“Hôtel de L’Univers” was built on the heels of the completion of the first railway to traverse the city of Tours in the spring of 1849. The first of the luxury hotels of the Loire Valley, this magnificent structure has a long history of grand hospitality and stately elegance in renowned French tradition.

Throughout its illustrious past, it played host to and entertained many of the world’s élite, a never ending list of guests from Kings and Queens of Europe’s aristocratic past, to ambassadors, army generals and industrial magnates the likes of the Rockefellers, the Roosevelts and Vanderbilts, as well as an endless parade of 20th century luminaries and distinguished personalities, notably Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway, Sarah Bernhardt, Pasolini, Edith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier, Katherine Hepburn and many more, all signed off in the Hotel’s great and valuable ‘Golden Book of Guests’.

This glorious book bears witness to the house’s grand past, its architectural eloquence and its quintessential hospitality, that are unparalleled in the world of supreme luxury accommodations.

Facilities available:

Bar, Candlelight Dinner, Meeting Room, Restaurant, WiFi Sat Internet connection

Room facilities available:

In all accommodations
-minibar
-internet access
-satellite tv
-hair dryer
-ensuite bathroom
-air conditioning
-select rooms for physically challenged

Number of rooms: 85

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Open all year round

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