Mr & Mrs Smith

Le Saint Paul

Côte d'Azur, France

Le Saint Paul has original Chagalls adorning its silk walls, antiques and objets d’art galore, and dazzling Côte d’Azur views from its hilltop ramparts. Rooms are light and airy and the restaurant is ravishing, with two romantic dining rooms and a flower-packed terrace overlooking the maze of cobbled streets and alleyways.

Need to know

• Rooms 16, including 13 suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $312.18 (€234), excluding tax at 7 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of €1.50 per person per night on check-out.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (€234) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates exclude breakfast (€22 for Continental).
• Facilities Library, free WiFi in the lounge, and a terrace with a walled garden. In rooms: flatscreen TV, free bottled water and minibar.
• Check-out Noon (flexible, depending on availability). Check-in from 3pm.
• Children Little Smiths are welcome, with cots and sofa beds free for 12 year olds and under. Babysitting with a local nanny costs €20 an hour. The restaurant has a menu tailored to tots.
• Also Petite pooches can come too, for €50 a night. Smokers should request a smoking room, but remember not to light up in communal areas.

Food and drink at Le Saint Paul

• Hotel restaurant

  There are two dining rooms; one with wooden vaulted ceilings, decked out with flower and fruit murals, lit by candlelight, and one with a romantic fountain. A walled garden, trailing curtains of bougainvillea, surrounds a little terrace, where you can dine in seclusion outdoors. The food is sophisticated and decadent, with an emphasis on seasonal ingredients and opulent flavour-combinations. Dishes range from the exotic (peach gazpacho with roasted king prawns) to the traditional (foie gras with apricots and rhubarb compote), to the inventive – lobster lasagne with wild salad. Leave room for some salty toffee ice-cream and banana sauce, or iced lavender macaroon with peach and strawberries.

• Dress code The Côte d'Azur calls for elegant attire: cashmere in the evening, a tailored shirt or tea-frock in the day.
• Top table Sit close to the fountain, by the tall window – you can peer out and admire the walled garden as you eat. On warm days, make a beeline for the terrace and breathe in the scent of bougainvilleas.
• Last orders You can linger over breakfast between 7.30am and 10am (although late risers can breakfast in their room until noon), and lunch is served between 12.30pm and 1.45pm. Dinner is dished up between 7.30pm and 9.45pm.
• Room service In-room treats can be ordered from the room service menu during the restaurant’s opening hours.
• Hotel bar

  The small bar area is situated in the lounge, with a scattering of bar stools, clusters of contented guests sipping martinis, and gold-framed paintings hanging from the cream walls. The open fire and plump sofas provide extra cosiness, and the glass cabinets are filled with a gallery’s stash of ceramic Barbotines animals – a quirky and colourful touch.

Also worth knowing

• Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...

Le Saint Paul 86 Rue Grande, 06570 Saint-Paul-de-Vence