With 103 rooms, Château de la Messardière is Saint-Tropez’s largest hotel but with 12.5 hectares of gardens woven into the fabric of the coastal town, it feels like a peaceful sanctuary…a place to find rest and relaxation, and a home-away-from-home atmosphere on a quiet hillside overlooking the Bay of Pampelonne. The decor is just as exquisite, drawing inspiration from the Roaring Twenties. Like the new lobby entirely dressed in natural tones with hints of gold, and the restaurants, be it L’Auberge des Maures with its family-style dining and Mediterranean flavours or Matsuhisa with a panoramic terrace. The hotel is also home to Jardin Tropezina, a beach club minutes from the hotel by Mini-Moke or Rolls Royce and La Table de La Messardière where breakfast is served in keeping with Airelle’s spirit of generosity. Another highlight of the hotel is time spent by the pool with views over the Gulf of Saint-Tropez. Surrounded by olive and lemon trees, it’s a scenery that borders on the surreal while elsewhere the 1,000-square-metre Valmont Spa offers a vast array of treatments along with a meditation room, sauna and hammam, a large indoor pool and a salon by Christophe-Nicolas Biot.