The best hotels in Saint Tropez
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Few places on earth prompt the same grade of hedonism as Saint Tropez. It is written into the once sleepy fishing village’s DNA, morphing from free-spirited bohemia into star-studded partying and then, more recently, hosting the global bling brigade. The glamorous chapter began in earnest when And God Created Woman was filmed on its pine-flanked shores, and Brigitte Bardot placed Saint Tropez on the world map. The French New Wave, Parisian Left Bank coterie were leaving the pages of their books to bake in the French Riviera sun well before. And despite its 21st-century agenda of rampant revelry – the Champagne-popping-diamonds-and-stilettos-welcome – the village’s bohemian spirit and Riviera elegance live on. You just need to know where to find it.
Whether checking in for a coastal cleanse or caviar-laced tasting menus, here are the best hotels in Saint Tropez.
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How we choose the best hotels in Saint Tropez
Every hotel on this list has been selected independently by our editors and written by a Condé Nast Traveller journalist who knows the destination and has stayed at that property. When choosing hotels, our editors consider both luxury properties and boutique and lesser-known boltholes that offer an authentic and insider experience of a destination. We’re always looking for beautiful design, a great location and warm service – as well as serious sustainability credentials. We update this list regularly as new hotels open and existing ones evolve.
hotelHotel Byblos
Perhaps you’ve heard of Hotel Byblos, the red herring among a sea of glossy hotels in St Tropez, and the one that champions character, history and a unique aesthetic, no matter how many rounds of renovations it undergoes? Brigitte Bardot came to the opening party some decades ago, and Mick Jagger celebrated his honeymoon here in the 70s. Today, it feels just as exclusive. Every one of the 80+ suites and bedrooms is unique, and there’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to interiors. Contemporary design can be found in the Laura Gonzalez residences, and outlandish zigzags decorate the Missoni suite. But elsewhere, rooms are more traditional. Dark wooden furniture juxtaposes gleaming glass coffee tables, original architecture offsets stark white linens, and pared-back bathrooms feature glossy Sisely products. Outside, the pool and its bar are buzzing with guests sipping rose and sampling chef Nicola Canuti’s Italian-inspired dishes, which he preps using home-grown ingredients from the hotel kitchen garden. Come golden hour, it’s the rooftop bar that you’ll want to be on. Views across the South of France don’t get much better than this, and the sky’s blaze of orange hues offset the property’s rusty red visage in a way that’s pinch-me perfect and wholly transportative. Sarah Leigh Bannerman
Lou Pinet
Amid the allure of international jet-setters, luxury aficionados, art enthusiasts and avant-garde travellers, five-star Hôtel Lou Pinet offers a serene retreat that captures nostalgic charm and the essence of bohemian chic. The hotel’s central feature is its pool (the largest hotel pool in the area), which sets the scene for an early morning café and a moment of mindfulness.
Provençal-style villas seamlessly vibe vintage Riviera glamour with contemporary luxury and blend with the timeless allure of Saint Tropez, leaving one feeling wonderfully décomplexé. They're envisioned by architect Charles Zana, and radiate understated elegance through the use of natural materials such as terracotta tiles, linen fabrics and handcrafted ceramics that create an inviting atmosphere. Suites are designed with floor-to-ceiling French doors that open onto to the verdant garden and complement the interiors – an homage to the artistic heritage of the region, inspired by masters from Matisse to Picasso.
Native flora like lavender, jasmine, and citrus trees enhance the property's authentic charm. The theme here is unwinding, whether that's by lounging by the pool, indulging in treatments at the Tata Harper Spa, or exploring the locale by bicycle, on foot or by chauffeured open air mini-car.
