The Top 12 Hotels Near Nove
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A glass modernist tower rising from a rocky cliffside above Monaco, the Maybourne Riviera is a Forbes Five Star hotel that earns its dramatic entrance before you've unpacked. The group also runs Claridge's, which tells you where the bar sits. Sixty-five rooms were each designed in collaboration with artists and architects, and the infinity pool is literally carved from the cliff. Coco Chanel once built a villa nearby, so the neighborhood has form.
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A cobblestone drive lined with Italian cypress leads you past an unassuming gate to a Belle Époque mansion that has nothing to prove and knows it. This independent luxury hotel sits just off the waterfront, outside the SBM conglomerate that runs most of Monaco, which gives it a quietly different atmosphere. Jacques Garcia handled a full renovation, and his preference for rich fabrics, ornate antiques, and marble baths suits the place perfectly. It holds a Forbes Four Star and two Michelin Keys.
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Belle Époque excess is the whole point here, and the Hermitage leans into it without apology. This grand hotel sits on a cliff above the harbor, close enough to the casino to feel glamorous but far enough to avoid the worst of the foot traffic. Rooms run large by any standard, done in soft Mediterranean tones with balconies facing the sea. The attached spa has a seawater pool and the kind of treatment menu that fills an afternoon easily.
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The resort is built to resemble a peninsula jutting into the Mediterranean, which is either audacious or on-brand for Monaco, probably both. Pierre-Yves Rochon designed the interiors to be unabashedly glitzy without quite tipping into excess, and the public spaces have the palatial scale that this address demands. Rooms are comparatively restrained. The lagoon pool has a sandy floor, the spa is vast, and a private helipad handles guests who prefer not to sit in traffic.
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The hotel sits directly on the Casino square, which means the view from certain suites is essentially Monaco's most theatrical postcard. This is a grand palace hotel in the old European sense, renovated carefully enough that the Belle Époque bones still show without feeling like a museum. Alain Ducasse's Le Louis XV is downstairs, Cédric Grolet does the pastries, and the rooftop pool exists for people who have already seen everything else.
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Technically on the French side of the border, this old-school SBM resort sits on a wooded mini-peninsula with sea views that do most of the heavy lifting. The 1930s bones are intact, the pool deck still carries the ghost of grander poolside social theater, and a free shuttle connects you to Casino Square in ten minutes for anyone who finds tranquility suspicious.
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A 28-room boutique hotel perched at the tip of its own five-acre peninsula between Monaco and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Cap Estel is the Riviera for people who find the Riviera exhausting. Period antiques and Louis XVI chairs share space with bright minimalist whites and blue; terraces look straight out over the Mediterranean. Dining, the beach, a spa, an indoor pool, a cinema, a piano bar: there's genuinely no reason to leave, which appears to be the whole point.
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Perched inside a medieval clifftop village halfway between Nice and Monte Carlo, this hotel is essentially a collection of absorbed stone houses scattered across Eze, which means your room might overlook the Mediterranean or the mountains depending on luck. The outdoor terraces and two hillside pools make the most of that altitude. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys, and on a clear day the view stretches to Cannes.
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Perched at the top of Èze village, some 400 meters above the Mediterranean, Château Eza is a boutique hotel that trades on its altitude and its intimacy. Fourteen rooms vary by size and outlook, from medieval village views to open sea. There's no spa or gym, just a lounge bar and a Michelin-starred restaurant with a terrace that makes the case without trying. A quiet alternative to the grander, louder palaces along the coast.
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The zigzag silhouette on the Monte Carlo skyline belongs to this Fairmont, a 1970s modernist tower that has aged from awkward into something approaching landmark. It's a large luxury hotel, renovated to a polished, if conservative, finish, and the rooms that count are the ones with wraparound sea views. Nobu occupies the building, a rooftop pool terrace sits above it all, and a spa done in white and sky blue handles the aftermath of the good life.
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No gilded taps here, which in Monaco qualifies as a design statement. Columbus is a hotel that quietly sidesteps the principality's usual arms race of marble and excess, going instead for clean lines, restrained neutrals, and a residential calm. Suites have actual sitting rooms and balconies over the gardens or sea. The Place du Casino is still close, so you're not exactly roughing it, just sleeping somewhere that doesn't shout about it.