La Fondation
Bold new belle monde
A rue with a view
A modernist layer cake in Paris’ bohemian Batignolles neighbourhood, La Fondation delights on every level. From the subterranean spa and pool soars an all-stops-pulled sports club. A locally loved brasserie spills out onto the pavement; above, clean-lined rooms — courtesy of NYC design doyens Roman and Williams — gaze out over the city. And from the rooftop bar, views of the 17th arrondissement's mansard rooftops and romantic parks give way to the Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur. Talk about a cherry on top...
Facilities
Rooms
58, including three suites.
Checkout
Noon; check-in is at 3pm.
More Details
Rates are room-only, but a choice of à la carte breakfast menus (Parisian, Continental or American) is on offer each morning for an extra charge.
Also
Three Executive Rooms have been adapted for guests with limited mobility, and each have a roll-in shower, grab bars and lowered features. The communal areas are all accessible, too.
Fitness Center
Free Internet Access
Pet Friendly
Pool
On-Site Restaurant
Room Service
Spa
At the Hotel
Sports club, courtyard garden and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Nespresso or Smeg coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and Typology bath products.
Our Favourite Rooms
Suite Sacré Coeur’s namesake views are hard to beat. But go for any room facing Rue Legendre and your floor-to-ceiling windows will look out onto a pretty Haussmannian scene — and provide unmatched people-watching.
Poolside
In a feat that feels almost like a magic trick in Paris, La Fondation has conjured up a 26-metre heated pool in the underground spa area, atmospherically lit and flanked with loungers to zonk out on between semi-Olympic lengths.
Spa
At the hotel’s spacious subterranean spa, treatments come courtesy of two feelgood French brands — natural skincare mavens Typology and Ho Karan, who've created a signature massage designed to boost levels of the love hormone. Suitably destressed, slink over to the hammam and sauna to continue your relaxation. The full-scale sports club ensures the flip side of wellness is taken care of just as thoroughly. Alongside the large Technogym-equipped fitness area, there’s a climbing wall and four studios with a weekly schedule of over 100 classes, from boxing to barre, plus a juice bar to put you right post-workout.
Packing Tips
Bring shoes you can cycle in — a rental bike is an ideal way to crisscross the 17th arrondissement, ideally with fresh boulangerie goodies in the basket.
Also
Take a break from city slicking in the Solarium, a secret garden-like suntrap that’s reserved for hotel guests only.
Children
All ages are welcome, and the hotel supplies towels, bathrobes, slippers and high chairs for little Smiths. The spa and fitness areas are for adults-only, and children need to be supervised at the pool.
Gallery
Food & Drink
Top Table
Those committed to watching the world go by (or studying Parisian street style) will want a table by La Base’s street-level windows or out on the pavement terrace.
Dress Code
Edged-up Parisian elegance, like silk under vintage leather.
Hotel Restaurant
Brasserie La Base is the hotel’s ground-floor restaurant where, under Chef Thomas Rossi’s watch, nourishing and nostalgic French dishes are revitalised with sophisticated modern flavours. In a neighbourhood not short of elevated bistros, dishes like onion tatin with thyme créme, beef tartare with candied egg yolk and aubergine steak au poivre have won La Base a fan club of local regulars (who all know to save room for the fruit Charlotte).
A second restaurant is set to open in September 2025 on La Fondation’s eighth floor, with a seasonal fine-dining menu and showstopping city views. It will serve dinner from 7.30pm to 11pm, Tuesday to Saturday.
Hotel Bar
Landmark views and a moreish wine list draw le dix-septième’s in-the-loop denizens to La Fondation’s Rooftop cocktail bar. Bring your amour up here at sundown, when Paris unfurls like a twinkling carpet towards Sacré-Coeur and the Eiffel Tower. You'll find cocktails, such as raspberry Hugo spritzes, at Brasserie La Base.
Last Orders
Breakfast is served from 7.30am to 10.30am; until 11am, weekends. Lunch is served at La Base from noon to 2.30pm, dinner from 7.30pm to 10.30pm. The Rooftop is open from 5pm to midnight.
Room Service
A separate room service menu is available from 10.30am to 11.30pm.
Planes
The hotel is under an hour’s drive from both Paris Orly Airport and Charles de Gaulle Airport. Staff can arrange transfers on request (from €60 for Orly; from €80 for Charles de Gaulle).
Trains
If you’re coasting into Paris on the Eurostar, you’ll have around a half-hour Métro ride from Gare du Nord to La Fondation. Pont Cardinet, a 10-minute walk away, is the nearest Métro station to the hotel. It’s on Line 14 and connects you with Paris Orly Airport, Châtelet and Gare de Lyon. For Lines 2 and 3, it’s a similarly short walk to Villiers.
Automobiles
The hotel doesn't have a private carpark, but there’s public parking nearby. Valet parking is available from 10am to 9pm (free for street parking, and €50 a night for a spot in the nearby carpark).
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
A no-set-plans stroll is the best way to get acquainted with Batignolles’ pretty boulevards and lime tree-shaded squares. Stick to La Fondation’s Rue Legendre for cult-label clothes shopping, then fan out to the surrounding streets for indie boutiques. Cité de Fleurs is a storybook pedestrianised street, home to a patchwork of architectural styles and bloom-filled courtyards. Take a breather in Square des Batignolles, tracing the stream through the leafy gardens to the duck pond. Parc Monceau has a fairytale quality with follies and statues hidden amid its romantically landscaped acres. Nearby, Musée Cernuschi is worth stopping by for its rich collection of Asian art, housed in a 19th-century mansion. Set in an equally grand residence, Musée Jacquemart André has an impressive European art collection, but the real pull is the immersion in Belle Époque opulence.
Batignolles was once a rural village, and if you’re looking to re-root yourself in the neighbourhood’s heritage, head to the covered market, open every day except Saturday and still as lively and loaded with enticing local food as it was 200 years ago. There’s also an organic farmers’ market, which lures tote bag-carriers from across Paris to Boulevard des Batignolles every Saturday.
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