This article explores the charm of Juan-les-Pins, a less extravagant alternative to the glitzy towns of the French Riviera. It contrasts the relaxed atmosphere of Juan-les-Pins with the ostentatious lifestyle of the mega-rich, highlighting its affordability and genuine connection to local life. The article also mentions the nearby town of Antibes and the iconic Hotel Belles Rives, offering a glimpse into the Riviera's historical glamour.
F Scott Fitzgerald said something clever about the rich, I can’t remember what. The rich are different? They’re always drunk and disappointed? Anyway, no need to look it up, because one thing I do know: the rich are boring, not to mention bored. I see the mega-rich up and down the French Riviera and they all have the same plastic dissatisfied faces, and the same designer clothes. They all stay in tediously formal hotels that cost thousands a night.
If they aren’t in Monte Carlo, they’re in Cannes. If they aren’t in Cannes, they’re off to Saint Tropez to buy another handbag and stare at mega-yachts from the terraces of oyster bars.But if you’re not as rich, and more interested in life’s variety, you should head to Juan-les-Pins. It’s conjoined with Antibes, the Riviera town for the discerning and unpretentious. Its main street is cheerful with bar terraces where drinks don’t cost an oligarch’s ransom, and its promenades ogle the setting sun. Juan-les-Pins barely has a designer boutique, but it does have a petanque pitch under the pine trees where retirees congregate. Locals pass you with supermarket shopping bags and dogs. Juan-les-Pins is the relaxed Riviera that has let out a happy sigh, thrown off its designer duds, and stuck its toes into the lapping Mediterranean. Yet if you want that French Riviera glamour, you need only walk – or join the morning joggers – along the seafront towards Antibes, and you’ll soon find yourself admiring villas fit in the old days for Hollywood stars and famous writers. And just there, before you’ve gone far at all, is Hotel Belles Rives, a throwback slice of 1920s style. Fitzgerald stayed here when it was Villa Saint-Louis, calling it the “right place to rough it, an escape from the world.”Today, the Belles Rives – a hotel since 1929 – is one of the few remaining family-owned hotels on the Riviera. It’s a notch down from the coast’s top luxe hotels but, like Juan-les-Pins itself, more relaxed and more reasonably price
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