First look: Sax Paris, LXR Inns & Resorts from Hilton

The Metropolis of Gentle is dwelling to motels aplenty, starting from serviceable finances lodging to luxurious digs the place your factors may 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 Inns & Resorts opened its doorways on the finish of Could, and TPG popped in there simply after Bastille Day for a spontaneous keep on town’s Left Financial institution. Here is every little thing it is advisable find out about Paris’ newest factors lodge and the right way to take advantage of a keep there.

First impressions

An ever-changing solid of well-heeled foreigners — some toting luggage from trend manufacturers galore, others furtively issuing orders through cellphones to unseen assistants — appears to play background characters in entrance of the 1899 former phone trade that has just lately been reworked into the Sax. For those who can tear your surreptitious gaze away from their antics, you would possibly spot the golden dome of Les Invalides down one of many broad boulevards radiating from the lodge, and the spire of the Eiffel Tower in one other path 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 huge 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, stating the alfresco The Backyard restaurant (and plunge pool) by the again door, or the sultry, chandelier-filled The Galerie lounge alongside the way in which earlier than main you beneath a ceiling mural by avenue artist Sto on the way in which to the elevators.

Somewhat than one of many metropolis’s grande dame motels, this feels extra like a well-to-do residential constructing that you simply simply occur to be calling dwelling throughout your go to to Paris.

The rooms

For a lodge with so few rooms, the Sax Paris really has a preponderance of room classes — I counted 18 on the reserving web page — which might make it exhausting 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 out there for the fewest factors, so that’s seemingly what most company will find yourself attempting to ebook.

Due to my Hilton Honors Diamond standing, I used to be upgraded a single class from a Queen Sax room to a King Deluxe room that was 280 sq. toes versus simply 250 sq. toes. Although small, it was nonetheless spacious by Parisian requirements and effectively laid out.

Anchoring the area was a sumptuously dressed king-size mattress with crisp, white, monogrammed linens, flanked on either side by marble-topped nightstands.

Somewhat than a headboard, the wall behind it was a window wanting 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 area a extra expansive really feel whereas additionally reflecting the pure gentle from the wall of home windows overlooking the lodge’s courtyard.

The room additionally held a marble breakfast desk with two chairs — one wooden, the opposite leather-based — offering an honest workspace. Subsequent to this, the 55-inch flat-screen HDTV was mounted on a ground stand. The rough-hewn picket minibar held a wide range of specialty treats like savories and sweets from La Grande Epicerie and bottled cocktails from the Avantgarde Spirits Firm.

To at least one facet of the quick hall to the entrance door was a water closet containing an automatic bathroom.

To the opposite was the primary rest room, clad in beautiful 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 the brass fixtures upon which the towels hung — an ingenious means of warming the linens, maybe, however sizzling to the contact in any other case, so consideration!

The walk-in bathe had hand-held and overhead showerheads and pleasantly scented custom-made hair and pores and skin merchandise.

Modern however with nods to artwork deco and Nineteen Sixties fashion, the room felt very stylish and properly laid out, if a tad on the small facet for this value level.

Eating

The lodge has a number of eating and consuming institutions.

These searching 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 ground, 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 probably the most coveted. All have plush pink velvet chairs and banquettes, although, with a potted palm or two thrown in for good measure.

There are tables exterior on a small deck in addition to one ground 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 would possibly include wafts of smoke.

The menu is costly, 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 a wide range of sushi rolls and sashimi, together with ultrafresh spicy tuna ($25) and particular person items of candy crab ($8).

Kinugawa can be the place breakfast is served from 7-10:30 a.m. day by 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.

Friends searching 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 may discover a small plunge pool, a Jacuzzi and a handful of loungers.

Among the many signatures on supply 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 looks 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 Folks” on the ceiling.

Although not utterly open whereas we had been there, The Galerie is a sultry area reverse Sax with crimson velvet banquettes and slipper chairs, mirrored partitions and ceilings, and fanciful Baccarat crystal chandeliers, all tinted crimson by the street-facing home windows.

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 provides varied massages and facials starting from 45-90 minutes, and advance reservations are advised.
• There’s a small pool and Jacuzzi in The Backyard, however lounge chairs are in restricted provide.
• Workers members all through the lodge couldn’t have been friendlier, transitioning between French and English relying on what company most popular, and able to assist with every little thing from baggage to instructions.

Location and logistics

The Sax Paris, LXR Inns & Resorts is on Avenue de Saxe within the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The encircling space is a comparatively quiet, upscale, residential space of town, although the lodge is just 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 lodge from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) through the RER B and Metro 10 line ($15) or a $50-$80 trip utilizing Uber or Bolt, relying on the time of day and the kind of automotive you favor.

What it prices

Nightly charges on the Sax Paris, LXR Inns & Resorts begin at round $780 or 110,000 Hilton Honors factors per night time, with loads of award availability, for rooms within the beginning Queen Sax and King Sax classes.

That equates to a worth of round 0.71 cents per level, which is barely above TPG’s August 2025 valuation. Additionally think about that, throughout considered one of Hilton’s frequent gross sales of factors with a 100% bonus, you would buy factors at a fee 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 bank cards that earn probably the most factors for Hilton stays, or one that provides automated Hilton Honors elite standing for value-added advantages. These embrace:

• Hilton Honors American Categorical Surpass® Card: Earn 12 factors per greenback spent on eligible purchases at Hilton motels, automated Gold elite standing and the power to improve to Diamond standing by the tip of the following calendar yr by spending $40,000 on eligible purchases in a calendar yr.
• The Hilton Honors American Categorical Enterprise Card: Earn 12 factors per greenback spent on eligible purchases at Hilton motels, automated Gold elite standing and the power to improve to Diamond standing by the tip of the following calendar yr by spending $40,000 on eligible purchases in a calendar yr.
• Hilton Honors American Categorical Card: Earn 7 factors per greenback spent on eligible purchases at Hilton motels and automated Silver elite standing (with an improve to Gold by the tip of the following calendar yr while you spend $20,000 on eligible purchases in a calendar yr).
• Hilton Honors American Categorical Aspire Card: Earn 14 factors per greenback spent on eligible purchases at Hilton motels and automated Diamond elite standing.

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Accessibility

The lodge’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 lodge has wheelchair-accessible rooms within the King Sax and King Status classes which have options comparable to extra floorspace for simpler wheelchair navigation, roll-in showers and bathroom seize bars. As at all times, name the lodge straight to make sure you can ebook an lodging that meets your particular wants.

Backside line

Eliminated — however not far — from the Left Financial institution’s busiest vacationer points of interest within the refined seventh arrondissement, Sax Paris, LXR Inns & Resorts supplies the refined backdrop for a relaxed keep within the French capital. It is a welcome different to town’s generally over-the-top luxurious motels. 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 will prevent fairly a bundle on a Parisian getaway and open up a generally neglected nook of town to your exploration.

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