Opening 2027

Maybourne

The Maybourne Saint-Germain

Name: The Maybourne Saint-Germain
Address: Paris, France

Maybourne's first Paris hotel

Paris, France

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First look

Maybourne — the group behind Claridge's and The Connaught in London — is finally planting a flag in Paris. The Maybourne Saint-Germain will be its first hotel in the city, set inside the Îlot Saint-Germain, a listed 17th-century landmark on the Left Bank between Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue Saint-Dominique. The company calls it a "fourth era" for the building, and on paper it reads like a serious one.

The plan is a palace-style hotel of 101 keys — 50 suites and 51 rooms — wrapped around an inner courtyard, with six places to eat and drink and Surrenne, Maybourne's wellness-and-longevity spa, billed as one of the largest in Paris. That's a lot to deliver in a protected historic shell.

Not yet scored. We publish a Fat Score only once a hotel is open and real guests have stayed and written about it — this is a first look, not a verdict.

What we'll be watching

We haven't stayed yet — here's what will decide whether it lands when we do.

Whether the Paris opening changes what Maybourne is. The group's reputation was built on three London addresses — Claridge's, The Connaught, The Berkeley — where decades of repetition sharpened every detail. Paris is a blank slate, in a building that has never been a hotel, and the Left Bank already has the Lutetia. We'll be watching whether London's discipline travels, or whether a new city means a softened version.
Whether six dining venues is ambition or overreach. Six places to eat and drink inside a 101-key hotel is a lot to staff and fill, and Paris has standards. The Japanese restaurant is the most interesting bet — either it anchors the food offer or it reads as a trend-chasing add-on. We'll be watching whether the program earns its footprint or quietly shrinks after opening.
Whether the former Ministry of Defence shell becomes a hotel or just a historic shell with rooms in it. The building has been off-limits to the public for centuries and has never been a commercial address — the inner courtyard and the classified façades are the promise, but a listed building this size limits what you can actually do to it. We'll be watching whether the conversion feels genuinely inhabitable or reverent to the point of stiffness.
Whether 2027 is realistic for a project this complex. Restoring a protected 17th-century monument in Paris, fitting a 30-metre rooftop pool, a Surrenne spa large enough to be one of the city's biggest, and 23 branded residences alongside 101 hotel keys is not a straightforward build. The date is held for now but historic-building conversions in France have a way of moving.

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Renderings & press imagery, courtesy of the hotel — details may change before opening.

Sofie, who runs the Fat Voyage booking desk with Nicolas

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Nothing to book yet — rates usually load a few months out. We're Sofie and Nicolas; tell us roughly what you're after and we'll come back the moment The Maybourne Saint-Germain is bookable, with rates, what the rooms are actually like, and whether we'd go in the first season.

You'll be dealing with the two of us the whole way through, which is why we only take on a handful of trips at a time — if we're full, we'll say so. We reply by email, usually within one working day. The hotel pays us, not you: your rate is the same as booking direct, and the perks come on top.

Before it opens

When does The Maybourne Saint-Germain open?

Maybourne has announced a 2027 opening. As with any conversion inside a classified 17th-century building, the timing is expected rather than locked — treat it as the current target.

Where is The Maybourne Saint-Germain located?

It sits on the Left Bank in the 7th arrondissement, inside the Îlot Saint-Germain — a listed complex of 17th-century buildings between Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue Saint-Dominique that served as the French Ministry of Defence headquarters for generations. The building has never previously been a hotel.

Is this Maybourne's first hotel in Paris?

Yes. Maybourne's existing portfolio is the four London properties — Claridge's, The Connaught, The Berkeley, and The Emory — plus Maybourne Beverly Hills and Maybourne Riviera in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. The Saint-Germain will be the brand's first address in France.

How many rooms will The Maybourne Saint-Germain have?

101 keys in total: 50 suites and 51 rooms, arranged around an inner courtyard. The complex also includes 23 ultra-luxury branded residences, with interiors by Pierre-Yves Rochon and Laura Gonzalez, which are separate from the hotel room count.

What restaurants and facilities will it have?

Six dining venues are planned, including a Japanese restaurant, a patisserie, and a Salon de Thé. The property will also carry Surrenne, Maybourne's wellness and longevity spa concept, described by the brand as one of the largest luxury spas in Paris, alongside a 30-metre rooftop pool accessible to hotel guests.

Will Fat Voyage score The Maybourne Saint-Germain?

We publish a Fat Score only once a hotel is open and real guests have stayed and written about it — drawn from luxury travel communities, editorial publications, and verified guests, never paid placements. This is a first look, not a verdict; we'll score it once there's enough independent signal to be fair.

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What you can book today

The Maybourne Saint-Germain is still under wraps. Here's what's already open and scored in our collection — more from Maybourne, and nearby in France.

