Five-Star Overview
The Hotel Banke is an elegant five-star hotel located in the Opera neighborhood, home to one of the city's most exclusive shopping center, and just steps away from the Place Vendôme and twenty minutes from the Louvre. Occupying the premises of a former bank headquarters and refurbished as a hotel in 2009, the Hotel Banke is housed in an early twentieth-century building, the work of architects Paul Friesé and Cassien Bernard. Its stately facade dominates the corner of Rue La Fayette and Rue Pillet Will with a style that revives the charms of Paris's "Belle Époque". The hotel makes a statement with its spectacular lobby crowned with a glass cupola and the refined taste found in each of its 91 rooms and suites: shades of cream and chocolate, purple curtains, plaited leather rugs, damask leather headboards, marble bathrooms and designer furniture. A décor that blends original architectural elements with contemporary design to bring a twenty-first century touch to a Haussmann-style building. The hotel also boasts an extensive art collection, historically priceless jewelry from cultures around the world: Egyptian, African, pre-Columbian, Roman and Buddhist, among others.
