Paris Hotels: Where to Stay in Kentucky

Paris, Kentucky is a small Bourbon County seat with a short lodging list. This guide covers the hotels in Paris, Kentucky we could confirm, flags the places we could not verify, and shows how to pick a base for horse farms, bourbon and Main Street. An older version of this page placed Paris Landing, Lake Barkley and the Kentucky Horse Park in Paris, Kentucky. All three are elsewhere, and we explain where below. Rates change daily, so we do not quote any.

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Where to Stay in Paris, Kentucky

Hotels in Paris, Kentucky We Could Confirm

Two hotels passed our checks. One sits on Main Street and one sits near the highway. A few bed and breakfast names also appear in travel sources, and we list those further down as unconfirmed.

Paris is the Bourbon County seat, so most visitors come for thoroughbred farms, bourbon history and a walkable downtown. Both hotels below suit this plan.

Hotel Thoroughbred

Hotel Thoroughbred is a family-owned boutique hotel at 530 Main Street. The hotel website lists 19 guest rooms and suites. The building dates to 1891 and appears on the National Register of Historic Places. The Blue Grass Trust names the structure the Hinton Building and says the hotel faces Secretariat Park.

Horse Illustrated reported in April 2026 the hotel was open for booking. Garden and Gun also named the hotel a hot Southern opening for 2026. The lobby uses fencing from Claiborne Farm and displays photographs from the Keeneland Library. Guests also get custom key chains from Quillin Leather, according to Horse Illustrated.

Call 859-419-5550 or email info@hotelthoroughbred.com. A hotel listing on Hotels.com shows check-in from 4:00 PM and check-out at 11:00 AM. The same listing shows free Wi-Fi, free parking, a 24 hour front desk and a pet-friendly policy. We found those details on one third-party site only. Confirm them by phone before you book.

Pick Hotel Thoroughbred if you want to walk to Main Street shops, the Eiffel Tower replica and Secretariat Park. The hotel also has an event center, so ask about weddings or group blocks when you call.

Best Western Paris Inn

The Best Western Paris Inn stands at 2011 Alverson Drive. Call 859-987-0779 or the chain line at 800-780-7234. A meetings directory lists 49 guest rooms on two floors. The same directory says the building opened in 1993 and was renovated in 2015.

Check-in starts at 3:00 PM and check-out ends at 11:00 AM. Expedia and the meetings directory agree on both times. Expedia lists free parking and a free breakfast buffet. The meetings directory lists free Wi-Fi. A venue listing mentions an outdoor pool and a continental breakfast with Belgian waffles.

The pool deserves a phone call. One guest review from July 2025 mentions the pool being down. Ask whether the pool is open on your dates. Also ask about the room type you want, since the older meetings directory lists in-room microwaves and refrigerators.

Pick the Best Western Paris Inn if you want easy parking, a chain brand and a base for a drive to Lexington. A travel blogger who toured Paris in 2023 stayed here, which adds one more sign the hotel was open then.

Motels in Paris, Kentucky

We did not find a confirmed independent motel in Paris during our research. Several older travel pages list motels, but we could not verify a current address, phone number or open status for any of them. We left them out rather than guess.

If you want a budget stay, call the Best Western and ask about its current room types. Travelers who need more choice can also look at lodging in nearby Lexington. We did not source a drive time, so check a map app for your own route.

Bed and Breakfasts and Other Names We Could Not Confirm

Some sources mention other places to sleep in Paris. Each name below came from a single source, so treat every one as unconfirmed.

The Kentucky Department of Tourism lists the Paradise Inn B and B at 8th and Main Street, in a tall downtown building. We found no website, phone number or booking page. Call the Paris tourism office at 859-987-8744 and ask whether the inn is taking guests.

Travelocity lists two rooms named Artistic Lodging Queen Suite and Artistic Lodging King Suite in Paris. We could not find the host, address or policies. A travel blogger also named Paula Doyle’s Farmhouse Peaceful bed and breakfast as a place she wanted to try. We found no second source.

The Kentucky tourism article also names a Secretariat mural at The Baldwin Hotel, 519 Main Street. A local news story from 2022 uses the same name. We could not confirm whether the Baldwin takes overnight guests today. Hotel Thoroughbred sits nearby at 530 Main Street, so do not mix up the two addresses.

Old Listings We Dropped and Why

The previous version of this page named five properties. We dropped four of them after checking.

The Hampton Inn Paris Bourbon Trail does not exist in Paris, Kentucky. Hilton lists a Hampton Inn by Hilton Paris at 1540 Mineral Wells Avenue, in Paris, Tennessee. The two towns sit in different states.

