Where Do F1 Drivers Stay During The Monaco Grand Prix?
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The Monaco Grand Prix is the hardest weekend of the year to get a hotel room on the French Riviera. The 2026 race runs June 5 to 7, and most of the rooms inside the principality are already gone, booked a year out by F1 teams, sponsors, and the same group of returning hospitality clients.
So where do the drivers and teams actually stay?
Unlike the NFL or NBA, F1 doesn’t have a league office picking team hotels. Each constructor handles its own block, drivers often pick something separate, and a real share of the paddock spends the weekend on yachts moored in Port Hercule. But the same handful of hotels comes up over and over, year after year.
Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo
For race weekend, this is where you’ll find ownership groups, sponsors hosting clients, and senior team principals when they’re not on a yacht. Rooms with a view onto the Casino square watch cars come through Casino corner from the bedroom window. There is no closer hotel to Turn 4.
CREDIT: SBM Monte-Carlo
Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo
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Book Your Stay ›Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo
If there’s one hotel that gets called the F1 hotel year after year, it’s the Metropole. It sits on the inside of the circuit and gets named consistently across F1 hospitality and travel coverage as the favorite of paddock guests, drivers, and visiting team executives during race week. The Joël Robuchon restaurant on property pulls in a serious driver and team-principal crowd over the weekend.
CREDIT: Metropole Monte-Carlo
Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo
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Book Your Stay ›Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
The Hermitage is the choice for drivers who want a real night of sleep. Same SBM service standard as the Hôtel de Paris next door, slightly less paparazzi attention. Direct access to the Thermes Marins spa is part of more than one driver’s race-week recovery routine. Race-weekend rates run the highest of any hotel inside the principality, often into the five figures per night for a suite.
CREDIT: SBM Monte-Carlo
Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
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Book Your Stay ›Fairmont Monte Carlo
The Fairmont is built on top of the most famous corner in Formula 1. The hairpin that wraps around the base of the hotel is officially the Fairmont Hairpin, the slowest corner on any F1 calendar. Cars come through at roughly 30 mph, close enough to street-side rooms that the engine note rattles the windows. It is the only hotel with rooms physically inside the circuit, and where a number of crew members and sponsor guests end up when the SBM hotels are full.
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Fairmont Monte Carlo
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Book Your Stay ›Le Méridien Beach Plaza
The Méridien Beach Plaza is the most common choice for full team blocks: mechanics, engineers, and crew who need a working hotel with real meeting space, not a five-star showpiece. It sits about ten minutes east of the circuit on Avenue Princesse Grace, slightly removed from the Casino-square chaos, and the private beach matters more than it sounds during a six-day work week.
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Le Méridien Beach Plaza
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Book Your Stay ›The Yachts in Port Hercule
A real share of the paddock skips hotels entirely. The yachts moored in Port Hercule, the harbor that the F1 circuit wraps around for the swimming-pool section, become floating hospitality suites for the weekend. Sponsors charter them. Team principals invite drivers. Drivers bring family.
It’s not unusual for a driver to spend race week on a yacht 200 meters from the start-finish straight, walk down a gangway on Sunday morning, and be in the garage in five minutes. Privacy is a real factor. So is the commute.
For fans, yacht charters are the most expensive way to do Monaco GP. A weekend on a mid-sized boat with paddock-club style hospitality runs into six figures.
If You Can’t Get a Hotel in Monaco
Most fans don’t get a hotel in Monaco for race weekend. The principality has fewer than 2,500 hotel rooms total, and a large share of them are pre-committed to teams, sponsors, and hospitality programs. The realistic move is to base in Nice, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, or Cap d’Ail and commute in.
The train from Nice to Monaco-Monte-Carlo takes about 20 minutes and runs frequently through race weekend. It’s the same train F1 staff and crew use, since traffic into Monaco effectively stops on Thursday morning when the circuit closes. A rental car is the worst option of all three.
How We Know
We pulled this together from F1 hospitality operators (the companies that book teams and corporate clients into Monte Carlo every year), driver and team-principal interviews, and the same set of forum threads and fan reports we used for the NFL hotels guide. Hotel choices in Monaco are unusually consistent year over year, partly because the principality is small and partly because the F1 hospitality business is built on long-running relationships with the same dozen properties.
If you’re planning a trip for the 2027 race, start the booking process the week after this year’s race finishes. By July, every property on this list is gone for the following May or June.
Know of an F1 team or driver hotel we missed? Let us know and we’ll update the list.
