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After the Stars Leave Cannes, The Perks Pick Up at The Hotel Martinez
| May 15, 2009 at 4:42 PM | 1 Comment
The Cannes Film Festival is in full-swing right now which means celebs and their entourages have taken all the best hotel rooms and their mere presence has jacked up the rates at any other hotel you may consider staying at. But of course, once the celebs leave the prices come down to back down to earth. And at the Hotel Martinez, you will get a little bit of a kickback.
To celebrate its 80th anniversary, the hotel is offering guests who stay three consecutive nights a resort credit of 80 Euros, per person which can be used at the hotel's restaurants (including La Palme d'Or), bars and spa.
The offer begins for stays starting June 1 through September 30 and also includes buffet breakfast. Rates are still rather steep with a three-night stay starting at 310 Euros a night. Free WiFi is included which is a plus but we're a little concerned about those bedspreads.
[Photo: Amy.Maria]
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French TV Crew Invades Madonna's Hotel in Cannes
| May 28, 2008 at 12:22 PM | 1 Comment
We've avoided covering the hotel scene at the Cannes Film Festival this year largely because the same shizz happens every year, practically on auto-pilot. Expensive hotels get more expensive, movies get booed and applauded, Sharon Stone walks the red carpet over and over and nothing really truly of interest happens.
Except when it happens to Madonna. Apparently, Madge was holed up in the Intercontinental Carlton Hotel in Cannes last week while there to promote her documentary, "I Am Because We Are", about orphans in Malawi. But she got pissed when she saw that a French TV crew had managed to sneak into her suite and film the place, including the special water and gym equipment she had requested.
And according to the French newspaper, Le Parisien, Madonna won't pay the $90,000 hotel bill because of the security breach. Usually, we think Madonna's a bit of a crackpot but she's actually very right in this instance. We bet a couple of people got fired at the Carlton this week.
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Johnny Drama Finds Love, Loses Hotel Room in Cannes
| September 4, 2007 at 10:21 AM | 0 Comments
In Sunday night's Entourage season finale the boys head to Cannes (courtesy of Kanye West's private jet) and promptly shack up at the Intercontinental Carlton Cannes Hotel---well, all of them except Johnny Drama. Apparently, the room he reserved months ago and confirmed "at least a dozen times" is nowhere to be found.
Considering that his old show "Viking Quest" was a huge hit in France, Drama expects the hotel to rectify the situation immediately and put him in an ocean-facing suite like his brother Vince. Unfortunately, the hotel takes quite a few hours only to show Drama a closet-sized room with a twin bed not facing the ocean.
Making matters worse, Drama has met a girl, Jacqueline, and thinks he's in love. So he asks her to wait in the room while he goes downstairs and demands a suite. But he gets angry, calls the manager a "French f--k" and is carried out of the hotel by security. When he tips a bellman to look for the girl, the bellman says she's missing. Also, Drama only tips him a lone American dollar.
But don't worry this is Entourage. All ends well all the time. At least for Drama in this episode and not so much for the boys behind "Medellin." Drama ends up finding Jacqueline and having sex with her for three hours on the beach. Guess he didn't need that twin bed after all.
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Movie Set Hotel: The Carlton Cannes in Hitchcock's 'To Catch a Thief'
| August 20, 2007 at 1:49 PM | 0 Comments
We were in the mood for a Hitchcock movie the other night, and the only one we could nab at the local Blockbuster was To Catch a Thief. We'd forgotten was a prominent role the Carlton Hotel in Cannes played in this 1955 thriller starring Cary Grant as a former jewel thief and Grace Kelly as an American heiress on holiday in the Riviera with her mother.
The Carlton, now an InterContinental hotel, hosted the production crew during 1954. The film was released the following year. During the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Grace Kelly met Prince Rainier for the first time at the Carlton, at the prince's request. Kelly married Prince Rainier the following year.
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French Riviera Style: Hotel Moliere, Cannes
| April 3, 2007 at 9:00 AM | 0 Comments
The Cannes Film Festival is still a ways off (it starts on May 16) but a reader's recent tip about the French Riviera got us daydreaming about escaping to Cote d'Azure. This week we'll continue talking about some of the hotels worthy of checking into. As always, we wanna know what you think, not just what Uma, Rod Stewart, P.Diddy and Paris Hilton think, of the hotels here. So send us your thoughts and questions or comment below the story, telling us what's right, what's wrong and what's just French.
