The Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc

The beautiful lush grounds of the Hotel Du Cap

...perhaps the best in all of France.

Many believe the Hotel du Cap to be the most sought after summer retreat in the world. Yes, the Hotel du Cap is expensive, pretentious, home to global celebrities/jet-setters, AND we feel, among the most beautiful hotels we have stayed anywhere in the world. Directed by general manager Philippe Perd, the property recently completed a USD 67 million renovation project this past spring 2011. You can now enjoy wi-fi, huge Phillips flat screen TVs, and newly redesigned fine fabrics in all rooms.

Perhaps the most impressive part of our stay here was the genuinely friendly and personal service extended to us by the Hotel du Cap staff. It is reassuring to see a hotel where the staff sincerely enjoy serving others. Staying as paying guests, we feel we have the freedom and independence to objectively evaluate all of the worldwide luxury hotels we visit. The Hotel Du Cap was no exception.

Please read on for our Lynch family observations and favorites from one of France's great retreats:

• GM Philippe is a man of details and it shows in the high-touch service here – nearly everyone on the Hotel du Cap property addressed Bev, Zen, Sofia, Coco and I by our names (extraordinary for a 118-room hotel!) and you can actually summon the room service staff by using a bell alongside your bed - quite amusing for the girls!

• We were all big fans of the sun-bathing pontoons off the Eden-Roc pool and the super snooty cabanas! (33 in total).

• Although the Eden-Roc infinity pool adjacent to the waters of the Cap d’Antibes is quite spectacular, Zen did not really care for the pool’s salt water.

• Coco very much enjoyed her cheeseburger at the Eden-Roc pool grille...at a cost of Euro 48, surely the tastiest cheeseburger in all of France!

• There truly is a distinctive Hotel du Cap scent. The intoxicating fragrant smell that permeates the halls and rooms of the property is heavenly.

• A central feature of Hotel du Cap is its expansive 22 acre lush, green grounds, including rose gardens and clay tennis courts…great for morning walks and tadpole catching in the lily pond!

• Breakfast or evening cocktails on the Bellini terrace—it is difficult to imagine a more picturesque setting overlooking the warm waters of the Mediterranean!

• Zen was quite surprised to see the hotel's own pet cemetery...Edward VIII's and Wallis Simpson's dogs were buried here.

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