The Top 56 Hotels Near La Bastide de Moustiers

A stone farmhouse set in a lavender field at the foot of dramatic limestone cliffs, this thirteen-room inn in the Alpes de Haute Provence was Alain Ducasse's private country retreat before it became a hotel. The kitchen draws from an onsite garden tended by a dedicated gardener, and eating on the terrace with Provençal hills spread out ahead of you puts gilded dining rooms in a certain perspective. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

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A 17th-century Provençal mansion converted into a hotel with exactly three rooms, which tells you something about the pace they're going for here. Riez sits deep in lavender-and-cypress country, and the interiors lean into it: antiques, local objects, rooms that feel curated rather than decorated. A small spa and outdoor pool, plus a communal kitchen for guests who'd rather not go out every night. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

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Perched above one of France's great natural canyons, this hotel and spa in La Palud sur Verdon gives every room a balcony or terrace so the gorge is never far from sight. Rooms run modern, each in its own color scheme, and the Cinq Mondes spa adds an indoor and outdoor pool for days when the view feels like enough. The restaurant leans gourmet and frames the Haute-Provence landscape like it planned the whole thing.

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A former post house tucked into the lavender fields and mountain peaks of Haute Provence, La Bonne Étape is the kind of small, classic Provençal hotel that makes you feel tired just thinking about leaving. Rooms lean traditional with the occasional modern chair thrown in to keep things honest, and the better suites have terraces overlooking serious gardens. The restaurant holding a Michelin star is, by most accounts, the real reason to book a room.

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From the front door, the original 19th-century hunting lodge still reads clearly. Step back and a sleek modern wing wraps around it, housing the rooms and apartments, all clean lines and generous space, with kitchenettes in the larger units. A Spa Nuxe, a pool with loungers, and a Provençal restaurant round things out. It sits in Gréoux-les-Bains, a thermal town that has been taking the waters longer than anyone can remember.

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Cotignac itself is certified among France's most beautiful villages, and Lou Calen sits on two and a half acres of parkland at its heart. The boutique hotel had a moment in the seventies as a rock-star hideaway, and that instinct for privacy has carried forward. Its 36 rooms span the main house and a scatter of outbuildings, each decorated in Provençal tradition softened by contemporary art. There's a serious restaurant, a bistro, and a pastis bar for those keeping score.

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Olive groves press right up to the edges of this Provençal bastide outside Forcalquier, which sets the mood before you've even checked in. It's a hotel with rooms ranging from modest doubles to suites with private pools, most opening onto terraces with countryside views. Stone, wood, and linen keep things grounded rather than fussy. A spa and restaurant mean you can stay put without feeling like you're missing anything, which in the Luberon is half the battle.

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The rose-colored gorges carved into the Var hillside are the backdrop here, and the hotel leans into that without apology. Thirteen rooms and suites in a luxury boutique spread, many with balconies pointed straight at the scenery, and a calm that feels deliberate rather than accidental. A Michelin-starred restaurant occupies the old farmhouse on the property, making dinner a short, pleasant walk rather than a reservation somewhere else.

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A ten-room Provençal inn attached to a Benedictine abbey, owned by Alain Ducasse, whose name tends to end the conversation. The grounds run to gardens, vineyards, and ancient cypresses, with a pool facing Candelon Mountain. Rooms lean toward restrained French countryside, silk drapes in the better ones, something a touch more modern under the mansard roofs. The restaurant sources everything from the hotel gardens or within thirty kilometers, which in Provence is a meaningful boast.

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Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire obsessively, and from the suites here you can see why. This small luxury hotel outside Aix-en-Provence holds 15 rooms done up in jewel-toned Provençal style, many with private terraces facing the mountain directly. A south-facing pool catches the afternoon light, and the restaurant turns out French cooking with quiet detours through Brazilian and Japanese influences. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

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An eighteenth-century bastide on a cypress-and-olive hillside above Grasse, close enough to Cannes to feel connected but secluded enough that the Rolling Stones once hid out here from the taxman. The Provençal rooms have terracotta floors, antique furnishings, and oversized bathrooms; outside there's a heated pool and, charmingly, a bowling rink. The restaurant, run by Jacques Chibois, is the main draw for most guests.

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Matali Crasset, the celebrated French designer, took a Lubéron farmhouse and filled it with the kind of color palette that would make neighboring lavender fields feel underdressed. This boutique hotel has eight rooms, two studios, and two freestanding houses, the last two with kitchens. Weathered stone walls sit alongside vivid Seventies hues without apparent embarrassment. Breakfast runs on local ingredients; dinner sends you happily into the surrounding villages. It holds a Michelin Key.

