Hôtel Molitor — Luxury Stay

Hotel Molitor wasn't built as a hotel. It opened in 1929 as Piscine Molitor, a public bathhouse and swimming complex designed by architect Lucien Pollet, and for the next sixty years it was where Parisians came to swim, socialize, and play golf — an Art Deco social hub as much as a pool. It closed in the late 1980s, sat empty and increasingly graffiti-covered for two decades (the abandoned pools became legendary among Paris street artists), and reopened in 2014 as a five-star MGallery hotel that kept both original pools intact rather than replacing them.

That's the detail that makes Molitor worth choosing over any other five-star option this close to Roland-Garros: a 46-metre heated outdoor pool and a 1930s indoor pool, both original to the 1929 building, both still the centerpiece of the hotel rather than an afterthought spa amenity. A 5,577-square-foot Clarins spa, fitness studios running Pilates reformer and cycling classes, a seasonal rooftop terrace open through spring, and two restaurants round out the property, but the pools are the reason people specifically seek this hotel out rather than any other MGallery property in Paris.

Rooms run compact by luxury-hotel standards, around 323 square feet, with 40-inch TVs, Nespresso machines, a free minibar, and Clarins toiletries — most looking either onto the pool or out toward the wider city. Pricing spans a genuinely wide range depending on room category: Superior rooms from roughly $494-526 a night up to King rooms at $1,190-1,625, so "luxury" here scales from a comfortable five-star entry point to a proper splurge, not a single fixed price tier.

The location is the other reason this hotel keeps coming up for Roland-Garros specifically: it sits about 700 metres, roughly a 10-minute walk, from the stadium, and a similar distance from Parc des Princes. For a tournament where hotel proximity is genuinely scarce, that's a rare combination of five-star quality and walkable distance.