In the starring city of Cannes, just near the Hotel de Provence, you can find another very reasonably priced 24-room hotel, the cute pink-painted Hotel Molière. According to the the Hotel Molière website, the big selling points are something like this:
In the center of Cannes, 100 m. from the Croisette and the beaches, in a calm flowered garden, southern exposure.
Whether the flowers are calm or the experience of being in the garden is calming isn't quite clear, but we figure either way it can't be a bad thing. Most of the rooms have a terrace overlooking this calm garden, so ask for one of these when you book; all of them are air-conditioned, not always the case in this budget range. There's no in-house restaurant at Molière but its central location means you won't be too far from food--just the same, breakfast is included in the room rates, which start from about 100 Euro ($130) for a double (with bathroom) in low season, rising to up to 135 Euro ($180) in high season.
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French Riviera Style: Hotel de Provence, Cannes
| March 29, 2007 at 8:50 AM | 0 Comments
The Cannes Film Festival is still a ways off (it starts on May 16) but a reader's recent tip about the French Riviera got us daydreaming about escaping to Cote d'Azure. This week we'll be talking about some of the hotels worthy of checking into. As always, we wanna know what you think, not just what Uma, Rod Stewart, P.Diddy and Paris Hilton think, of the hotels here. So send us your thoughts and questions or comment below the story, telling us what's right, what's wrong and what's just French.
If Cannes is the place you just must be for your Riviera holiday, but you don't want to totally blow the budget, then the UK's Sunday Times tips the Hotel de Provence. It's right in the middle of Cannes and only a couple of blocks from the beach, but feels more like a garden than the oft-found conference-venue style block hotels. The owners, the Portiers, run just 30 rooms here, and that gives it the personal touch, according to the Times reviewer:
Simple touches such as linen tablecloths and fresh flowers in the rooms show that this is a labour of love, not just a business.
And while the rooms are a little small (that's the nice way of saying poky), the character and the location seem to make up for it. The big tip from previous guests is to request a room with a view or balcony over the garden (you can't get beach views thanks to the monstrous hotels built between Hotel de Provence and the coastline). Extremely reasonable rates start at just $100 for a double including breakfast--more at peak or with a terrace.
[Photo: Kathryn14]
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Tight as a Bug in a Rug in Cannes
| August 4, 2006 at 1:46 PM | 0 Comments
Yesterday we warned you that all of France has settled into the south, or at least all the Parisians. The beaches of the Rivera will be beyond packed this month. But, if you must go let us at least send you off with a bit more advice and a little warning.
Unless you have millions to fork out, you are not going to be staying in roomy and luxurious spaces when staying in the major resort towns like Cannes. Take this blogger's warning for example:
The Hôtel Alnea, a charming two-star hotel just a (Sharon) stone's throw away from the Grand Palais, should be listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as "The Smallest Hotel in Cannes." I was in fact able to simultaneously sit on the toilet, wash my face AND take a shower - without moving a muscle. How many world-class hotels can boast such a luxury I ask you?"
Since it's Friday we thought we would try to see the bright side of things. That said, Hotel Alnea is in an ideal location in Cannes and has Wifi, cable TV, French breakfast and all that so aside from being crunched in your room you really can't ask for more (without of course, unloading your savings account). Plus, what better practice than in your tight hotel quarters, to get accustomed to the even more crowded beaches?
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Staying on the Wrong Side of Cannes
| May 18, 2006 at 4:44 PM | 0 Comments
Hopefully you don't want to get a room in Cannes anytime soon, because as hoteliers love to say in Europe, "they are fully booked" from May 17 - 28. Sure, sure, there are always ways around that, but if we had our druthers we would find a way to stay at the Hôtel Chateau de la Tour.
This 34 room 19th-century château opened back in May 2005 sports a couple bars, an indoor outdoor restaurant and a "Palladian-style pool". Huh? While we aren't smart enough to know what a Palladian style pool is, we do know that this little castle hotel is a 30 minute walk from the center of town, and the beach is a bit of a hike from here. While that might be a deterrent to some, during May the slight possibility of a quiet French hotel in Cannes sounds like a godsend to us. You can walk off your wine, or cab it, to any and all festival destinations.
