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Van der Valk Hotel Paris CDG Airport

hotel in Paris

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ3145524 ↗
Source-derived summary

Van der Valk Hotel Paris CDG Airport is a 4-star hotel inaugurated in 1992 (under the name Hyatt Regency Paris CDG), located close to the Paris Charles de Gaulle international airport and Villepinte exhibition center. It belongs to the Dutch hotel company Van der Valk.

Design

The Van der Valk Hotel Paris CDG Airport has 388 guestrooms and suites, two restaurants, a convention center, a fitness center, and two outdoor tennis courts. The hotel was designed by German architect Helmut Jahn. Its interior includes works by artists Denis Rival and James Hull. The lobby connects to a 21-metre-high glass atrium containing the Cosmos bar and the main hotel restaurant, the Apollo. The atrium also contains the hotel's emblem, a sculpture by Canadian sculptor Evan Penn.

Location

The Van der Valk Hotel Paris CDG Airport is located between the international Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and the Villepinte exhibition center. It is accessible by the A1, A3 and A4 motorways.

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“Van der Valk Hotel Paris CDG Airport” enters the record as hotel in Paris. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Valk, Hotel and Paris can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Valk, Hotel and Paris.
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“Van der Valk Hotel Paris CDG Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Valk, Hotel and Paris provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3145524. Authority coordinates are 48.991, 2.516. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Van der Valk Hotel Paris CDG Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.