Côte d'Azur, France

Les Rosées

Rates from (inc tax)$239.28

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (including tax) available in the next 21 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (21EUR), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Hearts and flowers

Setting

Super Cannes

Perched on the edge of Mougins – the picturesque town where Picasso painted for 15 years – and minutes from the glamour of Cannes, hotel Les Rosées is like a languid, flower-filled bath: all warmth and wonderful aromas. With a famous fragrance factory nearby, this luxurious hotel’s rustic furnishing and sumptuous fabrics will have you unwinding in no time.

Smith Extra

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Guests staying one night will receive a signature Les Rosées aperitif. Guests staying two nights or more will receive a bottle of locally produced wine

Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Five suites.

Check–Out

Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Check-in, from 3pm. The doors are locked at 10.30pm, so ring ahead if it looks as though you’ll arrive later.

Rates

Double rooms from $239.28 (€213), excluding tax at 10 per cent.

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (including tax) available in the next 21 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR234.60), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

More details

Breakfast is an additional €15 a person.

Also

All suites are non-smoking, but the hotel has a cigar stash to accompany a glass of Cognac somewhere discreet.

At the hotel

Gardens, library, treatment room for massages. In rooms: free WiFi, CD, iPod dock, minibar and Fragonard products.

Our favourite rooms

With honey-hued walls, a tower-shaped reading room full of natural light, separate dressing space and marble bathroom in shell pink, Isadora is the most romantic suite. Taking up the whole top floor, spacious and contemporary Serguey is coloured with cool neutrals, and has a working fireplace and a slate wet room. For a quirky stay, book the restored and re-upholstered Romany caravan, which has a little terrace. The garden-level suites St Honorat and St Marguerite both have space for an extra bed in the sitting room, so they’re good options for families.

Poolside

The small, unheated (but sun-kissed) pool is set in the picturesque garden, down a set of stone steps from the house.

Packing tips

Comfy shoes for long walks, over-sized shades for a trip to Cannes (20 minutes away) and an F Scott Fitzgerald novel for pool/fire-side reading.

Also

Pets can come too, free. There are no TVs in rooms, but there’s a flatscreen to borrow if you’re desperate.

Pet‐friendly

Four-legged friends are welcome for €10 a day, but cannot be left in the room by themselves, and doggie calls of nature must be answered off the property. See more pet-friendly hotels in Côte d'Azur.

Children

Cots are available at €20, extra beds at €40; babysitting with a local nanny can be arranged for €10 an hour, booked a day in advance.

Food and Drink

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At the hotel

Breakfast at Les Rosées is an offering of organic, fair-trade local produce, with sweet, flaky sultana pastries and jam from the hotel’s kitchen. For a candlelit dinner, choose from the restaurant's two €39 set menus, making use of fresh and seasonal produce in inventive provençal dishes such as a courgette and asparagus velouté, ricotta raviolis with crispy pancetta and roasted apricots with lavender ice cream. You'll need to book 24 hours in advance.

At the bar

No bar, but you can sample the hotel’s stash of robust reds and medal-winning local whites (plus home-made orange or nut wines) beneath the olive trees, in your boudoir, or nestling on velvet cushions in the salon.

Room service

A selection of drinks and snacks is on offer from 8.30am until 10.30pm.

Location

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Address
Les Rosées
238 Chemin de Font Neuve
06250
Mougins
France

Planes

The closest airport is Nice Côte d’Azur, 25km from the hotel. Take the A8 highway and then the D6185 toward Grasse. Alternatively, take the bus from the airport (www.cg06.fr); the 210 will get you to Cannes, and then the 600 links up Cannes and Grasse. Get off in Mougins, from where the hotel’s a short taxi ride away.

Trains

The closest train station is in Mouans-Sartoux, a 10-minute drive from the hotel. It can be reached directly from Nice in an hour.

