is still open after the last meeting. In Paris, 19 hotels run from the Opéra to La Défense: filter for a pool or for ten meeting rooms or more, and keep the one that fits your week.
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- Best business hotels in Paris19 hotelsSleep close to your meetings, from the Opéra to La Défense: 19 Accor hotels in Paris, led by Sofitel Le Scribe Paris Opéra, 200 m from Auber RER A.
How do you read a list of business hotels?
Each list answers one question, such as which Accor hotel in Paris works best for a business trip, and puts the hotels in the order that answers it. A short summary at the top names the leaders. A comparison table follows, which you can filter to the hotels with a spa, a pool, ten meeting rooms or more, or a kitchen, and by segment from luxury to economy.
Below the table, every hotel has its own card: the reason for its place, a line on who it suits, up to four key facts (meeting rooms, spa and pool hours, nearest station, distance to the business district) and its main limit. In the Paris list, the card for Pullman Paris La Défense says plainly that the address is Courbevoie, outside the city of Paris, and the card for Pullman Paris Centre - Bercy notes that its pool is for residents only, booked by the hour. Each card ends with a link to check rates on Accor’s own site.
What does “Our pick” mean in a list?
“Our pick” marks the hotel we place first in a list, and only that hotel. Every other hotel shows its rank instead, for example No. 7 in Best business hotels in Paris for Sofitel Paris Le Faubourg, so the badge never appears twice on a page.
In Paris our pick is Sofitel Le Scribe Paris Opéra. It stands 200 m from Opéra métro, on lines 3, 7 and 8, and from Auber on RER A, with Gare Saint-Lazare five minutes on foot. Its four meeting rooms run from 83 m² to the 170 m² 1895 room, which the hotel says holds up to 200 guests, and its Wellness Suite takes treatments daily from 09:00 to 20:00. Its limits are written out like those of any other hotel: there is no pool and no sauna, and the hammam is a paid 30-minute add-on to a booked treatment. When another hotel beats the pick on one point, such as Novotel Paris Centre Tour Eiffel on meeting space, the list says so.
Why does a hotel with more meeting rooms sometimes rank lower?
A business list weighs three things together: the meeting rooms and their capacity, a spa or pool for after work, and the distance to the business districts. A hotel that leads on one of them and falls behind on the others drops down the order.
Novotel Paris Centre Tour Eiffel has the largest meeting offer in the Paris list, 36 rooms and a 600 m² amphitheatre for up to 600 people, yet it sits 2.8 km from the 8th arrondissement in a straight line and has no spa, so it ranks second. Le Royal Monceau - Raffles Paris keeps the longest published spa and pool hours, 06:30 to 22:00 every day, but its four meeting rooms stop at 90 guests, which puts it sixth. Pullman Paris La Défense ranks third as the only hotel in the list inside La Défense, with La Grande Arche 150 m from the door.
The line on who each hotel suits settles the rest: for a conference of 200 people or more, the Novotel is the better choice.
Frequently asked questions
Which list should I start with?
Start with Best business hotels in Paris, which ranks 19 Accor hotels for a working trip, from the Opéra to La Défense. For each hotel it sets out the meeting rooms, the spa and pool hours and the distance to the business districts, and it puts Sofitel Le Scribe Paris Opéra first, 200 m from Opéra métro and Auber RER A.
Do the lists include hotels outside the Accor group?
No. Every hotel in our lists belongs to the Accor group, from Raffles, Sofitel and MGallery in the Luxury segment to ibis and JO&JOE in Economy. The Paris list covers 19 hotels across 12 Accor brands, and Sofitel is the most represented, with four hotels.
Can I filter a list by what I need?
Yes. The comparison table near the top of each list filters the hotels by spa, pool, ten meeting rooms or more, a kitchen, and segment from luxury to economy. In Best business hotels in Paris, the spa filter leaves 8 of the 19 hotels, the pool filter 6 and the meeting-room filter 4: Novotel Paris Centre Tour Eiffel and the three Pullmans.
Which hotel in the Paris list suits a large conference?
Novotel Paris Centre Tour Eiffel, with a 3,000 m² convention centre on two levels, 36 meeting rooms and a 600 m² amphitheatre for up to 600 people. Pullman Paris Centre - Bercy follows with 32 rooms and a largest room for 420 seated, then Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel, whose 430 m² Ballroom Orsay takes 400 theatre-style.
Which hotel in the Paris list is closest to La Défense?
Pullman Paris La Défense, the only hotel in the list inside the business district: La Grande Arche is 150 m from the door and métro line 1 a five-minute walk. Its address is Courbevoie, outside the city of Paris. To sleep in Paris instead, Sofitel Paris Baltimore Tour Eiffel is 4.9 km from La Défense in a straight line.