The Le Grand Pavois is in a really nice quiet area HOWEVER there is a school opposite so be aware if you go during school term Sept-June the noise starts a little before 8am and continues every 1 1/2 hours. Unfortunately our room was located on the 2nd floor towards the end and all requests to move were met with upgrades to a suite at an extra 60Euros a day. As we were there for a week we made the best of it and got up early.
On the other hand we asked for tea/coffee making facilities and they appeared immediately, the reception organised taxis promptly.
Oddly loo roll and soap seemed to be rationed! Not just by us I overheard other guests requesting extra at reception. Plus our chamber maid was most put out if we weren't out of our room by 10am.
Juan les pins is a fantastic area, loads to do, great restaurants. It was just a shame that for our visit things seemed a little out of sorts!

The hotel is in a great place just between Juan Les Pins and Antibes. The staff very freindly and helpfull. If you like walking you can walk around the Cap to the headland,some wonderfull Villas to be seen on the way. Also great for seeing Cannes, Nice and Monaco.Bus and train services are very good.Had a wonderfull holiday with great weather.

We stayed at the hotel for 9 nights in June. The hotel was good but not quite as we expected from previous reviews. It is not a “great American style hotel”. The shower in the bathroom is a hand held typical European device without even a hook to hang it on. This made taking a shower a major challenge. The room size was OK and TV was quite good with radio and alarm clock built in it. Also the room contained a free safe for valuables, which you could program by yourself.

We booked the hotel at www.hotels.com The description there was misleading, quite different from reality. There were to be coffee makers in the rooms but they did not exist. The beach access is not really an access. They just give some discount coupons to a nearby beach which is grossly overpriced. The breakfast was to be included, but on arrival we were told that it is “complimentary” but for a fee of 10 euro per person. This seemed high for just a breakfast, but proved to be well worth it. The choice was excellent, with cereals, cheese, ham, yoghurt, jam, excellent breads and pastries, and lots of fresh fruit. The price of this hotel is a bit high. We considered other cheaper hotels but some of the reviews on Trip Advisor were quite scary, and we were afraid of ending up in a “dump”. They all looked OK though and we probably could have made a better choice. The hotels.com reservations however required full payment upfront, so we did not have a luxury of checking out and move elsewhere.

The hotel was very quiet as it is in the quiet area. There was a nice
round colonial style room with a piano just beside the lobby, but during our 9 night stay there was no entertainment there of any kind. For a few days the room was used by some sort of conference. There is also a sundeck on top of the hotel roof, but it is not used.
The hotel does not have public internet access which is a shame, luckily there are few places in town, the best one close to the train
station about 10 minutes walk. The staff is friendly, and speaks good English.

The hotel is quite hard to find, as the Juan les Pins streets layout is very complicated. A good map would be a great help. However it is impossible to find a good one on internet. The tourist office has good map and so does the hotel, but you have to find them first. There is a public bus system in Juan Les Pins and Antibes operated by Envibus, but in spite of their nice website, we found the system useless.

For the beach goers: don’t bother with the hotel discounted access to the Pirates Beach. It is better to walk West towards Golfe Juan. There are couple of excellent free sandy public beaches along Boulevard Littoral. All along a nice boardwalk, good for evening stroll.

The walk to Antibes takes about ½ hour through populated area. In general Juan Les Pins is a better choice for accommodation. It is more “touristy”, has lots of good restaurants and better beaches.

The hotel description on the hotels.com seems to be somewhat corrected now, but is still misleading.

My wife, 21 year old daughter and I stayed there for three days. We had a suite (because of 3 adults) on the 4 floor. The view from the balcony (see picture) was fantastic.The staff was not as sofisticated as we experienced in Elysees Regencia in Paris, but we got everything we needed as soon as we asked for it. The room (well, the suite) was VERY large by french standards. The plumbing could use some freshening. The breakfast was not bad, and it was included in the price. We tried dinner at the hotel once, and it was pretty good, too. Great access to Juan-Les-Pins and Antibes center. The pertinent negatives: 1. The public beach is not worth trying, the private beach with hotel discount is only 5 min walk, but it's 15 euro per person per entry (if you leave and come back - you pay again). 2. Hotel is about 15 min from the highway, if you know where you are going, and navigating Antibes and Juan-Les-Pins is a nightmare. Get a goog GPS. 3.The only way you can get on the internet is to bring your own computer, and pay for the access, there is no computer in the lobby for public access, which was quite surprizing.