Dining at Hôtel Lou Pinet is a culinary journey. By day, La Terrasse offers a relaxed setting with dishes that celebrate local produce. In the evening the ambience shifts as the restaurant Beefbar comes alive under the guidance of Riccardo Giraudi. The extensive menu is a celebration of premium meats and Mediterranean flavours. Signature dishes include succulent cuts of American Black Angus, Australian Wagyu, and Japanese Kobe beef. The atmosphere is infectious, attracting a discerning international crowd, yacht enthusiasts, fashion aficionados, and travellers who are seeking a blend of luxury and authenticity. Sandra Denda
Courtesy of AREV Saint TropezArev St Tropez
Nearly 70 years after Vadim’s steamy groundbreaking film And God Created Woman, a hovering nostalgia for Bardot’s glam glory days in Saint Tropez still persists, so why fight it? Hidden away on a quiet leafy street behind the humming Place des Lices, the 44-room boutique hotel AREV St Tropez — the first luxe lifestyle hotel in the newly launched AREV collection — was unabashedly named after the French word for “dream”. And dreamy it is – call it a vision of nautical-inspired style with yacht-like symmetry. Once you step beyond the low-slung Provençal cream and blue-shuttered façade, expect a ubiquitous theatrical tri-colour colour scheme — bold navy and white stripes and eye-popping reds, created by Madrid-based designer Luis Bustamante — which extends from the lobby to the deeply comfortable ultra-spacious rooms and suites with private terraces. Have a signature reinvented Bloody Mary at the retro Q bar, then tuck into delicious Mediterranean market-driven dishes – white asparagus with truffles, spaghetti with sea urchins and tuna, grilled saddle of lamb with Chanterelle mushrooms – at the indoor/outdoor restaurant, The Strand, named after St Tropez’s oldest eatery.
With an inviting turquoise pool, a fleet of bespoke high-tech electric bikes, a Techogym-equipped Fitness Center, a Padel court, plus a pétanque court in the olive-tree-shaded mini-village square (with a scarlet food truck for apéro nibbles) there’s already lots to do besides draping yourself on a sunbed with a bottle of iced Champagne. Inveterate shoppers and night owls rejoice: the boutiques and nighttime hot spots in the village are a 10-minute stroll away, plus the e-Mehari beach buggy shuttles guests back and forth to the sandy stretch of Pampelonne for long languorous lunches and a splash in the sea. Add to the mix AREV’s small but lovely spa, featuring an exclusive made-in-St-Tropez line of botanical beauty products and perfumes by ST Maison, used for treatments from sand scrubs to massages with sweet-smelling citrusy and floral essential oils. Lanie Goodman
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November StudioLily of the Valley
Greenery climbs languidly over sandstone walls in this Phillipe Starck-designed hotel, which sits unobtrusively cut into enviable surrounds atop a hillside just outside of feted Saint-Tropez. The hotel has 38 rooms, six suites, an additional seven with pools and two additional private villas new for 2025. Phenomenal sea views compete for glitteriest attraction – the area’s glamorous history and a string of supercars in the driveway are tough opponents – but you’ll not be left lingering for long. Most guests check in for one of the hotel’s dedicated wellness programs, centred around fitness, weight loss and longevity, which start from four days in length up to two weeks-plus. Beautiful people head from the enviable spa, with its saunas and steam room, snow shower, cryotherapy chamber and slew of high-tech machines, to various well-equipped workout studios lining the stripey parasol-lined pool. A week here and you will have toned, stretched, steamed, frozen and sweated yourself anew – and, unusually for the Cote d’Azur, Lily of the Valley is open year-round, making body tune-ups possible whenever the need or urge arises. Rooms are spacious, with glorious sea or pool vistas through pleasingly aesthetic half-moon windows, marble bathrooms, huge beds and outdoor terraces from where to decompress post-pilates. The menu at restaurant Vista, designed by Alain Ducasse alumnus Vincent Maillard, is impeccable – and the sweeping bohemian environs, all warm plaster pinks and seagrass finishes, are just as lovely. Should you be on the lighter calorie-controlled plan, you’ll genuinely not notice. This is self-care at the highest level, without a green juice in sight. Charley Ward
Address: Colline Saint Michel, Boulevard Abel Faivre, Quartier de Gigaro, 83420 La Croix-Valmer, France
droits d’auteurAirelles Saint Tropez, Pan Deï Palais
India-meets-Saint Tropez. This mustard townhouse confounds guests with its shuttered exterior concealing a dark-wooded Raj-era scene inside. The boutique hotel is built on a love story – where a 19th-century British general fell in love with an Indian princess, who later took her grief and rich colour palette to Saint Tropez. Old-world fans and four posters dressed in white linen curtains set an exotic tone, and while splashes of burnt orange, lime and crimsons animate the rooms, the bass note is earthy and restrained. The theme spills out into a walled garden, where the pool (which could have been a Raj pond in a past life) is lined with white parasols and thick, cushioned loungers. Its central location in the old town (a seven-minute walk to the beach) is staggering given its overall feeling of serenity and calm.
