The Westin Paris – Vendôme
The Westin Paris - Vendôme | |
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![]() The hotel in 2005, before it was renamed The Westin | |
![]() ![]() Location within Paris | |
General information | |
Location | 3, Rue de Castiglione, Paris, France |
Coordinates | 48°52′15″N 2°19′51″E / 48.87083°N 2.33083°ECoordinates: 48°52′15″N 2°19′51″E / 48.87083°N 2.33083°E |
Opening | April 1878 |
Owner | Henderson Park Capital |
Management | Westin Hotels |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 5 |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 440 |
Number of restaurants | 2 |
The Westin Paris – Vendôme is a historic hotel in Paris, France at 3 rue de Castiglione on the corner of the rue de Rivoli, facing the Tuileries Garden.
History[]
The hotel opened on June 6th, 1878 as the Hôtel Continental,[1] It was designed by Charles Garnier's son-in-law Henri Blondel[2] and was intended to be the most luxurious hotel in Paris at the time. It occupied a full block, the former premises of the Ministry of Finance, (burned in 1871) which had been designed by François-Hippolyte Destailleur in 1817, following the Bourbon Restoration.[3] During the first World War the hotel was used as a military hospital by the French.[4] The Hôtel Continental remained the largest hotel in Paris for decades; the Russian Grand Dukes habitually stayed there;[5] at the Liberation of Paris, bedsheets were hung from its windows as cheerful flags of surrender.[6] The hotel was renamed the Inter-Continental Paris in 1969, and then became The Westin Paris in 2005, adding the suffix Vendôme to its name in 2010. The hotel was sold by Singapore-based sovereign wealth fund GIC to London-based Henderson Park Capital in 2017[7] for €550 million.[8] The new owners announced that the hotel would be renovated at a cost of $350 million by designer Tristan Auer and would become part of Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts in 2022.[9] The renovation and reflagging did not happen and instead, Henderson Park put the hotel up for sale in February 2022, for €800 million.[10]
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Notes[]
- ^ Karl Baedeker, Paris and Its Environs, 1878.
- ^ "Henri Blondel (1832-97), son-in-law of Charles Garnier" (Elaine Denby, Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion (1998:85).
- ^ see note) Archived 2006-11-26 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Belonging and Betrayal", Gervase Vernon, Amazon, 2013
- ^ Notes by Lord Hardinge.
- ^ Vintage photo Archived 2008-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Henderson Park buys second Paris hotel property". 28 December 2017.
- ^ "Henderson Park acquires iconic Westin Paris-Vendome | Experience".
- ^ "How Jose Silva is Cooking up a Plan to Make Jumeirah a Culinary Destination for Luxury Travelers". Forbes.
- ^ "Henderson Park Test the Market for High End Hotels by Putting the Westin Paris up for Sale at €800m". 7 February 2022.
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