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Les Belles Rives

Address: Bd. Edouard Baudoin, Juan-les-Pins, 06160
Phone: 04-93-61-02-79
Fax: 04-93-67-43-51
www.bellesrives.com

Price range: $$$$
Location: Juan-les-Pins

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Fodor's Review:

If living well is the best revenge, then vacationers at this landmark hotel should know. Not far from the onetime villa of Gerald and Sara Murphy—those Roaring Twenties millionaires who devoted their life to proving this maxim—the Belles Rives became the home-away-from-home for literary giant F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda (chums of the Murphys). On its docks, the newly invented sport of waterskiing caught on like wildfire, and jazz giants mingled with royalty. Still as exclusive as ever, it now opens its beach and services to some 100 handpicked residents of Antibes. The original Art Deco furniture remains, artfully preserved in an almost museum-like neoclassique milieu, though the grand glass doors lead to a vivid and lively waterfront scene. Rooms have fresh, updated fabrics, and sea views are poster-perfect. Cocktails and restaurant meals on the terrace, with the sunset framed over the Estérel, make you want to dress for dinner. There is no pool, but happily the recently renovated private beach is just steps away.

Hotel Details: 44 rooms
In-room: Internet.
In-hotel: 2 restaurants, bar, beachfront, parking (free), some pets allowed (fee). minibar.
Credit Cards: AE, V

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