The Westin Paris – Vendôme

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.

"Hotel Continental" redirects here. For other uses, see Hotel Continental (disambiguation).
The Westin Paris - Vendôme
The hotel in 2005, before it was renamed The Westin
The Westin Paris – Vendôme is located in Paris
The Westin Paris – Vendôme
Location within Paris
General information
Location3, Rue de Castiglione, Paris, France
Coordinates48°52′15″N 2°19′51″E
OpeningApril 1878
OwnerDubai Holding
ManagementWestin Hotels
Technical details
Floor count5
Other information
Number of rooms440
Number of restaurants2

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] In November 2022, the hotel was sold to Dubai Holding, the personal investment portfolio of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. It was announced that the hotel would be reflagged as a Jumeirah property, as previously planned in 2017.[11]

Hôtel Continental, on the left, in 1900
A ballroom in The Westin
Share of the L'Hôtel Continental S. A., issued 31. October 1925

Notes
  1. Karl Baedeker, Paris and Its Environs, 1878.
  2. "Henri Blondel (1832-97), son-in-law of Charles Garnier" (Elaine Denby, Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion (1998:85).
  3. see note) Archived 2006-11-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. "Belonging and Betrayal", Gervase Vernon, Amazon, 2013
  5. Notes by Lord Hardinge.
  6. Vintage photo Archived 2008-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Henderson Park buys second Paris hotel property". 28 December 2017.
  8. "Henderson Park acquires iconic Westin Paris-Vendome | Experience".
  9. "How Jose Silva is Cooking up a Plan to Make Jumeirah a Culinary Destination for Luxury Travelers". Forbes.
  10. "Henderson Park Test the Market for High End Hotels by Putting the Westin Paris up for Sale at €800m". 7 February 2022.
  11. "Vente | le Westin Paris sous pavillon dubaïote et bientôt sous enseigne Jumeirah - LA TRIBUNE DE l'HOTELLERIE • Actualités hôtelières".
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