Fodor's Expert Review Carlton Hotel

Inaugurated in 1913, the Carlton was the first of the grand hotels to stake a claim on a superb stretch of beach and greenery along La Croisette, and, thus, is the best positioned, which explains its fashionable see-and-be-seen terrace and Bar 58. The film festival's grand banquets have returned to this iconic hot spot, which reopened as Regent hotel in 2023 after a multiyear restoration.