Hôtel Belles Rives 5*
France /
Provence-Alpes-Cote-dAzur /
Antibes /
Boulevard Edouard Baudoin, 33
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In 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald rented the Villa Saint-Louis in Juan-les-Pins to work on Tender is the Night. Three years later, hotelier Boma Estène transformed the villa into the Côte d'Azur's first hotel on the water's edge.
Built on the edge of a small inlet on Cap d'Antibes, facing the Lérins islands, the cream-coloured Hôtel Belles Rives is a mini-palace with 43 rooms. There is a charming library stocked with Fitzgerald memorabilia, and the Estène family has taken great care to preserve the hotel's 1930s style with Art Deco furniture, cubist paintings, the fumoir (dating from the hotel's days as the Villa Saint-Louis) and the Bar Fitzgerald, a stylish corner of the salon in polished oak and lemon-wood. Room 78, on the top floor, is painted pale blue and yellow and is one of six with magnificent bow windows. Room 50, in apricot, is smaller but has a private terrace, while room 95 is a pink-and-black boudoir with a silky bedspread and lovely balcony. All the rooms have marble bathrooms.
The Belles Rives has hosted a steady stream of illustrious guests since 1929, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ella Fitzgerald and Cab Calloway. The hotel has a private beach (with a waterskiing school) and a relaxed waterfront restaurant on the sprawling white deck. Guests should splash out on at least one dinner at La Passagère, the hotel's gastronomic restaurant: the southern French cuisine is superb, served on a candle-lit terrace with impossibly romantic sea views. Highlights include macaroni stuffed with violet artichokes and topped with rocket and truffle dressing, roast sea bass with honey, shank of Sisteron lamb with vegetables and garlic gnocchi, and desserts such as a cubist-inspired, geometrical white-and-dark chocolate cake, and spiced mango and violet figs with candied-ginger ice cream.
In 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald rented the Villa Saint-Louis in Juan-les-Pins to work on Tender is the Night. Three years later, hotelier Boma Estène transformed the villa into the Côte d'Azur's first hotel on the water's edge.
Built on the edge of a small inlet on Cap d'Antibes, facing the Lérins islands, the cream-coloured Hôtel Belles Rives is a mini-palace with 43 rooms. There is a charming library stocked with Fitzgerald memorabilia, and the Estène family has taken great care to preserve the hotel's 1930s style with Art Deco furniture, cubist paintings, the fumoir (dating from the hotel's days as the Villa Saint-Louis) and the Bar Fitzgerald, a stylish corner of the salon in polished oak and lemon-wood. Room 78, on the top floor, is painted pale blue and yellow and is one of six with magnificent bow windows. Room 50, in apricot, is smaller but has a private terrace, while room 95 is a pink-and-black boudoir with a silky bedspread and lovely balcony. All the rooms have marble bathrooms.
The Belles Rives has hosted a steady stream of illustrious guests since 1929, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ella Fitzgerald and Cab Calloway. The hotel has a private beach (with a waterskiing school) and a relaxed waterfront restaurant on the sprawling white deck. Guests should splash out on at least one dinner at La Passagère, the hotel's gastronomic restaurant: the southern French cuisine is superb, served on a candle-lit terrace with impossibly romantic sea views. Highlights include macaroni stuffed with violet artichokes and topped with rocket and truffle dressing, roast sea bass with honey, shank of Sisteron lamb with vegetables and garlic gnocchi, and desserts such as a cubist-inspired, geometrical white-and-dark chocolate cake, and spiced mango and violet figs with candied-ginger ice cream.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 43°33'53"N 7°6'53"E
- Cap d'Antibes Beach Hotel 0.4 km
- Hotel Imperial Garoupe 4* 1.8 km
- Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc 1.8 km
- Résidence Le Galion 1.9 km
- Residence Villa Alexandra 6 km
- Residence Les Pervenches 6.1 km
- Résidence Monte Léo 6.6 km
- Residence Chantemerle 6.6 km
- Hotel Novotel Cannes Montfleury 4* 6.8 km
- Residences Fleuries 6.9 km
- Rés du Port Gallice 0.2 km
- Antibes-Juan les Pins, library for children and adults. 0.2 km
- Rés Saramartel A/B/C 0.3 km
- Cap d'Antibes Beach Hotel 0.5 km
- l'Olivette/Le Graillon 1.6 km
- Napoleonic Museum 1.8 km
- Antibes 2.1 km