monaco · Year round
The Principality and its westward neighbour — the Mareterra extension has opened, the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat is at its best in a decade, and the Country Club still draws every player on the off-week of Roland-Garros. The short list of rooms, tables and courts.
Hotels
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Palace · 5★The Four Seasons palace at the tip of Cap-Ferrat — seventy-one rooms, an Olympic infinity pool, and the Riviera's most secluded peninsula.
Palace · 5★The Société des Bains de Mer flagship on Place du Casino — the address Monaco was built around, fully reborn after the 2014-2019 renovation.
5★ · CliffsideThe Maybourne group's first Riviera property on the Roquebrune ridge — sixty-nine rooms, a cliffside infinity pool, and a Mediterranean view that nothing in Monaco can match.
Festive · clubs, line-ups, long lunches
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Authentic · the quiet rooms
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3★ MichelinAlain Ducasse's three-star room inside the Hôtel de Paris — opened 1987, the longest-running three-star inside a hotel in Europe.
Sport · tennis, padel, polo, golf
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Tennis · MembersTwenty-three clay courts on a cliffside terrace above the Mediterranean — host of the spring ATP Masters, the most serious tennis address on the coast.
Golf · 18 holes · altitudeEighteen holes carved into the limestone at nine hundred metres above the principality — the cool round on a July afternoon, vertigo views down to the coast.
Boats · charters & day trips
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Half-day · Full-dayFrom Port Hercule to the Italian Riviera or the bays of the Cap-Ferrat — the day charter that turns Monaco into a coastline rather than a square mile.
Half-day · Full-dayPort Hercule eastward to Bordighera for the lunch, or west to the Cap d'Antibes for the swim at the Eden-Roc rocks.
70m+ · Med capitalsPort Hercule departure for the seven-night Med — Portofino, Capri, Amalfi, the Aeolian Islands, return via Corsica.
Helicopter transfers
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7 min · MonacairSeven minutes from Nice Airport to Fontvieille heliport — the only transfer that makes sense for an arrival in Monaco.
Spas & wellness
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Spa · WellnessThe SBM thalassotherapy operation overlooking the port — 7,000 m², the most complete wellness footprint on the Riviera.
Events · what's on this season
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Late May · Formula 1The Formula 1 race through the streets of the principality — the four days that the city becomes the circuit, the only address that matters in late May.
Polo · invitationalThe seasonal invitational on the principality's calendar — a handful of weekends of high-goal polo, hospitality on the field.
