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How agents can sell a no-fly trip to three French hot spots

Luxury
Xenia Taliotis
29 July 2025

Paris, Provence, St Tropez: could there be a better trio of sophistication? And clients can also do them all without ever getting on a flight.

Crillon Le Brave, opened in 2018, was the first hotel opened by Maisons Pariente

How do you define luxury? For me, it is simple – it is space and time.

In a life that seems crowded with to-do lists and having to be somewhere in less time than I ever allocate, travelling – the journey, not the destination – is often the pain endured to attain the gain.

So what a gift it was to cover the 1,100km between London to St Tropez almost entirely by train instead of crowding into stressful airports.