Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle

What the classifiers highlight

Once home to the finance minister, this wing of Versailles reopened in 2021 as the only hotel on the palace grounds, restored over four years and fifty million dollars with ninety percent original eighteenth-century furniture. MICHELIN gives it Three Keys; Forbes rates it four stars and highlights private tours after hours. 13 rooms, and Alain Ducasse's restaurant holds one Star.