Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc
Nine hectares at the tip of a cape, with no beach: rock, cabanas and a pool cut into the shore.
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc holds about nine hectares, or twenty-two acres, at the far tip of Cap d'Antibes, between Cannes and Nice. The park is Aleppo pine, cypress, citrus and rose, and it runs to a shore that has no sand on it. This is the entry's distinguishing fact on a coast where every house claims a beach: there is none here, and none is missed. The Grande Allee runs two hundred metres from the main building down through the park to the Eden-Roc Pavilion above the water, where cabanas are set into the rocks and a seawater pool is cut into the cliff over the sea.
The house was built in 1870 as the Villa Soleil by Auguste de Villemessant, who founded Le Figaro, and became a hotel in 1889 under Antoine Sella. The Oetker family bought it in 1970 and rebuilt it as a palace, with major work again in 2007 and 2011. Accommodation is published as a hundred and eighteen rooms and suites and, more recently, as a hundred and eleven keys including three villas, with the operator now listing four rental villas. Rooms sit in the original villa, the Eden-Roc Pavilion and the Les Deux Fontaines residence.
A shoreline without a beach. The estate reaches the water and holds it, and what is there is rock. The pool and the cabanas are the answer the property built instead of sand, and they are the reason it never needed any.
A cape end, which cannot be shared. Land at the tip of a peninsula has neighbours on one side only. Nine hectares here buy an enclosure that nine hectares in the middle of the same coast would not.
Who it is not for
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc is wrong for travellers who want to walk into the sea from sand: the shore is rock, and swimming means the pool, the cabanas or the ladders. It is wrong for anyone who wants to be in a town, since the cape is residential and Antibes and Cannes are drives. It is wrong for guests seeking quiet in late May, when the film festival takes the house over. For sand on the same coast, La Reserve Ramatuelle sits further west.
Sources
- Oetker Collection record and regional tourist board - park of about nine hectares, or twenty-two acres, at the tip of Cap d'Antibes; the Grande Allee runs two hundred metres to the sea; seawater pool cut into the rock with cabanas alongside
- Published history - built in 1870 as the Villa Soleil by Auguste de Villemessant of Le Figaro, opened as a hotel in 1889 by Antoine Sella, bought by the Oetker family in 1970
Verification
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- keys are published as a hundred and eighteen rooms and suites, and as a hundred and eleven including three villas; the operator's current pages list a hundred and eleven guestrooms and four rental villas.
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Booking
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