Belles Rives

Plage Belles Rives lies below the Hôtel Belles Rives at Juan-les-Pins, on the Côte d'Azur. It is the hotel's own beach: a strip of fine golden sand, a solarium and a pontoon with a private landing stage, about two hundred metres from the Hôtel Juana and reached by the hotel's valet service or a path through the pines. The hotel is the former Villa Saint-Louis, where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald stayed from 1925; Boma Estène and his wife Simone bought the villa in 1929 and made it a hotel. The Estène-Chauvin family has run it since, with Antoine Chauvin-Estène in charge from 2017.

The day is sold to the public. The operator publishes two rates, one public and one for residents, for a sunbed with parasol on the sand, in the front row on the sand, or on the pontoon; a cabin and towels are charged apart. In the spring period, from 20 April to 30 May 2026, a sand sunbed was 30 euro on the public rate, 40 in the front row and 55 on the pontoon. Booking is obligatory, online or by phone and e-mail, and the beach is open daily from nine to six, with lifeguards from half past eleven. For the summer of 2026, from May to September, the parasols and loungers were redesigned with Burberry.

Water-skiing at its source. The hotel places the first water-ski attempts in the bay in the 1920s, and runs its own water-ski club, with lessons offered from the age of three.

Lunch at the water. La Plage Belles Rives serves lunch on the beach and brings food to the loungers, and the operator states that the beach is accessible to guests with reduced mobility.

Sources

• bellesrives.com, beach and water-skiing page, read 5 October 2026 — fine golden sand, beach huts, solarium, pontoon with private landing stage; 200 m from Hôtel Juana, reached by valet or pine-forest path; lifeguards 11:30–18:00; Burberry redesign of parasols and loungers May–September 2026; water-ski first achieved in the bay in the 1920s; Belles Rives Water-Skiing Club, lessons from age 3; sunbed booking online
• bellesrives.com, spring 2026 rate sheet (PDF), read 5 October 2026 — 20 April to 30 May; public / resident per day: pontoon 55/50 euro, sand first row 40/35, sand 30/25; cabin 15, towel 8; public rates are sunbed and parasol only; Réservations obligatoires; daily 9:00–18:00; +33 4 93 61 02 79, info@bellesrives.com
• bellesrives.com, history and identity page, read 5 October 2026 — Fitzgeralds at Villa Saint-Louis from 1925; bought by Boma and Simone Estène in 1929 and made a hotel; Casimir Estène after 1970; Marianne Estène-Chauvin, then Antoine Chauvin-Estène from 2017
• bellesrives.com, home page and La Plage Belles Rives page, read 5 October 2026 — Estène-Chauvin family since 1929; restaurant La Plage Belles Rives, lunch, desserts served to the sun lounger; beach accessible to guests with reduced mobility
• bellesrives.com, press page, read 5 October 2026 — release 'Burberry arrives at Hôtel Belles Rives for the summer', 12 May 2026
• antibesjuanlespins.com, les plages, read 5 October 2026 — private beaches across the town rent mattresses with parasols and serve food (context only)
• Note — a separate low-season rate sheet exists on the operator's site; not read. Parking given as 25 euro on the beach page and valet as 20 euro for up to six hours on the rate sheet; not used in the text.
• Sensor evidence, read 5 October 2026 — price: the operator's own rate sheet (sand sunbed 30 euro a day, spring 2026); way in for an outsider: the operator's public rate and its booking page, phone and e-mail.

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Classified by The Collection House · Edition 2026 · LHL-U-082
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