\t\t\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n
\t\t\t\t\tL\u2019Oasis du Martinez, courtesy of Nicolas Grosmond <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\u201cThe Martinez has been a star long before this,\u201d says Tamara Lohan, Hyatt\u2019s global brand leader of luxury. \u201cThis is just another pin in the history of the hotel. Martinez became the definitive French Riviera beach club decades before beach clubs became a global trend.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWord on the Croisette is that the Martinez will ultimately receive the lion\u2019s share of the screen time and production days, despite Airelles Ch\u00e2teau de la Messardi\u00e8re \u2014 reimagined onscreen as \u201cWhite Lotus du Cap\u201d \u2014 serving as the season\u2019s other major hotel anchor.<\/p>\n \n\tOpened in 1929 by Emmanuel Martinez during the Roaring \u201920s, the art deco hotel, now with more than 400 rooms, quickly became one of the French Riviera\u2019s defining social theaters. Through wars, movie-star eras, yacht booms and influencer takeovers, it has remained Cannes\u2019 unofficial headquarters for glamour and spectacle.<\/p>\n \n\tActresses descend the seven-story staircase with photo crews like they\u2019re already on the red carpet. Influencers stage balcony shoots with their breakfast trays, echoing the curated vacation narcissism that defines nearly every White Lotus guest. Jewelry couriers carrying armored cases disappear into the famously tiny elevators. Even a few days before the festival officially began, the hotel already felt like a functioning production set.<\/p>\n \n\tOne afternoon, the rooftop penthouses were being transformed into a temporary compound for Chopard, which buys out the entire top floor every year. Below, L\u2019Or\u00e9al Paris teams moved through a beauty studio buildout with a massive photo opp overlooking the ocean, while on the beach, crews create a pop-up Air France lounge.<\/p>\n \n\tThe beach, the pool and a boat are the holy trinity of the White Lotus universe, and Martinez has them all.<\/p>\n \n\tThe hotel\u2019s L\u2019Oasis pool garden \u2014 hidden slightly farther inside the property away from the frenzy of the Croisette \u2014 mimics the show\u2019s poolside power plays. Surrounded by palms and cabanas, unpacking who\u2019s sitting where with whom is as juicy as the perfect-cut fruit platters that appear on every table. Lounge chair positioning doubles as a social hierarchy chart.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tRestaurant La Palme d\u2019Or, courtesy of Bob\/Remi Tessier<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n\tIt is also guaranteed that TWL will tap into the mythology of the Martinez. The hotel\u2019s corridors are lined with black-and-white celebrity photographs documenting nearly a century of Cannes history. Grecian-inspired murals stretch across walls. Decorative flourishes as painted skies create moments that already feel slightly surreal, as if they could come to life at any moment.<\/p>\n \n\tThe hotel\u2019s tiny elevators, hilariously unequipped for modern Cannes realities like couture gowns and glam teams, routinely force strangers into uncomfortable proximity. Guests find themselves shoulder to shoulder with celebrities, all pretending not to notice each other.<\/p>\n \n\tGeneral manager Michel Cottray says some of his favorite moments occur in the elevators as he escorts stars discreetly through the property.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe shared the same lift for 20 seconds,\u201d he says of accompanying countless celebrities. \u201cSo we already have a history.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCottray, who is leading the hotel through his fourth Cannes Film Festival, says the property\u2019s existing infrastructure made it uniquely suited for White Lotus-level production demands.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe offer a more secure, protected environment, which makes stars and VIPs more comfortable,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n \n\tTWL hasn\u2019t officially begun filming at the Martinez yet, though Cottray confirms discussions have been underway for more than a year. Staff members from the property have already visited the active Saint-Tropez set at Airelles Ch\u00e2teau de la Messardi\u00e8re to observe how the HBO production operates on\u202fsite. \n\tAs in previous seasons, the production is expected to fully or partially buy out its hotel locations while immersing itself deeply in the surrounding destination. Although there\u2019s no word yet on when the new White Lotus guests will check in, multiple weeks appear blocked off on the Martinez booking calendar in both June and September.<\/p>\n \n\tWhile H\u00f4tel Martinez has survived a world war and nearly 80 years of the Cannes Film Festival, one thing is certain: In the world of White Lotus, somebody probably won\u2019t survive the\u202ftrip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hollywoodreporter.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Few experiences can match the thrill of arriving at the H\u00f4tel Martinez during the Cannes Film Festival, the kind of scene that feels ripped from the arrival sequence from any one of the past three seasons of The White Lotus. It\u2019s a descent into organized, performative chaos under the watchful eyes of an unflinching, five-star-trained, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2419585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[469714,24379,169925],"class_list":["post-2419584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-cannes-2026","tag-international","tag-the-white-lotus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-White-Lotus-Has-Found-Its-Perfect-Hotel-in-Cannes-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419586,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419584\/revisions\/2419586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n
\u201cThey will transform the property to their needs,\u201d Cottray says. \u201cBut they are very professional.\u201d<\/p>\n