Need to know
Rooms
21, including five suites.
Check–Out
12 noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 4pm.
More details
Rates don’t usually include the Continental breakfast (€32 a person) or à la carte picks – gluten-free and vegan options are available too – served on the terrace overlooking the sea in summertime. And guests get free access to the Annonciade Museum.
Also
Take advantage of the sun-kissed privacy of your suite with an in-room massage.
Hotel closed
Dates change by year, but the hotel’s season usually runs from April to the end of the festive season.
At the hotel
Sea-facing terrace, pontoon, laundry service, beach bags and towels to borrow. In rooms: 43-inch flatscreen TV, gourmet minibar, Nespresso machine, tea-making kit, terry-cloth bathrobes and slippers, Hermès bath products, air-conditioning, free high-speed WiFi.
Our favourite rooms
If you follow in the footsteps of celebrities of old, there’s a chance you’ll move between suites… But we’ll play it safe and go with the Junior Suite Sea View, for which we’ll defer descriptive duties to Bonjour Tristesse writer Françoise Sagan who stayed there for extended periods: ‘I got up from my bed, I opened the shutters, and the sea and the sky threw the same blue, the same pink, the same happiness in my face.’ Alternatively, Bardot’s boudoir (a Tropezian Prestige Suite with Sea View) is suitably charming, with a terrace overlooking the sea and citadel and a balcony. Suites are spread across a series of peachy terracotta-tiled villas – many set up for long stays, because who could resist? – and the style is Provençal in creamy hues.
Poolside
The hotel doesn’t have a pool, but from the pontoon you can enjoy La Ponche's cove like a private swimming pool.
Spa
There’s something magically meditative about the stay, which makes it unsurprising that France’s famous ingenues, literati and rabble-rousers came here seeking respite from the chaos of their celebrity. The spa may be small and is more like a wellness space, but you can get a pan-global range of massages (Balinese, Ayurvedic, Swedish, Lomi-Lomi, Thai, Californian…) in the one treatment room, and morning yoga sessions, courtesy of Le Tigre Yoga Club, are held on the pontoon facing the Med (from 8am to 9am, €20 a guest). Or, go one-on-one with private lessons in vinyasa flow or Yin yoga and Pilates. Personal trainers can be hired and the small fitness room (open 7.30am till 10pm) has elliptical bikes, resistance bands, kettle bells and dumb bells.
Packing tips
Throw all your vintage threads in your suitcase: off-the-shoulder peasant blouses, dirndl skirts, flirty capris, high-waisted bikinis, tailored shorts and tasteful tiki shirts. And something more smouldering for after dark.
Also
Clock the hotel walls: Picasso donated lithographs to owner Simone Duckstein, which accompany paintings by her acclaimed-artist husband Jacques Cordier.
Pet‐friendly
Petits pets are welcome for €25 a day. See more pet-friendly hotels in St Tropez.
Children
Children may slightly cramp your ‘beaching it like Bardot’ style, but there is a dedicated Family Suite, the concierge can help with childcare and they can play on the beach (with supervision).
Sustainability efforts
The local fishermen haul in their catches just outside the door, so you can be sure the seafood is sustainably sourced – the hotel can pick and choose from Provence’s culinary bounty too. They’re working to reduce plastics and water use and implementing energy efficient methods, plus they use ecologically sound cleaning products.