One hundred and thirty-three rooms on Boulevard Jean Hibert at the western end of the bay, the only Cannes five-star with a proper 1,500 square metre Thalasso seawater spa, looking across the marina to the Croisette and Le Suquet old town.
"The Cannes five-star that built its case around the seawater spa rather than the Croisette address. One hundred and thirty-three rooms, fifteen hundred square metres of Thalasso pools and cabins, and the western-port view that the Carlton has never had."
Radisson Blu 1835 occupies a curved seven-storey building at the western edge of the Old Port, on Boulevard Jean Hibert, where the Croisette ends and the port frontage begins. The building dates to the early 1990s and was rebranded as a Radisson Blu in 2015 after a full refresh; the most recent renovation completed the Thalasso spa expansion to 1,500 square metres in 2022. The architecture is unapologetically Riviera-modern (curved white render, continuous balconies on every floor, a rooftop level with the pool and the bar) and the position is, in operational terms, the best non-Croisette five-star address in Cannes for any guest whose week orbits the spa rather than the central beach clubs.
The 133 rooms and suites are distributed across seven floors. Standard rooms start at 26 square metres; Premium Sea View categories run to 32 square metres with a balcony looking across the marina toward the Croisette; and the top-floor Presidential Suite reaches 110 square metres with a full wraparound terrace and an outdoor jacuzzi. Roughly seventy percent of the room inventory holds a direct sea or port view, which is the highest ratio at the Cannes five-star tier. The 2022 refresh updated the bathrooms in marble and the soft goods in a Cote d'Azur palette of pale grey, deep blue, and oak.
The food and beverage offering is built around two main rooms. Le 360 on the rooftop is the signature restaurant, a circular space with full glass walls and a small outdoor terrace, running a southern French menu at lunch and dinner with the most photographed sunset table on the western Cannes seafront. The ground-floor brasserie, Le Carre, handles breakfast, casual lunch, and a more pragmatic dinner option for guests on a wellness programme. The rooftop pool and bar runs from May through October as the property's daytime social room. In-room dining runs 24 hours.
The signature feature is the Thalasso Cannes spa, expanded in 2022 to 1,500 square metres on the lower ground floor, which makes it the largest dedicated wellness operation at any Cannes five-star. The programme runs across a heated seawater pool, hammam and sauna circuit, seven treatment cabins, and a clinical-grade Thalasso medical team for full multi-day programmes (post-natal, anti-stress, slimming, sports recovery) on a typical six-day cycle. The hotel quietly handles the meaningful proportion of any wellness booking in Cannes that is genuinely about the spa rather than about being near the Croisette. Service across the property is Radisson Blu house standard, polished and unusually warm at this scale, with a front desk that handles Thalasso programme guests separately from the leisure trade.
For a Cannes wellness stay, the 1835 is the only credible five-star booking. The 1,500 square metre Thalasso centre runs full multi-day programmes (six-day cycles for post-natal, anti-stress, slimming, sports recovery) rather than discrete spa treatments, and the clinical-grade medical team consults at the start of any programme to set the cabin schedule. Book a Sea View room with a marina balcony for a six-day stay, take the heated seawater pool in the morning, and the Thalasso cabins in the afternoon. This is the Cannes hotel where the spa is genuinely the reason to book.
An anniversary at the 1835 is the answer for a couple who want a five-star Cannes stay with a wellness signature and a quieter western-port position. Book the Presidential Suite on the seventh floor for the wraparound terrace and the outdoor jacuzzi at sunset, book a private dinner table at Le 360 on the rooftop for the celebration night, and add the Thalasso couples ritual for the morning. The Old Town's Le Suquet sunset view is six minutes on foot for a second-evening dinner.
For Cannes business travel that orbits the Palais and the Old Town and benefits from a wellness floor for end-of-day decompression, the 1835 is the credible booking. The Palais des Festivals is ten minutes on foot, the meeting rooms run to 120 covers for a private dinner, the Thalasso centre handles end-of-day stress recovery for executive guests on multi-day stays, and the front desk handles the Festival and Lions Festival traffic with a standard above the four-star alternatives.
2 Boulevard Jean Hibert
06400 Cannes
France
133 rooms and suites
Doubles from EUR 280/night
Top suites to EUR 1,800/night
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Rebranded Radisson Blu 2015; Thalasso centre expanded to 1,500 sqm in 2022; Radisson Rewards property
1,500 sqm Thalasso seawater spa
Heated rooftop pool (May to October)
Le 360 rooftop restaurant with sunset terrace
Le Carre ground-floor brasserie (all day)
Seven Thalasso treatment cabins
Clinical-grade Thalasso medical team
From EUR 280 / night. Suites and signature room categories book four to six months ahead for May Festival and June Lions Festival weeks; three months for the September shoulder.
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