Need to know
Rooms
53, including five suites.
Check–Out
Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm. Early check-in can be arranged for an additional fee of one night. Late check-out costs 50% of the room rate until 3pm or the full room rate after 3pm.
More details
Rates usually exclude the buffet breakfast of breads, pastries, granola, hot and cold dishes (fresh avocado and salmon, pancakes and bacon), tropical fruit and desserts (€35 each per day; €25 for children)
Also
The hotel has curated a handful of one-of-a-kind experiences for guests to book, from painting workshops in St Germain with a local artist to horse rides in Versailles.
At the hotel
Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, Nespresso coffee machine, minibar, free bottled water, tea and coffee kit, Mickael Kalaydjan toiletries.
Our favourite rooms
There’s something of the jewel box in Hotel Bowmann’s pale and interesting rooms: expect padded headboards, reflective gold surfaces and bathrooms encased in white diamond-cut boxes. If you’re staying a while, plump for the more spacious Deluxe Haussmann Room, with its waterfall shower and petite sitting area. For a wow-worthy getaway, the Eiffel Prestige Suite has a balcony with unbeatable views of Gustave’s most iconic creation.
Poolside
Open from 7am for pre-breakfast dips to 10pm for post-stroll soaks, the spa’s marble-walled pool is a sleek indoor number.
Spa
The hotel’s bijou spa packs in a sauna, balneotherapy shower and two treatment rooms. Holistic and organic, Lacure Officine treatments focus on inside-out wellbeing. Plump for an uplifting Japanese facial, slimming massages or a tension-busting horizontal shower.
Packing tips
Bring a foldable shopper: an understated Longchamp number will strike the right style note for those spur-of-the-moment buys in the neighbourhood.
Also
Three Bowmann Rooms have been adapted for wheelchair users, who also have access to the restaurant, bar and spa.
Children
Hotel Bowmann is more of a grown-up stay, but cots for under-3s are available in Deluxe Rooms and above for €45 a night.