Located opposite the beach, just a few yards from the famous boardwalk and the Casino Barriere de Deauville, the Royal Barriere has been welcoming the world’s most illustrious stars since 1913. Today, its sumptuous setting and its superb swimming pool continue to offer the perfect destination for the holiday of your dreams. Hôtel Barrière Le Royal Deauville enjoys the best location in town—and makes the most of it. The 1913 Belle Epoque building rises imperially above its own private garden facing a pristine stretch of sandy beach, just steps from Deauville’s meeting venues and luxury-shopping streets but in a quiet neighborhood of classic Norman half-timbered villas. The hotel offers unobstructed views of a spectacular swath of the Normandy coastline from Le Havre in the east to Ouistreham in the west. The show goes on in the hotel’s grand public rooms, decorated with photos of the movie stars, polo champions and other international figures who have made Le Royal their headquarters hotel for generations.

Guests of the Hôtel Barrière Le Royal Deauville are encouraged to feel that they have entered another era—one where it would not feel out of place to have packed a velvet smoking jacket or a silk peignoir. Public areas and guest quarters are decorated with unabashed old-world glamour: extravagant drapery, crystal chandeliers, rich color schemes. While proud of its historic ties to the entertainment industry and the world of sports, Hôtel Barrière Le Royal Deauville is equally proud of how it has staked out new territory in hospitality, adding yoga by the hip French firm Le Tigre to its offerings at the Diane Barrière spa and retooling the menu in its classic restaurant, Côté Royal, to focus on lighter fare. The hotel’s concierge staff can arrange for guests to try their hands at traditional Deauville activities like horseback riding on the beach, as well as privileged entrée to the resort’s busy program of cultural events.