Hôtel Costes

Attitude definitely counts in this temple of notoriety – a place so trendy its website contains an online boutique of its own ultra-branché products, and where innumerable A-listers still gravitate to the low-lit bar after all these years. The Costes boasts one of the best pools in Paris, a sybaritic, Eastern-inspired affair with an underwater music system. Rooms are a modern take on Napoleon III, designed by Jacques Garcia.