Cannes Film Festival Chauffeur Guide

The festival centres on the Palais des Festivals and its famous red-carpeted staircase, the Montée des Marches, where stars arrive each evening for the premieres. Around it, the Croisette fills with screenings, parties and the grand hotels — the Carlton, the Martinez — at the heart of it all.

It is glamorous, crowded and tightly scheduled, held over two weeks in May.

For the red carpet and the galas, the arrival matters. A chauffeur delivers you to the Palais entrances and the hotel doors in black-tie style, timed to the evening's schedule, and is waiting when the screening or party ends.

It is the difference between arriving composed at the foot of the steps and battling the crowds on foot.

Festival fortnight brings heavy road closures around the Croisette and dense crowds through the town, straining normal transport. A chauffeur who knows the diversions keeps you moving between screenings, meetings, lunches and dinners, on call throughout the day and late into the night.

It turns a packed festival schedule into a series of smooth, on-time arrivals.

Much of Cannes happens away from the Palais — villa parties in the hills, events aboard the yachts in the bay, and the legendary galas out on Cap d'Antibes. A chauffeur links them all, carrying guests between the town, the port and the Cap through the night.

Wherever the invitations lead, the driving is handled.