Where is InterContinental Paris Le Grand?

At 2 rue Scribe, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The nearest metro station is Opéra, on lines 3, 7 and 8.

Which museums and sights are near InterContinental Paris Le Grand?

Musée de l'Orangerie is 900 m away, Musée d'Orsay is 1.2 km away, Louvre Museum is 1.2 km away. Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

Does InterContinental Paris Le Grand have a swimming pool?

No. InterContinental Paris Le Grand has no swimming pool, though it has a spa.

Is InterContinental Paris Le Grand 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 InterContinental Paris Le Grand open?

In 1862. It has 470 rooms and 72 suites.

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InterContinental Paris Le Grand

Le Grand Hôtel was one of the largest hotels in Europe when the Empress Eugénie opened it in 1862. It still fills a whole block beside the Opéra, and the Café de la Paix is still at its corner.

Le Grand Hôtel seen from the corner of the rue Scribe and the boulevard des Capucines. — Tangopaso, Public domain

The entrance of Le Grand Hôtel on the rue Scribe, under a canopy of iron and glass. — MOSSOT, CC BY 3.0

Class: Five-star hotel
Opened: 1862
Rooms: 470 rooms and 72 suites
Area: Place de l'Opéra

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What sets InterContinental Paris Le Grand apart

The Opéra
The hotel occupies the block between the boulevard des Capucines, the rue Scribe and the Place de l'Opéra. The Opéra Garnier is across the street, the department stores of the boulevard Haussmann are behind it, and the Louvre is at the far end of the avenue de l'Opéra.
The Café de la Paix
The café on the corner has been part of the hotel since the day it opened, and is one of the best known in Paris.
The grand rooms
The Salon Opéra, the ballroom of the Second Empire, is still used for balls and weddings. La Verrière is a restaurant under the glass roof of the winter garden.
The size
With more than five hundred rooms it is by far the largest hotel on this list, and the easiest in which to find a room.

What it has

Café de la Paix
La Verrière
Bar
Spa
Ballroom
Winter garden
Fitness room

Where InterContinental Paris Le Grand is

Address

2 rue Scribe
75009 Paris, France

Nearest metro

Opéra, on lines 3, 7 and 8

Museums and sights nearby

Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

The hotel of the Second Empire

The brothers Isaac and Émile Pereire, the bankers behind much of Haussmann's Paris, built the Grand Hôtel to the designs of Alfred Armand. Work began in April 1861. The Empress Eugénie inaugurated it on 5 May 1862, and it opened to guests on 30 June, with 800 rooms.

Victor Hugo gave parties here, and Émile Zola set the last scene of Nana in one of its rooms. In 1869 the newspaper owner James Gordon Bennett sent for Henry Morton Stanley and, in a suite of the hotel, told him to go and find Livingstone.

The hotel closed in December 2001 for a complete renovation and reopened on 5 April 2003. It is managed by InterContinental.