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An 18th-century Italianate château just north of Aix-en-Provence, sitting on its own working organic winery, that spent three centuries as a private estate before anyone else was allowed through the gate. The 50 rooms split between the castle itself and outbuildings, with the château rooms trading square footage for genuine period character and garden views. A spa occupies the old stables, a Michelin Key is on the record, and dinner is walking distance from your bed.

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Carved stone fireplaces and ornate moldings fill the 18th-century bastide at the heart of this small luxury hotel outside Aix-en-Provence, where the estate's own organic vineyards press right up against the garden walls. Fourteen rooms split between the historic main house and the neighboring longères all run contemporary furniture against centuries-old bones. The Michelin Guide awarded it two Keys. A pool, a hammam, a spa, wine tastings, and a Michelin-starred restaurant round things out nicely.

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A photographer's eye runs through every room of this small, intimate guesthouse just outside Cucuron, where three suites share no common style but somehow feel of a piece. The restored hunting lodge sits in fifteen acres of orchards and gardens, with an infinity pool and yoga on request, cooking classes and wine tastings if you ask nicely. Calling it a B&B is technically correct, the way calling Provence a nice place to visit is technically correct.

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A restored Luberon estate in Provence, where the stone walls have been around since the 1600s but the hotel itself is new enough that nobody's set anything in stone yet. Vineyards and gardens sprawl across the grounds, the pool is exactly what you came to France to find, and the cellar stocks the estate's own wine alongside what feels like half of Provence. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

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A six-hole golf course on the grounds tells you something about the scale of this Provençal resort, which is rather grander than the farmhouse tradition it gently nods to. Rooms pull their palette from the region without tipping into kitsch, and the spa is the kind of place that makes a full afternoon disappear. Two restaurants, including a gastronomic table, keep you from ever needing a reason to leave. It holds three Michelin Keys.

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Raphael Navot's curves run through all 50 rooms of this Riviera hotel, the natural materials and soft Provençal palette doing a lot to soften what could easily have tipped into showboating. It's a thoroughly modernized Thirties building, all sinuous lines with no hard sci-fi edges, and the views over Mistral Square's treetops toward the sea are the kind that make checkout feel genuinely cruel. The rooftop bar handles apéritifs to nightcaps with mountains behind you.

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The cocktail menu here is inspired by former guests, which means Picasso and Brigitte Bardot are, in a sense, still running the bar. This small, discreet hotel sits tucked into the old ramparts of Saint-Tropez with just 21 rooms, most dressed in low-key classical style, the best ones opening onto sea-view terraces. Fabrizio Casiraghi's renovation brought back the quiet glamour without turning the place into a museum.

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Thirty-four rooms keep Lou Pinet small enough to feel like someone's very tasteful house, which is the whole point. The interiors lean bohemian Mediterranean rather than slick-hotel minimal, and the pool terrace tips back toward full St. Tropez glamour whenever the mood calls for it. The Beefbar restaurant and the Tata Harper spa pull their own weight as reasons to stay close. A Michelin Selected Hotel.

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A small luxury hotel and spa set in an 18th-century manor on the countryside road that Cézanne walked obsessively to paint Sainte-Victoire. The old house holds rooms and suites with a quietly modern edge; three freestanding villas go further, into full contemporary minimalism. The restaurant swings between brasserie and gastronomic menus, both rooted in the flavors of Provence. The Michelin Guide awards it one Key.

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Six rooms above olive groves and a swimming pool in the Luberon, decorated with the spare, organic elegance that Provence does when it's not trying too hard. Auberge La Fenière holds a Michelin Key and carries three generations of family behind it, which you feel in the unhurried, purposeful way the place runs. The kitchen next door has earned its own Michelin star, so dinner is far from an afterthought.

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Most Provençal hotels seem to have declared a moratorium on design sometime around the Belle Époque. Domaine des Andéols, a collection of farmhouse-style houses and modernist Nature Suites outside Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt, skipped that memo entirely. The furniture alone reads like a survey course in modernist seating, and the art collection ignores the obligatory pastoral watercolor above the bed. A pool, hammam, tennis, and two restaurants round things out. One Michelin Key.

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Five minutes from the center of Aix, Villa Gallici is a Provençal country house hotel that leans so hard into the genre it somehow feels more genuine than the historic originals. No two rooms share a look, but all run to canopy beds, marble bathrooms, and private terraces. Outside, cypress and plane trees shade a pool and Florentine gardens where breakfast arrives in the morning and aperitifs follow at dusk. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

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A Provençal stone farmhouse and its old sheepfold, converted into a quietly stylish small hotel outside Le Rouret. Olive and fruit trees frame a little pool, and the rooms split between the two buildings manage to feel both contemporary and genuinely farmhousey. The village is a short walk, where the hotel runs two restaurants of its own, so leaving the property for dinner hardly counts as leaving.

