CANNES IS A SMALL TOWN AND ITS BEACHFRONT LINED WITH SUPER PRICEY AND HIGHCLASS DESIGNER BOUTIQUES START FROM MARTINEZ HOTEL AT ONE END AND THE PALACE FESTIVAL HALL AT THE OTHER!
And if you walk slowly without entering the tempting stores and melting your platinum cards, it takes a leisurely 30 minutes!
Indeed after the second day, you will have discovered all of Cannes! The cheaper and just as fun shopping promenade is parallel to the main beach strip as apparently not every local is a multi-millionaire!
The main beach front is called Croisette and is world famous while its poor cousin running behind with no direct beach frontage is rue de Antibes. Here are fun, fashionable boutiques, shops, cafes and restaurants which normal Malaysians can afford. If you are a peasant and low class with no money you would not waste time visiting Cannes in the first place.
And especially during Cannes Film Festival when hotel rooms are booked and paid a year ahead to guarantee rooms are available for movie stars who expect to stay in Carlton, Miramar, Novotel, Martinez, Grand Palace and any of the 5-star hotels facing the sea. Even if your room does not! But the main thing is staying in a beach facing hotel to save face OK!
Expect to pay RM 1,000 minimum per night and I must say these so-called grand hotels are not that impressive either! Certainly not in the league of the grande dame hotels of Paris and London!

This is rue de Antibes the second street parallel to high class Croisette!

But they still sell cool shoes which are not cheap!


JW Marriott hosts the world famous VIP Club where the big stars and Kee Hua Chee go

The Carlton is certainly eye catching with its magnificent facade used to advertise everything from Avakian jewels to movie posters!

Hello Brad Pitt

Hello great Gatsby

Hello cool car

Classy Carlton

Classy Carlton

This photo of The Great Gatsby on Carlton must have appeared a million times in cyberspace!


The palm trees inspired the Golden Palm award for best movie!



Classy Croisette

The good life on Croisette

Cafe society on Croisette next to Carlton---cool!

Lone palm facing Miramar

Works of art on sale

Looks like Dali but are not


Martinez

Martinez hotel

Martinez

My wheels in Cannes...OK so I lied

Nice cars

What a life

This is still Cannes, not Disneyland Paris


The stately and majestic Croisette boulevard

My dream car but in red

I will take the motorbike if I can't get the car

Carlton

Dato Nancy Yeoh with her RM 112,000 crocodile carryall

Creators of the bag at Carlton hotel

Designed for me and Arab types

Croc and diamond shoes

Very de nice

The backdrop is fake but the bike is real

What a darling doggie but my Dedione Kee is best

Glam couple

The car's owner allows tourists to enter and photograph

Cannes can be windy and cold!

Croisette

Flashiness gets Kee Hua Chee everywhere

Deep impact!

Look at the super yachts

La Croisette

One of the many pop-up beach clubs

Street performers

Sensational


Weird creature

Street show

Everyone blends in

Beach clubs

This fur coat is my favourite. It is by Fendi and costs RM 128,000
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