Dreamed up by founder and creative director Laurent Taïeb, Hotel Madame Rêve has taken the 19th-century Louvre post office building and transformed it into a chic urban escape with bags of personality. Taking design cues from the 1970s (think dark panelled wood accented with flashes of brown, orange and yellow) and mixing them up with classic Parisian style, it creates something entirely its own. Of the room’s 82 rooms and suites, 53 face out towards the city, with private balconies offering spectacular vistas over landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame Cathedral. With huge slanted windows illuminating the polished parquet floors and handmade fabrics, there can be few better vantage points over the City of Lights. The remaining rooms come with views over the hotels’ peaceful central courtyard, ideal for those visitors who prefer to leave the streets behind when they settle in for the night.