Four Seasons Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat sits on the peninsula's high ground — Club Dauphin, its seawater pool club perched on the rocky shore, is the part a boat can reach.
The Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat's main building sits on high ground on the peninsula; guests reach Club Dauphin, its seawater pool club on the rocky shore below, by a glass funicular or a path down through the gardens. There's no sand beach here — the coastline is rock, with the infinity pool built into it.
A water taxi can come alongside near Club Dauphin, and your captain checks the rock shelf and sea state before confirming the exact spot. Guests staying at the hotel then take the funicular up to the main building.
Cap Ferrat sits between Nice and Monaco — typically 20 to 30 minutes by water taxi from either.
Club Dauphin's own description is 'perched above the rocky Mediterranean coastline' — the hotel built a funicular specifically because there's no easy road down to it. Arriving by boat is the water-level alternative to that funicular.
The hotel's own solution to reaching its clifftop pool club is a glass funicular built for the purpose. Coming by water taxi is the seaward equivalent — useful if you're day-visiting the club rather than staying at the hotel.
Club Dauphin's heated seawater infinity pool, cut into the rock since 1939, looks straight out over the Mediterranean — one of the more distinctive pool settings on this coast.