Before you scoff at our logic, some folks agree with our attraction to this hotel locale:
To the north, further from the beach, slathered on top of all of this glam like yellowed mayonnaise, is the wrong side of Cannes. I find the contrast appealing: the side with old ladies wielding small dogs and glittery purses versus the side with the sex shops, grocery stores, and trashy bars which are packed with drunk old men starting at about eleven am.
See? And you were sitting there silently judging us. OK, so the takeaway is there is a 99.9% chance you can't get a room near Cannes from now until the end of May no matter how many concentric circles you draw around the city center, but for the rest of the year, you should have plenty of Canney options. Got it?
Are you in a Cannes hotel right now sitting by your Palladian style pool? Did you shock the world and snag a Cannes hotel room during Festival? Feel free to brag, operators are standing by.
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Room with an Anti-View: The Belle Plage
| May 18, 2006 at 9:30 AM | 0 Comments
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
Celebrity gossip Perez Hilton has taken off from London to Cannes where he is staying at the Belle Plage (but how did he get a room?)
When the film festival is not going on, the view is usually what you would expect from a picturesque French Riviera hotel with topless ladies on the beach below. But this time the view has been marred by the Da Vinci Code tent monstrosity. And all that promotion, was for nothing.
Just another reason to avoid Cannes.
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Cannes Report: Designers Take the Good Rooms
| May 17, 2006 at 3:37 PM | 0 Comments
We know most of you can't get a room in Cannes and that's probably because fashion designers have taken up suites to display haute couture gowns that they want stars to wear to the film festival.
Versace has set up shop in the Hotel Martinez and basically transformed it into a Versace store:
Versace, based in Milan, redecorated its 70-square-meter (753-square-foot) terraced suite at the Hotel Martinez with Versace Home Couture furnishings, and will offer browsers a flute of Louis Roederer's Cristal cuvee champagne, Donatella Versace's favorite. They can choose from a selection of accessories and cocktail attire, in addition to designer gowns, such as a hip- hugging chiffon number dripping with Swarovski crystals.
Valentino, Chanel, Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent are also in town to get the celebs in their pants and dresses.
Even jeweler Chopard has taken up a floor of the Majestic Hotel, including a room dubbed "the treasure room,'' that has more than 500 jewels inside for stars to wear and bodyguards outside protecting them.
We wonder if they have to book an 11-night minimum.
Image via Flickr
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Bad Rate: California's Hotel
| May 16, 2006 at 5:19 PM | 0 Comments
[Ed. Note: This is the Bad Rate in our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature. The screenshot above was taken on May 16, 2006 and rates are subject to change. Enjoy.]
The Cannes Film Festival is happening next week and Hollywood's celebrities will be flocking to the place to show off their latest movies and designer outfits. (We personally cannot wait to see what craziness Sharon Stone will be exhibiting.)
For many the large luxury spots are out of reach, but so is the small, family-run California's Hotel.
Capitalizing on the film festival not just in name, the hotel is offering rooms for about $215 a night but require that you stay for 11 nights (!!!) from May 17 to May 28. We say book sometime during the spring where the required minimum is three nights and then you won't feel so trapped.
Or stay outside the city and train it into Cannes so you can go home before the summer is over.
Despite the Nazi minimum requirement, the reviews are among the best, including one guest who says:
Everything is about quality here - from the beds in the rooms (the best sleep you will ever have) to the breakfasts (the freshest pastries in Cannes).
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The Most Expensive Hotel Room in the World
| April 27, 2006 at 12:30 PM | 0 Comments
We don't know who would plunk down $37,200 for a one-night stay in the Hotel Martinez's Penthouse Suite in Cannes, France. But if you're looking to blow nearly 40 grand, it's there waiting for you.
Inside the suite, there are four bedrooms, a private terrace with a Jacuzzi , and views of the Mediterranean. If you want to stay there, but are short on cash here are some ways you can recoup the nightly fee.
· Split the room cost with at least 12 people, maybe more.
· Charge locals, staffers and other guests admission to the private jacuzzi.
· Set up a camera and tripod and charge people for photo ops with the Mediterranean as the backdrop.
Or else, convince MC Hammer to part with his last $50, 000 and tell him you gotta spend money to make money.
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