The Eden-Roc pavilion sits on the rocky tip of Cap d'Antibes with private pontoons — arriving by water taxi is how the hotel's own guests have reached it since the 1920s.
The Eden-Roc pavilion occupies the rocky point at the very tip of Cap d'Antibes, with private pontoons built into the rock for exactly this kind of arrival. There's no sand beach here — the coastline is rock — so a water taxi is, if anything, the natural way in.
Your captain brings you alongside the pontoons directly below the pavilion and its seawater pool, cut into the rock since 1914. If conditions on the point are too exposed, the fallback is Antibes' own port, a short transfer from the property by road.
From Cannes, the crossing of the bay is short — well under 30 minutes in calm weather. From Monaco or Nice Airport, allow closer to an hour along the coast.
Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc has drawn the international Riviera crowd to this rocky point since the 1920s, and its own guests have always arrived at the pavilion partly by boat — there simply isn't a road down to the water here.
The hotel's own access to the water is by pontoon, not a beach — the coastline is sheer rock. A water taxi is the most direct way to reach the Eden-Roc pavilion itself, rather than parking uphill and walking down through the pine gardens.
The seawater pool, blasted into the rock in 1914, and the Eden-Roc pavilion's terrace over the Mediterranean have made this one of the most photographed addresses on the Riviera for a century.