Private chauffeur at the Carlton, Cannes

The Carlton is on the Boulevard de la Croisette, a short drive from the Palais des Festivals. In normal times the chauffeur stops at the access reserved for arrivals, under the direction of the reception staff. During the Film Festival, MIPIM or Cannes Lions, traffic is filtered, the line of cars lengthens and some stretches of the Croisette are closed: the approach then goes through the parallel streets.

From Nice Airport allow half an hour to forty minutes outside events, more on busy days. The Nice to Cannes transfer page details the journey times by season.

Nearby places are many: the Palais des Festivals and the Old Port, Le Suquet and its lanes, Rue d'Antibes and its shops, the private beaches of the Croisette, and Quai Laubeuf for the boats to the Lérins islands. A full-day chauffeur links these places and collects you outside the hotel when you wish.

For dinner in Mougins or lunch in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, the chauffeur organises the outward and return journeys with an agreed wait, saving you from driving in the hinterland.

The most requested rides from the Carlton go to Nice Airport, to Antibes and Juan-les-Pins, to Mougins and Grasse for the hinterland, to Saint-Tropez for a day, and to Monaco. In event weeks, appointments multiply between the Palais and neighbouring hotels.

The town's events have their own pages with traffic constraints and advised timings.