The Best Hotels Near L'Eixida, by the Record

A nineteenth-century villa perched above the port of Banyuls-sur-Mer, with the Côte Vermeille at its feet and a Spa NUXE, complete with sauna and ice cave, tucked inside. The hotel's interiors take the warm-and-minimal route, modernist furniture and all, which the team traces back to the Danish roots of the original architect. It's a small, historically grounded hotel where the location does most of the talking, and the location is very good at talking.

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Fifteen rooms and three suites cling to a rocky hillside above the Baie de Collioure, the brown rocks at the waterline giving this small hotel its name. The current owners stripped things back to warm neutrals and a minimalist calm that somehow still feels like the south of France. Terraces step down toward the water, and the in-house restaurant pulls its own weight with Italian-leaning food and natural wines.

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Original works by Catalan artists hang in every room of this 13-room boutique hotel on the Côte Vermeille, the modernist interiors keeping things spare enough that the paintings do all the talking. Some rooms add a private Jacuzzi or outdoor bathtub. Everyone gets the Phytomer spa, sauna, hammam, and a pool that makes the Mediterranean feel redundant. Collioure itself sits half a kilometer away, close enough for dinner but far enough for quiet.

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A small villa-style resort sitting on its own island in a lagoon near Perpignan, Île de la Lagune calls itself "a large holiday home," which is optimistic but tells you everything about its ambitions, or lack thereof. Thirty rooms split between Mediterranean-modernist main-building suites and New England-inspired pavilion rooms, a rooftop pool, a thalassotherapy spa, and two on-site restaurants round out a place that makes seclusion feel like the whole point.

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