Cap Ferrat villas, a crewed yacht and the legendary light from Saint-Tropez to Menton.
Cap Ferrat villas, a crewed yacht and the legendary light from Saint-Tropez to Menton. Here is French Riviera, arranged privately — browse it by the occasion you're marking, by what moves you, or by the season that suits you best.
What an advisor can open that an algorithm cannot. Each of these is staged on your terms — the access, the timing, the people.
A 1960s mahogany Riva hired from its Antibes owner — the hull cutting the morning sea, lunch anchored in a cove below Villa Kérylos, swimming where the Côte d'Azur was before the motorway was built.
Saint-Paul-de-Vence's extraordinary collection opened before the first visitor — Miró's labyrinth at seven in the morning, the Giacometti courtyard in silence, a scholar who curated the 2019 Calder retrospective as your guide.
A working lavender estate above Grasse with a table set in the herb garden — the perfume house's master distiller explains the harvest and the extraction; a lunch of Provençal lamb that has grazed on these same aromatics.
Not a package — a starting point. Each is a journey we have designed and refined; your advisor reshapes it for the version only you would recognise.
A villa above Cap Ferrat, a vintage Riva along the coast at dawn, cocktails at the Hotel du Cap terrace before the season fills it, and dinner at a hill-village restaurant that has stayed in the same family since 1962.
A crewed motor yacht from Antibes — Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat at anchor with the Villa Rothschild above, the calanques east of Cassis by tender, a lunch prepared from the Antibes fish market as the sea deepens to navy beyond the three-mile line.
A Belle Époque estate above Cap Ferrat — a private pool on the terrace, a cook who shops at the Antibes market each morning, a captain with a tender moored on the coast below, and the view west across the bay to the Esterel mountains that turns red at dusk.
The Côte d'Azur at its most abundant — Cap Antibes by vintage tender, the Cannes Croisette before the festival season, a lunch at a Mougins hillside restaurant, and the Eze village at dusk when the tourists have gone and the sea turns every shade of blue the Riviera was painted in.
June and September offer warm seas, reliable sun, and a calmer rhythm than the height of summer. May brings the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix, which transform Cannes and Monte-Carlo and drive demand and rates sharply higher, so these dates must be booked far in advance. July and August are the social peak along the coast but also the busiest and hottest months.
Yes. A crewed motor or sailing yacht is the classic way to experience the Riviera, cruising from the Bay of Villefranche and Cap Ferrat toward the Iles de Lerins off Cannes, Saint-Tropez, and into Italian and Monegasque waters. Charters can be arranged by the day or the week, with a chef aboard and tenders for swimming in the calanques. Forest Travel can match the vessel to your group and secure berths during the busy summer season when moorings are scarce.
Cap Ferrat and Cap d'Antibes are the most exclusive enclaves, prized for their privacy and grand seafront properties, while Monte-Carlo suits those drawn to the casino and the harbor scene. Saint-Tropez and the Pampelonne beaches are the summer epicenter of glamour, and Nice offers a more urban, cultured base with excellent air access. Five to seven nights lets you settle in one area while taking day trips along the coast by car or boat.
The Riviera pairs easily with the Italian Riviera and Portofino, a short cruise or drive east past Monaco and Menton. Inland, the perched villages of the arriere-pays such as Eze and Saint-Paul-de-Vence make rewarding excursions, and Provence lies within a couple of hours by car or train to the west. Many clients combine the coast with Paris via a short flight or the TGV from Nice or Avignon.
Most clients arrive into Nice Cote d'Azur airport, with a seven-minute helicopter transfer to Monaco being the established way to reach the Principality. A private car and driver is essential given the narrow coastal roads and limited parking in towns like Saint-Tropez. Your advisor will arrange restaurant and beach-club reservations along Pampelonne and in Monte-Carlo, which are difficult to secure independently in season.
Each a starting point — our advisors weave them into a single, seamless journey.
Every journey here is a starting point a private advisor reshapes entirely around you — your pace, your people, the French Riviera only you would recognise.
