Former Palace: Winter Palace Hotel

Classified in the category of luxury hotels, the hotel had 220 rooms and suites. It was equipped with all the latest improvements in “modern comfort” at the time: garage, electricity, central heating, elevator, bathroom or toilet in the rooms, restaurant, smokehouse, billiard, reading, bridge, ladies’ lounge, etc.
Its permanent staff exceeded sixty employees, not to mention the special domestic service that often accompanied customers. The hotel welcomed from its opening the rich winterers of the European aristocracy, mainly English and Russian, who often stayed there for several months, the climate of Menton being renowned at the time as being the best in Europe for health. This was the most prosperous period of his life, which lasted until the eve of the 1914-1918 war.

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