Just a stroll from Café de Flore, the Bel-Ami hides its past as an 18th-century textile factory behind veneer furnishings and crisply jacketed staff. You're immediately hit by the Conran Shop-meets-espresso bar lobby, with club music and a sleek fireplace lounge to match. There's Wi-Fi throughout, and a fitness center with sauna and Tibetan massage treatment rooms. Rooms lean toward minimalist chic in soothing colors but are transformed often to keep up with the hotel's young and trendy clientele. It fills up fast when the fashion circus comes to town. Pros: upscale, stylish hotel; central St-Germain-des-Prés location; spacious fitness center and spa. Cons: some guests report loud noise between rooms; some very small rooms in lower price category.
Reviewed by Serina from Madrid on 3/3/08
If you like not being like everyone, this hotel is for you. The area is formal, historic and intellectual and the hotel is a boutique hotel, design, cares about details and so on.
It is a cut hotel to stay in Paris.
Reviewed by ppugh from California on 6/4/07
Read another review here on line and couldn't believe we stayed in the same hotel. We loved the contemporary decor, our room was small but quiet and very comfortable. Breakfasts, included in the room, were the best we had almost anywhere in France. Our experience with staff was that they were polite, welcoming and helpful. Would definitely go back.
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