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Monaco has fewer hotels than most visitors imagine. The tourist office classifies thirteen, with roughly 2,460 rooms between them, and one of the thirteen technically stands in France. Four carry five stars, the one in France among them, four are four-star, four are three-star, and exactly one is a two-star. That is the entire inventory of a country that receives millions of visits a year, which explains a great deal about its prices.
This guide compares all of them on the things that decide a booking: rooms, pool, beach, spa, parking, and how many minutes you walk to the station, the casino square and the Larvotto beach. The facts come from the tourist office’s own page for each hotel and from the hotels’ sites, with Wikipedia for the opening years and the Nice tourist office for the Cap d’Ail hotel, and the walking times are measured from each hotel’s position on the map over the OpenStreetMap footpath network. Five hotels and aparthotels in Beausoleil, a few streets over the border, close the list. If you want the same hotels sorted by neighbourhood and mood instead, our where-to-stay guide does that.
How many hotels does Monaco have?
Thirteen, by the official count. The principality’s tourist office lists them by star category: four five-star (the Hôtel de Paris, the Hermitage, the Métropole, and the Monte-Carlo Beach, which is run from Monaco but stands on the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin side of the eastern border), four four-star, four three-star, and the Hôtel de France as the only two-star. The Société des Bains de Mer, the company that has run the casino since the 1860s, owns four of the thirteen: the Hôtel de Paris, the Hermitage, the Monte-Carlo Bay and the Monte-Carlo Beach.
Room counts below are the tourist office’s figures, except the Hôtel de France, whose count comes from the booking sites. Together the thirteen hold about 2,460 rooms, and five hotels account for most of them: the Fairmont alone has nearly six hundred.
| Hotel | Stars | Rooms | Quartier | Opened | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hôtel de Paris | 5 | 206 | Monte-Carlo | 1864 | Book |
| Hôtel Hermitage | 5 | 259 | Monte-Carlo | 1896 | Book |
| Hôtel Métropole | 5 | 102 | Monte-Carlo | 1880s | Book |
| Monte-Carlo Beach | 5 | 40 | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin | 1929 | |
| Monte-Carlo Bay | 4 | 332 | Larvotto | 2005 | Book |
| Fairmont Monte Carlo | 4 | 596 | Monte-Carlo | 1975 | Book |
| Le Méridien Beach Plaza | 4 | 397 | Larvotto | — | Book |
| Port Palace | 4 | 50 | La Condamine | — | Book |
| Columbus | 3 | 181 + 29 suites | Fontvieille | 2001 | Book |
| Novotel Monte-Carlo | 3 | 218 | Monte-Carlo | — | Book |
| Hôtel Ambassador | 3 | 35 | La Condamine | — | Book |
| Hôtel Miramar | 3 | 14 | La Condamine | — | Book |
| Hôtel de France | 2 | 26 | La Condamine | — | Book |
Pool, beach, spa and parking, hotel by hotel
The question that actually sorts Monaco’s hotels is not the star count but what is behind the door. Only one hotel in the principality has its own beach; two palaces share a spa; several three-stars have a pool that the boutique four-star on the port does not. The table reads the tourist office’s page and the hotel’s own site for each property. A dash means the hotel does not state it, not that it does not exist; ask before you book if the item matters to you.
| Hotel | Pool | Beach | Spa and fitness | Parking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hôtel de Paris | Rooftop pool; Olympic pool at the Monte-Carlo Beach | Beach Club access | Thermes Marins, 6,600 m², direct access | — |
| Hôtel Hermitage | Thermes Marins pool; Olympic pool at the Monte-Carlo Beach | Beach Club access | Direct access to the Thermes Marins | — |
| Hôtel Métropole | Odyssey heated sea-water pool (Karl Lagerfeld) | — | Spa Métropole by Guerlain, 2,000 m²; gym | — |
| Monte-Carlo Beach | Heated Olympic-size sea-water pool | Own private beach | 80 m² spa with hammam | — |
| Monte-Carlo Bay | Lagoon, indoor and outdoor pools | — | Clarins and myBlend spa; fitness centre | — |
| Fairmont Monte Carlo | Two outdoor pools, one on the rooftop | — | Spa; 24-hour fitness, sauna, hammam | 60 spaces, valet, fee |
| Le Méridien Beach Plaza | Indoor pool and two heated outdoor pools | Own private beach and jetty | Two-floor fitness centre | — |
| Port Palace | — | — | Fitness centre with sea view | Private car park |
| Columbus | Heated outdoor pool, April to November | — | Gym | Private parking with valet |
| Novotel Monte-Carlo | Outdoor pool in the garden | — | Sauna, hammam, Technogym fitness | On-site car park |
| Hôtel Ambassador | — | — | None on site | Parking de la Colle opposite, special rates |
| Hôtel Miramar | — | — | — | — |
| Hôtel de France | — | — | — | Colle car park 200 m, discount |
| Riviera Marriott (Cap d’Ail) | Outdoor pool | — | Fitness centre | — |
| Hôtel La Tonkine (Beausoleil) | — | — | — | — |
| Hôtel Capitole (Beausoleil) | — | — | — | — |
| Villa Boeri (Beausoleil) | — | — | — | Public car parks 100 m away |
| Adagio Monte Cristo (Beausoleil) | — | — | — | Indoor car park |
| Odalys Les Hauts (Beausoleil) | — | — | — | Covered car park, on reservation |
Where they are, in minutes on foot
Distances in Monaco are short and vertical. Every hotel inside Monaco is within half an hour’s walk of the casino square, but half an hour here can include two lifts and a hundred metres of climb. The times are measured on the OpenStreetMap footpath network from each hotel’s map position to the nearest entrance of the railway station, to the Place du Casino and to the Larvotto beach, at an ordinary walking pace; they are a fair comparison between hotels rather than a promise. The public elevators and the free town buses shorten most of them.
