Mediterranean · France
Saint-Tropez
Côte d'Azur village, week-long anchorages, lunch at Club 55.
Best time
Mid-June through mid-September; the village peaks the last two weeks of July and the first two of August. June and the second week of September are the quiet windows.
Yacht charter
Via owner-direct partners
Jet gateway
LFTZ · La Môle Saint-Tropez
aint-Tropez is a village of six thousand permanent residents that absorbs another sixty thousand each August. The Old Port at 11am holds twenty visiting yachts on the quayside, every café on Quai Jean-Jaurès is full by 12:30, and the route to Pampelonne — the four-kilometre beach to the south — backs up from one. The members who keep coming have learned the rhythm: harbour mornings, beach lunches that run until five, dinner at La Ponche after the day-trippers have gone home.
The bay of Pampelonne is the operating theatre for the week. Yachts anchor 400 metres offshore in 8–12m of sand, run guests ashore by tender to the long-standing beach clubs — Club 55, Nikki Beach, Verde, Loulou Ramatuelle — and host evening drinks on board as the sun drops behind the headland.
Air access is split: Cannes Mandelieu and Nice handle the larger types, while the village's own airfield at La Môle (LFTZ) is a narrow 1,200-metre strip cut between vineyards, twelve minutes by car from the Place des Lices. La Môle's published constraints — runway length, slope, evening curfew — limit it to Pilatus PC-24, Phenom 300, Citation CJ3+ and similar light/super-light types.
Who it's for
The members who come back.
Families on multi-week summer charters, repeat visitors who own or charter the same yacht every August, the Geneva-based Eastern-European set, and Parisian families on extended stays.
- Multi-week summer charters
- Pampelonne beach-club lunches
- Families with teenagers
- Repeat August visitors
- Short-runway PC-24 / Phenom 300 access
The four services
What the office runs in Saint-Tropez.
Honest about what we own and what we coordinate. Direct fleet where we have boats; vetted owner-direct partners everywhere else.
Charter & berthing
Yachts
Sourced via vetted owner-direct partners — typical scale is 30–55m motoryacht for a week, anchoring in the bay of Pampelonne with a Port de Saint-Tropez Old Port slot for one or two nights. Stern-to in the Old Port is by allocation; the office holds standing relationships with the harbour captain's office for late-confirmed members.
Stays ashore
Villas & Residences
Pampelonne hilltop villas above Plage de Tahiti and Plage de la Bouillabaisse, La Belle Isnarde houses in Ramatuelle, and the cap (Cap-Pinet) properties for groups of ten-plus. All through partner curation — Aurelius does not hold direct keys on French residential.
Jet & helicopter
Private Aviation
For light-jet members the La Môle direct land is the fastest door-to-yacht time anywhere on the Côte d'Azur — eighteen minutes from touchdown to Old Port. For larger types, Nice with a Heli Securité onward connection is the standard.
Tables & introductions
Concierge
Beach-club tables at Club 55, Loulou Ramatuelle, Indie Beach, Verde, Nikki Beach; Old Port stern-to allocation when possible; Cheval Blanc Saint-Tropez and La Réserve Ramatuelle private reservations; Place des Lices boules-club and Le Sénéquier table holds.
Jet airports
Where the office files the slot.
La Môle Saint-Tropez
LFTZLocal short runway (1,200m), 12 minutes by car to the village. Restricted to light and super-light types: PC-24, Phenom 300, Citation CJ3+, Hawker 400XPR. Daylight operations only; no IFR approach. Slots tighten in August.
Cannes Mandelieu
LFMD60 minutes by chauffeur to Saint-Tropez via the A8. Slightly longer runway, accepts up to Citation XLS+/Challenger 350 categories. Late-evening curfew.
Nice Côte d'Azur
LFMNPrimary regional gateway, 100 minutes by chauffeur or 18-minute helicopter to Saint-Tropez heliport. Accepts all types; the long-range jets fly here.
At Saint-Tropez
Specifics the office knows.
The hotel that opens allocations in March, the airport with the short runway, the harbour that fills by 09:00.
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Club 55 — the lunch you book in March
The original Pampelonne beach club, opened 1955. Tables for August fill by March; the office holds direct-relationship access. The yacht anchors 200m offshore, tender ashore to the Club 55 jetty, lunch runs from 13:00 to 17:00. The Frégate Bar at the back is for the after-lunch espresso.
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Loulou Ramatuelle and the new generation
Five minutes south of Club 55 along the same Pampelonne sand. Loulou opened in 2018 and has become the social table of the bay for the under-forty set. Music starts at 16:00; lunch runs into early dinner. We book the day-bed front line.
