The Metropolis of Mild is dwelling to hotels aplenty, starting from serviceable funds lodging to luxurious digs the place your factors may also help you avoid wasting euros.
The most recent entrant on the scene comes courtesy of Hilton’s upscale LXR Inns & Resorts model, and is an under-the-radar, 118-room gem in Paris’s sleepy seventh arrondissement.
Sax Paris, LXR Hotels & Resorts opened its doorways on the finish of Might, and TPG popped in there simply after Bastille Day for a spontaneous keep on town’s Left Financial institution. Here is every thing it’s good to find out about Paris’ newest factors resort and how one can benefit from a keep there.
First impressions
An ever-changing forged of well-heeled foreigners — some toting luggage from vogue manufacturers galore, others furtively issuing orders through cellphones to unseen assistants — appears to play background characters in entrance of the 1899 former phone change that has lately been remodeled into the Sax. Should you can tear your surreptitious gaze away from their antics, you may spot the golden dome of Les Invalides down one of many large boulevards radiating from the resort, and the spire of the Eiffel Tower in one other course down a leafy avenue.
Sharply dressed doormen do their finest to match the proper events to the proper Mercedes sedans, or to assist the newest arrival wheel large items of baggage that hark again to the monthslong ocean voyages of yore into the comparatively diminutive reception space.
One of many check-in brokers will certainly praise your high-school French as you full the check-in formalities, then they may hop out from behind the standing desk to personally escort you to your chamber, declaring the alfresco The Backyard restaurant (and plunge pool) by way of the again door, or the sultry, chandelier-filled The Galerie lounge alongside the best way earlier than main you underneath a ceiling mural by avenue artist Sto on the best way to the elevators.
Reasonably than one of many metropolis’s grande dame lodges, this feels extra like a well-to-do residential constructing that you just simply occur to be calling dwelling throughout your go to to Paris.
The rooms
For a resort with so few rooms, the Sax Paris truly has a preponderance of room classes — I counted 18 on the reserving web page — which may make it arduous to suss out precisely what you are getting. Nevertheless, there are simply king and queen rooms within the beginning Sax class, and these are those accessible for the fewest factors, so that’s seemingly what most company will find yourself attempting to guide.
Because of my Hilton Honors Diamond status, I used to be upgraded a single class from a Queen Sax room to a King Deluxe room that was 280 sq. ft versus simply 250 sq. ft. Although small, it was nonetheless spacious by Parisian requirements and effectively laid out.
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Anchoring the house was a sumptuously dressed king-size mattress with crisp, white, monogrammed linens, flanked on either side by marble-topped nightstands.
Reasonably than a headboard, the wall behind it was a window trying into the toilet (albeit with digital privateness blinds).
On the far facet of the room, a wall of mirrored doorways hiding the closet lent the house a extra expansive really feel whereas additionally reflecting the pure gentle from the wall of home windows overlooking the resort’s courtyard.
The room additionally held a marble breakfast desk with two chairs — one wooden, the opposite leather-based — offering a good workspace. Subsequent to this, the 55-inch flat-screen HDTV was mounted on a flooring stand. The rough-hewn wood minibar held quite a lot of specialty treats like savories and sweets from La Grande Epicerie and bottled cocktails from the Avantgarde Spirits Firm.
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To 1 facet of the brief hall to the entrance door was a water closet containing an automatic rest room.
To the opposite was the principle rest room, clad in attractive white marble with deep black veins and with a twin sink carved from darkish marble. One quirk of this was that the new water pipes appeared to run by way of the brass fixtures upon which the towels hung — an ingenious method of warming the linens, maybe, however scorching to the contact in any other case, so consideration!
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The walk-in bathe had hand-held and overhead showerheads and pleasantly scented custom-made hair and pores and skin merchandise.
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Up to date however with nods to artwork deco and Sixties fashion, the room felt very stylish and nicely laid out, if a tad on the small facet for this worth level.
Eating
The resort has a number of eating and consuming institutions.
These on the lookout for a swinging scene ought to head straight to Kinugawa, a Japanese fusion restaurant with different outposts in Dubai, Morocco and St. Barts, amongst others, on the highest flooring, the place a raft of hosts and hostesses stand able to escort you to your desk. These across the central bar and the omakase counter are the liveliest, however the ones with Eiffel Tower views are essentially the most coveted. All have plush pink velvet chairs and banquettes, although, with a potted palm or two thrown in for good measure.
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There are tables outdoors on a small deck in addition to one flooring up through a spiral staircase (although this space was not but prepared for company). Only a heads-up that this tends to be the place the people who smoke congregate, so your panoramic view may include wafts of smoke.
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The menu is expensive, even by Parisian requirements, with standout dishes like crispy rice with salmon, snow crab and avocado ($35); katsu duck cress salad ($30.50); a wagyu burger with yuzu kosho aioli ($47); and quite a lot of sushi rolls and sashimi, together with ultrafresh spicy tuna ($25) and particular person items of candy crab ($8).
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Kinugawa can be the place breakfast is served from 7-10:30 a.m. each day. It was included as a part of my Hilton Diamond advantages and featured an in depth buffet of pastries, fruit, chilly cuts, juices and even Taittinger Champagne, plus a choice of a la carte dishes like avocado toast, brioche French toast and eggs made to order.
