Carlton Hotel Cannes

... big name stars.  And that was as close to Brad Pitt as I got!  A giant poster on the front of the Carlton Hotel. We wandered along the Croisette and watched the spectacle as people waited outside the Carlton Hotel and the Martinez Hotel just hoping for ...

... paparazzi. If I didn’t know better I’d swear I was in LA. Off to the Ermenegildo Zenga cocktail party at the Carlton Hotel, where they were launching their new fragrance, Colonia. Not a bad turnout, the best thing about the party was that it ...

... a very nice table at a restaurant for tonight. It happened to be the last day of the annual fireworks competition of Cannes tonight and we could comfortably enjoy it at the beachside restaurant. Before dinner, we walked around the boulevard of Cannes ...

... the pebbled beach of Nice (and my new Havianas) so we hopped another train in search of sand. The famous convention centre and Carlton hotel are right on the esplanade so we indulged in a self directed 'Entourage' tour. Similar to Monaco.. there's little ...

... at the other end. A tree-lined street called the Boulevard de la Croisette runs along the seafront. Several grand hotels including the Carlton Hotel and the Martinez Hotel are located on Boulevard de la Croisette. The limousine pulled into the Carlton it ...

... of sitting on the beach.  After arrival in Cannes, Steve and I wandered along La Croisette and hung around the Carlton hotel waiting to be discovered but someone told us that they had all the dirty old men characters that they needed.  We ...

... a bar where we could have ice cream and drinks while watching the boys by the sea.  We had decided to walk on past the Carlton Hotel pier when a scan of their menu revealed two balls of ice cream for €22/$30.  The place next door was more ...

... France to visit Brea and I. We all flew out together and had an amazing time and lived the good life. We stayed at the Carlton Hotel on the beach and took some day road trips through the French Riviera when we weren't lounging on the beach. We went to ...

... Beach. In one breath: Fabulous! Next: Monte Carlo, Monaco. p.s The other beauty was, our hotel is located next to the famous Cannes landmark, the Carlton. My words and photographs don't do justice to the breathtakingly amazing beauty of Cannes. And, no, ...

This past weekend, the trio sadly parted ways but we all had a great time. Kathleen: On Thursday morning, I flew out of Florence to Cannes to meet my mom and Frances who came to visit.  I wanted to spend the weekend on a beach and the south of ...

... as we went along and it was amazing to see people dressed to the hilt just to walk around town.  In Cannes we stopped at the famous Ritz Carlton and Hotel Martinez and had a coffee and beer at a corner Café to watch the sites, and the people.  ...