Carlton Cannes, A Regent Hotel

Of course this is a magnificent hotel with a storied history. A beautiful location, great staff, good gym/spa, pristine fittings. But it's the Gucci bag of hotels - a bit of a show off place where you pay a real premium for the experience. And don't expect your IHG status to carry much weight here - it feels like this Grand Dame isn't comfortable with acknowledging the IHG connection. My Platinum Elite status gained me one of the smallest rooms at the back of the hotel on the second level looking into the nearby balconies! The discrepancy between the photo of the room on the IHG app and the actual room felt like "bait and switch" which is not what I expect from IHG (and we travel 7-8 months of the year so understand there can be differences to the pix on hotel websites).

3.5 star is right for this place. We arrived via Uber and were waiting for a car in front of us to load their hotel guest. We saw bags and bags of Hermes, LV bags to be loaded in the boot, then the guest get on the car very slllloooowly. Then the driver was missing. It took a good 15min. of wait and what was shocking is no one in the hotel bellboy area felt a sense of urgency as this is a one way lane. So every car behind them gets longer and longer waiting for the rich and famous to be loaded. Upon arriving the reception told us as we are platinum members, they're preparing a "nice" room for us. When we went to our room, it was the smallest room - 23sqm facing an opposite building. The website show picture of a working desk that was missing too. Luckily it is just 1 night here. I guess because we paid Euro 1.4K a night, it shocked our system that this is the smallest room we stayed in our 3 weeks stay in Nice. They've a 24hr gym very spacious but the equipments they use from Italy are not good for Asian size. Eg. the abductor machine is painful for me to use as the length is wrong no matter how I adjust the seat. Spa has tiny room each for steam room and sauna. Breakfast is excellent though I wish they positioned their fruits in a better way. Some way up of eye level, blueberries right to the end in a hidden corner. The staff are all very friendly and helpful. Overall this is a place with a lot of pretentious people. Expensive handbags with face/lip/body job, so if you like Four Seasons hotel, you'll love it here.

It was a perfect and luxury stay in a truly high class hotel. Each section of service was on the highest level and we enjoyed all the moments.

the most iconic hotel in cannes exelent service(what make the hotel good) i am a top tier with ihg and recived the room almost at 16.00pm!! what we need benefits for? will stay agen there is nothing to comper with ather hotel the carlton is way better

Home away from home. I am treated as family not a guest. We had a one day stop on a cruise ship. We took the whole family to visit our home away from home which were treated extremely well. We will return July 1 to July 17 to enjoy the weekend Regent hotel as we have for the last 25 years.