Automobiles

On the edge of Mougins and 15 minutes from Cannes, the hotel is connected to the rest of the Côte d’Azur by the A8 motorway. Nice is half an hour away by car. There’s free parking.

Worth getting out of bed for

The Fragonard perfumery in Grasse, at 20 boulevard Fragonard (+33 (0)4 92 42 34 34), provides the hotel’s products – and will create a bespoke scent for you, too. The sweet-toothed should head to Confiserie Florian at Le Pont du Loup, Tourrettes-sur-Loup (+33 (0)4 93 59 32 91), a 35-minute drive from Les Rosées: a bonbon factory offering free tours and tastings. While you’re there, stop and let your sugar rush subside at nearby Gourdon, a mediaeval village near the Gorges du Loup. Back in Mougins, the Musée de la Photographie has a permanent exhibition of portraits of Picasso, and works by Robert Doisneau and Lucien Clergue (+33 (0)4 93 75 85 67).

Local restaurants

Book a table at Le Petit Fouet at 12 place du Village (+33 (0)4 92 92 11 70), replete with beams, chandeliers, barmen crooning along to old French songs – and a parrot that peers down at you while you eat. The walls are lined with irresistible confitures, candles and loose-leaf teas to take home, and tables spill out onto a terrace. Head next door to sample the foie gras at Resto des Arts on Rue du Maréchal Foch (+33 (0)4 93 75 60 03), open from 7pm until late (closed Sundays and Mondays). Pop along for lunch at Le Bistrot de Mougins, by the fountain in Place du Village (+33 (0)4 93 75 78 34). Bagsy a seat under the umbrellas outside; for supper, nip down the steps into the cellar.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

This review is taken from our guidebook, Mr & Mrs Smith Hotel Collection: France.

We are, it turns out, the only non-honeymooners at Les Rosées, and it isn’t hard to see why – it just doesn’t get much more romantic than this. As pretty as its name, it’s a lovingly restored, traditional Provenc?al country house, sitting in the same flower-filled garden where it has snoozed peacefully for more than 400 years. The village of Mougins, only a 20-minute drive from the glitz of Cannes, is to be our gloriously tranquil base for exploring the most glittering stretch of the French Riviera.

Arriving late and weary, we don’t fancy venturing out for dinner, but a little life-saver of ham and cheese with a glass of wine in our room is rustled up, no problem. We are in the Isadora suite (a favourite of Liza Minnelli, apparently), whose big bedroom opens onto a turreted lounge. After our long car journey, the bed, with its clouds of crisp linen, is heavenly.

The flagstoned rooms have a rustic feel, yet they’re stylish and restrained, decorated in warm, earthy tones, a? la French country chic. I’m quite happy making like Minnelli in my turret, but there’s another low-key lounge downstairs, full of magazines and books, and with a grand piano. Homely touches betray the influence of the owner’s Canadian wife: all-organic breakfast is a treat of croissants, home-made jams and cold meats, served on white tablecloths in the idyllic garden. The pool is a good size and, if we weren’t on the doorstep of so many of Europe’s A-list towns, we could easily spend a blissful day reading in the shade of the trees.

I convince Mr Smith that we have to visit the famous Fragonard factory in nearby Grasse, the perfume capital of the world. After the olfactory excesses of the city described in Patrick Suskind’s novel Perfume, I am a little disappointed by how clinical it all is today. A guide explains the whole process, from distillation to bottling. Did you know that to extract one kilo of rose essence you must distil 3,000 kilos of roses? The tour is free but ends, predictably, in the factory shop, with a fairly heavy sell. Mr Smith grumbles, but agrees to treat me to a tiny bottle (only, I suspect, because our attractive and fragrant guide recommends it so warmly). The products at Les Rosées are Fragonard, so I’ve already had a chance to sample them in the luxury of our pretty, Provenc?al-style bathroom.

