Eden Rose Grand Hotel, BW Premier Collection

On the heights of Bormes-les-Mimosas, the Eden Rose Grand Hotel, BW Premier Collection, Bormes-Les-Mimosas, France, makes an ideal base for a holiday in the Var, set in a completely renovated century-old building whose robust stone is softened by a delicate, refined decor. Perched on the hillside close to Hyeres, the hotel enjoys a dream position with a view of the sea and the whole town spread below, a calm and elegant retreat above the coast. The sea light fills the rooms through the day. Bormes-les-Mimosas climbs in tiers of flower-hung lanes to a ruined castle above the Mediterranean, a village famous for the mimosa that scents it in winter, with the beaches and marina of Le Lavandou, the cork-oak hills of the Massif des Maures, and the boats to the wild island of Port-Cros close by. In February the golden mimosa blossom lights up the whole hillside above the bay.