Working from Antibes: a Remote Week

The laptop-shaped question arrives in our inbox every week: does it work? It does. Our houses have fast wifi — fibre in all seven — and six of them have a dedicated workspace; the time zone sits kindly between London and New York; and the old town supplies the two things a home office always lacks: a reason to stop at lunch, and a sea at the end of the day. A field guide to the working week, Antibes edition — and to the month, if a week turns out to be too short.

Every house has high-speed wifi, air conditioning in each room for the summer calls, heating for the winter ones, and at least one table that becomes a desk with a view. Morning light on the terraces flatters a video call more than any ring light; on the hottest afternoons, the thick old walls and half-closed shutters keep a room quiet and cool.

The rhythm that works: deep work early, calls for the UK before lunch, calls for the Americas after it — and the market break in between, which replaces every office canteen ever built.

The six o’clock swim is not a luxury but an architecture: a workday needs a wall to end against, and La Gravette, five minutes below the ramparts, is a better one than most.

Six of our seven houses have a dedicated workspace: Baieta, Pantai, Marina, Regina, VistaMar and Soleiha. Fibre runs into all seven, and every one has a full kitchen, a washing machine and a dryer — the unglamorous equipment that decides whether a stay of several weeks feels like a hotel or like a home.

Working as two? Pantai and Baieta give each of you a room to close a door on, with three bedrooms each. Regina’s rooftop terrace is the office everyone photographs; VistaMar’s front-row balcony is the one for thinking with the sea in front of you. BenEstre, our house for two around a private garden, has wifi but no desk: wonderful for a week off, less so for a quarter-end.

Antibes runs on Central European Time. London is one hour behind, New York six, California nine. In practice, a European morning is quiet and yours; the UK joins you through the late morning; and the US East Coast wakes up as you come back from lunch, which leaves the afternoon for their calls and the evening for nobody.

Working for Asia is harder, but not impossible: Singapore and Hong Kong are six or seven hours ahead, so an early start on the terrace overlaps their afternoon.

Antibes station is a short walk from the houses, and the coastal line does the rest: Cannes in about fifteen minutes, Nice in about twenty, Monaco in about an hour. A client meeting in Monaco or a conference in Cannes becomes a morning out rather than a day lost.

Nice Côte d’Azur airport is about half an hour away by taxi, with direct flights across Europe and beyond — which is what makes a long stay here workable: leaving for two days and coming back costs little.

Eight hours at a laptop want an hour of something else. The coastal path around the Cap d’Antibes, the Sentier des Douaniers, is an hour of sea and rock that resets any week. Under the market, Riviera Pilates, our partner studio, runs private and group sessions for our guests.

And the simplest routine of all costs nothing: the ramparts at seven, in either direction, before the first call.

A remote week out of summer costs a fraction of a summer one, and the town works better at a resident’s pace: the baker learns your order, the routine grows roots, and the week you lost settling in is paid back by the three that follow.

From fourteen nights, a weekly clean with fresh bed linen and towels is included. From four weeks, our long-stay offer applies, already included in the price you see when you open a stay. Every period of three weeks or more still free in our houses is listed on one page.

Everything on this page is minutes from our doors.

Seven restored houses inside the old town — live availability, transparent prices, and your hosts two streets away.