| Hotel | Station | Casino square | Larvotto beach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hôtel de Paris | 9 min | 1 min | 15 min |
| Hôtel Hermitage | 8 min | 3 min | 17 min |
| Hôtel Métropole | 12 min | 3 min | 15 min |
| Monte-Carlo Bay | 31 min | 22 min | 8 min |
| Fairmont Monte Carlo | 13 min | 4 min | 12 min |
| Le Méridien Beach Plaza | 27 min | 18 min | 4 min |
| Port Palace | 4 min | 8 min | 20 min |
| Columbus | 12 min | 29 min | 43 min |
| Novotel Monte-Carlo | 3 min | 8 min | 21 min |
| Hôtel Ambassador | 1 min | 19 min | 32 min |
| Hôtel Miramar | 3 min | 9 min | 21 min |
| Hôtel de France | 2 min | 17 min | 31 min |
| Riviera Marriott (Cap d’Ail) | 14 min | 31 min | 45 min |
| Hôtel La Tonkine (Beausoleil) | 13 min | 8 min | 12 min |
| Hôtel Capitole (Beausoleil) | 13 min | 8 min | 12 min |
| Villa Boeri (Beausoleil) | 15 min | 9 min | 10 min |
| Adagio Monte Cristo (Beausoleil) | 11 min | 7 min | 14 min |
| Odalys Les Hauts (Beausoleil) | 16 min | 11 min | 11 min |
The five-star palaces
The Hôtel de Paris opened in 1864 as the companion to the casino across the square and reopened in 2019 after a rebuild begun in 2014. It has 206 rooms, among them 41 junior suites, 48 suites and 7 diamond suites; Alain Ducasse’s three-star Le Louis XV off the lobby and the one-star Le Grill on the eighth floor, whose roof opens; a rooftop pool and fitness area in the Wellness Sky Club; and a direct passage into the Thermes Marins, the 6,600 m² sea-water spa shared with the Hermitage.
The Hôtel Hermitage, a minute downhill, opened in 1896 and is the larger of the two: 259 rooms, including 32 junior suites, 32 suites and 12 diamond suites, spread across wings of different character. Its winter garden sits under a glass cupola attributed to Gustave Eiffel. Yannick Alléno runs its two starred restaurants, the one-star Pavyllon and the two-star Japanese L’Abysse, and guests use the same Thermes Marins and the same Monte-Carlo Beach Club as the Hôtel de Paris.
The Hôtel Métropole, across the Boulingrins gardens, is the independent palace and the smallest: 102 rooms and suites, 56 and 46, in a building from the 1880s with interiors by Jacques Garcia. It has the amenities the SBM palaces send you elsewhere for: the Odyssey heated sea-water pool and garden designed by Karl Lagerfeld, a 2,000 m² Spa Métropole by Guerlain with sauna, hammam and caldarium, the two-star Les Ambassadeurs, the Japanese Yoshi, and ZIA, a summer restaurant by the pool.
The fourth five-star, the Monte-Carlo Beach, is an SBM hotel from 1929 at the far end of the Larvotto avenue, on the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin side of the line: 40 rooms including 14 suites, all facing the sea, a heated Olympic-size sea-water pool, a private beach, an 80 m² spa, four restaurants including Marcel Ravin’s one-star Elsa, and a kids’ club. It is not in our catalogue, because it is not in Monaco, but it belongs in any comparison of the palaces.
