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Hilton Paris Opera
Paris, France · Hilton Hotels & Resorts · Accessible Luxury
Hilton Paris Opera occupies Juste Lisch's Belle Epoque pile at 108 Rue Saint-Lazare, opened 7 May 1889 as the Grand Hotel Terminus beside Gare Saint-Lazare, the station Monet painted and France's busiest terminus. Lisch designed the hotel and the rebuilt station, linked by a covered footbridge for 1889 Exhibition travelers. Le Grand Salon, a Monument historique Second Empire ballroom, survived a fifty-million-dollar 2015 restoration; Palais Garnier is a nine-minute walk.
- 153 rooms
- Opened 1889
- Neighborhood: Saint-Lazare
- Architect: Juste Lisch
About Hilton Paris Opera
- The hotel was built in just fifteen months for twelve million francs.
- Architect Juste Lisch designed both the hotel and the rebuilt Gare Saint Lazare, which opened one month earlier, giving rail passengers direct access through a covered footbridge from the station concourse.
- Le Grand Salon, a Monument historique Second Empire ballroom with double height arcades, frescoed walls, and cast iron colonnettes, survives as Hilton Paris Opera's showpiece after a fifty million dollar 2015 restoration.
- The hotel was financed by the Pereire brothers through the Societe du Grand Hotel du Louvre and originally targeted British travelers arriving by train from Normandy for the 1889 world's fair crowds.
- Johnny Hallyday, who later sold over one hundred million records as France's greatest rock star, performed early gigs in the hotel cafe during the 1950s before adopting his famous stage name.
History
Hilton Paris Opera stands in a beautifully restored 1889 building beside Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris’s 8th arrondissement, a location that places it squarely in the historic Haussmann-Opéra district. Hilton’s own hotel page identifies the property as a 19th-century structure and emphasizes its restoration, but it does not name the original architect or spell out the building’s first use, so those details are best left unclaimed. What is clear is that the hotel occupies a late-Victorian-era Parisian building that has been adapted for contemporary hospitality while preserving its period character. The surrounding neighborhood is one of the city’s classic commercial and transport gateways, with the Saint-Lazare station shaping the district’s growth and identity over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The hotel’s present-day appeal rests less on a long chain of famous proprietors than on its setting and fabric: a historic shell in one of Paris’s most heavily trafficked central quarters, within easy reach of the Opéra district, Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, and the major sights of central Paris. As a Hilton-branded property, it represents the company’s practice of reusing historically significant urban buildings rather than replacing them, but the publicly verified record available here is notably thin on the hotel’s pre-Hilton narrative. That makes its history straightforward: a restored 1889 Paris building, now operating as a full-service hotel in a prime transport-and-shopping corridor, with its historical value deriving primarily from age, location, and surviving nineteenth-century architecture rather than from a heavily documented celebrity past.
The setting
Hilton Paris Opera occupies a grand Belle Époque building at 108 Rue Saint-Lazare in the 8th arrondissement, beside the Gare Saint-Lazare , France's busiest rail terminus, immortalized by Monet's paintings of its iron-and-glass train hall. The building opened on 7 May 1889 as the Grand Hôtel Terminus, designed by Juste Lisch to receive visitors for the Universal Exhibition , the same event that inaugurated the Eiffel Tower. The Palais Garnier opera house is nine minutes on foot south and Galeries Lafayette Haussmann a short walk east, making this a confident, historically rooted address in Paris's commercial and cultural Right Bank.
Restaurants and bars
- QUAI 108 — Restaurant
Amenities
- Fitness center
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