Luxury Travel Advisor - January 2009 - (Page 22)

ROOMS AT LE BEAUVALLON are refreshingly simple and boast views of the gardens and Bay of St-Tropez. ACCESS: Just outside of St-Tropez, at the famed AGS Formule 1 (www. agsformule1.com) driving school, your VIP clients can choose from a variety of adventures in F1, F3 and Grand Prix racing cars, doing laps around the Circuit du Var. Customized events can be arranged, as well as photos and videos of your clients’ experience. There is a helipad onsite, so clients can chopper in. Travel advisors can contact Sales Manager Nathalie Auvray (mail@agsfor mule1.com; 011-33-494-609-700) for details and reservations. zucchini soup and salmon sushi. Don’t miss the slow-roasted lamb cannelloni with lamb chops. A stay here will not only make your clients feel like royalty, it will encourage them to get an education and stoke their creativity as well. There is a wine school in the ancient caves and a cookery school in an old fortress. Treatments in the private spa include Thai and Swedish massages, reflexology, manicures and pedicures and skin therapies. Relaxation is completely in the cards at Berne. Its sparkling heated pool overlooks the vines, olive trees and forest that are part of the property. The Parc des Autruches is a large playground/ picnic area where families can enjoy the beautiful landscape. Sports enthusiasts can play tennis and boules, go biking or head to a nearby golf course. Oenophiles can participate in wine tastings. Luxury travel advisors should reach out to Sales Representative Vanessa Gringet (vanessagringet@ chateauberne.com; 011-33-049460-4888) for VIP requests. The most luxurious and exclusive property we visited in Provence was Le Beauvallon (www.hotel-lebeauvallon.com). This grand Belle Époque palace, constructed in 1914, gracefully stands between the villages of Grimaud and St. Maxime right by the Bay of St-Tropez on the French Riviera. Lady Churchill and Senator Edward Kennedy have stayed here and legend has it that this is where F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Tender is the Night. The hotel can arrange for a limousine or helicopter transfer from the Nice airport or, if they’re arriving by private jet, from La Mole Airport, about 20 minutes away. Of the 64 rooms, the most requested is the Sea View Room, which overlooks the Bay of StTropez and serves up the most dazzling sunrises. The top suite in the house is the new fourthfloor Sky Suite, which also overlooks the bay. Tip: If you are booking a clan or group, ask for a Family Suite, interconnecting Sea View Room or Studio Suite. All accommodations have king-size beds and Bulgari bathroom amenities. The décor evokes a Mediterranean feel, with oriental silks for a touch of the exotic, and French windows evoke the Belle Époque. St-Tropez is only eight minutes away by boat from the hotel’s private pontoon. Tip: A Beauvallon butler can arrange a private boat charter for the day. The hotel chef will pack a picnic, complete with some Provençal rosé, and off your clients go for a slow cruise around the French Riviera. Equally relaxing is the 82-foot, heated infinity-edge pool and hot tub, flanked by cabanas and sun loungers. Then there’s the 18-hole Golf de Beauvallon, clay-court Tennis Club de Beauvallon and Beauvallon Sailing Club, where guests can take sailing and windsurfing lessons. Each of the two 98-foot private Spa Studios has a decked terrace overlooking a Japanese Zen garden, a private steam room, jet showers and whirlpool for two, where your clients can be reinvigorated with an exclusively imported Japanese volcanic mineral soak. Our insiders say that the most-requested treatment is the Beauvallon Midnight Romance for couples only. This two-hour massage session includes a bottle of Champagne, a silver platter of fresh mint leaves dipped in chocolate, an aromatic flower-petal bath and lit candles around the deck area. For spa reservations, contact Head Butler Jacky Grenon (reservation@lebeauvallon.com; 011-33-04-9455-7888). Les Colonnades, headed by Executive Chef Jean Michel Belin, is a fine example of creative gourmet dining. Our party sat down to an inventive meal of royale of duck foie gras and sakura salad with yuzu, fillet of beef au gratin with morels and a spicy demi-glace and a composition of red fruits and chibouste cream. Cocktails, appetizers and breakfast can be enjoyed in Le Salon Sud, where floor-to-ceiling French windows provide views of the terrace and the bay beyond. For bookings, travel advisors can contact Reservations Manager Assma Couhaili (reservation@ lebeauvallon.com; 011-33-049455-7888). For VIP requests, contact Director of Sales and Marketing Véronique Lenoir (commercial@lebeauvallon.com; 011-33-04-9455-7888). July and August are the most popular months, so book well in advance. The hotel is closed from late October to April. 22 LUXURY TRAVEL ADVISOR | January 2009 http://www.agsformule1.com http://www.agsformule1.com http://www.hotel-lebeauvallon.com

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