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Shangri-La Paris

Prince Roland Bonaparte built himself a palace facing the Eiffel Tower in the 1890s. It is now a hotel of a hundred rooms, and the view is the same.

Class
Five-star hotel, Palace
Opened
2010
Rooms
100 rooms and suites
Area
Avenue d'Iéna, by the Trocadéro

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    What sets Shangri-La Paris apart

    1. The view

      The hotel stands on the slope above the Seine, directly across the river from the Eiffel Tower. Many rooms and most of the suites look straight at it, some from their own terraces.

    2. The house

      The building was finished in 1895 for Prince Roland Bonaparte, a great-nephew of Napoleon and a scientist, who kept his library and his collection of plants in it. The staircase and the state rooms are listed as a historic monument.

    3. The restaurants

      La Bauhinia, under a glass dome, serves French and South-East Asian food. Shang Palace is a Cantonese restaurant, and the bar, Le Bar Botaniste, is named for the prince's herbarium.

    4. The pool

      Chi, the spa, has a swimming pool seventeen metres long, lit by daylight.

    What it has

    • Indoor pool
    • Spa
    • La Bauhinia
    • Shang Palace
    • Le Bar Botaniste
    • Eiffel Tower views
    • Terraces

    Where Shangri-La Paris is

    Address

    10 avenue d'Iéna
    75116 Paris, France

    Nearest metro

    Iéna, on line 9

    Museums and sights nearby

    Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

    A prince's palace on the hill of Chaillot

    The mansion was built between 1892 and 1895 by the architect Ernest Janty for Prince Roland Bonaparte, a geographer and botanist, who filled it with a library of 150,000 volumes and one of the largest private herbaria in the world.

    It passed through several hands after his death and was listed as a historic monument in 2009. Shangri-La, the hotel group from Hong Kong, bought it in 2005 and restored it over several years.

    The hotel opened on 17 December 2010, the group's first in Europe, and has held the Palace distinction since 2014. The Trocadéro, the Palais de Tokyo and the Musée Guimet are all a few minutes away on foot.

    Shangri-La Paris: common questions

    Where is Shangri-La Paris?
    At 10 avenue d'Iéna, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The nearest metro station is Iéna, on line 9.
    Which museums and sights are near Shangri-La Paris?
    Eiffel Tower is 600 m away, Arc de Triomphe is 1.1 km away, Musée Rodin is 1.9 km away. Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.
    Does Shangri-La Paris have a swimming pool?
    Yes. It has an indoor swimming pool seventeen metres long, in the spa.
    Is Shangri-La Paris a Palace hotel?
    Yes. It holds the Palace distinction, which the French state gives to a small number of five-star hotels judged exceptional.
    When did Shangri-La Paris open?
    In 2010. It has 100 rooms and suites.

    What visitors say about Shangri-La Paris

    Rating from Google

    4.7

    3,459 ratings on Google

    Google's figures as read on 4 October 2026.

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