When you picture Provence, you might imagine rolling landscapes and a verdant, vineyard-tracked countryside and the best hotels in Provence to be perched on a hill middle of it all. But the glamorous beach spots of Côte d'Azur, peppered with striped parasols that look picture-perfect from above, are also part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Whichever you plump for, there's no denying its allure. Some of the best hotels in Provence are also the best in the South of France. Pretty but sleepy towns sit on hilltops, their winding cobbled streets a lesson in charming French cliches. Wander past a local bakery to enjoy the scent of fresh bread, but don't expect its shutters to open before noon when the day (somewhat reluctantly) begins, shops start to open, and neighbours fill tables on streets, sipping espresso and putting the world to rights until sundown. Seemingly, there's no agenda here. By the sea, it's a different story. Snazzy crowds flock to best-in-the-world beach bars and al fresco restaurants. Things feel livelier, if not a little less authentic. Whatever your vice, Provence is sure to deliver. Here's our pick of the best hotels in Provence, as recommended by the editors who have visited time and time again.
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Editor's picks:
Best for couples: Les Roches Rouges, Côte d'Azur
Best boutique stay: Les Bains Gardians, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Best rural hotel: Lily of the Valley, Saint-Tropez
Best beach hotel: Hôtel Martinez, Cannes
Best for families: Capelongue, a Beaumier Hotel
Ice-cream hour at Capelongue in Provence, Sarah Allard
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Shady spots in the summer sun, Sarah Allard
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Lily of the Valley, Saint-Tropez
Greenery climbs languidly over sandstone walls in this Phillipe Starck-designed hotel, which sits unobtrusively cut into enviable surrounds atop a hillside just outside of feted Saint-Tropez. The hotel has 38 rooms, six suites, an additional seven with pools, and four private villas – two of which are brand new and set to open in summer 2025. Phenomenal sea views compete for glitteriest attraction – the area’s glamorous history and a string of supercars in the driveway are tough opponents – but you’ll not be left lingering for long. Most guests check in for one of the hotel’s dedicated wellness programs, centred around fitness, weight loss and longevity, which start from four days in length up to two weeks-plus. Beautiful people head from the enviable spa, with its saunas and steam room, snow shower, cryotherapy chamber and slew of high-tech machines, to various well-equipped workout studios lining the stripey parasol-lined pool. A week here and you will have toned, stretched, steamed, frozen and sweated yourself anew – and, unusually for the Cote d’Azur, Lily of the Valley is open year-round, making body tune-ups possible whenever the need or urge arises. Rooms are spacious, with glorious sea or pool vistas through pleasingly aesthetic half-moon windows, marble bathrooms, huge beds and outdoor terraces from where to decompress post-pilates. The menu at restaurant Vista, designed by Alain Ducasse alumnus Vincent Maillard, is impeccable – and the sweeping bohemian environs, all warm plaster pinks and seagrass finishes, are just as lovely. Should you be on the lighter calorie-controlled plan, you’ll genuinely not notice. This is self-care at the highest level, without a green juice in sight. Charley Ward
Address: Colline Saint Michel, Boulevard Abel Faivre, Quartier de Gigaro, 83420 La Croix-Valmer, France
Price: From about £500 per night.
Coquillade Provence
Coquillade is located in the heart of the Luberon region, close to major cities like Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, but you’ll find plenty to keep you busy at the resort. It's an 11th-century hamlet and former farm transformed, and it's intended to feel more like a village than a hotel. The 69 rooms and suites are divided between the historic hamlet and the more contemporary spa side, and each has a slightly different feel, from the Suite sunset’s private garden and outdoor hot tub to my French country chic Charm room, whose earth tones of sand and ochre mimic the homes in nearby villages. Locals often visit for a spa day (measuring 2,000 sqm, it’s the region’s largest), and once I stepped into the hydrotherapy playground, I could see why. The spa is equipped with the latest of everything: a sauna, hammam, steam bath, circulation-boosting Kneipp basins, a sensory shower, a Technogym-equipped fitness center and yoga room. Outdoors, three hot tubs peer over the olive groves. Wellness is at the core of the spa’s philosophy, which incorporates a taste of its surroundings through vinotherapy, as well as Tata Harper treatments and personalised myBlend facials. Coquillade blends the best of Provence – it even crafts its own wine. Lane Nieset
Address: Rte du Perrotet, 84400 Gargas, France
Price: From about £275 per night.
Hôtel Crillon Le Brave
Crillon Le Brave is an elegant hotel housed inside a series of 17th and 18th-century buildings scattered atop of one of Provence’s prettiest hill villages. It’s a place deeply connected to its history and landscape, with vineyards and antique markets, hiking and biking, at easy access. Service is both smiling and lethally efficient, catering to an in-the-know international crowd with high standards. Interiors are restrainedly chic and utterly French, a light, elegant mix of prints, patterns and furniture that never resorts to splashy effects. The setting is the star. With views of the peak of Mont-Ventoux and the ridgeline of distant hills, Crillon le Brave feels a million miles away from the crowds of the Cote d’Azur. The atmosphere is peaceful, lazy hours around the swimming pool interrupted only by the occasional donging of the village clock tower. The addition this year of a spa and a dedicated kitchen for cookery classes opens up the hotel’s appeal beyond the summer months. Charlotte Sinclair
Address: Place de l'Eglise, 84410 Crillon-le-Brave, France
Price: From about £320 per night.
