Barrière Beach at Le Majestic Hotel

About Barrière Beach at Le Majestic Hotel

Deep house and lounge-leaning chill house set the register here, kept low enough that lunch conversation carries across the daybeds and loud enough that the afternoon never quite goes flat. The rhythm runs from 10am to 7pm, seven days a week between April and October, which makes this a sun-hours address rather than an evening one — you come for a day bed, a bottle on ice, and a French menu delivered to the sand by table service. Friday through Sunday are the crowded stretch, when La Croisette fills with a mix of Western European and Middle Eastern visitors, Cannes locals, and a broadly 25-to-45 crowd. Beachwear is the dress code, though at the $$$$ band it is beachwear of a considered sort. Valet handles the boulevard traffic at number 10. Book ahead for weekends; the front rows go first.