Scott Fitzgerald degrees Fahrenheit (38.9 about the great gatsby -- - the famous: "very rich is different and 'yeah, they've got more money, Ernest Hemingway, reportedly replied.
But the rich have better holiday? We put it. Giles Milton set out to the south of France, and in a local budget travel expense is no frank Barrett target. The most interesting thing?
Their own way in the end, but by the famous hotels are exchanged cover cover d 'Antibes: a hotel is very, very rich hotel is a five-star hotel in the world, refused to accept any so common, credit card).
In this hotel, the modern concept of the sun and beach vacation was born. The American people in their twenties - including a clutch fee and his wife asked for hotel, link - remain open until a summer (winter eastern; no one wants in the hot summer, after all, only suntans laborer.
The first summer, however, fashion and join the goddess cocoa chanel returned to Paris, this summer vacation suntan Mediterranean.
Live in luxury life -- frank Barrett
Airlines flight: our bucket spade - - - our trip to compare the quality of travelers enjoy delicious food to the active business class.
The price is immaterial (well, it's £778 return from Heathrow to Nice). At the airport we can avoid hoi polloi in the business-class lounge.
Best of all, we can stretch out our legs on the plane - and enjoy a sexier meal. If God meant us to turn right when we board planes, he wouldn't have given us American Express Platinum cards.
Further information: British Airways (www.ba.com tel: 0845 773 3377)
CAR: For that certain Riviera touch, nothing looks better than the Audi TT Quattro, with 225bhp throbbing beneath its elegant, Imola yellow bonnet.
Gutsy acceleration, beautifully styled interior, leather seats, Bose sound system. Just as well, because given the Cote d'Azur's awful traffic congestion, you may well be in the car all day. Its stunning good looks have the desired effect: doormen leap to attention as you drive up, valet-parkers queue to grab your keys at swanky restaurants.
People do judge you by the car you drive.
Further information: Two-day car hire through Holiday Autos costs £638 (www.holidayautos.com 0870 400 0010)
HOTEL: When it comes to hotels, as Conrad Hilton remarked, the three key factors are: 'Location, location, location.'
No hotel is better located than the Hotel Martinez, an outrageously handsome Art Deco palace right on Cannes' famous La Croisette promenade.
My spacious sixth-floor suite (a snip at £875 a night) had everything from a hi fi and a brace of TVs to exquisite Annick Goutal shampoos and shower gels in the huge marble bathroom.
Where to take the sun? On the balcony? Next to the famous Art Deco pool (kept at a temperature of 81 degrees throughout the year)?
Or relaxing on the largest private beach on the Croisette, where the hotel has its own bar and restaurant if you can't manage to stagger back a dozen yards across the road?
I hit the beach. Is that Claudia Schiffer dipping her toes in the Med? Guten Morgen, Claudia. Oh, yes, waiter, I'll have another small glass of champagne before lunch!
Further information: Hotel Martinez (www.hotel-martinez.com tel: 00 33 492 9873000).
Elegant Resorts (www.elegantrestorts.co.uk tel: 01244 897777) has a three-night package to the Martinez in a double room with breakfast, from £570 per person including flights to Nice with British Airways and transfers.
RESTAURANT: I jump in my Audi TT and head to St Tropez - 'Saint Trop', as we insiders know it ('trop' in French appropriately means 'over the top').
Nothing is more chic than St Trop's newest restaurant sensation, Spoon, at the fabulous Byblos Hotel.
If anybody had any quibbles with the Byblos - and you can hardly fault the brilliant rooms or its famous nightclub, Les Caves du Roy - it was that it lacked a signature restaurant.
No longer - last month saw the opening of its new Alain Ducasse eatery. The restaurant reeks of class: subtle designer chic in the fixtures and fittings - the menu offers classic Mediterranean fare; breaded chicken, for example, or wonderful seared beef with Riviera garnish.
For dessert, opt for the gorgeous lemon tart. A meal for two with wine costs about £100.
Further information: Spoon Byblos, St Tropez (00 334 94 56 68 20).
SHOPPING: Within walking distance of La Croisette, smart shoppers have all the boutiques they need: Emporio Armani, Christian Dior, Escada, Dolce & Gabbana, Gianfranco Ferre, Yves St Laurent.
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