Hotels in La Defense, Paris

We all have our individual impressions of Paris, whether they may include enjoying a coffee in a picturesque café by the Seine, delighting in its artistic heritage at one of the city’s world-class art galleries, or enjoying the view of one of its iconic landmarks. Many of us have a picture of the city in our minds even if we’ve never visited it. Whatever your notions of the place, Paris remains a vibrant modern city of 2.2 million people, who live their lives while tens of millions of tourist descend on their city each year to gather new ideas about the City of Light.

Modern Paris

No area of Paris represents its status as a modern first-world city more than the La Défense region. This area makes up the central business district of the French capital and employs hundreds of thousands of workers. Away from the splendor of central Paris’s grand thoroughfares and leafy boulevards, La Défense offers a much more contemporary vision of the city, and is adorned with multiple skyscrapers.

Book a Hotel in La Défense, Paris

Dominated by the imposing modernist La Grand Arche, La Défense is found at the western end of the Ax Historique, an axis of iconic monuments and pathways. This runs from the Louvre in the west, through the Champs Élysées and Arc de Triomphe, to La Grand Arche in the east. To book a hotel in this modern region of Paris, choose Expedia’s easy-to-use search tool.