Hôtel de la Paix

What Hôtel de la Paix does

Hôtel de la Paix is a privately held, 2-star boutique hotel occupying a 17th century former shipowner's house at 14 Rue Gargoulleau in the historic center of La Rochelle, France. The property offers 19 guest rooms ranging from a 9 m² single to a 26 m² family/romantic configuration, alongside a breakfast buffet service featuring local products and a private meeting room (Salle de Réunion) for groups of 2-10 persons. The business operates a direct-to-consumer model, taking reservations through its own website (hoteldelapaix-larochelle.com) backed by the Thaïs-Hotel booking engine, with secondary brand presence on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn; no OTA partnerships are disclosed. The hotel is listed in the Guide du Routard and is staffed by approximately 21 employees.

Revenue is generated from three streams: nightly room accommodations (primary), the breakfast service (add-on), and meeting room rental (secondary B2B). The core customer base is individual leisure travelers — couples, families, and solo visitors exploring La Rochelle and the surrounding Atlantic islands (Île de Ré, Oléron, Aix, Châtelaillon) — supplemented by small corporate groups using the meeting space. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; quotes are provided on inquiry. Underlying technology is limited to a third-party booking/reservation platform; there is no proprietary IP, no AI/ML components, and no app or API layer. Distribution is single-country (France) and single-property, with no franchising, parent company, or investor structure disclosed in available sources.

Name

Hôtel de la Paix

Legal name

Hôtel de la Paix

Website

https://hotelalarochelle.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hôtel de la Paix is a 2-star boutique hotel in a 17th century shipowner's house in central La Rochelle, France, offering 19 guest rooms, breakfast service, and a small meeting room to leisure travelers and corporate groups via direct online booking.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Boutique Hotel Accommodation

NAICS

Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels (72111)

SIC

Hotels & Motels (7011)

akta.pro primary industry

Private House Hotels & Small Luxury Inns (THAGADAL)

Keywords

• Boutique hotel accommodation
• Hotel room rentals
• Breakfast buffet service
• Meeting room rental
• Historic hotel lodging

Headquarters

HQ city

La Rochelle

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Room Accommodations: Nightly room rentals across 19 rooms of varying types (single, double, triple, comfort, family/romantic rooms). Primary revenue stream for the hotel.
2. Breakfast Service: On-site breakfast buffet service offered to guests, featuring local products, pastries, and healthy options.
3. Meeting Room Rental: Private meeting room space for business seminars, professional meetings, and small group gatherings (2-10 persons), offered half-day or full-day with equipment and catering support.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Hôtel de la Paix operates a 19-room 2-star boutique hotel in a 17th-century former shipowner's house in central La Rochelle, France. The hotel sells nightly room accommodations across seven configurations (single, double classic, double superior, double/triple, comfort, romantic, and family rooms) for solo travelers through families of five, supplemented by an on-site breakfast buffet featuring local products and a private meeting room rental for 2–10 person business gatherings.

Product overview

Hôtel de la Paix is a 2-star boutique hotel operating as a single unified property (not a platform-plus-modules architecture). The hotel offers 19 guest rooms of varying configurations—from single rooms to family rooms accommodating up to 5 guests—as its core accommodation products. Supporting services include a meeting room (Salle de Réunion) for small corporate events and a breakfast buffet service featuring local artisanal products. The products are offered as part of a single property experience, with rooms varying by size, capacity, and amenity level, and the meeting and breakfast services available as add-ons to the core lodging offering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Chambre Double Classique

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• B&B Hotels: French low-cost hotel chain with a La Rochelle property; competes for budget-conscious travelers in the same city via standardized rooms and aggressive pricing, putting pressure on 2-star independent ADR.
• Logis Hôtels: France's largest network of independent small hotels and inns — overlapping with Hôtel de la Paix in scale, ownership type, and customer segment, while providing brand/distribution infrastructure the subject hotel does not leverage.
• Best Western Masqhotel La Rochelle: A branded 4-star hotel in La Rochelle offering higher-tier amenities and loyalty-program reach; sits in a higher price tier but competes for the same weekend/cultural leisure demand.
• Ibis (Accor): Global midscale economy brand with multiple La Rochelle locations offering predictable quality and central distribution; competes for unbranded, price-sensitive leisure and business travelers in the same market.

Regional players

• Domaine de Verchant (Montpellier): An independent historic-property boutique hotel in southern France targeting the same heritage-tourism segment; demonstrates the regional competitive template for small heritage-conversion hotels without direct geographic overlap with La Rochelle.

Direct peers

• Hôtel La Monnaie Art & Spa Hotel: A boutique hotel in La Rochelle's historic center offering curated rooms and amenities; directly competes for the same leisure/cultural travelers drawn to the Vieux-Port area, and demonstrates the upscale price tier the subject hotel would need to outflank to materially lift ADR.
• Hôtel Le Yachtman: A small, rating-comparable hotel near La Rochelle's Vieux-Port; competes head-on with Hôtel de la Paix on location, scale, and budget-conscious leisure demand.
• Hôtel Saint-Nicolas: A 3-star independent hotel in central La Rochelle with a comparable historic-townhouse feel and similar room count, competing for the same couples and family leisure travelers seeking characterful central stays.
• Le Pavillon de la Reine (Paris): A small luxury boutique hotel in a historic 17th-century townhouse in Paris — directly analogous in concept (heritage private-mansion hotel, intimate scale), making it a useful comp for how this category scales and prices in France.
• Hôtel François 1er: A small independent boutique hotel in central La Rochelle housed in a converted historic building, directly comparable on heritage-conversion concept, intimate size, and central positioning.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/hoteldelapaix
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hotel-de-la-paix-17
• Instagraminstagram.com/hoteldelapaix_lr

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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