Fairmont Monte Carlo

For a large hotel, this must rank as one of the best. Its located a short walk to Casino Square, so your in the centre, the heart of Monaco. The entrance is huge, very spacious though busy. The staff throughout are extremely helpful and pleasant. The general decor and cleanliness is exceptional as are the rooms, which are larger than averge and have undergone a full refurbishment to a very high and luxurious standard with large modern en'suite. We had a sea / harbour view room which had a balcony with table chairs but only one lounger. The new pool area with cabanas and loungers are very nice, there's also pool side service, this is grest if you don't want the din you get from Niki Beach disco at the main pool area. The breakfast self service type buffet is exceptional with a vast choice of food served on the 7th floor so has wondeful views with some outside tables. There is a choice of different restaurants within the hotel, but the Lobby Bar restaurant headed up by Jean-Baptiste and his team offer a wonderful choice if you want a relaxed meal while overlooking the Med and Monaco Harbour entrance in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. Really can't fault it.

We had a fantastic experience at Amì, the rooftop restaurant at the Fairmont Monaco. The views over the harbour were absolutely stunning – one of the best dining backdrops we’ve ever had. The food was exceptional, truly some of the best I’ve had in France (and that’s saying something!). Service was excellent; fast, attentive, and full of great recommendations for both food and drinks. We had booked a table in advance, which I highly recommend as it gets busy, especially with that view. The location is ideal, right next to the iconic Grand Prix hairpin bend, perfect for photos and people-watching. We’d definitely rush back next time we’re in Monaco!

Upon arrival, we had to switch rooms three times! The first room was seemingly in the basement, had no air conditioning, and the bed sounded like it was 100 years old with squeaky springs! Our second room had a safe that was not secured at all and simply sitting on the shelf, waiting for someone to remove it along with our valuables. The hotel management was not extremely helpful and simply offered us a drink in the bar for all of our troubles. Not being drinkers, we just ripped it up. I’m sure if we had the money of some of the many other guests, our concerns would’ve been addressed more quickly and efficiently. Well the room on the six floor was well appointed and comfortable, the noise from the pool on the seventh floor, and the scraping up tables and chairs in the restaurant on the seventh floor, made a good nights sleep difficult. There doesn’t seem to be any design to prevent excessive noise to guests. To add insult to injury, because they had all of the doors open in the restaurant, there were a high amount of wasps and even birds. As a result, I was stung by a wasp before breakfast had even been started. Extremely disappointed and it definitely affected our overall visit to Monico. This is definitely not even a four-star hotel and should be avoided at all costs.

This hotel has a phenomal location in Monte Carlo without a doubt. We stayed for a week and enjoyed it. On the positive side you get a hotel with a great location and the staff is overall friendly and service minded. Breakfast view was beautiful and food was great. On the negative side, it is a bit of a party hotel with Nikki beach on the rooftop. It felt a bit too much at times with noisy guests in the middle of the night. Also the house-keeping was not good and they forgot to clean twice.

We stayed in Fairmont for one night with the plan to come back after four days and spend four more nights in Fairmont. However, we were very disappointed with the hotel policy in trying to force us to pay for 2 rooms although the one we have booked online was sufficient. For more context, I am travelling with my wife and our two small children (7 and 4 yo) and, although we've booked a room with 2 double beds (more than enough to suit our needs), we were informed that it is the hotel's policy to not allow more than 3 persons in the room. In other words, we should have booked 2 rooms just because of the 4 year old. Most probably the second room would have stayed empty as the two double beds were more than enough for us, as you may observe from the photo. When asked why this policy, we were told that it is for security reasons, but to be honest our feeling was that it was for their own profit, not really caring about our needs. As it can be observed from the photo the 2 double beds are more than enough to suit 2 adults and 2 small children (7 and 4 yo). In addition to that, the shower head from the bathroom was broken, one of the chairs on the balcony was broken (see attached foto) and it's been quite a while since anyone had washed the balcony. Food on the top floor restaurant was also disappointing. So this hotel is not children friendly. Stay away if you are travelling as a family with small children and you don't feel like paying for rooms you don't really need. In the end we stayed in the booked room for one night, without paying for a second one, and we cancelled the other stay. The front desk didn't seem to care when cancelling our second stay and informing them of the reason.