Wanting to clear our heads, we decide to head to Cannes for a spot of sea air. I work on the culture desk of a newspaper, and I’ve always found myself more than a little envious when the film critics set off to the famous festival every year (though, as books editor, I do get to sit in a rainy tent in Hay-on-Wye). So I am very much looking forward to finally promenading the Croisette, even if it isn’t red-carpet season. Some enticing smells along the front remind us that it’s lunchtime; after much indecision over the choice of rather intimidating beachside restaurants, we settle down for lunch and some serious people-watching. No wonder everyone tends to wear giant sunglasses – all that bling can be rather blinding.

Daring to join the rows of oil-slicked bodies, laid out like so many king prawns, takes more than a little courage. Once we’ve taken out a small mortgage on two sunloungers, we join everybody in pretending not to be ogling everyone else.

We have only been enjoying this for half an hour or so before the sun is eclipsed by the arrival of a scary-looking DJ and a boombox so large it can surely be heard in Monaco. We wander off to the marina for a tour of the yachts.

After the glare of Cannes, coming back to mediaeval Mougins is rather like taking a languid, flower-filled bath. All winding bougainvillea- bedecked streets of artisan shops, fountains and restaurants, it is exactly how you would imagine a picturesque village on the French Riviera to be – only more picturesque.

And it’s always nice to follow where Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Christian Dior, Catherine Deneuve, Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel have led. Most famously, Pablo Picasso spent the last 15 years of his life in Mougins, high on a clifftop overlooking the Côte d’Azur, after he married Jacqueline Roque. The village’s Musée de la Photographie has a wonderful collection of portraits of him and other 20th-century icons.

It is early evening by the time we get back to base, and Mougins’ townspeople and tourists – all elegantly turned out – are beginning to emerge for drinks in the square before dinner. There are so many lovely-looking restaurants that it’s almost impossible to choose one, but in the end we plump for Le Petit Fouet, liking the sound of its name. Thank goodness we did, or else I might never have discovered strawberry soup. The ‘Little Whip’ is also a foodie emporium, and I buy several pots of posh jam for a fraction of the price they’re sold at in the French delicatessen near my London office.

The highlight of the trip for Mr Smith is undoubtedly driving along the heart-stopping coastal roads. For me, it has been the complete tranquillity of Les Rosées, a soothing contrast to our high-rolling, scent-inhaling, beachwear-clad excursions to Grasse and Cannes. I probably stand as much chance of persuading the film critics to let me tag along for the film festival next year as I do of ousting Nicole Kidman out of a leading role. Still, that doesn’t mean Les Rosées won’t play a star part in the sequel to our séjour in Provence – coming soon.

The Guestbook

Whenever you book a stay at a Smith Hotel with us, we’ll invite you to review it when you get back. Read what other Smith members had to say in Les Rosées’s Guestbook below.

We loved

The beautiful building, lovely rooms, vintage shabby chic detail, the food and most of all the sincere and friendly service which stays in the memory. Really delightful and original place. The pool is very good and we also had use of the hot tub. Visit Valbonne, a lovely town nearby with good shops and restaurants.

Don’t expect

Anything fancy, this is a lovely place without pretension and natural charm, people looking for 'bling' or ostentation will be disappointed.

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Stayed on 8 Sep 2016

We loved

Our helpful host who put on a lovely dinner for us when our flight arrived late! The suite was beautiful and the grounds were perfect got lazy days in the sun. We had 2 evening meals and breakfast at Le Rosees, both were beautiful, complemented again by the staff. I would highly recommend.

Don’t expect

To walk into Mougins village, you certainly need a car as it can be quite difficult to catch an Über.

