Côte d’Azur Charter Itinerary

Côte d’Azur Itinerary

Côte d’Azur Yacht Charter
The Côte d’Azur has been the summer address of Europe since the English arrived for the winters, and it wears the attention lightly. What most visitors miss is that the best of it lies offshore: islands with no cars, a monastery that makes wine, and a fort that held the Man in the Iron Mask.





This route takes the famous ports ’ Monaco, Cannes, Saint-Tropez ’ and then leaves them for the Îles d’Hyères and the Lérins. The contrast between a Riviera evening and a morning at anchor off a nature reserve is the whole argument for a yacht.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Côte d’Azur; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Monaco

Two square kilometres, an opera house, a casino and a harbour cut into rock. Monaco is best entered from the sea, which shows you the whole vertical arrangement at once. A welcome cocktail on deck as the yachts light up around you, then Monte-Carlo for the evening, at whatever pitch you prefer.
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Day 2

Cap d’Antibes & Cannes

West along the coast to Antibes and Port Vauban, the largest marina in the Mediterranean and home to the biggest yachts afloat. The Château Grimaldi above it holds the Picasso museum ’ he worked in the building and left the contents behind. Then Cannes, La Croisette, and a beach in the late afternoon.
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Day 3

Saint-Tropez

Round the Massif des Maures to Saint-Tropez, where the harbour still has the shape of the fishing port it was. Anchor off Pampelonne ’ five kilometres of sand, and where the bikini first appeared. Ashore, the Place des Lices market on a Tuesday, the old town before ten, and dinner rather later than planned.
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Day 4

Porquerolles

Across the Gulf of Hyères to Porquerolles, which allows almost no cars and is protected as a national park. Tender to Notre-Dame beach ’ pale sand, umbrella pines, and water that has no business being this clear this close to Toulon. Take bicycles into the interior, through vineyards and eucalyptus. A picnic, and no schedule.
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Day 5

Îles de Lérins

Back east, and anchor off Sainte-Marguerite. Fort Royal held the Man in the Iron Mask for eleven years and nobody has settled who he was. Across the channel, Saint-Honorat has been a monastery since the fifth century, and the Cistercians there make a small quantity of very good wine. Taste it at the abbey. Lavender and rosemary everywhere.
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Day 6

Villefranche-sur-Mer

Villefranche has one of the deepest natural harbours on the coast ’ the reason it took the American fleet for decades ’ and a waterfront of ochre and pink stacked above it. Walk the vaulted Rue Obscure. Then up the hill to Èze, or inland to Saint-Paul-de-Vence, where the painters ate and often paid in canvases.
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Day 7

Monaco

Return to Monaco for the last day. The Oceanographic Museum stands on a cliff above the sea and was Cousteau’s for thirty years. The Prince’s Palace above the old town, the gardens, and a final lunch overlooking Port Hercule. Seven days, and the coast has shown you both of its faces.
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