The Best New Hotels Opening in France in 2025

2025 will be a big year for hotel openings around the world. (Then again, when isn't it a big year?) France continues to draw visitors for its innovative and oh so chic hotels that both honor the past and blaze a path into the future.

Maison Barrière Vendôme

Paris, France
The latest from Groupe Barrière is a total stunner for its craft, details, and a theme that makes us stand up and cheer oui, madame: Twenty-six rooms, suites, and apartments at Maison Barrière Vendôme pay homage, through their decor and artwork, to iconic women — Josephine Baker, Mata Hari, Mercedes Sosa, Camille Claudel, and Nina Simone among them. Bar Frida is the South American-inspired restaurant and cocktail spot on the ground floor; an underground spa with a cold plunge pool is coming soon. Let’s hear it for les femmes. (January)

Hôtel Filigrane

Paris, France
Hôtel Filigrane, a four-star hotel in the 2nd arrondissement took inspiration from its two prominent neighbors, the Bourse stock exchange and Bibliothèque de France library. The handsome design leans on monochromatic palettes (blues, reds, greens) and geometric patterns (lots of stripes); the spa has a pool that can be reserved for private use and a mosaic-lined hammam. And because accessibility for varying levels of ability is something we’re going to hear hotels talk about a lot more in the coming years (or so we hope), we’re applauding this statement on the website: “The hotel is suitable for people with reduced mobility.” (January)

La Fondacion

Paris, France
New York studio Roman & Williams designed La Fondacion in the 17th arrondissement with separate areas devoted to a hotel (58 rooms, three restaurants, and an outdoor rooftop bar), work (meeting rooms, auditorium, a hanging wall), and wellness (a semi- Olympic pool, climbing wall, fitness classes). (April)

Experimental Chalet Val d'Isère

Val d’Isère, France
We can always count on the team at Experimental and their preferred designer Dorothée Meilichzon to create vibrant, welcoming, and refreshingly affordable hotels in top destinations. Their sixth, Experimental Chalet Val d'Isère, a 113-room hotel on the slopes in the French Alps, has brasserie-style restaurants (have the raclette), a spa offering massages to soothe achy limbs, and, of course, an outpost of the Experimental Cocktail Club. (January)

Cour des Loges Lyon, A Radisson Collection Hotel

Lyon, France
We’re digging the look of the exposed beams, stone columns, period furnishings, cloistered atrium, and glass-roofed spa at Cour des Loges Lyon, A Radisson Collection Hotel, a historic Renaissance building in Vieux-Lyon. (February)

Hôtel Le Soleia

Nice, France
The city that wants to be more than a stop on the way to the Riviera gives visitors another reason to spend a few nights with Hôtel Le Soleia, a beautiful, feminine, light-filled, centrally located four-star from Inwood Hotels. (March)

Villa Miraé

Cap d’Antibes, France
Of course, those who do want to summer on the Riviera have a new option: Villa Miraé, Inwood’s five-star newcomer that looks just as light, airy, and beautiful as Le Soleia. (May)

Château de la Commaraine

Pommard, France
The only thing the French take more seriously than their wine is their history. So you can bet that France’s architectural heritage protection organization, Architectes des Bâtiments de France, took special interest in overseeing the renovation of Château de la Commaraine, a 12th-century property on a vineyard in the heart of Burgundy. Past will merge with present in 37 rooms and the four-bedroom villa that has its own tasting room. Speaking of tastings, while the large pool and two restaurants have their appeal, we’re making a beeline for the bar in the 14th-century tower. (Late 2025)

Want to know about more hotels? France is just the tip of the global iceberg when it comes to new hotels. Here's what will open in 2025 in the USA, Canada, and Latin America; in Europe; and in Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.