The published rates, chauffeur included: the Mercedes S-Class and the V-Class van at EUR 155 per hour, VAT included, in Cannes (3-hour minimum, EUR 465; EUR 1,240 for the day; on quotation in Monaco); the Mercedes-Maybach S 580 at EUR 350 per hour, VAT included, in Monaco and on the Riviera (5-hour minimum, EUR 1,750; EUR 2,800 for an 8-hour day); the Mercedes-Maybach S 580 at EUR 210 per hour, VAT included, in Paris (3-hour minimum, EUR 630; EUR 1,680 for the day); in Paris, the E-Class / EQE at EUR 90 per hour, the V-Class van at EUR 110 and the S-Class at EUR 130, VAT included (3-hour minimum, 15 km per hour included). The price depends on the location, the period and the duration; the rest of the fleet and other cities are quoted, with a firm price given before you book. Give us the days and the number of passengers and you get a firm figure, not a range.

Cannes Yachting Festival 2026

Chauffeur service for the Cannes Yachting Festival

Name: AUREARGENT
Address: Monaco, MC
Telephone: +377 37 70 47 01
Price range: €€€

8-13 September 2026, across two ports. Six days, Vieux Port and Port Canto, and a shuttle between them that decides how many boats you actually get to see.

The thing nobody tells you

The show is on two sites, and they are not next to each other

The Cannes Yachting Festival is split: motor yachts and world premieres at the Vieux Port, sail and the brokerage fleet at Port Canto, at the far end of the Croisette. Almost every serious visit crosses between them, more than once, over six days.

The crossing is the whole logistics problem

The organiser runs a shuttle, and it is fine when your day is loose. It is not fine when a broker has booked you a viewing at Port Canto at 14:00 and your previous appointment at the Vieux Port runs fifteen minutes late. A car on standby turns that from a missed viewing into a phone call.

Multiply it by six days, add the Croisette closed to through traffic and the parking around both ports at capacity, and the vehicle stops being a comfort and becomes the schedule.

Evenings are where the business happens

The shipyard dinners, the broker receptions, the drinks on board after closing: this is the part of the week where deals move. It is also the part where you do not want to be the one driving back to Cap d'Antibes or Mougins at one in the morning.

Discretion, because you are buying a boat

Unmarked vehicles, chauffeurs who work with brokers and family offices year-round, and no comment on which yard you visited or how long you stayed. Confidentiality agreements on request.

Arriving

Getting to Cannes for the festival

Nice Cote d'Azur airport is 27 km from the Vieux Port. Reckon 35 to 45 minutes outside the rush, and appreciably more on the days either side of the show when the whole industry lands at once.

By road from Nice airport

We meet you inside the terminal, take the luggage and drive to your hotel, your yacht or straight to a gate at the Vieux Port. Your flight is tracked, so a late landing does not lose you the vehicle or the slot.

Meet and greet inside the terminal, name board optional
Flight tracked — we adjust to the actual landing time
Waiting time included on airport pick-ups

By helicopter

Nice to Cannes takes a few minutes by helicopter against 35 to 45 by road. We handle the ground legs at both ends. It earns its cost on the opening Tuesday and on the Friday, the two days the coastal road is least forgiving.

From Monaco, Antibes, Saint-Tropez

The chauffeurs know the A8 and the coastal road in the state they are actually in during show week rather than in theory. We run the daily leg from Monaco, Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, Mougins, Nice or Saint-Tropez, morning and evening, same vehicle for the whole stay if you prefer.

The vehicles

The whole fleet, and the vehicle that matters here

For a show that runs on group viewings, the vehicle that changes the week is the van, not the limousine.

Three to seven passengers

The VIP van takes up to seven in individual seats with a table. It is what brokers book: the client, the partner, the surveyor and the folders all arrive together, at the gate, at the appointed minute. Anything else means splitting the group and losing the first ten minutes of every viewing.

One or two passengers

The whole chauffeur-driven fleet is available — saloons, SUVs, a VIP van and exception cars — by the hour, by the day or for several days.

An executive saloon such as the S-Class or the Maybach S 580: rear-cabin space to take a call between two appointments.

When you are hosting

The SUVs and the exception cars of the fleet, for client entertainment across the week.

Chauffeur included on every booking
Hourly, daily, or the full six days as one reservation
Convoy of two or more vehicles for larger parties

Rates

Our rates

The whole fleet is available with a chauffeur; the price depends on the location, the period and the duration. The rates below are published, everything else is quoted. In every case you receive a firm price before you book, chauffeur included, and all amounts include VAT.

Mercedes S-Class and V-Class van — Cannes

EUR 155 per hour, VAT included — 3-hour minimum (EUR 465)
EUR 1,240 for an 8-hour day, VAT included
In Monaco and elsewhere on the Riviera: on quotation

Mercedes-Maybach S 580 — Monaco and the Riviera

EUR 350 per hour, VAT included — 5-hour minimum (EUR 1,750)
EUR 2,800 for an 8-hour day, VAT included
Long-duration rates: 10 hours EUR 3,500, 12 hours EUR 4,150, 24 hours EUR 8,300 — beyond that, on quotation

Mercedes-Maybach S 580 — Paris

EUR 210 per hour, VAT included — 3-hour minimum (EUR 630), 15 km per hour included
EUR 1,680 for an 8-hour day, VAT included
Long-duration rates: 10 hours EUR 2,100, 12 hours EUR 2,480, 24 hours EUR 4,960 — beyond that, on quotation

E-Class / EQE, V-Class van and S-Class — Paris

By the hour, 3-hour minimum, 15 km per hour included: E-Class / EQE EUR 90 per hour, V-Class Extra-Long van EUR 110, S-Class EUR 130, VAT included
8-hour day: EUR 720, EUR 880 and EUR 1,040, VAT included
Paris City Tour with a professional guide, 4-hour minimum: EUR 150, EUR 170 and EUR 190 per hour (EUR 270 in a Maybach), on request

The rest of the fleet and other cities: on quotation

The price depends on the duration, the dates and the route: you receive a firm figure, never a range. A 30% deposit confirms the booking, the balance settled separately.

Also available

Beyond the transfer

Yacht charter

We charter yachts on the Riviera. If the festival ends with a shortlist rather than a signature, a few days aboard something comparable is the most useful due diligence there is — and it can start from Cannes the day the show closes.

Photography and video

Our studio shoots yachts and on-board receptions across the Riviera. During the festival that means your boat photographed under way rather than moored at a crowded quay, or coverage of the reception you are hosting, delivered fast enough to be useful before the show ends.

Concierge

Restaurant tables that are genuinely gone during festival week, private chefs, security drivers, close protection, last-minute logistics between the two ports. Tell us the shape of the week and we assemble it.

Two shows, three weeks apart

The Monaco Yacht Show follows on 23-26 September. Plenty of our clients do both; we can hold the same vehicle and the same chauffeur across the two, which saves re-explaining the brief in the middle of the busiest month of the Riviera year.

The reference vehicle