We left Hyeres pretty early to hit the "SO spoken about " St-Tropez. Let's just say, everything about this town was EXTRAVAGANT!!! I am not sure what people that visit this place do for a living but I must be doing something terribly wrong... LOL
We knew this city was slightly more expensive and actually thought we were splurging on our hotel we reserved... The hotel we got was on the Gulf of St-Tropez close to the city center and beaches (see picture of our hotel pool and the bay). It was stunning and super modern. We got a crazy room (as it was my honeymoon vacation right?) and got chauffered around anywhere we wanted in a Lexus SUV (all part of the room rate). We got dropped off on the Pampelonne Beach, which is a 9KM stretch of white sandy "private" beaches. We decided to skip the super hyper pretentious NIKKI BEACH for a calmer Plage Les Palmiers (picture of us on the beach). Private means you have to pay to access the beach, get a chair, get an umbrella, get a towel.......... I'll never repeat how much I paid! LOL
I have seen people who travel with their nanny when they have 3 small kids, but it was the first time I saw people travelling with nannies, children, grand-children, nieces/nephews and their very own photographer... (see a picture of a family beside us) imagine not having to worry about taking pictures? Oh yeah, while all we wanted was cold water on ice, people were ordering wine and champagne bottles on the beach. Lunch was very good and i'll never repeat how much I paid!! LOL. They even had models modeling designer's bathing suits, dresses and accessories...
At night we decided to try getting in to Restaurante Villa Romana, which is a crazy star spotting restaurant and the atmosphere is pretty wild... We got in but we didn't see anyone famous and i'll never repeat how much "l'addition" was... The port of St-Tropez is regularly FULL of gigantic yatchs (never thought they called those yatchs, they looked like mini cruise lines) and people have parties on their boats... quite interesting to see (see a pic of the huge yatch I tried to fit on one shot)...
This fantasy world lasted a whole 24 hrs - Thank God only 24 hrs... costs a bunch of pretty pennies!!!!!!
We knew this city was slightly more expensive and actually thought we were splurging on our hotel we reserved... The hotel we got was on the Gulf of St-Tropez close to the city center and beaches (see picture of our hotel pool and the bay). It was stunning and super modern. We got a crazy room (as it was my honeymoon vacation right?) and got chauffered around anywhere we wanted in a Lexus SUV (all part of the room rate). We got dropped off on the Pampelonne Beach, which is a 9KM stretch of white sandy "private" beaches. We decided to skip the super hyper pretentious NIKKI BEACH for a calmer Plage Les Palmiers (picture of us on the beach). Private means you have to pay to access the beach, get a chair, get an umbrella, get a towel.......... I'll never repeat how much I paid! LOL
I have seen people who travel with their nanny when they have 3 small kids, but it was the first time I saw people travelling with nannies, children, grand-children, nieces/nephews and their very own photographer... (see a picture of a family beside us) imagine not having to worry about taking pictures? Oh yeah, while all we wanted was cold water on ice, people were ordering wine and champagne bottles on the beach. Lunch was very good and i'll never repeat how much I paid!! LOL. They even had models modeling designer's bathing suits, dresses and accessories...
At night we decided to try getting in to Restaurante Villa Romana, which is a crazy star spotting restaurant and the atmosphere is pretty wild... We got in but we didn't see anyone famous and i'll never repeat how much "l'addition" was... The port of St-Tropez is regularly FULL of gigantic yatchs (never thought they called those yatchs, they looked like mini cruise lines) and people have parties on their boats... quite interesting to see (see a pic of the huge yatch I tried to fit on one shot)...
This fantasy world lasted a whole 24 hrs - Thank God only 24 hrs... costs a bunch of pretty pennies!!!!!!
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