8 Best Beachfront Hotels in Nice — Promenade (2026)

Hotel Negresco has stood on the Promenade des Anglais since 1913, facing the Mediterranean beach in the centre of Nice. Its round pink dome and white facade are a symbol of the city. All 124 rooms are decorated differently, and the hotel holds 6,000 real artworks — including Louis XV portraits, work by Niki de Saint Phalle, and a Salvador Dalí. The restaurant Le Chantecler carries 2 Michelin stars. It scores 8.7/10, with rooms from about $529 a night, and suits couples and travelers who want a genuine Belle Époque stay above anything else.

Hyatt Regency Nice Palais de la Méditerranée kept the 1929 Art Deco facade of the old casino building and built a modern 5-star behind it. The 187 rooms run cream and navy, and many have a private balcony looking straight at the sea. The headline feature is the heated rooftop pool with a 180-degree view of the beach and Castle Hill, and Casino Barrière sits right underneath the hotel, open until 04:00. You are on Promenade des Anglais at numbers 13–15, opposite the widest public beach in town, with Place Masséna and Old Town about a 10-minute walk east. The score is 8.7/10 and rooms start around $406 a night. Best for couples and families who want a modern 5-star with a real pool right on the Promenade, rather than the antique charm next door at the Negresco.

AC Hotel by Marriott Nice sits at No. 59 Promenade des Anglais on the western stretch, about 1.5 km from the heart of Old Town — but it faces the beach the same way the Negresco and Hyatt do, and starts from $223 a night, less than half their price. The 142 rooms run AC's modern, Spanish-inspired look — clean lines, parquet floors, marble in the bathrooms — and the higher categories add a sea-facing balcony. Down in the lobby, the AC Lounge pours proper Spanish gin-tonics and serves tapas. It scores 8.6/10, and it's the best value pick for anyone who wants to be across the road from the water without paying 5-star rates.

Hotel La Pérouse hides at the foot of Castle Hill, the easternmost end of the Promenade des Anglais — a spot plenty of people miss because the entrance is a small one, yet everyone who stays rates it 9.0/10. It is a 4-star boutique of 56 rooms, every one with a sea-view balcony, plus an outdoor pool set in a lemon garden inside the hotel, which only a handful of Nice hotels can offer. The beach on Quai des États-Unis is a 2-minute walk down, and one alley puts you in Old Town in 1 minute. Rates start around $308 a night, the score is the highest on this list, and the whole place is built for couples who want quiet and Old Town in the same breath.

Hotel West End Promenade has been open since 1842 at No. 31 on the Promenade des Anglais — the same seafront strip as the Negresco, but for a lot less money. The 122 rooms keep a classic French look: heavy gold-and-blue curtains, parquet floors, cream-marble bathrooms. Some rooms add a sea-facing balcony; the rest get a big window. Downstairs there's the Le Siecle restaurant and a vintage-feel lobby bar. It scores 8.3/10 and starts around $186 a night, which is roughly 65% below the Negresco for the same view across the road. The catch worth knowing: rooms come renovated or not, so the experience swings on which one you land. Best for travelers who want the old-Nice atmosphere without the top-tier price, and who like having Place Magenta and its cheap eats a 5-minute walk behind the hotel.

Hotel Aston La Scala sits on Avenue Felix Faure, a central street between Place Massena and Old Town — 400 m from Promenade des Anglais and a 3-minute walk to Place Massena, the heart of the city. The 151 rooms are modern, with parquet floors and king-size beds, and run 18–24 sq m on the standard tier. The draw is the rooftop pool on the 7th floor, with a poolside bar and views of Old Town, Castle Hill and the far end of the Promenade. There is a full gym and Le Spinnaker, a Mediterranean restaurant off the lobby. It scores 8.4/10 and starts at about $157 a night — roughly 20–40% below the seafront hotels, which makes it the best-value 4-star with a pool in town.

Mercure Nice Promenade des Anglais sits at No. 2 on the western Promenade, right across the road from Plage de Carras. The 122 rooms wear the current Mercure look — blue-and-white Mediterranean tones, parquet floors, a small balcony in some of them. The draw here is the outdoor pool, open in summer and genuinely hard to find on this stretch of beach at this rate. There's a gym, a lobby bar that runs all day, and multilingual staff who handle English and French. Old Town is the trade-off — it's 2.5 km away, a 30-minute walk or 12 minutes on Tram L1 from Carras. But the airport is closer than from any other hotel on this list, and from $150 a night with pool, beach and an Accor name behind it, this is the family-budget pick. ALL — Accor Live Limitless members shave another 10% off.

Boscolo Exedra Nice sits on Boulevard Victor Hugo, a working city street 350 m (about a 5-minute walk) back from the Promenade des Anglais. It belongs to Italy's Boscolo Hotels, a group known across Europe for its spas and design, and the 121 rooms run gold-and-beige with parquet floors and marble bathrooms. The reason to book is downstairs: a 1,000 sq m wellness floor with a Roman bath, a heated indoor pool open year-round, a Turkish hammam and a Finnish sauna — all free to guests. There's a Mediterranean fine-dining restaurant off the lobby, and Place Massena with the shopping and the edge of Old Town is another 5 minutes on foot. It scores 8.5/10 and starts around $270 a night, which is a lot for a hotel that isn't on the sand — so this is really one for couples who'd trade a sea view for a spa day.