Palais de la Méditerranée, Nice
Few buildings on the Promenade des Anglais have lived as many lives as the Hotel Palais de la Méditerranée. Reopened as part of Hyatt's Unbound Collection, this 1929 Niçois landmark enters a new era without losing sight of its Art Deco heritage as one of France’s grandest hotel-casinos. Behind Charles Dalmas's monumental façade, London-based designer Linda Boronkay has introduced interiors that soften the hotel's former grandeur with pale woods, warm stone, contemporary artworks and a distinctly Riviera palette. Across 145 rooms and 28 suites, many opening onto terraces overlooking the Baie des Anges, the mood is light and residential. Chef Sébastien Roux's Mediterranean menu, a sea-facing terrace and a location between the Promenade des Anglais and Vieux Nice make it one of the city's best-placed addresses. Lanie Goodman
Address: 13 Prom. des Anglais, 06000 Nice, France
Price: From about £180 per night.
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Hotel du Couvent, Nice
There’s a deep sense of contemplation about this former nunnery turned hotel in Nice’s Old Town. In 2014, Valéry Grégo began collaborating with Studio Mumbai and Studio Méditerranée for the architecture, and Festen Architecture for the interior design to transform the abandoned shell (deconsecrated in the 1980s) into the South of France’s most soulful place to stay. The result is movingly beautiful: the 88 bedrooms include carefully conjoined nuns’ cells, airy conversions of chapter rooms, and those in a sensitively added new wing – all lime plaster, muted linens, and antique finds. The subterranean circuit of thermal pools is inspired by the ruins of Roman baths nearby; a herbalist dispenses custom-blended teas from his apothecary tucked along one of the cloisters. In the three restaurants, many of the ingredients come straight from an organic farm in the Var valley. This restorative refuge is a heavenly study in simplicity and a slower side to the oft-glitzy Côte d’Azur. Fiona Kerr
Address: 1 Rue Honoré Ugo, 06300 Nice, France
Price: From about £250 per night.
Les Bains Gardians, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
There really is nowhere else like Les Bains Gardians in France. Rooms celebrate the unique local architecture – they're set in stylishly refurbed whitewashed garden cottages with thatched roofs, like something from a storybook. Add to that an on-site equestrian centre with wild white horses, a natural reserve for migrating birds, and a relaxed barefoot luxury vibe. This is the sister property to Les Bains Paris, known for its cutting-edge collection of contemporary art. But call Les Bains Gardians the antidote for urban burnout. Once you pick up your key at reception – a gorgeously reimagined Provençal mas with a bar where breakfast is served – you walk past three Comtais horses with platinum manes munching on hay on the way to your room. The standout: this property boasts the largest concentration of restored lime-washed 18th-century-built round cottages in the area, aligned in rows on the grassy banks of small canals, edged with bent weeping willows and tall reeds. Rise early, and you might surprise a purple heron or an egret perched outside your doorstep.
In the restaurant, expect whitewashed walls, cane chairs, long tables and, in cooler weather, a crackling fire. For lunch and dinner, the seasonal chalkboard menu, whipped up by executive chef Bruno Grossi, includes classics from the terroir, from Camargue rice risotto, grilled octopus or sea bass carpaccio to heartier fare like the not-to-be-missed house speciality – grilled ribs of bull steak. Another highlight: sunset cocktails (try the scarlet herb-infused Campari and Champagne apéro) on the deck chairs facing the water where passing egrets and herons put on a show. Lanie Goodman
Address: Route d'Arles, D570, 13460 Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France
Price: From about £125 per night.
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Les Roches Rouges, Côte d'Azur
When Les Roches Rouges opened back in 2017, on a sleepy stretch of the French Riviera in Saint-Raphaël, it succeeded where so many have failed. It’s an instant classic without being stuffy and zhuzh-y without trying too hard. Attracting a steady stream of well-dressed guests looking to disconnect from the high jinks of the Côte d'Azur scene, this bright-white 1950s modernist building is tickled by the raw blue ripples of the ocean. The interiors are perfectly balanced with polished concrete floors, white walls, and simple but striking furniture and art – a chunky chair here, a vintage lamp there – compiled by the hotel’s creative partners of antique dealers, painters, and sculptors.
