Leaning against the Pension Anglaise, the Hotel des Anglais was completed in 1862. King Ludwig II of Bavaria was one of the first guests of this hotel with a colonial facade, the first which offered a hydraulic lift. The clients could rent apartments, not rooms. In 1909, it was demolished to construct a building with 350 rooms to satisfy a clientele looking for social events and nearby casinos. The new building was designed by Charles Dalmas for the Englishman Henry Ruhl, and was inaugurated in 1913 as “Hôtel Ruhl”. In Rue Halévy, there was a fashionable American bar.
This big hotel welcomed many distinguished guests: the Sultan of Morocco, the Bey of Tunis, the Emir Fayçal, Presidents Edouard Herriot and Gaston Doumergue, General Weygand and Admiral Sherman. From April to November, the hotels were closed: the season was only in winter.
In 1943 and 1944, the Germans took control of the Ruhl, and after the liberation, it was placed in receivership. The owners of the Casino de la Jetée-Promenade, following the destruction of their property by the Germans, tried to recover it, but they gave it up after an impressive outcry. From the post-war period to the 1970s, there was incomprehensible futility in the architectural style of this hotel. Expropriated by the City in 1962, its demolition was decided and the current Hotel Méridien was inaugurated in 1973.