The LEGENDARY 5 STAR LUXURY HOTEL IN CANNES is where all the celebrities love to stay.
Located on the famous Boulevard de La Croisette and overlooking the Mediterranean sea, the Hôtel Martinez is a landmark of the French Riviera. Between nature and the city, this urban oasis is the ideal starting point to explore Cannes and the French Riviera. Opened in the late 1920s, Hôtel Martinez embodies the light-heartedness of the Côte d’Azur. Known for its warm atmosphere full of zest for life, this is and was the place to see and be seen on the iconic Croisette. Especially during the Cannes film festival, this is the place to be if you want to be surrounded by celebrities.
La Croisette is the top-billing address for any Cannes hotel. It’s home to private beaches, designer shops, and each May to the movie industry. The train station, the Old Port, and Forville Market are within a 20-minute walk.
The undulating white façade screams Art Deco, while the light-infused lobby gives a contemporary take on 1920s style. Blue and white tones create a beach-house feel, while high ceilings, chandeliers, and artworks bring Riviera glamour. During the recent top-to-bottom renovation, sections of the interiors were demolished and rebuilt. Old pipework was renewed, French windows were doubled in height and the Art Deco staircase was carefully adjusted to fit current safety regulations. Tired details of yesteryear have gone as the hotel joins Hyatt’s new exclusive brand, the Unbound Collection.
Service and Facilities
Whether you arrive in a Bentley or a Skoda, you’ll be treated like royalty. The concierge team seeks to please: they’ll even prepare diet-specific pet food and walk your dog. It’s all changed for the hotel facilities. The pool has been replaced by a landscaped garden. Instead, you can swim at the hotel’s new private beach that’s a two-minute walk away. There’s a sauna and a well-equipped gym, while the sumptuous spa uses the Swiss brand, L Raphael.
Rooms
You know you’re somewhere exclusive when you use muslin tea bags for your morning cuppa, press a bedside switch to change the lighting mood, charge your phone in a USB plug and luxuriate in a bath using specially commissioned toiletries by local perfume-maker Fragonard. Gone are the brashly bright bedrooms of yore. Now its 409 rooms have been redesigned with a coastal theme: some in sky-and-sea blues, others in sandy shades. Expect white lacquered furniture, made-to-measure carpet, and white coral. Standard rooms are generously sized for Cannes. There’s not much difference in size between Standard and Deluxe rooms: both have showers only. If you’d like to make the most of the sea views, you should upgrade to a Premium Sea View room. Premium rooms are also significantly larger and many have bathtubs.
Food and Drink
Christian Sinicropi reigns supreme at the Martinez. As well as the world-famous Palme d’Or restaurant on a terrace overlooking the beachfront, you’ll also find lighter international fare with a Mediterranean twist at the beach club or in the landscaped garden. Rosewood and blue leather punctuate the Martinez Bar where gin (choose from 22 varieties) is the order of the night. Though expensive, breakfast is one of the best in Cannes. There’s a huge buffet complete with different sections for cold cuts, breads (including gluten-free), pastries, fruits, cooked meats and eggs, cereals, nuts, and seeds. There’s even a decorative beehive surrounded by types of honey.
Hotel Features
* 409 contemporary Art Deco rooms and suites. All rooms & suites are non-smoking
* L’Oasis du Martinez – Spa by Carita
* La Plage du Martinez
* Fitness Center
* Kid’s Club seasonal activities for children (opened only in July and August)
* Business center and services
* 15 meeting rooms including 2,500 sq m of space
* Clefs d’Or Concierge
* Valet parking service
Restaurants
Celebrate the Riviera’s simple pleasures in a joyful atmosphere at Hôtel Martinez restaurants & bars. Hotel take an innovative approach to restaurants and bars that place an emphasis on consciously sourced ingredients and local artisans’ produce.
* La Palme D’Or 2-MICHELIN Stars
On the first floor of the Hôtel Martinez, offering a beautiful balcony over La Croisette, the gourmet restaurant La Palme d’Or, with two Michelin stars and four Gault&Millau Toques, has joined the very exclusive circle of great dining establishments. It is an enchanted setting on the Bay of Cannes where Chef Christian Sinicropi serves his cuisine for the senses – ever daring, always inventive.
At La Palme d’Or restaurant, the tableware from ”e=sc2” is designed by Christian Sinicropi and crafted by his wife, Catherine. Several years ago, having mastered the secrets of ceramics, the couple began creating plates and other utensils to hold the chef’s entire culinary composition.
* Le Jardin du Martinez
. La Croisette has a new and exclusive place to mix and mingle: Le Jardin du Martinez, a unique, verdant getaway, a bucolic setting crafted by landscape architect Philippe Niez.
Here you can have breakfast and dinner in the garden and see if you can spot any celebrity coming in the hotel
A Mediterranean garden, with cork oak exuding the warmth of Provence, palm trees straight from a Côte d’Azur postcard, and grapefruit trees, myrtle, and lemon trees releasing their fruity fragrances across a 400m² terrace with ambiance of a Provencal village square.
The interior ”Jardin du Martinez” is entered through immense louvered shutters in the lobby, facing the garden through a large glass wall designed to resemble a Mondrian.
* La Plage du Martinez restaurant
Located just opposite the hotel, on the beach, La plage is A getaway steeped in joy as you recharge body and soul in the bracing Mediterranean air. Lunch on the beach at the Martinez is chic and easy-going, elegant and friendly, one of the highlights of a day enjoying the relaxed Riviera lifestyle at this iconic luxury hotel on the Croisette.
After witnessing the light of nature’s breathtaking sunrise spectacle, after swimming in the turquoise waters, and perhaps after having tried a water-skiing adventure, a lunch break is welcome refreshment! This omnipresent spirit of benevolence makes these moments so memorable.
It is “Very Martinez” and always an enchanted moment in time, a sweet, gentle way of living that warms you from the inside out with its radiant energy.
