Two hundred people, eighty-six rooms and a desk that answers at three in the morning. Tell us what you want the week to feel like and we will build it around you.
Rated 9.6 across 4,180 stays, and one Michelin star at Le Sel since 2019.
We opened with nine rooms and one cook. What has not changed is that somebody who works here answers the telephone, and that the answer is almost always yes.
The terraces went down towards the sea one at a time — the spa in 2004, the cove lift in 2011, the cellar in 2018. Nothing was built to a deadline, which is why none of it looks like it was.
Two walls of glazing fold back into the stone, so the sitting room and the terrace become one space and the bath looks at nothing but horizon.
A walled garden with a heated ten-metre pool, an outdoor kitchen under the pines and nobody at all overlooking you.
A separate sitting room and a terrace wide enough to eat on, one flight above the pool deck and two above the water.
A two-bedroom house at the end of the olive walk with its own kitchen, a wood fire and a terrace facing the islands.
“We do not really run a hotel. We run a house that happens to have eighty-six bedrooms, and we would rather you treated it that way.”Ana Roux Founder & Custodian, Since 1993
None of this is an upsell. It is what the desk does as a matter of course, and most of it costs nothing.
A car at Nice in ninety minutes, or the launch from the harbour if the sea is flat. Either is arranged the week before you travel.
Tables, boats, drivers, sitters, a doctor at two in the morning. Somebody is awake and answering the whole night through.
Cots are free, the kitchen cooks off-menu without being asked, and the shallow end of the cove is netted from June.
The cellar table for twelve, the rooftop for twenty, or one table set on the rock for two, which takes a day’s notice.
Thirty-one weddings last year and one coordinator who has run every one of them since 2014.
Four weeks or more and the rate drops by a quarter, the laundry is included and the car comes with the room.
Every January the headland empties and two hundred people repair a building the sea spends the rest of the year testing.
What arrives on the quay at six decides the menu at seven, and the eight courses are written in pencil for a reason.
A slow itinerary for a first visit: the cove in the morning, the islands after lunch, the terrace until the light goes.
