With the exquisite selection of hotels in Paris, booking the right room can be just as central to your trip away as the restaurants, cafes or attractions you are visiting. It is far more than just a place to sleep – but that’s what makes picking the right one all the more difficult. Palaces, manoirs and rooftop terrasses every which way you look. New openings saturate the market, each claiming to be bigger and better than the last, meanwhile, some 40 million tourists flock to Paris each year, many of whom you’ll have to contend with when looking to book the best room in town.

As if the arrondissement wasn’t already hard enough to pick — should you stay in fashionable Saint-Germain-des-Pres, chic Le Marais or edgy, distinctly un-Parisian Belleville — there’s the Michelin ‘key’ ranking system to contend with.

Whether it's a new name on the scene or an establishment as ingrained into Paris’s fabric as a classic tweed Chanel skirt suit, we have rounded up the best Paris hotels, whether your budget affords…