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Stayed on 28 May 2016

We loved

After booking a trip to the French Riviera, my husband and I were stumped. We wanted to enjoy the beauty of the region while also being away from the hustle and bustle in Cannes and Nice. After doing some research, we stumbled upon Les Rosees and immediately fell in love. We booked a room through Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which I highly recommend as they don't have a minimum night's stay required, and our booking included a complimentary bottle of wine. From the moment we arrived, we were immediately greeted with a warm welcome from the friendly staff. One of the proprietors helped us navigate our bags up the medieval stone steps, while another ensured we felt at home the moment we arrived with a tour of the property, before escorting us to our room where we could relax and rest off our jet lag. We booked the Isadora suite, although I don't think you can go wrong with any of the rooms on this property. Our room in the old farmhouse had all the charms of the french countryside while still offering all the luxury and amenities of the 21st century - a gorgeous bathroom with tub and shower, two sinks, a dreamy private patio overlooking the pool with a fountain and fainting couch, and wifi if you don't want to totally unplug. Our bedroom overlooked the pool, and had room darkening shutters to ensure you could sleep past sunrise, and best of all, the bed was extremely comfy. If you do plan to sleep with the doors open, just be sure to lather up with some bug repellent, the Cote d'Azur has some pretty terrible mosquitos. The room offered all the necessary amenities - hair drying, closet, linens - i just recommend you bring your shampoo, conditioner and lotion as those items were not available in the bathroom. Although breakfast was extra, it was worth every penny. In addition to the delicious local jams, breads, pastries, meats and cheeses offered, the chef can cook up the freshest omelets or eggs in whatever fashion you prefer. I also recommend you have dinner here at least one night. It's an affordable prix fixe with a three course menu that is fashioned from what the chef finds locally that day. The best part is, their reservation process is very relaxed, you can let them know the day of, and around what time you'd like to eat. Just make sure you get a bottle of their local wine - it's delicious! If it's warm enough, you also should take a dip in their beautiful pool. It has a few beach chairs, and is a tranquil oasis where you can curl up with a book and soak up some vitamin D. Be sure to rent a car so you can drive around to other local towns.

Don’t expect

TV!

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Stayed on 27 May 2016

We loved

Such a lovely place - beautiful inside and out and fantastic service - nothing too much trouble. Fantastic area to explore - seaside and interior. The Picasso Museum was great as was lunch on the beach.

Don’t expect

Nothing "lively" and need to hire a car as too far to walk into Mougins

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Stayed on 6 Apr 2016

We loved

The beautifully decorated room. The personal body massage by Mireille. no need to ask for a specific technique, she feels what your body needs. Just perfect!

Don’t expect

Planning advice or tips from the hotel. You are pretty much left to yourself, but as I like to plan everything that's no issue at all.

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Stayed on 26 Mar 2016

We loved

Fantastic staff, beautiful room (thank you for upgrading us) in fact everything was delightful. The home cooked evening meal just so fresh and delicious. Breakfast was fresh, plentiful and set out perfectly. So pleased we found this delightful hotel.

Don’t expect

To be able to walk into Mougins. You need a car, as its tucked away in a peaceful road in the back hills.

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Stayed on 23 Feb 2016

We loved

The fantastic attention to detail from all of the staff, from the canapés before dinner, the cookies on top of thee piano to remembering what our son wanted for breakfast. The Suite Serguey was wonderfully spacious, even for three of us. Food fantastic and grounds wonderful.

Don’t expect

The buzz of Cannes or the tourists of Mougins. Perfectly hidden away off the beaten track in a little oasis.

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Stayed on 13 Aug 2015

We loved

Did not stay long enough to make a full assessment but the premises were charming our room, although not big was well appointed had a romantic flair.

Don’t expect

We got everything we expected

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Stayed on 13 Aug 2015

We loved

The attention to detail is simply lovely from breakfast to the gorgeous suites and beautiful grounds. Every turn is a feast for the eyes and senses. The staff is gracious and caring. Don't delay, book any of the magnificent suites and your vacation will be off to a brilliant start, promise! Go into Mougins for dinner...wonderful places to dine, the hotel will gladly direct you. Beautiful views everywhere.

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Stayed on 21 Jun 2015

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