A Little-known Neighborhood of Paris Just Got a Beautiful New Hotel-Here's Why You Should Stay

"La Fondation isn't near the Louvre, nor is it a short walk from the Eiffel Tower. You (mercifully) can't hear the traffic from the Champs-Élysées from your room. Instead, it's woven neatly into a residential neighborhood in the northeast corner of the city on the unassuming Rue Legendre, near Parc Monceau."

"During a recent stay with my friend, Isabel, we spent our mornings at the Brasserie La Base, the hotel's street-level café, cozied up in a booth by the floor-to-ceiling windows, drinking cappuccinos. Sometimes I'd pop out for an errand while she held the table and read. Next door, at a tiny grocery selling treats from Auvergne, I picked up pâté de campagne and cheese from a man and his dachshund, and a hazelnut cookie at artisanal boulangerie Yann Couvreur."

"Before La Fondation arrived in the 17th, there was no local gym for residents to join. The hotel has changed that; now, there is a four-story luxury recreation center behind the hotel with over 1,300 local members. When I came in for a workout, I clocked kick-boxing and Pilates classes in progress and ran into guests signing up for a yoga class the next day."

La Fondation is a 58-room hotel located on Rue Legendre in Paris’s 17th arrondissement, near Parc Monceau. The hotel targets frequent visitors rather than first-time tourists and sits within a quiet residential neighborhood away from major tourist sites. A street-level café, Brasserie La Base, serves mornings of coffee and people-watching. Local shops and markets, including a grocery, boulangerie and flea market, are within easy walking distance. The property introduced a four-story recreation center with memberships for locals and features classes, subterranean baths and an indoor climbing wall with auto-belay routes and on-site expertise.

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