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Old Port stern-to — one night, two at most
Saint-Tropez harbour has 100 visitor slots; in August every one is committed by 09:00. We never plan a full week in the Old Port — the value is one or two nights of village-walk-out access, and the rest of the week at anchor in Pampelonne. The harbour captain's office allocates day-of for late-confirmed members where we have standing relationships.
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Cheval Blanc Saint-Tropez
The LVMH-flagship hotel on the village waterfront, twenty-five rooms, the Loulou-of-Paris team in the dining room. Members staying ashore book here for the year ahead in October. The bar — La Vague d'Or — is the principal pre-dinner room of the village in season.
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La Ponche after 10pm
The original fisherman's quarter at the east end of the village. Restaurants Le Girelier, La Ponche, La Vague d'Or take the late table; the village empties of day-trippers by 22:30, and by midnight the cobblestones are walkable. We hold late-table allocations through August.
Short answer
If you are reading this briefly.
Saint-Tropez peaks the last two weeks of July and the first two of August; the working pattern for repeat visitors is a yacht anchored in the bay of Pampelonne with one or two nights stern-to in the Old Port. Club 55 and Loulou Ramatuelle are the long-standing beach-club tables; Cheval Blanc Saint-Tropez is the in-village hotel. Air access splits by aircraft size: La Môle (LFTZ, 1,200m runway) accepts only light jets (PC-24, Phenom 300, CJ3+); larger types fly into Cannes Mandelieu (LFMD, 60-min chauffeur) or Nice Côte d'Azur (LFMN, 18-min helicopter). Aurelius Society sources yachts via vetted owner-direct partners — no direct fleet here. Concierge holds standing-relationship access for beach-club reservations and Old Port slot allocation.
Questions we hear
Saint-Tropez — answered.
Can we land directly at Saint-Tropez La Môle?+
Yes, in a Pilatus PC-24, Embraer Phenom 300, Citation CJ3+ or Hawker 400XPR — the published runway is 1,200m, with terrain on approach and a daylight-VFR operation. Anything larger (XLS+, Challenger 350, Falcon 7X) lands at Cannes Mandelieu or Nice instead.
How do we get an Old Port berth in August?+
Honest answer: not for a full week. The harbour holds 100 visitor slots and they fill by 09:00 daily. The office holds standing relationships with the captain's office for one-or-two-night allocations to members staying mostly at anchor in Pampelonne. The week's pattern is: anchor in the bay, Old Port for the village-walkout nights.
How far in advance do we need to book Club 55 for August?+
Confirmed dates by March for July/August peak weeks. Day-of waitlist exists but is unreliable in peak season. Aurelius members have direct-relationship access; we book the table when the dates of the charter are confirmed.
What's the weather window?+
Mid-June through mid-September is the swim-and-bow-dinner window. The mistral — a north-westerly down the Rhône valley — can blow for three to four days at any time and makes the bay of Pampelonne uncomfortable; the captain shifts to the lee of the Cap on those days, or to a calmer anchorage at Cavalaire.
Where do we stay if not on the boat?+
Cheval Blanc Saint-Tropez for in-village; La Réserve Ramatuelle for the hilltop quiet (twelve minutes inland); Lily of the Valley for a younger crowd. Or a partner-curated villa on Pampelonne with private beach access — for groups of eight or more, almost always the better answer.
Is Saint-Tropez quieter outside August?+
Significantly. The first two weeks of June and the second week of September are the value windows — restaurants are open, the beach clubs run service, the weather is reliable, and the village reads almost local. The office often recommends these weeks for first-time visitors.
Connected pages
Aircraft, routes, and occasions.
Aircraft for Saint-Tropez
Member routes
- Geneva → Saint-Tropez (La Môle, short-field)50min · Summer (May–Sep)
- Zurich → Saint-Tropez (La Môle)1h 15min · Summer (May–Sep)
- Geneva → Saint-Tropez (La Môle)50min · Summer (May–Sep)
Occasions
- A Family WeekSeven days, four cabins, the swim platform never empty. The format we run for families more than any other.
- An Engagement Party at SeaA short evening with the closest twenty — a string trio on the bow as the boat clears the harbour, sundown at Es Vedrà, a single toast.
- The Honeymoon CharterSeven days, no programme, no other guests. The format we recommend for a real exhale.
Saint-Tropez — begin an enquiry
Tell us the dates.
We'll shape the week.
The office answers on WhatsApp, on email, or by call. Most members start with a single message — the right week, the rough plan, the questions to answer.
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