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The four-star hotels: the sea, the port and the hairpin
The Monte-Carlo Bay opened in 2005 on its own four-hectare peninsula at the end of Larvotto: 332 rooms and suites, most facing the sea, a sandy-bottomed lagoon that winds between rocks and islets, indoor and outdoor pools, a Clarins and myBlend spa, and Marcel Ravin’s two-Michelin-star Blue Bay with L’Orange Verte for bistronomy and Las Brisas in July and August. It is the closest thing the principality has to a resort, and the casino square is a 22-minute walk or a bus ride away.
Le Méridien Beach Plaza, a few hundred metres west along the same avenue beside the Grimaldi Forum, is the only hotel in the bay with its own private beach, on the edge of the marine protected area, with a private jetty for water sports in summer. It has 397 rooms including 18 suites, most with a balcony or terrace, an indoor pool and two heated outdoor pools, a fitness centre on two floors, and the summer restaurant Muse under the pines.
The Fairmont Monte Carlo opened in 1975 as the Loews and is one of Europe’s largest luxury hotels: 596 rooms and suites, every one with a private terrace, some of them over the Grand Prix hairpin that wraps around the entrance before the cars dive into the tunnel beneath. The seventh-floor rooftop carries the outdoor pool, the restaurant Amù and Nikki Beach in summer; Nobu is downstairs; the fitness centre runs 24 hours with a sauna and hammam; and it is the only hotel in Monaco that publishes a parking capacity: sixty spaces with valet, for a fee.
The Port Palace is the boutique four-star: fifty rooms and suites on avenue J.-F. Kennedy, all facing the harbour, a fitness centre with a sea view, and the restaurant La Môme on the sixth floor, run independently of the hotel, and a private car park. Neither a pool nor a spa is listed; the harbour is the point.
Just over the western border, the Riviera Marriott sits on the marina at Cap d’Ail, a few metres from the line: 171 rooms and 15 suites, an outdoor pool, a fitness centre, the restaurant Bolinas, and a free shuttle into Monaco. It is the nearest four-star to Fontvieille and the Stade Louis II.
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The three-star hotels: Columbus, Novotel, Ambassador, Miramar
Two of the four three-stars would pass for four elsewhere, and both have a pool. The Columbus in Fontvieille, opened in 2001 by the racing driver David Coulthard and the hotelier Ken McCulloch and renovated in 2018, has 181 rooms and 29 suites, many with a balcony over the rose garden, a heated outdoor pool open from April to November, a gym, the restaurant Tavolo, private parking with valet, and a free shuttle into the centre, which matters: it is the longest walk to the casino of any hotel inside Monaco. The Novotel Monte-Carlo on boulevard Princesse Charlotte has 218 rooms, an outdoor pool in a tree-lined garden, a sauna and hammam, a Technogym fitness room, its own car park and the Azzurra Kitchen restaurant, three minutes from the station.
The other two are small and on the port side. The Hôtel Ambassador on avenue Prince Pierre has 35 rooms, some with partial views over the rooftops or the harbour, the P&P restaurant, no spa or gym, and an arrangement with the Parking de la Colle across the street; it is one minute from a station entrance. The Hôtel Miramar at 1 avenue J.-F. Kennedy has fourteen rooms in a nautical style: five doubles with sea views, seven with a balcony over the harbour, two ground-floor studios with terraces, and a roof terrace over the yachts.
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The two-star hotel: the Hôtel de France
There is exactly one, and it is worth knowing about. The Hôtel de France at 6 rue de la Turbie is a small, recently renovated address in La Condamine, 26 rooms by the booking sites’ count, with breakfast included, a bar, a 24-hour reception and a discount at the Colle car park 200 metres away. It is two minutes from the station, next to the market, and about a quarter of an hour on foot from the casino square. Monaco has almost nothing else in this register; when it is full, the next step down in price is across the border.
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Across the border: the Beausoleil hotels
The French town of Beausoleil starts across the street from Monte-Carlo, and on several roads the border runs down the middle, one pavement in each country. Three hotels stand on the same boulevard du Général Leclerc; each says it is about 300 metres from the casino square, and our routing makes it eight to nine minutes on foot. The Hôtel La Tonkine, the former Olympia, is a three-star of 33 rooms including a suite, in five categories from an 11 m² single to a 23 m² suite, with a balcony on its classic doubles, behind a belle-époque façade. The Hôtel Capitole, a few doors along, is a family-owned three-star of some twenty rooms, fully renovated in a contemporary style, with breakfast served from seven to ten. The Villa Boeri is a two-star of 30 air-conditioned, sound-proofed rooms with a lift and wheelchair access, seven minutes from the beaches by its own count, with public car parks 100 metres away.
