HotelChatter - Cannes

Where The Celebs Are at The Cannes Film Festival

Jennifer Kester — 2011-05-13T11:04:28-05:00

Celebs have been flooding Cannes, France, for the city's famous film festival. And the hotel that's seeing some of the most action from the 64th annual festival is Hotel Martinez.

There are a number of reasons that the stars stay at the 409-room luxe hotel during the festival. Two-Michelin-star La Palme d'Or is a favorite restaurant among celebrities, its many meeting rooms make it a good spot for parties, and the hotel gives ensures some seclusion, like its private beach. Here are some people who've been spotted there during the fest:

The Palais Stephanie in Cannes to Become a JW Marriott Hotel

juliana — 2011-01-11T15:36:06-05:00

At this time of year, movie industry folks are more concerned about who's staying where, er...what films are premiering at Sundance but there's actually some rather news in Cannes right now...hotel news, that is.

JW Marriott Hotels will take over management of the Palais Stephanie sometime soon. From the announcement released in early December:

Marriott International, Inc. today announced a new addition to its luxury JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts portfolio, the 261-room JW Marriott Hotel Cannes. In early 2011, the stunning Palais Stephanie hotel, located on Cannes’ famous La Croisette, will be re-branded a JW Marriott Hotel under a management agreement with Jesta Group.

Sorry, We Can't Muster Up Excitement Over Cannes This Year

juliana — 2010-05-13T09:10:36-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/cannessameoldsameold.jpg" class="top"> Same old, same old.Every year without fail Hollywood takes a working vacation to France for the Annual Cannes International Film Festival and every year, hotels in Cannes get besieged by the A-list stars, directors, producers, agents and inevitably some reality TV show stars. And every year, we watch the festivities with no real emotion as it's the same old dog and pony show every year. Rinse, lather, pull out any Jon Gosselin-types and then repeat in 12 months. Plus, it's not like we can even afford a hotel room there. And if we did, it would probably have been sold out months ago. So unless something major happens this year, we're going to avoid reporting on the

Back to Hollywood Basics at Palais Stephanie in Cannes

juliab — 2009-10-09T09:28:34-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/stephanie.jpg" class="top">If your hotels in Cannes, you have to spend a lot of moolah to keep up with the crowd. Which is why the Palais Stephanie has just shelled out 38 million renovating and reinventing itself and now its ready for its close up. The hotel sits on the fancy Croisette boulevard, on the original site of the Palais des Congres AKA where the first Cannes film festivals took place. Thanks to the refurb, its looking pretty sleek modern design in the 261 rooms, lots of butter, greige and chocolate colours, hand stitched leather accents and glam black and white pictures of classic film stars. The room photos also shows that the hotel's into technology too

A Night at The 3.14 Hotel: What It's Really Like in Cannes

juliana — 2009-08-10T17:28:09-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/314_cannes.JPG" class="top">The 3.14 Hotel overlooks the storied Carlton Intercontinental hotel.For most of us, heading to Cannes, the land of celebrities, yachts and movies, is a pipe dream. Probably something we could only do when we're old and have saved up enough money. But we'll be old then. Thank god we can live vicariously through <a href="http://www.jetsetlife.tv">Jet Set Life's</a> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/JetSetLife">Kimberly Murgatroyd</a> who gives us yet another hotel review. This time, it's the funkee (in a French accent) <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/3.14+Hotel/ian/242910">3.14 Hotel</a>. Enjoy.Coming of the heels of my St. Tropez vacation, I headed to Cannes for a six-night stay at the kitschy <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/3.14+Hotel/ian/242910">3.14 Hotel</a>. I chose this hotel primarily for it's prime location and said to be unique design concept.