Monaco’s resort option: four hectares on its own peninsula at Larvotto, with a lagoon pool that has a real sandy bottom — the closest thing in the Principality to a beach holiday.
Monte-Carlo Bay is the newest of the SBM hotels, opened in 2005 on reclaimed land at the eastern end of the Principality. Being out on the Larvotto peninsula means water on three sides and, unusually for Monaco, room to spread out — four hectares of gardens, pools and terraces.
The lagoon is the selling point: a large free-form pool with a genuine sand bottom, shallow enough to wade. With Monaco’s actual beaches being pebble and often crowded, this is the single best place in the country to spend a hot afternoon with children.
It is a 15-minute walk or a short bus ride to the Casino, which is the trade-off. In exchange you get sea views from nearly every room, the Cinq Mondes spa, and rates well below the Place du Casino palaces.
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Nice Côte d'Azur airport is the gateway: roughly 30 minutes by car or helicopter transfer, 45 minutes by the express bus, or an hour by train with a change. If you are arriving by train, Monaco-Monte-Carlo station is built into the rock in the middle of the country, and every hotel on this site is a short taxi or a walk-plus-lift away — Monaco's network of public lifts and escalators does most of the climbing for you.
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Palace hotel ★★★★★
The address that invented Monte-Carlo. Opened in 1864 opposite the Casino, reopened in 2018 after a four-year, ground-up restoration that added a central patio and a top-floor suite with its own pool.
Belle Époque palace ★★★★★
The romantic one. A pink-and-cream Belle Époque palace a minute from the Casino, built around a Winter Garden whose glass dome is attributed to Gustave Eiffel’s workshop.
Independent luxury hotel ★★★★★
The design-led alternative to the SBM palaces: Jacques Garcia interiors, a Karl Lagerfeld-designed pool deck, and a Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant, on the garden side of the Casino.
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