Top 10 Private Members Clubs in Paris for Creatives and Business Travelers in 2027

Soho House Paris is the easiest serious private club to join and use in the city, which is why it leads a list built for creatives and visitors. It occupies a five-storey 19th-century building in Pigalle at 45 Rue la Bruyère, with Art Deco details, and it was once the home of the French artist and poet Jean Cocteau. The top three floors are a hotel with 36 bedrooms, ranging from the Tiny Attic to the Big Boudoir, so a member can sleep where they network. The club side has a terrace with a plunge pool, a gym with two movement studios, a collection of French art including site-specific murals, a members-only restaurant serving French classics, and a bamboo bar for cocktails in the evening and coffee and pastries by day. Soho House lists membership from €208.33 monthly, or €108.33 monthly for Under 27 members, and you apply online for an Every House membership. That one membership unlocks 48 Houses in 19 countries, 22 gyms, 11 spas and 29 pools, with more than 2,400 monthly events, 18 screening rooms and up to three guests. For a business traveler that network is the real value: the same card works in other cities. The trade-off is that the Paris pool is a plunge pool on a terrace, not a full-size one. Sacré-Cœur and the Palais Garnier are a short walk away.

Silencio is the most creative club on the list and the only one that pairs a famous night club with a daytime desk. The Paris club is at 142 Rue Montmartre in the 2nd arrondissement, and its own site describes it as a meeting point for artists, creatives and entrepreneurs from around the world. Its rooms are a club, a library, a cinema and a bar, with a stage styled like a former cinema and framed curtains that slide open in front of the dance floor. Membership costs €1,200 a year, or €100 a month, with a €600 rate for people under thirty. In return members get priority access to venues in Paris (Rue Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés), New York and Ibiza, access to the cultural programme of concerts, films, performances, talks and dinners, and a members-only space for coworking and daytime meetings in Paris at Silencio des Prés. Members may bring one guest to events and two guests to the coworking space, and get a dinner for four on their birthday at Silencio des Prés or a club table at Silencio. Partner clubs include Neue House, Matador, Arts Club Dubai and JNcQUOI Club. To apply you send a recent photo and a short description of yourself, and payment is taken only after you are accepted. A 2011 founding date is given by Luxe Digital. It is not a hotel and has no pool, so it suits visitors who already have somewhere to stay.

we are_ is a private club for entrepreneurs, executives and creators, and the best place on this list to actually work and host. It describes itself as a house where talents meet, with more than 1,500 members and a programme of more than 250 events a year. The club occupies a mansion at 73 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in the 8th arrondissement, formerly the headquarters of Christian Lacroix, designed by Garouste and Bonetti and later the Grand Musée du Parfum. Members can use members-only salons for working, meeting or hosting, the Brasserie 73 restaurant, and a 1,200 m² garden. The membership page lists thematic circles such as Media, International, Human Resources, Future of Work and Oenology. Prices are published excluding VAT. The Classique offer is a €1,100 entry fee plus €1,850 a year, which the club puts at €233.33 a month. Members under 30 pay a €1,000 entry fee plus €990 a year, and the Corporate offer is a €2,200 one-time entry fee plus €1,850 a year per person. A membership committee reviews each application, and you can book a meeting with the team first. The club also gives access to partner clubs around the world. It has no bedrooms, and the entry fee makes the first year the costliest, so it suits people who will be in Paris often.

Saint James Club Paris is the best club with a hotel attached, and it is the only one here where a member can walk in at any time without booking a room. The building began in 1892 as a home for the Thiers Foundation, became a club in 1987 under Peter de Savary, has operated as a club and hotel since 1991, and has been owned by a French family since 2009. It sits at 5 Place du Chancelier Adenauer in the 16th arrondissement, close to the Champs-Élysées and La Défense, and the club says its members are mostly Parisians who use it for professional and private meetings, meals and events. There are 50 rooms and suites, from a Boudoir of 20 to 25 sqm to a Suite Prestige of 58 to 90 sqm. The Guerlain spa covers about 400 m² with three treatment rooms, the pool is 15 x 4 meters with a whirlpool, hammam and sauna, and the gym is open 24/7, though pool and gym access is for Prestige and Premium members and hotel guests. Bellefeuille holds one Michelin star under chef Grégory Garimbay, and dinner is Monday to Friday from 7:30 to 9:45. The club lists four levels (Club, Club Premium, Club Prestige and Club Société) but not their prices; every application is followed by a visit and a meeting. Membership cards are personal and non-transferable.

The Cercle de l’Union Interalliée is the grandest club on the list and the hardest to enter. It was created in 1917, when the United States officially entered World War I, to welcome the officers and statesmen of the Allies, and Marshal Foch was its president from 1920 to 1928. General de Gaulle called it the "French embassy in Paris". The clubhouse is a private mansion at 33 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in the 8th arrondissement, with historic salons, a garden and a restaurant. A sports center with a swimming pool was added in 1974, and the Nouveau Cercle joined the building in 1979. The club says political and economic decision-makers, diplomats, journalists and military leaders meet informally there, and that lectures, literary prizes, concerts and exhibitions have long been part of its life. A guide to Paris clubs describes admission as invite-only, followed by approval, with fees available on inquiry, and a separate club history puts the membership at about 3,300. The rules are formal: jacket and tie are mandatory for men in the salons, bar, dining room and garden. No price or hotel rooms are published. If you already know a member and your trip is about diplomacy, finance or politics, nothing on this list matches its history.

