The Finest Resorts of France

The resorts and hotels we would choose in France, with the Selected resort first.

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Selected: Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc
Up to five Premier places
Checked 31 October 2026

The sea at Cap d'Antibes · Photo: Anthony Salerno / Unsplash

The finest resorts in France

Where we would stay in France

The Riviera and Provence hold more of the Mediterranean's great hotels than anywhere else. Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc is our Selected resort; the others below each hold MICHELIN Keys, a Forbes Five-Star rating or France's Palace distinction.

Checked 31 October 2026. Awards are as published by MICHELIN, Forbes Travel Guide and The World’s 50 Best Hotels.

Premier places

The Premier places in France

The Selected resort first, then the places open to resorts of the same standard.

Cap d'Antibes, the Côte d'AzurSelected by TheMediterranean.com

Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc

The legend of the Riviera: a white villa among the pines, and a seawater pool cut into the rocks above the sea.

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Also among the finest

Also among the finest in France

The gates and gardens of the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat · Photo: Txllxt TxllxT / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, A Four Seasons HotelSaint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
A Belle Époque palace in six hectares of gardens at the tip of Cap Ferrat, with three MICHELIN Keys. Official website (opens the official site) ↗︎
La Réserve RamatuelleRamatuelle, near Saint-Tropez
Michel Reybier's hideaway with pool villas above the sea, holding the Palace distinction and three MICHELIN Keys. Official website (opens the official site) ↗︎
Château de la Chèvre d'OrÈze
Stone houses at the top of a medieval perched village high above the sea, with three MICHELIN Keys. Official website (opens the official site) ↗︎
Cheval Blanc St-TropezSaint-Tropez
LVMH's hotel on the Baie des Canoubiers with its own beach and La Vague d'Or, holding two MICHELIN Keys. Official website (opens the official site) ↗︎
Château de la MessardièreSaint-Tropez
Airelles' château in a park of umbrella pines above Pampelonne Bay, with the Palace distinction and two MICHELIN Keys. Official website (opens the official site) ↗︎
The Maybourne RivieraRoquebrune-Cap-Martin
A modernist clifftop hotel looking across to Monaco, raised to Forbes Five-Star in 2026. Official website (opens the official site) ↗︎
Airelles Gordes, La BastideGordes, the Luberon
A Luberon hilltop hotel rated Forbes Five-Star and holding three MICHELIN Keys. Official website (opens the official site) ↗︎
BaumanièreLes Baux-de-Provence
A family-run house at the foot of Les Baux since 1945, with three MICHELIN Keys. Official website (opens the official site) ↗︎
Villa La CosteLe Puy-Sainte-Réparade, near Aix
A villa hotel within the Château La Coste wine and art estate, with three MICHELIN Keys. Official website (opens the official site) ↗︎
Château Saint-Martin & SpaVence
Oetker's hilltop estate among olive groves above Vence, holding France's Palace distinction. Official website (opens the official site) ↗︎

The perched village of Èze with Cap Ferrat beyond, seen from the Grande Corniche — The perched village of Èze, with Cap Ferrat beyond · Photo: Tobi 87 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Every address here holds MICHELIN Keys, a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star rating, France’s Palace distinction or a place on The World’s 50 Best Hotels. See all of them, city hotels included, in The Finest Hotels.

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