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The Hotel du Cap Eden Roc, Cap d’Antibes sits on a hill commanding 22 acres of gardens and woodland, between Nice and Cannes. From the 19th-century château, a broad carriage walk rolls down to Eden Roc, surely the most exclusive beach club on the Côte d’Azur. There is, however, nothing so vulgar as a beach (the pool above photographed by Slim Aarons). F Scott Fitzgerald immortalised it as the Hôtel des Etrangers in Tender Is the Night. Since it's opening in 1889, the hotel has only accepted cash as payment, although recently it has accepted credit cards.