the famous mile of sand
Pampelonne: every club on the legendary beach.
Five kilometres of pale sand outside Saint-Tropez carry more legend per metre than any beach on earth — and almost every great name on it keeps a pontoon, because the clientele it was built for arrives by sea. Here is the whole mile, club by club, from a crew that runs guests to it all season.
the mile, from the sea
The legend: Club 55 and Tahiti
Club 55 is where it all began — feeding the beach since Vadim filmed Bardot in 1955, and still the hardest lunch table in August: crudités basket, grilled fish, cold Domaines Ott, sand floor, no music. Its refusal to change is the whole luxury. A little north, Tahiti Beach holds the other half of the founding myth — the fifties original that taught the Riviera what a beach club was. Between them they are Pampelonne’s old testament, and both are booked when your charter is.
The party end: Nikki, Bagatelle, Verde
Nikki Beach is the full production — white daybeds, champagne showers, the afternoon as spectacle. Bagatelle brings the Saint-Barth formula of lunch that becomes dancing on the tables, and Verde does the same arc with a sleeker, later-night polish. This is the end of the beach our party charters point at: arrive by pontoon around one, surrender the afternoon, and let the tender bring you home glowing.
shall we put a date in?
We reply within the day
The chic end: La Réserve à la Plage, Casa Amor, Loulou
For the day that wants glamour at a lower volume: La Réserve à la Plage does quiet perfection with a serious kitchen, Casa Amor layers boho linen and Mediterranean-meets-Tulum plates, and Loulou brings its arty Parisian cool to the sand. These are the tables for long conversations and longer rosé — the Pampelonne afternoon as a slow luxury rather than a crescendo.
And save a word for the corner of the map: around in the Baie des Canoubiers, Shellona throws its Greek-island afternoons — barefoot glamour, sparklers at dusk, and a bay made for arriving by boat. Technically not Pampelonne; spiritually essential. Whichever of the mile’s moods fits your party, name it when you book and the pontoon is expecting you.
The short answers
Tell us the afternoon you imagine — legendary and unchanged (Club 55), full party (Nikki, Bagatelle, Verde), or chic and unhurried (La Réserve à la Plage, Casa Amor, Loulou) — and we will match the table and time the day around it.
The clubs keep pontoons and tender service through the season: we anchor off the sand, the crew calls the club, and you step ashore dry — the entrance the beach was designed around.
further down the chart
Your next summer story begins here.
One boat, one crew, up to 10 guests, and a coast that is entirely yours for the day. Tell us how you want to spend it and the rest is ours to arrange. The day is yours and it is our pleasure to be part of it.