The large stone-paved terrace contains a bar, a restaurant, and a sun deck, and is dotted with canvas butterfly chairs, tables, and plenty of neatly lined white sun beds. Many guests spend days flitting between the lap pool and the spectacular 30-metre saltwater pool carved out of the rocks, while some meander over to a ladder that goes directly into the sea for paddleboarding. A steady stream of waiters in white polos deliver pale pink rosé and cocktails spiked with lavender and thyme. By evening, swimsuits are replaced with slinky dresses as guests dine in either of two restaurants: the book-ahead Michelin-starred Récif, which has a tasting menu, or La Plage, a more relaxed spot with perfectly plated Provençal dishes. As the bright-hot days trickle into soft-focus nights, it’s hard to imagine a lovelier spot. Chloe Sachdev
Address: 90 Bd de la 36ème division du Texas, 83700 Saint-Raphaël, France
Price: From about £800 per night.
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Hôtel Martinez, Cannes
Hôtel Martinez sits plum in the middle of one of France’s most glamorous streets. Symbolically, too; life on La Croisette seems to revolve around the hotel, where shiny, happy people, A-Listers and discerning travellers have flocked for generations. You’re about 30 30-second walk from the ocean, a happy fact that Paris-based designer Pierre-Yves Rochon (the man behind The Savoy in London and Hotel George V in his hometown) leaned into. All is pale blue and white and golden, without edging too close to nautical-kitsch. Sea-facing windows in the bedrooms let in that glimmering ocean light, but those at the back of the hotel have just as pretty views over the recently manicured gardens and pool. The most-coveted of the soaring suites have shady little balconies for a morning coffee made in your living room or a glass of crisp Provençal rosé from the minibar.
Speaking of rosé, La Plage du Martinez, the hotel’s thrumming beach club, is the place to book for a glass served with buckets of ice and catch of the day. At the two-Michelin-star restaurant, each dish spotlights local, seasonal ingredients cooked in a number of distinct ways. The deceivingly spacious spa is built with seven airy treatment rooms that offer everything from massages to Carita facials (the Rejuvenic Gold regenerating treatment is especially spoiling); there's a barber, a hairdresser, space for manicures and pedicures and a traditional hammam with deeply soothing tiles. Everyone thinks they know what Cannes will be like – glitzy and luxe, lined with designer shops, expensive restaurants, and flashy beach bars. If that’s your scene, you’ll find it here. Sarah James
Address: 73 Bd de la Croisette, 06400 Cannes, France
Price: From about £230 per night.
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Antibes
Step into the double-height lobby with its original glass lift and curved staircase, and staff will whisk you to plump white sofas for a refreshing glass of their magical pink concoction made from…roses? Watermelon? Unicorn horn? Through the revolving door is the famous Grand Promenade – a wide walkway down to the sea, blue and glittering beyond the low white building of Eden-Roc, which discreetly houses three restaurants, six bars, the Pavilion suites and the poolside. Rooms epitomise old-fashioned comfort. Vases filled with full-blown roses from the 150-year-old rose garden, and the occasional modern touch, such as Dyson hairdryers but the emphasis is, as ever, on vintage style, from the metal key for your room (no plastic cards) to the bathrobes, which you are reminded not to wear for your walk to the spa. Onto the spa… it's in collaboration with Dior and there's a decent fitness centre with personal trainers on hand and several clay tennis courts.
When it comes to food and drink, the hotel is not a sprawl of restaurants and bars (the sprawl is in their grounds), but they have tried to create different vibes in a modest way. There’s the bar at Eden-Roc Lounge, like being on the top deck of a luxury yacht, where you can order the house’s long cocktail, made with their own gin, and watch the sunset. Jessica Fellowes
Address: 167-165 Bd J. F. Kennedy, 06160 Antibes, France
Price: From about £350 per night.
Capelongue, a Beaumier Hotel
If the idea of Provence summons images of long lunches tucking into the freshest local produce, paths lined with sweet-smelling lavender and lazy afternoons by the pool, prepare to fall for Capelongue within minutes of arriving. Sitting just outside the impossibly pretty hilltop village of Bonnieux, the Beaumier hotel is like stepping inside a postcard – with warm, earthy interiors, two beautiful pools and sweeping views across the Luberon. Wake up to the sound of cicadas, wander into the village for coffee, then lose track of the afternoon over a bottle of rosé and a very good poolside lunch. Speaking of which, food is a big part of the draw here – the Michelin-starred restaurant is spectacular, but just as memorable are the simple Provençal dishes served on the sun-drenched terrace. Effortlessly chic without ever trying too hard. Sarah Allard
Address: Les Claparèdes, 550 Chem. des Cabanes, 84480 Bonnieux, France
Price: From about £700 per night.
How we choose the best hotels in Provence
Every hotel on this list has been selected independently by our editors and written by a Condé Nast Traveller journalist who knows the destination and has stayed at that property. When choosing hotels, our editors consider both luxury properties and boutique and lesser-known boltholes that offer an authentic and insider experience of a destination. We’re always looking for beautiful design, a great location and warm service – as well as serious sustainability credentials. We update this list regularly as new hotels open and existing ones evolve. Find out more about our editorial standards and how we review hotels. This is our edit of the best hotels in Provence, France.
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