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Visitors on the lookout for one thing extra continental can pattern the identical menu whether or not eating within the lobby-adjacent all-day eating venue, Sax, or the tranquil courtyard restaurant, The Backyard, which can be the place you will discover a small plunge pool, a Jacuzzi and a handful of loungers.
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Among the many signatures on provide are lobster gyoza ($27), mini grilled cheese ($20), a jamon de bellota platter ($40), Caesar salad ($35) and a membership sandwich ($38), plus specialty cocktails just like the heady Mr. Burns with Glasgow Mix whisky, Planteray O.F.T.D. rum, buckwheat tincture and Martini Rubino vermouth ($22).
With trellises, timber, tiled flooring and umbrella-shaded tables, in addition to a dramatic mirrored sculpture titled Rockstone, by artist Arik Levy, The Backyard seems like a St. Tropez seaside membership transported to town, whereas Sax is extra luxe, with velvet chairs, crystal chandeliers and a black-and-white copy of Delacroix’s “Liberty Main the Individuals” on the ceiling.
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Although not fully open whereas we had been there, The Galerie is a sultry house reverse Sax with pink velvet banquettes and slipper chairs, mirrored partitions and ceilings, and fanciful Baccarat crystal chandeliers, all tinted pink by the street-facing home windows.
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Facilities and repair
- Two flooring underground, the small health middle has the newest Technogym health and cardio gear and males’s and girls’s locker rooms with steam rooms and saunas.
- The spa affords numerous massages and facials starting from 45-90 minutes, and advance reservations are recommended.
- There’s a small pool and Jacuzzi in The Backyard, however lounge chairs are in restricted provide.
- Workers members all through the resort couldn’t have been friendlier, transitioning between French and English relying on what company most popular, and able to help with every thing from baggage to instructions.
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Location and logistics
The Sax Paris, LXR Inns & Resorts is on Avenue de Saxe within the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The encompassing space is a comparatively quiet, upscale, residential space of town, although the resort is barely a brief stroll to tourist-thronged spots just like the Eiffel Tower and Les Invalides. There are many Metro and bus stops close by, so getting across the metropolis through public transport is a breeze.
It is comparatively fast and cheap to get to the resort from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) through the RER B and Metro 10 line ($15) or a $50-$80 experience utilizing Uber or Bolt, relying on the time of day and the kind of automotive you like.
What it prices
Nightly charges on the Sax Paris, LXR Inns & Resorts begin at round $780 or 110,000 Hilton Honors points per night time, with loads of award availability, for rooms within the beginning Queen Sax and King Sax classes.
That equates to a price of round 0.71 cents per level, which is barely above TPG’s August 2025 valuation. Additionally take into account that, throughout one among Hilton’s frequent gross sales of factors with a 100% bonus, you possibly can buy factors at a charge of 0.5 cents apiece, so 110,000 of them would price you $550, which may find yourself saving you cash on a keep.
The room to which I used to be upgraded, a King Deluxe, begins at round $840 per night time.
When reserving the Sax Paris, LXR Inns & Resorts, attempt to use one of many credit cards that earn the most points for Hilton stays, or one that provides automatic Hilton Honors elite status for value-added advantages. These embody:
- Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card: Earn 12 factors per greenback spent on eligible purchases at Hilton lodges, automated Gold elite standing and the power to improve to Diamond standing by way of the tip of the following calendar yr by spending $40,000 on eligible purchases in a calendar yr.
- The Hilton Honors American Express Business Card: Earn 12 factors per greenback spent on eligible purchases at Hilton lodges, automated Gold elite standing and the power to improve to Diamond standing by way of the tip of the following calendar yr by spending $40,000 on eligible purchases in a calendar yr.
- Hilton Honors American Express Card: Earn 7 factors per greenback spent on eligible purchases at Hilton lodges and automated Silver elite standing (with an improve to Gold by way of the tip of the following calendar yr if you spend $20,000 on eligible purchases in a calendar yr).
- Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card: Earn 14 factors per greenback spent on eligible purchases at Hilton lodges and automated Diamond elite standing.
The knowledge for the Hilton Aspire Card has been collected independently by The Factors Man. The cardboard particulars on this web page haven’t been reviewed or supplied by the cardboard issuer.
Accessibility
The resort’s public areas, together with the foyer and eating places, are accessible with wheelchairs, although using elevators is required in some circumstances, and these are on the small facet.
The resort has wheelchair-accessible rooms within the King Sax and King Status classes which have options reminiscent of extra floorspace for simpler wheelchair navigation, roll-in showers and bathroom seize bars. As at all times, name the resort instantly to make sure you can guide an lodging that meets your particular wants.
Backside line
Eliminated — however not far — from the Left Financial institution’s busiest vacationer sights within the refined seventh arrondissement, Sax Paris, LXR Inns & Resorts offers the refined backdrop for a relaxed keep within the French capital. It is a welcome different to town’s generally over-the-top luxurious lodges. What’s extra, it’s readily bookable utilizing Hilton Honors factors, albeit at sky-high charges. Nonetheless, when you’ve got the factors to spare, they’ll prevent fairly a bundle on a Parisian getaway and open up a generally neglected nook of town in your exploration.
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