A 1930s Riviera beach hotel with a Michelin-starred restaurant and the best pool on the coast.
€€€€From about €400 a night
Sea, beach club and Riviera escape.
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, MonacoMonte-Carlo Beach is the Monaco hotel for people who do not actually want to be in Monaco. It sits at the far end of Avenue Princesse Grace, technically just over the border in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a low terracotta 1929 building on its own headland with an Olympic-length sea-water pool, a private beach and the Monte-Carlo Beach Club at its feet. India Mahdavi's 2009 redesign gave the 40 rooms a soft, sun-faded Riviera look that still holds up.
The recurring praise is for the pace: quiet mornings, long lunches at Elsa, the organic restaurant with a Michelin star and a green star, and afternoons that never require a taxi. Almost every room faces the sea, which is rare in Monaco. It is seasonal, roughly March to October, and that is part of the appeal: it feels like a summer house, not a hotel with a summer programme.
It suits couples and honeymooners, and anyone whose Monaco ambitions extend to one evening at the casino and no more. The hotel shuttle and a ten-minute drive cover that. If you want to walk out into Monte-Carlo each night, you are in the wrong place.
Every room faces the sea, so the upgrade buys space: 50 m² with a lounge instead of 30 m² and a small loggia, in a hotel where you spend real time in the room between beach and pool.
The tables at this hotel that are a reason to come, and how hard they are to get.
A starred restaurant that is also organic and fish-certified, on a 1930s terrace above the water. Lunch here in a swimsuit cover-up is the most civilised thing you can do on this coast. Mid-April to October, Tuesday to Saturday.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out
The rocky point at the end of the property, a white terrace with nothing between you and the sea. It has been called the most romantic restaurant in Monaco for decades; Zanoni's summer residency runs mid-June to mid-September. The setting is the draw, and it is enough.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out
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Questions people ask
The most romantic address in the edit, provided you want the Riviera more than you want Monaco. Check the season before you fall for it. A summer hotel in the old sense: sea, pool, beach club and a slow lunch, a short shuttle from the centre. The Riviera fantasy rather than the Monaco one.
It has an outdoor pool. There is a private beach.
It is in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Monaco, about 2.5 km from Place du Casino and around 45 minutes by car from NCE airport.
Entry rooms typically start from about €400 a night outside peak dates. We show typical rates, never live prices or invented discounts.
Junior Suite, sea view. Every room faces the sea, so the upgrade buys space: 50 m² with a lounge instead of 30 m² and a small loggia, in a hotel where you spend real time in the room between beach and pool. The second floor, for a higher line of sight over the Beach Club pool and the bay.
Elsa. A starred restaurant that is also organic and fish-certified, on a 1930s terrace above the water. Lunch here in a swimsuit cover-up is the most civilised thing you can do on this coast. Mid-April to October, Tuesday to Saturday.
No. It welcomes families and has a kids club.
Our verdict
The most romantic address in the edit, provided you want the Riviera more than you want Monaco. Check the season before you fall for it.
€€€€From about €400 a night
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