Need to know
Rooms
82, including 19 suites, all spread over one floor and arranged by street direction to orient you.
Check–Out
12 noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
More details
Rates don’t usually include breakfast (€40 a person): a baguette with spreads, eggs your way, fresh juice and coffee or tea; but guests get exclusive access to the roof garden until 6pm (when external guests are invited in) and access to the sauna.
Also
There’s a lift and three of the Suite Garden Views are accessible and have flash fire alarms.
Please note
Please be aware, Hôtel Madame Rêve has a six-night maximum length of stay that is not reflected in our booking engine. If you want to book a stay longer than seven nights, please contact Smith24.
At the hotel
Roof terrace and sky garden, spa with sauna, gym, artworks throughout, dining terraces, lounging areas, free WiFi. In rooms: Smart TV, mini fridge, tea- and coffee-making kit, air-conditioning, notecard set. Around a third of the rooms and suites have a balcony or furnished terrace too.
Our favourite rooms
Prior to the conception of the hotel, designer Andrée Putman told founder Laurent Taïeb ‘if life has a colour, it’s golden brown’ (we assume not in a ‘fans of The Stranglers’ sense), so expect much of this warmly gleaming hue throughout. Taïeb worked with around 30 craftsmen to create the luxurious fittings and fixtures and hone the hotel’s multi-era-homaging look, with rich woods and marbles and bronze Bisazza tiles and gold-flecked lights in the bathrooms. We also rather like the telegram-inspired rugs, with a quote from comedian Jean Yanne: ‘I tried to pay your taxes with a smile, but they would only take a cheque’. And, artist Pierre-Stéphane Proust commissioned pieces of postal art from 700 creatives, a collection resulting in envelope portraits, hand-fans adorned with stamps, cartoons and aged missives. Just choose which view you’d like; Parisians tend to go for the quieter sky-garden-facing rooms, but you may want to ogle the Eiffel Tower in the distance or Montmartre’s rooftops à la Ratatouille. The Madame Rêve Suite has perhaps the loveliest sight to wake up to, with Saint-Eustache front and centre.
Spa
One of the more intimate hideaways amid the opulence, the wellbeing space has two treatment rooms, a sauna where you can detox, and a fitness centre with high-end equipment open from 6am to 10pm. And, on request you can book a private sunrise yoga class on the garden roof deck.
Packing tips
A Mont Blanc fountain pen for jotting a jealousy-making note home on the cards and logo-ed envelopes provided in your room – you can even send it via La Poste on the second floor.
Also
Madame Rêve makes an impression from the get-go – the discreet entrance door opens onto a lobby resplendent with mosaics, murals and antiques. The glittering mosaic on the floor pays homage to the post office, bearing its opening date of 1888.
Children
Welcome. The hotel doesn’t do the typically diminutive rooms found in Parisian hotels, with some sleeping up to six. And the concierge can help arrange babysitting.
Sustainability efforts
The hotel is very considerate in its eco-friendly efforts, with a raft of 400 solar panels on the rooftop to supply half the hot water needed and a unique green roof planted with 70 trees and plants galore, plus an interior hanging garden. And they duly recycle and use eco-friendly bath and spa products. They’ve also been extremely sympathetic in preserving the building’s original character, earning them nods from the likes of LEED, BREEAM and Effinergie. A government-mandated architect was put in charge of the revamp, furnishings and original features have been restored where possible and its purpose as a local hub has been retained.