Airelles St Tropez, Chateau de la Messardiere
It’s hard not to be wowed by this pretty, turreted beauty which has recently been gutted and glammed up by haut hoteliers, Airelles. The views of the pine woods and vine-combed hills sloping down to Saint Tropez Bay and Pampelonne from Château de la Messardière are as splendid as its interiors. Curtains are stiffer than Martinis, palatial panelling traces the walls and le grand gôut francais is swapped for something fresher and marginally more Provencal. When not playing petanque or Mini Moking off to the Chateau’s Pampelonne spot on the legendary stretch of sand, guests can spend an afternoon soaking, steaming and generally luxuriating in the Valmont spa. Elevated brasserie-style plates arrive poolside from Matsuhisa restaurant while La Table de La Messardière puts on the full Provencal charm.
V.MATICheval Blanc Saint Tropez
Cheval Blanc Saint Tropez has two serious local brags that curiously seems to precede both its three Michelin-starred restaurant and lavishly restrained interiors: it has access to a beach (more a small patch of white sand) and is a hop, skip, or Bentley nano-second away from Saint Tropez, unlike its Ramatuelle competitors. A tastefully contemporary expression of Riviera glamour, this Côte d’Azur maison comprises the original Pinede Chateau, extended and retuned inside for a less formal (but no less fabulous) set. This is where quiet luxury comes to play, to recline on creamy sun loungers following gourmet Truffle Croque-Madame lunches, or to inspect the hotel’s feast of modern art before a caviar and Champagne tasting menu, courtesy of Chef Arnaud Donckele. Rooms dressed in sumptuously simple blues and creams echo the views across a sequin bay to Saint Maxime, therapists work Guerlain potions into weary shoulders in the spa, and impeccably dressed waiters glide across the pine-shaded terrace, topping up paper-thin glasses of Ruinart.
Address: Plage de la Bouillabaisse, 83990 Saint-Tropez, France
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Grégoire GardetteLa Reserve
The antidote to the thrum of St Tropez, the noise of summer in the South of France, La Reserve is fantastically handsome and private. You can’t even see it, hidden as it is by a blanket of umbrella pines, but it’s there, moments from the sea. Each of the dozen three-to-six-bedroom terracotta-roofed houses has a dedicated butler who looks after you better than nanny, whipping up breakfast eggs to order, tidying bedrooms (and clothes) with OCD dedication, booking restaurant tables, organising the free shuttle to town and stocking the fridge. There are artful displays of ceramics and Assouline coffee-table books, but also brightly coloured pool toys and an endless stream of towels. Come in August and stay firmly put as the surrounding roads become gridlocked. (The hotel will whisk you wherever you need to go by boat – or ask if you can use the owner’s helipad). Come in May or October half term and while the business and bustle still goes on at Club 55 and along Pampelonne, the trickier-to-reach beaches of L’Escalet and Cap Taillat are blissfully quiet.
David AndreVilla Marie
Rather than the choreographed and contrived interior overhaul, usually conducted by a Parisian design house, Villa Marie has the comforting eclecticism of a private home. Swirly white wrought iron chairs, pillared verandas shaded by vines and statues smothered in jasmine evoke a sense of nostalgia – a longing for a slower, sophisticated age. A variety of rooms (some with four posters, some vibrant orange, some brandishing the typical hallmarks of boudoir shabby chic) all inhale the salty, warm breeze through french doors. A distinct absence of integrated editing lends Villa Marie its bohemian appeal, just with the buttoned-up service you’d expect from a top Cote D'Azur hotel. Exotic gardens fan out beneath the pines, where guests roam and recline among olive trees, palms and cacti. The only discernible theme, aside from elevated bohemia, is white and cream with red accents on table clothes and poolside sun loungers, and regular sightings of Domaine de Marie wine (from the hotel’s sister maison in the Luberon).