travel42 Hotel Review: Cap Estel

Cap Estel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Situated on the Cote d'Azur between Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat and Monte Carlo (10 kilometers from either), this luxury castaway resort is a smaller, less formal version of Le Reserve in Beaulieu, with a posh little peninsula locale—it mirrors Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat.

Notorious Irish journalist and novelist Frank Harris, a close friend of Oscar Wilde, founded the original Cap Estel in 1900. Once a favored retreat of princes and shahs, heads of state, and stars o...