Fat Legend

Maybourne

Claridge's

London, United Kingdom

Claridge's is the London hotel people mean when they say a place still feels run by humans, not a system. A tea server named Marius brought Nutella for a granddaughter's scones when the table only had jam. A night manager, Tony, and the director of rooms, Pierpaolo, sorted a billing mishap at midnight and turned a bad start into a stay the guests wrote home about. The staff are what you're paying for, more than the Basil Ionides staircase or the Art Deco lobby everyone photographs on the way in — long-serving people who seem to actually want to know you, not just serve you. It isn't flawless, and recent enough to weigh honestly. One guest was blocked from her own room over a billing error the hotel had already made, then told it hadn't happened. Another was promised a priority slot for an early arrival and watched five later guests check in first. One party asked staff not to re-make a bed; six people came through their room anyway before they got any peace. The spa pool is a wading pool, fine for a soak, useless for laps, so don't book the spa expecting to swim. And there's active construction outside the main entrance right now — loud enough that some travellers are steering friends to the Connaught instead, though guests actually staying report their rooms stay quiet regardless. The Penthouse and the Signature Suites, several by André Fu, are genuinely the top of what London offers at this size and price, though a few people find the newer ones feel more like an expensive suite anywhere than distinctly London. That's a matter of taste, not a defect. Book it for the tea in the Foyer and staff who still know your name; just know there's scaffolding at the door for now.

Fat Favorite

Maybourne

The Berkeley

London, United Kingdom

Doorman after doorman turns up by name across these reviews: Mohamed and Danny at the front door, Waleed finding a junior suite before check-in and sending up coffee while the room was finished, Sofie surprising a couple with an upgrade and amenities, Sergio conjuring the Knightsbridge Pavilion suite on a fully booked heatwave weekend after a family's second room wasn't ready. Crib setups and Kith and Kin baby supplies show up for a one-year-old's birthday without being asked twice. The staff are why people keep coming back, and almost nobody who's stayed disputes it. Cedric Grolet's patisserie and the ABC Kitchens breakfast get treated as near-mandatory, and Knightsbridge puts Harrods, Hyde Park and the King's Road in walking distance in a way few competitors can match. The rest is shakier. Several 2026 reviews describe upkeep slipping since a management change: a room smelling of marijuana with a baby in tow, a ceiling and shower door in poor repair, pre-arranged flowers and a welcome card that never made it to an upgraded room. The rooftop pool is what guests warn each other about — shared with The Emory next door and marketed as a signature amenity, it's repeatedly described as too crowded to use, and more than one family with young kids was turned away from it entirely during peak periods. High tea and the à la carte menus draw similar complaints, including a £36 club sandwich that struck more than one guest as out of step with what arrived. None of that unseats the case for staying. At four figures a night without breakfast, you're paying for the welcome and the postcode more than the pool or the tea trolley, and on those two fronts nothing else in Knightsbridge competes. Book it for the doormen and the walk to Harrods, skip the rooftop, and go to Grolet's for breakfast instead of the tea room.

Fat Favorite

Maybourne

The Emory

London, United Kingdom

The Emory is Maybourne's one real departure from the Claridge's/Connaught script: Richard Rogers' glass box across from Hyde Park, 61 keys, all-suite, barely a lobby, sharing a spa and rooftop with The Berkeley next door. Rooms opened around £1,600 a night and the entry Courtyard Studios still sit near that, which buys floor-to-ceiling glass, a stocked-free minibar, a Cédric Grolet pastry on arrival, and Surrenne downstairs. The Tracy Anderson studio and the snow shower come up before anything else, and one guest who stayed five months called it the best spa experience of a very long trip. This isn't a hotel that performs the same on night one as it does on night five. That same long-stay guest tracked their own housekeeping scores and found mornings ran measurably better than afternoons, and said outright that a one or two-night stay is too small a sample to judge the place fairly. Shorter stays back that up: a slow check-in, no manager on hand when something goes wrong, a "suite" facing a neighbouring building with the curtains stuck shut for lack of any view. The website oversells too: the welcome champagne, the unpacking service, the non-alcoholic beer add-on don't always show up as promised, which reads less like malice than a property still smoothing its edges two years in. A few guests have also flagged there's no concierge on-site for basics like booking a car, so you're sent next door to The Berkeley. Book it for the design, the spa, and the quiet if you can give it three nights or more and shrug off an off moment; it isn't built for a single-night stopover. Give it three nights and the butlers, the glass, and Surrenne make the case themselves.

Fat Favorite

Maybourne

The Connaught

London, United Kingdom

What you're actually paying for at The Connaught is the people. Guests get greeted by name by day two, upgraded to Elizabethan suites with peaked ceilings and four-poster beds, sent off with satsumas and a house Negroni. One guest mentioned a doorman with 42 years at the hotel — that kind of tenure is rare in London, and it changes how a place runs day to day. The martini trolley is the other reason people book: tableside customisation with the house gin and a choice of vermouths, and even guests wincing at £30-65 a drink call the ritual worth it. The driveway off the street, rare for Mayfair, is a genuinely unusual perk rather than a brochure line. The rooms are the catch. Entry-level rooms run small by London standards, and a couple of recent stays describe the base category as heavy and musty rather than atmospheric, which is partly a matter of taste on the dark-wood, old-world look generally, but the size is simply a fact at this price. The suites upstairs are a different property and worth pushing for if the budget stretches. A strong floral scent in the lobby comes up often enough to be real, and a couple of very recent reports describe front-desk staff turning guests away over minor things (a takeaway coffee cup, arriving eight minutes past a confirmed time) that sit oddly against everything else people say about the service here. Book it for the location, the bar, and service that still edges out Claridge's or Brown's nearby. Ask for a higher category if you can; the entry-level rooms are the one place this hotel undersells itself.

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