Detailed Review
With its unique architecture, the Fairmont Monte Carlo represents the very symbol of luxury and elegance.
The spacious rooms are decorated in restful colours, with furniture that combines a graceful classical style with a modern elegance. Views are over either the hotel's gardens, the city or the sea.
The two restaurants and the Saphir bar are here to satisfy the most varied of culinary tastes. You can discover the delights of Mediterranean cuisine at 'Le Pistou' and his terrace, or savour the taste of Neo-classical cuisine by visiting 'L'Argentin'.
Boasting 616 luxury bedrooms and suites, a wide range of trendy and luxury boutiques, the Fairmont Monte Carlo also offers a skyline heated swimming pool, an art-tech fitness centre with sauna and Turkish bath, an hairdresser and the Sun Casino which provides entertainment until the early hours.
Independent Reviews
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"A large-scale Fairmont resort that channels the true spirit of Monte Carlo, with sumptuous furnishings and its own casino."
Monte Carlo Grand
By Jamie Dunford Wood
At first sight you wouldn’t know this hotel existed, until, looking down after your evening stroll in front of the Monte Carlo Casino, you notice a massive hole where the cliff should be and row after row of subterranean balconies looking over a massive sunken garden. This is an enormous hotel - 619 rooms - literally built into and onto the rocks beneath the Casino. Inside it feels rather like a cruise ship, an effect magnified by the fact that the rooms, or at least a large proportion of them, are just metres from the sea. Staying here you feel well insulated from the tawdry glamour of the rest of Monte Carlo, with magnificent seascapes to inspire you well away from the tinkle of the slot machine. The hotel decor is plush modern, every room decorated in a uniform style - bright blue and white stripes, simple white painted bamboo furnishings, all with little sit out balconies. Tasteful signed prints (surprising for this kind of hotel) adorn the plain white walls, and bathrooms are what you would expect - marble and sparkling. Just the strange white leather padded doors add a hint of eccentricity. Corridors are in blue and white bamboo patterns, while the receptions areas have all the usual coffee shops, gift shops and designer shops that you would find on a cruise ship. Still, the hotel is special for the sweeping seaviews, and the price - alot more reasonable than the overdecorated swanky joints up the hill. Accept it for what it is - a modern ’multiplex’ hotel - and you will not be disappointed, for it does what it does extremely well. The best seaviews are to be had from the 4th floor, which has a wide terrace interconnecting between rooms, and the 1st (for proximity - you could fish from your balcony). Try and choose a room in the left hand ’wing’ - the hotel is designed like a series of honeycombs - because from here you get views not only of the ocean but also along the coast to Italy - magical at sunset.
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