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Côte d'Azur hotels
The Côte d'Azur is famous for its seafront pleasure palaces. In Cannes, the Croisette is lined with properties like the Hôtel Martinez and the InterContinental Carlton. Nice's grandes dames, like Palais de la Méditerranée and Hôtel Negresco, are found along the Place Masséna and the Promenade des Anglais. The Lost Generation's Côte d'Azur, as depicted by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Tender is the Night, is still alive and well, too. Look no further than the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, with its legendary pool and all-out white-marble decadence. Be prepared, however, to spend well into the four figures by the time you're done with your stay—literary glamour doesn't come cheap.
Fortunately, cheap and chic are not mutually exclusive concepts: Hotels under $300 are plentiful on the French Riviera. The best of these are boutique hotels, located in renovated townhouses on the town's back streets—like the Renoir in Cannes and Le Grimaldi in Nice—and catering to youngish travelers. These hotels offer a restricted menu of services—no emergency dry cleaning or swimming pools—in exchange for well-designed rooms at reasonable prices. Outside of the big cities, there are cliff-side hideaways, like Le Cagnard in Cagnes-sur-Mer, that have romantic views and great restaurants.
In 1999 the estimable Grace Leo-Andrieu took charge of this noble creature, which has been perched for over a century on the Cap Ferrat peninsula, one of the...more
Hotel operators love to bandy around idiotic phrases, of which "A Legend Reborn" is one of the most annoying, but this ocean liner of a hotel in the dead-center...more
Designed by Pierre-Yves Rochon, who did Paris's George V conversion for Four Seasons, it's a $260 million Art Deco-style extravaganza of 334 rooms set on 10...more
The Riviera benefits from a charming hotel like Le Mas de Pierre, just outside terrifyingly popular St-Paul-de-Vence. Views of the distant countryside are...more
If you were Picasso, you too might choose to live in the exquisite hilltop, predominantly 15th-century cobbled-street Mougins for 15 years, but since you're...more
The Belle Époque Le Grimaldi is the epitome of a boutique hotel. The lobby is small and simple and the 46 rooms are done in a restrained, luxurious range...more
The cliff-side Le Cagnard is in the preserved walled medieval city of Haut-de-Cagnes (about halfway between Antibes and Nice), with a ruined castle and...more
Once a seafood restaurant, this early-twentieth-century Florentine-style villa between Nice and Monaco occupies "an idyllic part of the world," hence the...more
This 1920s café turned hotel has a strong artistic heritage, and past guests Matisse, Miró, and other painters have left behind "artwork better...more
A gem of a place on the seafront at relatively unspoiled Villefranche-sur-Mer which, while no great metropolis, makes a great touring base between Nice and...more
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