The perfect holiday destination: In the Voile D’Or you easily feel like you’re on an island, although the island is only a peninsula and the view from the balcony is onto the marina. Yet the peninsula St. Jean Cap Ferrat is on of those hideaways that you simply don’t want to leave, that burn themselves into your retina much like only Fiji or Hawaii.

Maybe this is because of the most expensive villas in the world, which truly deserve their hard-earned place in the sun; or because of the chic yachts that are anchoring here. Maybe it’s also because of the hotel itself with its phenomenal private beach. And if you are afraid of the sea life, you have other alternatives: Two salt water pools mimic nature directly by your doorstep, without animals, but very luxuriously. The rooms are just as exquisite: Marble baths are, aside from the pools and the sea, the third alternative on the subject of water. For rich mermaids the La Voile D’Or is surely THE must sleep among the hotels around Nice. Doubles starting at 260,- euros a night.

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