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Hôtel Raphael

Seven floors of rooms on the avenue Kléber, between the Arc de Triomphe and the Trocadéro, and on top of them a terrace with the city all around.

The Hôtel Raphael on the avenue Kléber, with red awnings over its ground-floor windows.
Peter Potrowl, CC BY 2.5
Class
Five-star hotel
Opened
1925
Rooms
83 rooms and suites
Area
Avenue Kléber, by the Arc de Triomphe

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    What sets Hôtel Raphael apart

    1. The roof

      The terrace on the roof is planted as a garden, with tables among the trees and a view over the roofs of Paris, the Eiffel Tower to one side and the Arc de Triomphe to the other.

    2. Hollywood's address

      Ava Gardner, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Steve McQueen and Marlon Brando all stayed here when they were in Paris. The songs of the film Gigi were largely written in one of its suites in 1957, and Wes Anderson shot his short film Hotel Chevalier in the hotel in 2007.

    3. The rooms

      Eighty-three of them, some with a view of the Eiffel Tower and some of the Arc de Triomphe.

    4. The avenue Kléber

      The Arc de Triomphe is a few hundred metres up the avenue and the Trocadéro, with its museums and its view of the Eiffel Tower, a little further down. The Peninsula is the building next door.

    What it has

    • Rooftop terrace
    • Bar Anglais
    • Eiffel Tower views
    • Meeting rooms

    Where Hôtel Raphael is

    Address

    17 avenue Kléber
    75116 Paris, France

    Nearest metro

    Kléber, on line 6

    Museums and sights nearby

    Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

    A hotel named for a painter

    Léonard Tauber and Constant Baverez, who had already built the Regina and the Majestic, put up the Raphael in 1925 to the designs of the architect André Rousselot. They named it for the painter, in homage to the fine arts.

    After May 1940 the hotel was taken over for senior German officers. The writer Ernst Jünger, then a captain in the army of occupation, lived in it in 1941 and 1942 and again in 1943 and 1944, and wrote part of his war journals here.

    The Baverez family has run the hotel for several generations.

    Hôtel Raphael: common questions

    Where is Hôtel Raphael?
    At 17 avenue Kléber, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The nearest metro station is Kléber, on line 6.
    Which museums and sights are near Hôtel Raphael?
    Arc de Triomphe is 300 m away, Eiffel Tower is 1.4 km away, Musée de l'Orangerie is 2.3 km away. Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.
    Does Hôtel Raphael have a swimming pool?
    No. Hôtel Raphael has no swimming pool.
    Is Hôtel Raphael a Palace hotel?
    It is a five-star hotel. It does not hold the Palace distinction, the title the French state gives to a small number of five-star hotels.
    When did Hôtel Raphael open?
    In 1925. It has 83 rooms and suites.

    What visitors say about Hôtel Raphael

    Rating from Google

    4.3

    1,058 ratings on Google

    Google's figures as read on 4 October 2026.

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