Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo

The Hotel

The Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo was built between 1890 and 1900 under Jean Marquet, the architect responsible for several of the principality's Belle Époque civic buildings. The commission was straightforward: the SBM needed a sister property to the Hôtel de Paris that could absorb the visitor traffic the casino was generating but offer a softer, more residential register. The result is a five-storey palace on Square Beaumarchais, looking down across the Tir aux Pigeons and the Port Hercule, with the entrance approached through a curved Belle Époque façade that has never been altered. Inside, the Winter Garden, the Jardin d'Hiver, sits under a stained-glass cupola whose iron framework was engineered by Gustave Eiffel. The room is the most photographed Belle Époque interior in Monaco; the cupola is the only Eiffel hotel commission still in continuous hotel use.

The 263 rooms and suites, 54 Junior Suites, 32 Suites, and 13 Diamond Suites among them, were refreshed between 2018 and 2021 under interior designer Pierre-Yves Rochon, who also led the Hôtel de Paris programme. The rooms now share a Mediterranean palette of off-white, sea-blue, and brushed gold; the historic carved panelling is preserved in the senior suite categories; the bathrooms are universally marble. The view distribution is the central proposition: the front rooms look down to Port Hercule and the Tête de Chien, the side rooms look across to the casino, the better suites combine both. The Hermitage Suite and the named Princely Suites are the headline units, with private wraparound terraces overlooking the port.

Dining is the property's second proposition and, in recent years, the loudest one. Pavyllon Monte-Carlo, Yannick Alléno's iteration of his Paris and Genevan formats, holds one Michelin star at the open-kitchen counter in the historic dining room. L'Abysse Monte-Carlo, the omakase counter co-led by Alléno and the Japanese sushi master Yasunari Okazaki, holds two Michelin stars, the only two-star sushi room in Monaco and one of fewer than ten worldwide. The Crystal Bar inside the Winter Garden handles the evening cocktail trade; Le Limùn is the open-air terrace café that catches the morning sun under the cupola. The Thermes Marins Monte-Carlo, the 6,600-square-metre seawater spa, adjoins the property and is included in the SBM Cercle privileges.

The position is the third proposition and the line that often decides between the Hôtel de Paris and the Hermitage. The Hermitage is one block off Place du Casino, on the quieter Square Beaumarchais, which means the room-side noise is closer to a residential register than the casino-facing palace's. The walk to the casino itself is under three minutes; the walk down to Port Hercule (the F1 grid in May, the Yacht Show pavilions in late September) is five. The SBM Cercle benefits, preferential access at the Casino, the Café de Paris, the Thermes Marins, and the Monte-Carlo Beach Club, apply identically to Hermitage guests. For travellers who want the Monte-Carlo address without the Hôtel de Paris price line, the Hermitage is the obvious selection.

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