Marvel at the soaring Arc de Triomphe, which stretches towards the sky less than a 10-minute walk from the hotel. Paying tribute to the fallen French soldiers of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, this iconic Parisian monument takes inspiration from the Arch of Titus in Rome. Straddling the 8th, 16th, and 17th arrondissements from within a bustling traffic circle on the Champs-Élysées, it also serves as an excellent starting point for exploring the best that Paris has to offer.

Stroll over to the nearby Parc Monceau, a public park constructed in the late 1700s at the behest of the Duke of Chartres, which was once a muse of Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Designed by painter and writer Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, he sought to surprise and delight the garden's visitors with his creation, saying "It is not necessary for gardens or nature to be presented in the most agreeable forms. It's necessary instead to preserve the charm that one encounters entering the garden, and to renew it with each step, so that the visitor in his soul will have the desire to revisit the garden every day and to possess it for himself. The true art is to know how to keep the visitors there, through a variety of objects, otherwise they will go to the real countryside to find what should be found in this garden; the image of liberty." To say that his vision was a success is putting it mildly. Today, Parc Monceau is one of the city's more unique public parks, with meandering walkways and an informal English-style layout rather than the ordered symmetry of a French-style garden and a collection of follies, or decorative architectural features, such as a Dutch windmill, an Egyptian pyramid, and a Corinthian colonnade.

Enjoy a leisurely walk down Avenue des Champs-Élysées, hailed by many as one of the most beautiful streets in the world, to the Grand Palais and its smaller counterpart, the Petit Palais. Constructed as part of the 1900 Paris Exposition, today, these magnificent buildings stand as some of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in the city, playing host to a collection of museums and exhibition spaces.