A house with a story

The Hôtel Belles Rives began as Villa Saint-Louis, where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald settled in 1925 and he wrote the early chapters of Tender Is the Night. In 1929 Boma Estène and his wife Simone turned it into a hotel built right at the water's edge – the first on the Riviera with its feet in the sea – and the family still runs it today.

The Beauty Corner

The Valmont Beauty Corner is the hotel's space for care, a single calm treatment room. It works with Valmont, the Swiss specialist in anti-ageing skincare, and with La Canopée, a natural and organic beauty brand. The treatments were developed exclusively for Belles Rives, for men and women alike, and the idea is to fit care into the rhythm of a beach day: something in the morning before the sun, after lunch to unwind, or in the evening to prolong the effects of sea and sun.

On the menu

• Valmont treatments, plus lymphatic drainage, reflexology and tailored massages, including for athletes, pregnant women and children.
• La Canopée facials, using entirely natural products.
• The Japanese manicure, which nourishes the nails to a natural shine.
• Massages in your room, on request.