The Tennis Club de Paris is the best sports club for a business traveler on a longer stay. It was founded in 1895, sits at 15 Avenue Félix d’Hérelle in the 16th arrondissement near the Porte de Saint-Cloud metro, and is open 7 days a week from 7:30 to 22:30, public holidays included. About 2,400 members share 18 tennis courts, 2 padel courts, 3 badminton courts, 2 fitness rooms, a swimming pool with two lanes, a multisports field and an urban soccer pitch. The restaurant is called Le 1895. For work the club rents meeting rooms for 4 to 80 people, and it also offers venues for private events, team-building and shoots. The site points interested people to a Devenir membre section but does not publish membership prices, so ask the club at contact@tennisclubdeparis.fr or +33 1 46 47 73 90 before you plan around it. It has no bedrooms and no creative programme, so it does not replace a city club, but it is a practical complement if you play sport and want a place to host a small meeting away from the center.

The Club de la Chasse et de la Nature is the best choice here for art, culture and events in the Marais. It was founded on 12 January 1966 by an association created around the foundation that François Sommer and his wife Jacqueline set up in 1964, and its first 34 members came from politics, business and the arts. The club is at 60 rue des Archives in the 3rd arrondissement, and its site names the Hôtels de Guénégaud and Mongelas and the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature. Its spaces include paneled salons, a library, vaulted rooms, a French-style garden and a bar. For receptions it can host up to 400 people in the historic salons, the garden and the museum, and the club welcomes events Monday to Saturday. Its event team has 50 years of experience and offers a tailored menu or a caterer for cocktails and receptions. Members get specific advantages and booking conditions. No price is published for membership. The club says it wants to cultivate the French art of living and aims to make hunting known as a sport while protecting wildlife and habitat, which is not everyone’s interest. It suits a visitor who hosts clients or launches in the Marais, not someone who needs a daily desk or a gym.

The Racing Club de France is the most historic sports club on the list, and a useful base for a visitor who swims, plays tennis or golfs. Founded in 1882, it describes itself as the first multisport club in France, with a record of 98 Olympic medals, 53 world titles, 115 European titles and more than 1,000 French titles. Its headquarters, called Éblé, is at 5 rue Éblé in the 7th arrondissement, and its site shows a large indoor swimming pool there. The Saussure site at 154 rue de Saussure, 75017 Paris, is for tennis, and La Boulie, near Versailles, is the golf course, with a restaurant terrace that overlooks the fairways. The club runs 19 sections, from athletics, badminton and boxing to fencing, judo, rugby, shooting, skiing and water polo, plus fitness, yoga and dance. It also runs a foundation: through Soutiens Ton Club, individuals can donate with a 66% income tax deduction. The pages we read do not publish membership fees, restaurant or corporate offers, so ask the club before you plan around it. It has no hotel rooms and no workspace, and its mission is sport rather than networking, so it is a complement to a city club rather than a replacement. If your week in Paris includes a swim at the end of the day, it is one of the best-known addresses for it.

The Automobile Club de France is a landmark, but it ranks ninth because of how it admits members. Founded in 1895, it was the first automobile club in the world: Count de Dion invited the journalist Paul Meyan, Baron de Zuylen and the engineer Edmond Récopé to lunch, and over that meal they drafted the statutes. Paul Meyan later wrote that "At dessert, the Automobile Club de France was founded." The clubhouse opened in 1898 at 6 place de la Concorde, and from 1903 the club also occupied number 8, in a building of 15,000 m². It was a founding member of the AIACR on 21 June 1904, renamed the FIA in 1946. For business use, the club offers reception rooms of 20 to 600 m² and a terrace over the Place de la Concorde. Motor1 reported in December 2021 that the club has about 2,000 members with an average age slightly below 55, that a candidate needs two existing members to sponsor them, and that no written rule bars women but admission of women was called very unlikely. Membership fees are available on inquiry. A traveler without a sponsor can still see it through event hire, but joining is a long shot.

The Cercle National des Armées, known as the Maison des Officiers de France, is a real club with hotels, but only a defined group can use it. Its building on place Saint-Augustin in the 8th arrondissement was designed by Charles Lemaresquier and built from 1925 to 1927, and President Gaston Doumergue inaugurated it in 1928. The Cercle traces its origins to a presidential decree of 5 February 1887. It runs three hotels, including Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement and Lacordaire in the 15th, and the main building has an 89-room hotel, restaurants (La Grande Carte and La Petite Carte), a fitness room and a library. Reception rooms hold up to 1,000 people for cocktails or 500 seated, a conference room seats 250, and Le Huit bar is open Monday to Saturday from 11:00 to 22:30. Members are active, retired or reserve officers, category A civil servants of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, Légion d’Honneur holders, and auditors of the IHEDN, with their families and guests. Fees are not published on the pages we read, and the club says it welcomes active officers as a priority. For most creatives and business travelers it is out of reach, which is why it closes the list, but eligible visitors get a central address and a hotel.