Business travel: where to stay
Start from the address of your first meeting and book the hotel a short walk away. In Paris, Sofitel Le Scribe Paris Opéra stands 200 m from Opéra métro, and Pullman Paris La Défense is a five-minute walk from métro line 1.
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Where should you stay in a city for a business trip?
Start from the address of your meetings, then choose the neighbourhood, then the hotel. In Paris the business map splits three ways. Around the Opéra and in the 8th arrondissement you can walk between appointments. La Défense is another town, about twenty minutes west of the centre on métro line 1, with its own towers and its own hotel. The large seminar hotels sit near the Eiffel Tower, in the 15th arrondissement, and at Bercy.
A hotel with every facility can still cost you time each day if it stands on the wrong side of the city. Molitor Hotel & Spa Paris has two heated pools and 13 treatment rooms, yet it is 6.5 km from the Opéra district in a straight line. Sofitel Le Scribe Paris Opéra has no pool, but Opéra métro and Auber RER A are 200 m from its door, and Gare Saint-Lazare five minutes on foot.
What does a city page give you?
A city page gathers what we have published on one destination. For Paris, that means the overall list of 19 Accor hotels for a business trip, the hotel reviews published for the city, and the 12 neighbourhoods where those hotels stand, from the 9th arrondissement to the 20th, plus La Défense outside the city limits.
The neighbourhood section tells you which hotel is where: four in the 15th arrondissement, three in the 8th, two in the 16th and two in the 20th, then one each in the 9th, the 10th, the 4th, the 13th, Bercy, Batignolles, Bastille and La Défense. A short FAQ answers the common questions about the city, such as which hotels have a spa or a pool and which airports serve it. From the city page you can also open the comparison table of the list and filter the hotels by spa, pool, meeting rooms or segment.
How far are the hotels from the business districts?
Each hotel card gives its distance to the nearest business district, measured in a straight line from the hotel to a fixed point: the Palais Garnier for the Opéra district, the Arc de Triomphe for the 8th arrondissement and La Grande Arche for La Défense. Where a hotel publishes its own walking or driving time, that figure is given as published.
The spread in Paris is wide. Sofitel Le Scribe Paris Opéra is 0.2 km from the Palais Garnier, and Pullman Paris La Défense 0.4 km from La Grande Arche. Sofitel Paris Baltimore Tour Eiffel, in the 16th, is 4.9 km from La Défense, the second-shortest line to the towers among the 19 hotels. At the far end, Too Hotel & Spa Paris is 6.4 km from the Opéra district and 13.1 km from La Défense. A straight line is always shorter than the walk, so add time for the streets and any change of métro.
Frequently asked questions
Which city can I read about?
Paris. Its city page gathers the list of 19 Accor hotels for a business trip, the hotel reviews published for the city and the 12 neighbourhoods where those hotels stand, from the Opéra and the 8th arrondissement to La Défense, with a short FAQ on spas, pools and airports.
Which Paris district is best for business meetings?
The one where your meetings are, since the city splits into separate business areas. For the Opéra and Saint-Lazare, Sofitel Le Scribe Paris Opéra is 200 m from Opéra and Auber. For the lower 8th, Sofitel Paris Le Faubourg has Concorde métro listed at 0 m. For La Défense, Pullman Paris La Défense stands 150 m from La Grande Arche.
How long does it take to reach La Défense from central Paris?
About twenty minutes on métro line 1 from the centre. Sofitel Paris Arc de Triomphe publishes La Défense at 14 minutes by car, and Pullman Paris La Défense gives the Champs-Élysées at 5 km and 15 minutes by car. From Sofitel Paris Baltimore Tour Eiffel, Charles de Gaulle-Étoile station, on RER A and line 1, is 500 m away.
Which Paris hotels are closest to a main railway station?
25hours Hotel Paris Terminus Nord stands directly across from Gare du Nord, with Eurostar inside the station and métro 4 and 5 and RER B, D and E on the same square. Sofitel Le Scribe Paris Opéra is five minutes on foot from Gare Saint-Lazare, and ibis Paris Tour Eiffel Cambronne 15ème ten minutes from Gare Montparnasse.
Which Paris hotels are on the métro line to Orly?
Pullman Paris Centre - Bercy and Too Hotel & Spa Paris, which both publish the ride on line 14. Pullman Bercy is a three-minute walk from Cour Saint-Émilion and gives Orly at 25 minutes. Too Hotel gives 30 minutes on line 14, and its nearest station, Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, is a ten-minute walk away. The four Paris Sofitels publish no airport time.