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Hôtel de Paris on Place du Casino, behind the fountain
Hôtel de Paris, Monte-Carlo. Arnaud 25, CC BY-SA 4.0

Dispatch № 006, 4 August 2026

Hôtel de Paris

The town closes for its own show.

Yacht Show week turns Monaco against itself: every berth in Port Hercule spoken for, the coast road one queue of brake lights.
Door to door
3 h 47
As searched from London
Searched for
22 September
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Fare as found
€1,062
Sampled on 4 August 2026; €195 of it the helicopter
The last leg
Helicopter
7 min

Hôtel de Paris keeps its rooms regardless, facing the Casino as it has since 1864.

The line we searched: British Airways from Heathrow at twenty past nine, Nice by half past twelve, then the Monacair shuttle, seven minutes over the cliffs to the door.

Three hours and forty-seven minutes, door to lobby. The helicopter is the leg that outruns the coast road.

When to go

  1. January: out of season
  2. February: out of season
  3. March: out of season
  4. April: out of season
  5. May: in season
  6. June: in season
  7. July: in season
  8. August: in season
  9. September: Monaco Yacht Show
  10. October: out of season
  11. November: out of season
  12. December: out of season

May to SeptemberMonaco Yacht Show

Monaco Yacht Show

23 to 26 September 2026

Make it yours

Start from your own city: the composer opens with Hôtel de Paris as the destination. Nothing runs until you press Find routes.

Or open the search exactly as we ran it, from London.

At the end of the line

Hôtel de Paris has faced the Casino on Place du Casino since 1864, at the centre of Monte-Carlo.

The glass canopy over the entrance of Hôtel de Paris
ThresholdThe entrance on Place du Casino. Arnaud 25, CC BY-SA 4.0
Fontvieille harbour at dusk, lights coming on along the water
HorizonFontvieille at dusk. Pierre Blaché, CC0

From Nice airport the helicopter to Monaco takes about seven minutes; by road it is about forty.

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