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Views of Mont Ventoux and the hilltop village of Bonnieux frame this purpose-built Provençal estate, part of the Beaumier collection, sitting in the Luberon with a Michelin Key to its name. The 57 rooms run from quietly luxurious to generously extravagant, all dressed in a focused palette that marries rough stone instincts with modern restraint. A spa, Roman-style bath, and yoga in the gardens round things out for the guests who prefer their countryside with structure.

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A restored Luberon farmhouse surrounded by lavender fields and the kind of Provençal scenery that makes people quit their jobs, Le Mas les Eydins is a boutique hotel where the owners, a chef and his partner, make it feel more like a house party than a property. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key. Rooms sit in both the farmhouse and separate cottages, with a pool and pétanque courts outside, and a restaurant at the center of it all.

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A converted farmhouse perched in the hillside village of Mougins, seven kilometers from the Cannes chaos, with views across the surrounding hills and a Clarins spa waiting below. Le Mas Candille is a small luxury hotel, 46 rooms, all antique touches and quiet opulence, with a Californian-inflected design sensibility that sits oddly well in Provence. Two heated pools and an Italian restaurant round things out.

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A bastide outside Lourmarin that splits the difference between private estate and small hotel, with rooms you book by the night or a whole farmhouse you take for a week. Stone walls, terracotta floors, wood-beam ceilings, and grounds that lean pleasantly toward overgrown, lavender in the air and a pétanque court doing its best to delay every plan. Staff stay tactfully out of sight. Breakfast on the stone terrace is the one moment they insist on showing up.

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An old oil mill in one of Provence's prettiest villages, converted by the Beaumier group into a 35-room boutique hotel where the original stonework stays put and the rooms dress themselves in warm linens and sunlit color. The library runs to painters of Provence, the pool is small and lovely, and the bar does a creditable apéritif. Lourmarin itself rewards a wander, and Marseille is an easy drive if village life gets too bucolic.

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Mexican folk art hangs in the lobby of a French Alpine hotel, which tells you most of what you need to know about Barcelonnette's odd and endearing history of emigration to Mexico. Azteca leans into that story hard, with decorative pieces throughout the common areas and a handful of themed rooms alongside simpler contemporary ones. The older wing has more atmosphere. Breakfast is an event, and they do afternoon tea too.

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A converted 18th-century villa tucked among Aix's townhouses, this small luxury hotel pulls off the trick of feeling like someone's very grand country estate. Classic rooms already run to parquet floors and monogrammed robes; the suites push further into genuinely theatrical territory. A pool, a garden, a pocket spa, and a conservatory restaurant with a zinc bar fill out the picture for guests who aren't planning to leave anytime soon.

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Maison Jalon looks like it teleported from a 1960s Palm Springs postcard and landed, somehow logically, just outside Aix-en-Provence. This boutique hotel has boxy motel-style rooms with big bay windows, retro lamps, colorful wallpaper, and art the owners collected traveling the world. Every room gets a private terrace above the garden and a very blue swimming pool. Breakfast arrives al fresco with fresh-squeezed juice and hot pastries, and the daybeds around the pool handle the rest of the afternoon.

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Two spas on the same property, one of them Roman-style thermal baths, is either a coincidence or a philosophical position. This adults-only hotel sits just outside Aix's historic center, close enough to the markets and fountains but quiet enough to pretend the world has been cancelled. Rooms lean into the south, with warm Provençal colors and contemporary furniture. The on-site restaurant covers French Mediterranean ground without making a fuss about it.

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A low-rise hotel on the boulevard that shares its name, the Roi René sits at the quieter end of the Provençal good-life spectrum, which is to say it's still very much the good life. Rooms are being refurbished toward warm earth tones and soft neutrals, with some categories offering private terraces and those abstract patterned ceilings that photograph well on their own. There's a heated outdoor pool and a Mediterranean restaurant when the terrace isn't enough.

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The rooms here take their color palette from Cézanne's paintings rather than the usual lavender-and-farmhouse Provence playbook, which tells you something about the city's self-image. A contemporary boutique hotel a short walk from the Cours Mirabeau, it runs 61 rooms from snug singles up to a junior suite, all warmed with organic materials and southern light. The hotel's own Brasserie Léopold is a reason to stay in for dinner.

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Rooms here are compact by design, because the point is really the palm-fringed pool deck, the organic breakfast buffet, and a rotating calendar of cultural events that keeps the common spaces lively. This lifestyle hotel on Cannes's outskirts was renovated using mostly recycled materials, and the rooms come with kitchenettes and vintage mini-fridges sized exactly right for a bottle of local rosé. Larger suites add private terraces and original artwork.

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A boutique hotel in central Aix-en-Provence named for the city's most famous son, which is either a lot of pressure or a convenient excuse to hang interesting art. The rooms lean into Provençal color and texture without veering into lavender-and-toile cliché, thanks to a designer with some restraint. Breakfast is buffet, the bar runs all day, and dinner is firmly your problem, which is fine given the neighborhood.

