Hotel de Paris: Celebrity Champagne

How to Complete

3 steps to experience this fully

1. 📜 1

   Enter the Lobby

   history Free

   Walk into the Hotel de Paris lobby (free to enter, just walk in with confidence). Find the bronze horse statue in the lobby - rub its leg for luck. The leg is shiny from generations of gamblers touching it before heading to the Casino across the square. The lobby ceiling depicts Belle Époque Monaco.

   🔄 BACKUP: If you feel awkward, pretend you're meeting someone and take photos.

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   Visit the Wine Cellar (Book Ahead)

   Optional

   wine $$$

   The hotel offers wine cellar tours with tasting (book via concierge, from €150). The cellar holds 350,000 bottles including rare vintages. It's one of the largest hotel wine cellars in the world.

   🔄 BACKUP: If tours are unavailable, order from the cellar at the Louis XV restaurant (Alain Ducasse, 3 Michelin stars) or Bar Américain.

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   Champagne at the Bar

   wine $$$$

   Order champagne at Bar Américain or the terrace overlooking Casino Square (from €25/glass). Churchill was a regular. Cary Grant and Rita Hayworth drank here. You're continuing a century of celebrity champagne moments in a lobby where a swashbuckling figure once strode in with his shirt open and gun at his hip.

   🔄 BACKUP: The terrace is more relaxed than the bar interior.

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