Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo

The Hotel

The Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo opened in 1886 on the gardens of Cardinal Hugues de Loubenx de Verdalle, between Avenue de la Madone and the SBM-developed Casino district. The original Belle Époque building was conceived as the more residential alternative to the SBM grand-hotel programme — an independent, owner-operated five-star a hundred and fifty metres west of the Place du Casino. The hotel changed hands repeatedly through the twentieth century before its current owners (the family-owned Greek Metropole Group) commissioned the architect Jacques Garcia to lead a comprehensive top-to-bottom redesign in the early 2000s. The redesigned hotel reopened in May 2004 with 146 rooms (later reduced to 125 after a 2018 reconfiguration that produced larger room footprints) and a unified Garcia-signature interior in the boudoir-luxury vocabulary — heavy silks, brass, oxblood reds, the late-eighteenth-century French aesthetic Garcia had developed at the Hôtel Costes in Paris.

The 125 rooms (including 49 suites) are arranged across the historic 1886 envelope and the gardens-side wing. Standard Classic and Deluxe rooms run 30–42 square metres; Junior Suites and Suites Carré d'Or are larger; the named units — the Suite Présidentielle, the Suite Carré d'Or, the Penthouse Suite at the top of the building — are the headline bookings. The Penthouse Suite is the editorial flagship, occupying the entire top floor with a private rooftop terrace, two bedrooms, and the largest single private suite footprint of any Monaco hotel. Garcia's interior vocabulary is consistent across every category — the rooms read as small Parisian apartments rather than hotel rooms, with the textiles, lighting, and antique-style furniture composed for evening rather than daytime light.

Joël Robuchon Monte-Carlo opened at the Métropole in 2004 as the first Riviera location of Robuchon's atelier-format dining concept; the restaurant has held two Michelin stars since 2005 and remains under Robuchon's posthumous group operation. The Yoshi Monte-Carlo opened in 2008 as Robuchon's Japanese counterpart on the same floor — one Michelin star since 2010 (the only Michelin Japanese on the Riviera coast). Lobby Bar & Lounge is the all-day venue with the Garcia-designed seating; the Odyssey pool restaurant in the gardens — the open-air poolside dining room re-skinned by Karl Lagerfeld in 2013 with black-and-white photographic tile work — is the summer terrace and the most photographed pool deck in the Principality. The Spa Métropole by Givenchy is the in-house wellness operation, with treatment rooms, thermal pool, hammam, and a Givenchy-signature treatment programme.

Position is the third proposition: Avenue de la Madone is two minutes' walk from the Place du Casino through the Carré d'Or shopping quarter (Hermès, Cartier, Chanel, Gucci of the Galerie du Métropole — the same Galerie that takes the Métropole's name and runs underground beneath the hotel). Eight minutes from Port Hercule on foot, fifteen from the Larvotto beaches. The Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo is the editorial answer for guests who want the Carré d'Or address, the Garcia interior vocabulary, the Robuchon dining programme, and the Lagerfeld pool deck — a more design-led, post-2000 alternative to the SBM Belle Époque programme three minutes east.

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