The Paris Inn and Suites at Paris Landing belongs in Tennessee as well. Paris Landing State Park sits in Henry County, Tennessee, near Buchanan on the western bank of Kentucky Lake. The old page also called the water Lake Barkley. The park sits on Kentucky Lake. Neither lake is in Bourbon County, Kentucky.

We found no source for the Historic Walton House B and B or for Maupin’s Mill B and B in Paris. Without a second source, we removed both. If you know either place is real and open, tell us and we will recheck.

Where to Stay Near Paris Attractions

Use the attractions below to choose your base. We list only places we could confirm, and we give no drive times we did not source.

Hotels Near Claiborne Farm

Claiborne Farm sits at 703 Winchester Road in Paris. Call 859-987-2330. The farm site lists stallion tours at 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM daily, with a shuttle tour on Wednesdays and Fridays at 1:00 PM from April through October. Tours need a reservation and run by appointment. The farm closes on certain holidays and sale weeks, so read the closure list before you book.

Both hotels above sit in Paris, which is the same city as the farm. Hotel Thoroughbred lists Claiborne Farm among its nearby sights.

Hotels Near Downtown Paris and Main Street

Downtown Paris offers a 20 foot Eiffel Tower replica, a farmers market and welcome center, antique and boutique shops and Hartfield and Company Distillery. The Kentucky tourism article places the distillery a block off Main Street. Duncan Tavern stands near the Bourbon County Courthouse. A travel blogger calls Duncan Tavern the oldest standing tavern in Kentucky and dates the building to 1788.

The Paris Train Depot dates to 1882 and now holds Trackside Restaurant and Bourbon Bar. Lil’s Coffee House sits in a former J.J. Newberry building and keeps its 1950s lunch counter. Hotel Thoroughbred sits on Main Street, so ask the staff which of these stops sit within walking distance.

Hotels Near Cane Ridge and the Colville Covered Bridge

Cane Ridge Meeting House stands on Kentucky Route 537 east of Paris. The building dates to 1791 and has a museum on site. The congregation still worships there. Colville Covered Bridge crosses Hinkston Creek in the northern part of Bourbon County. A blogger says the 1877 bridge is one of 11 left in Kentucky and allows cars to drive through. Both stops make a short country loop from either hotel.

Hotels Near the Kentucky Horse Park and Keeneland

The Kentucky Horse Park is in Lexington, not Paris. Its address is 4089 Iron Works Parkway, Lexington, KY 40511. The park lies near Interstate 75 exit 120. In the main season the park opens daily from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and closes on Tuesdays. Check the park site for winter hours.

Hotel Thoroughbred lists both the Kentucky Horse Park and Keeneland as nearby sights. We did not source a distance, so check a map app. If your trip centers on the park, compare lodging in Lexington as well as Paris.

How to Choose Where to Stay in Paris, Kentucky

Start with your purpose. Horse racing fans, history readers and couples on a short escape will like Hotel Thoroughbred. Travelers who drive in, want simple parking and plan day trips will find the Best Western Paris Inn easier.

Next, call. Paris has few hotels, so rooms may run short around busy events. Ask about your dates early.

Finally, check the property name. Several old pages still list places since renamed, closed or located in another state. Match the street address and phone number to the hotel website before you pay.

Getting to Paris, Kentucky

Paris is the seat of Bourbon County in Central Kentucky. The Kentucky Horse Park directions page lists routes from Lexington, Louisville, Cincinnati, Knoxville and Charleston, West Virginia to the park. We did not find a sourced route from those cities to Paris itself, so use a map app and enter your hotel address.

Plan to drive. We did not confirm any train or intercity bus service. Claiborne Farm, Cane Ridge and the covered bridge all lie outside the downtown core, so a car makes the trip simpler.

What We Checked and What We Could Not

We checked Hotel Thoroughbred against the hotel website, the Blue Grass Trust, Horse Illustrated and Hotels.com. We checked the Best Western Paris Inn against a meetings directory, Expedia, a venue listing and a travel blog. We checked every attraction against an official or tourism source, and we moved three wrongly placed attractions out of Paris.

We could not confirm rates, current pool status at the Best Western, check-in and check-out times at Hotel Thoroughbred from its own site, or the open status of the Paradise Inn, Artistic Lodging suites, Farmhouse Peaceful and the Baldwin Hotel. Confirm each detail by phone before you travel.

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Conclusion

Hotels in Paris, Kentucky are few, but the two we confirmed fit most trips. Choose Hotel Thoroughbred for Main Street and horse history. Choose the Best Western Paris Inn for simple parking and a highway base. Call ahead, confirm the details we flagged, and book early.

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