Hotel La Bastide de Saint Tropez

Hotel La Bastide de Saint Tropez

Twenty-six rooms, one floor, a garden that runs toward a seasonal outdoor pool with the beach close enough to reach on foot: Hotel La Bastide de Saint Tropez is built low and spread out rather than stacked, a choice most luxury addresses around this harbour skip. It sits a kilometre from the centre, past the Museum of the Gendarmerie and Cinema, the Chapelle Ste-Anne and the Bailli de Suffren statue, close enough to walk in for dinner and far enough to sleep past the port noise. Relais & Chateaux membership sets it apart from the resort-scale properties along this coast; the group vets for character and consistency room by room, which shows in a spa with a doctor on call, a barbecue terrace, a playroom for children, and staff who move between English, French and Italian without missing a beat. Rooms range from a Deluxe Single Room to a Standard Single Suite roughly half again as large, with a Superior Double offering blackout blinds and soundproofing for anyone who actually wants to sleep past nine. Families get a playroom and babysitting, couples get a garden and terrace that twenty-six rooms rarely crowd. It is not for anyone wanting several restaurants and pools to choose between: one restaurant, one bar, one cafe and one pool keep this compact, and the extra bed, pet and parking charges add up fast on a longer stay. For a traveller who wants Saint-Tropez without the vertical hotel experience, low-slung, garden-set, walkable to the sights and the water, this is the rarer version of the town. Twenty-six rooms on a single floor, a garden beside the beach, a kilometre from central Saint-Tropez. Relais & Chateaux standards, a doctor on call, and soundproofed rooms set it apart from the town's stacked hotels. Better suited to a quiet stay than a crowded terrace scene.