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Perched above the bay on its own manicured grounds, this boutique hotel runs more like a private estate than a resort, which is more or less the point in St. Tropez. Rooms are done in soft contemporary whites with marble bathrooms and private terraces, some looking out over the water. A heated outdoor pool and a fitness center round things out for guests who require a reason to stay on the property. Open mid-April through mid-October.

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The rooftop pool looks out over the Saint-Tropez coast, which tells you roughly where you stand here. This grand old hotel went through a renovation that split the difference between its original 1930s opulence and a quietly Sixties-inflected palette, landing somewhere that feels romantic without feeling musty. Two restaurants, a Clarins spa, and a rooftop bar round things out for guests who'd rather not leave the building, and honestly, why would they.

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A 19th-century mansion with twelve rooms, a love-story origin myth involving a French general and an Indian princess, and decor that lands somewhere between Mediterranean sun and Indo-opulent fever dream. The suites come with terraces; the lounge runs to red velvet and carved wood; and the hotel keeps its own beach club at Pampelonne, which is either very convenient or a very good reason to never come back inside.

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Cézanne used to cut through these grounds with his easel on the way to paint Sainte-Victoire, and the four-acre garden at this 18th-century villa hotel looks much as it did then: old chestnuts, ivy-covered trellises, stone fountains. Inside, the rooms go contemporary, with metallic wallpaper the old master never saw coming. A pool, a pétanque pitch, and an onsite restaurant round things out before you remember Aix itself is just down the road.

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The rooftop pool deck sits above the noise of the Croisette, which is more or less the point. This boutique hotel in central Cannes runs thirty rooms and fifteen suites, all built around canopy beds and enough in-room technology to keep you occupied on rainy days. The Palais des Festivals is a short walk; the Spa by Phytomer is downstairs. For anyone who finds the grande dame palaces a bit much, this is the smaller, quieter alternative.

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A mid-century facade on the quieter end of the Croisette, a short walk from the Palais des Festivals and one private beach club away from having an excuse to skip it. This is a luxury hotel that earns its Riviera credentials not by being eccentric but by being impeccably itself: contemporary-classic interiors, a restrained hand with the gilding, and the kind of tastefulness that Lucien Barrière hotels tend to enforce like a house rule.

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A Provençal mansion and cluster of farmhouses a few minutes inland from the Saint-Tropez circus, surrounded by gardens lush enough to make you forget the port exists. Rooms and suites run to antiques and pale sunny tones, very classic Provence. A Carita spa, a pool, and the restaurant L'Isoletta keep you on property longer than planned, which seems to be the whole idea.

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The all-white rooms and modern murals make clear this fifty-room hotel isn't playing the medieval-romance game, even sitting a short drive from one of the most storied villages on the French Riviera. Saint-Paul-de-Vence draws the art-minded to the Fondation Maeght, and La Vague gives them somewhere contemporary to land: a Scandinavian-inspired spa, a pool ringed with chaise lounges, and a bistro that feels more like a city cocktail bar than country France.

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While most Saint-Tropez hotels are chasing either Bardot-era nostalgia or Belle Époque grandeur, this boutique luxury hotel goes its own way. Christophe Pillet's design lands somewhere between Provençal warmth and clean modernism, and even the entry-level bungalows come with a private terrace and outdoor shower. The heated pool, the Spa Sezz by Susanne Kaufmann, and a poolside bar ensure you have very little reason to leave.

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A saltwater pool carved straight into the Ramatuelle hillside sets the tone for this boutique hotel, which sits just over the ridge from Saint-Tropez proper, close enough to the Pampelonne beach scene to dip in, far enough to sleep past ten. The interiors are immaculate and photograph themselves. A full spa and a Mediterranean restaurant round things out. Open May through October, which honestly tracks for a place this unrushed.

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Midway between Saint-Tropez's port and the calm of Plage Les Salins, this Provençal hamlet-style hotel arranges its stucco cottages around fragrant Mediterranean gardens and a pool deck lined with colorful daybeds. Rooms go rustic-chic, with exposed timber beams and rattan headboards, while duplex suites add soaking tubs and striped sofas. The pool bar uses lavender and rosemary snipped from the herb garden, which is either charming or the most Saint-Tropez sentence ever written.

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A sixteenth-century residence turned boutique hotel tucked inside the walled village of Saint Paul de Vence, halfway between Cannes and Monaco. Rooms lean small by modern standards, which is the house's way of reminding you it predates the concept of the executive suite, but printed fabrics, antique furniture, and balconies over the valley compensate generously. The restaurant's vaulted dining rooms have murals, frescoes, and a fountain. Closed November through March.

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