Cannes Yachting Festival 2026
Chauffeur service for the Cannes Yachting Festival
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
Our fleet is based in Monaco, which is why our 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 and same chauffeur for the whole stay if you prefer.
Our fleet
Fourteen vehicles, and the one 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 Mercedes V-Class VIP 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 Mercedes-Maybach S 580 is our reference car and the only vehicle in the fleet with a published rate — 260 EUR per hour with chauffeur. Rear-cabin space to take a call between two appointments. The Mercedes S-Class and BMW 7 Series M760e cover the same use at a different price point.
When you are hosting
Maybach GLS 600 and Brabus G800 for client entertainment across the week. Every vehicle other than the Maybach S 580 is quoted on request, because the rate depends on the duration, the itinerary and the date — a six-day show is not priced like an airport run.
- Chauffeur included on every booking
- Hourly, daily, or the full six days as one reservation
- Convoy of two or more vehicles for larger parties
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.
Practical questions
Planning your Cannes Yachting Festival
Festival week 2026
Reserve a chauffeur for 8-13 September
Tell us your dates, your arrival and the number of passengers. You get availability and a firm price.