For a week or more, the two aparthotels make more sense than any hotel. The Adagio Monaco Monte Cristo has 78 fully equipped flats from a 20 m² studio for two to a 40 m² two-bedroom for six, an indoor car park, a launderette and a 24-hour reception, a short walk above the station. The Odalys Les Hauts de la Principauté offers studios of about 26 m² with a kitchenette and a balcony, a rooftop sun terrace and covered parking on reservation, about a hundred metres from the border. Both trade the concierge for a kitchen, which over seven nights in this town is a considerable trade. The Beausoleil section of our where-to-stay guide explains what changes, and what does not, when you sleep with a French postcode.
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When to book a Monaco hotel, and what to expect to pay
We do not publish room rates, because they move every week and any figure printed here would be wrong by the time you read it. The buttons under each hotel card open Booking.com with live availability and the night’s price. What is durable is the shape of the year. Rates climb when the town fills: around the Grand Prix weekend, the first weekend of June from 2026 and late May before that, when thirteen hotels face the largest crowd the country hosts, around the Yacht Show in late September, and through July and August; November to February, outside the Christmas fortnight, is when the same rooms are easiest to find. Our big-weekends guide sets out the arithmetic of rooms against visitors on those dates, and the events calendar shows what else fills the town.
Two practical notes. First, a stay of any length in Monaco makes sense only if the principality is the point: evenings and early mornings here, after the day-trippers leave, are the best of it. If it is one stop on a Riviera trip, Nice offers far more rooms, generally at lower rates, and direct trains reach Monaco in about twenty-five minutes; see getting to Monaco. Second, Monaco is expensive in specific ways, and the hotel is the largest of them.
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Frequently asked questions
How many hotels are there in Monaco?
Thirteen classified hotels, with roughly 2,460 rooms between them: four five-star (Hôtel de Paris, Hermitage, Métropole and the Monte-Carlo Beach, which stands just over the eastern border), four four-star (Monte-Carlo Bay, Fairmont, Le Méridien Beach Plaza, Port Palace), four three-star (Columbus, Novotel, Ambassador, Miramar) and one two-star, the Hôtel de France.
Which hotels in Monaco are five-star?
The Hôtel de Paris and the Hôtel Hermitage, both owned by the Société des Bains de Mer, the independent Hôtel Métropole, and the Monte-Carlo Beach, an SBM beach hotel that technically stands in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
Which hotels in Monaco have a swimming pool?
At the hotel itself: the Hôtel de Paris (rooftop), the Métropole (heated sea-water pool in the garden), the Fairmont (two outdoor pools, one on the rooftop), the Monte-Carlo Bay (lagoon plus indoor and outdoor pools), Le Méridien Beach Plaza (indoor plus two heated outdoor), the Columbus (heated, April to November) and the Novotel (garden pool). Hermitage guests use the Thermes Marins pool and the Olympic pool at the Monte-Carlo Beach. The Port Palace, Ambassador, Miramar and Hôtel de France state none.
Which hotel in Monaco has a private beach?
Le Méridien Beach Plaza at Larvotto is the only hotel in the principality with its own private beach. The Monte-Carlo Bay next door has a sandy-bottomed lagoon pool, and the Monte-Carlo Beach, just over the border, has its own shore too.
What is the cheapest hotel in Monaco?
The Hôtel de France on rue de la Turbie, the principality’s only two-star hotel, is the first place to check for the lowest rate inside Monaco. For a further step down, the Villa Boeri, the Hôtel Capitole and the Hôtel La Tonkine in Beausoleil are a few hundred metres from the casino square across the French border.
Which hotel in Monaco is closest to the train station?
The Hôtel Ambassador, the Hôtel de France, the Miramar, the Novotel and the Port Palace are all within about four minutes’ walk of a station entrance. The Hôtel de Paris and the Hermitage are eight to nine minutes away; the Larvotto hotels are half an hour.
Which Monaco hotel is on the Grand Prix circuit?
The Fairmont Monte Carlo: the circuit’s hairpin bend wraps around its entrance and the cars then pass through the tunnel beneath the hotel. The Hôtel de Paris and the Hermitage overlook the Casino Square section, and the Port Palace and Miramar face the harbour section of the circuit.
Is it cheaper to stay in Beausoleil than in Monaco?
Usually, for a comparable room. Beausoleil begins across the street from Monte-Carlo, so a hotel on its lower streets is about ten minutes’ walk from the casino square; you walk the same streets and swim at the same beach, and simply sleep with a French postcode.
