5 new hotel openings in France to watch in 2026

Opposite the Sorbonne in Paris’s fifth arrondissement, Hôtel Salvia Paris is for days when you want the Latin Quarter outside, then a quiet reset inside. Rooms are compact and honest: Cocoon starts at nine square metres, Prestige goes up to twenty-three, with a top-floor option that looks towards the Panthéon and the university rooftops. Smart TVs come with Chromecast, there’s Nespresso in-room and the higher categories add reversible air conditioning. Pets under ten kilos are welcome, which says a lot about the vibe.

In Paris’s 16th arrondissement near the Arc de Triomphe, L’Aventure is a Beaumarly mash-up of five-star hotel, restaurant and private club, designed to keep you in the building all night. Public spaces by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio riff on Victor Hugo’s The Legend of the Ages, with Art Deco mood, polished marble, velvet and mythological mosaics, plus digital scenography and lighting by Isometrix. Upstairs, the 15-room hotel is Vincent Darré’s playground, with hand-painted surrealist frescoes and scavenged furniture that swings between Haussmannian and 1970s.