The 1929 Art Deco beach club just over the French border, run by SBM. An Olympic seawater pool, Elsa’s organic Michelin-starred kitchen, and a summer-only season.
Monte-Carlo Beach opened in 1929 and is one of the Riviera’s great Art Deco hotels. Despite the name it is just over the border in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, a few minutes by car from the Casino, and it is run by Monaco’s Société des Bains de Mer like the Hôtel de Paris and Hermitage.
The setting is the draw: a long white Art Deco terrace over the sea, an Olympic-length heated seawater pool, a private beach and a small, calm feeling with only around forty rooms. Elsa, the hotel’s restaurant, was one of the first fully organic kitchens to earn a Michelin star, and breakfast and lunch by the water are a large part of a stay here.
It is a seasonal hotel, open roughly from April to October, so it does not work for a winter trip. Guests who want to be in the middle of Monte-Carlo should pick a Casino-quarter hotel instead, but for a summer stay built around sea and sun, with Monaco close enough for dinner, it is hard to beat.
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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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