THE RICH HISTORY OF HOTEL DU CAP-EDEN-ROC
Giants of literature, old Hollywood movies, painters, and more have used the hotel as their sun-kissed home away from home for 150 years.
Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc
Since the 1870s, the opulent Hotel du Cap-Eden Roc in Antibes, France, has presided over the rocky Côte d'Azur, entertaining luminaries like Hemingway, Picasso, Liz 'n Dick, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. It was immortalised as the Hotel des Étrangers in the novel Tender Is the Night. Scott's friends Gerald and Sara Murphy, the models for Dick and Nicole Diver, once rented the hotel for the entire summer, luring fellow countrymen like the Fitzgeralds, Ernest Hemingway, and Pablo Picasso into their magnetic orbit. Since Scott's time, the world's most affluent have flocked to Hotel du Cap. Of course, in today's world, the hotel is constantly full during the summer and the Cannes Film Festival makes it seem like the world revolves around it.
The hotel has managed to maintain a welcoming aura of informality despite its acknowledged reputation for hosting enormously famous guests (and for commanding similarly astronomical accommodation fees during peak season).
Numerous romantic relationships took place at the Hotel du Cap, most famously one between a movie star and a Kennedy
The Kennedy’s on holiday at Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc
Marlene Dietrich had quite a number of relationships during the course of the two seasons (of many) that she stayed at the Hotel du Cap in the late 1930s. The German-American movie legend checked into the hotel in the summer of 1938 along with her husband, their daughter Maria, her husband's mistress, and her own boyfriend, author Erich Maria Remarque. Dietrich then met Joe Kennedy's eyes, who was on vacation from his position as an ambassador in England with his wife Rose and their nine children (second sibling JFK was 21 at the time). He started frequenting the actress's cabana on the beach.
The hotel today
Photo by John Broks
EDEN-ROC LOUNGE
The most current development of Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc debuts for the 2022 season. The new Eden-Roc Lounge, which is situated on the rooftop of the sea-facing Eden-Roc Pavilion, invites you to savour the exquisite Mediterranean view from dusk till dawn. Discover exceptional wines and champagnes and enjoy sophisticated creative drinks that are inspired by the Riviera region while you are attracted by the effervescent contemporary decor and the DJ's calming beats.
Accommodation
They feature 118 exquisite guestrooms with French elegance. Around Hotel du Cap, they are spread out among three different buildings: the original Villa Soleil, the Eden-Roc Pavilion, which overlooks the sea, and the more private Les Deux Fontaines home, which has particularly airy and bright furnishings.
Tradition Room
The Tradition Rooms are quiet and serenely situated in either the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc structure or the more exclusive Les Deux Fontaines property.
CLASSIC ROOM
The Classic Rooms are quiet and private and have excellent garden views. The 25 square metre rooms are tastefully furnished, have a lot of natural light, and have stylish modern marble bathrooms with one or two vanity units. Some of the rooms also have its own terrace.
Superior Room
The Hotel du Cap-Eden-Superior Roc's Rooms are housed in the original structure that was constructed in 1870 as a writers' retreat in a beautiful and inspiring setting. This allows visitors to fully immerse themselves in the history of the establishment.