Beaches and VIP terraces of the 71st Cannes Festival

The best spots for your appointments where you can relax on the beaches and terraces of Cannes.

MAJESTIC PLAGE 71

The company A.D.R, an event company specializing in high-end events, organizes every year the beach of the Hotel Barrière Majestic (which bears the edition number of the festival, this year 71), it remains the most elegant beach of the VIP places of the Croisette during the entire duration of the Cannes festival.

The 20o Shanghai International Film Festival (#SIFF), one of the largest Asian festivals, is not deceived by entrusting A.D.R this year with the promotion of their presence, especially in the film market.

«To live happily, live hidden» is a little what defines the confidential access to this beach that is not immediately seen from the promenade bordering La Croisette. In addition to the bar and the large restaurant affiliated with Majestic, a refined beach restaurant, its private pontoon at the Mediterranean marine shoot, offering the possibility of a saving break between two galopades at the screenings, is also the place during the day of mult photos of stars in competition or the jury. The evenings on Majestic beach, always coveted, are reserved for parties for films and other events related to the festival, including the opening and closing evenings of the Cannes festival (invited evenings like all the Festival evenings).

Nespresso Beach

Nespresso, official partner of the Cannes Film Festival for 11 years and more specifically of La Semaine de la critique (SDC)*, organizes every year for four years gourmet meals with great chefs (by invitation), dinners with cinematic theme. This year, an innovation: four dinners (10, 12, 14 and 15 May) for four movie stars with their favourite chef and a battle (on 11 May) between three leaders of the FOODING guide and three leaders of the MICHELIN guide (all by invitation).

* The opening and closing evenings (13 and 16 May) of the SDC are held Nespresso Beach (by invitation).

Vertuo breakfasts «Nespresso intermissions») are organised (in the morning, of course...), as last year ; The dates of these Nespresso Vertuo 2018 breakfasts are May 10, 12, 13, 15 and 16. Access to Nespresso beach is open to holders of a press pass. It's always nice to spend a little coffee in the day and why not stroll during a coffee break on a rattan armchair by the beach...

For the past two years, a more direct cinema event (which will therefore be the third edition), took place: the short film contest «Nespresso Talents» with the live announcement of the three finalists and the presentation of their prizes during a morning (here, May 11)... A specific contest organised since February by Nespresso on a dedicated site and closed on 25 March 2018.

Magnum Beach

If you can't have a Magnum beach lunch, the number of calories ingested by eating their prepared ice cream on demand (irresistible) «killings») is amply enough for now its blood glucose level for a few hours... A festive place of day and night. Many movie parties and nightclubs (by invitation). The beach is freely accessible during the day for tasting.

Gray's beach in Albion

Barrière Gray hotel beach in Albion, this is the only VIP beach with free access provided you book a table or go to lunch late. The menu is excellent, the service nice.

Villa Schweppes

In 2018, with the latest news, the Schweppes beach will be installed again in the renovated nightclub at the top of the Casino which changes its name for Le Ka; The new thing to celebrate its tenth anniversary is that the Schweppes beach will set up its neighborhoods at the hotel in Mougins.

Read about this full article published on Le Blog de Cannes, expert in Cannoese evenings :

VILLA SCHWEPPES Programme 2018

Terrace Mouton-Cadet or Mouton-Cadet Wine bar (see programming)

Opened in 2011, this ultra-private wine bar is located on a terrace on the roof of the Palais des Festivals.

This year, the Mouton Cadet Wine bar opens its edition of the Cannes 2018 festival on «Sunset appetizers » (which proved their worth, inaugurated in 2017 by pianist and composer Michel Legrand) and film music with special guest of the opening evening on May 9, Keren Ann, author, composer and performer.

You can, if you have the sesame of entry, take a break there between 7pm and 9pm, you will meet many personalities and movie stars.PS. Note that this year, in addition to their famous wine Mouton Cadet red, you can also taste rosé wine and a new cocktail: the long drink Green Cadet.

Terrace UniFrance (Studio Cannes)

Born for Cannes 2018 of a new venue for cinema professionals during the 71o Festival:

La Terrasse UniFrance (integrated into the immense Studio Cannes renovated, 900 m2, some of which will be devolved to Unifrance, responsible for the promotion of French cinema, and the other party to the Chinese company Ciker Pictures).

Located on the roof of 5, rue des Belges a few brassses de la Croisette (a street close to the Hotel Majestic in the heart of the district of the city commonly named the «square gold»). The ensemble is also managed by the event company A.D.R (see Majestic beach 71 above).

Miramar beach