Eight clubs, and the venue tells you how to arrive
Every club on this list has one thing in common. You can arrive by boat, and the venue publishes how.
That sounds like a small filter. It is not. We checked nineteen of the most talked about beach clubs in the Mediterranean, and eleven of them publish no way in from the water at all.
That includes Nammos and Scorpios on Mykonos. From a yacht, some of the most famous names in the Mediterranean are simply closed.
The eight below are ranked by how hard it is to get in, not by what they charge. Those turn out to be different things. The most famous beach club on the French Riviera charges 42 euros for a sunbed and will not send you a booking confirmation.
All rates below are the venues’ own published 2026 figures. Where a venue publishes nothing, we say so rather than guess.
1. Nikki Beach Costa Smeralda, Sardinia
The strictest door on this list, and the only one where a boat is not a nice way to arrive but the only way. The venue describes itself as accessible only by private yacht or its own shuttle, with guests landing at a private dock. There is no road in.
The door policy is unusually blunt about what that access buys you. Entrance is not guaranteed with or without a reservation, and the venue reserves the right to refuse entry. Beds are held until 13:00 and released after that.
Beds run 400 euros for two loungers and an umbrella, 550 for a double day bed with a sofa, and 650 for a first row premium bed seating up to four.
Each price carries 230 euros of bottle credit inside it, so the money is not all gone. On the 650 bed at four guests that is about 162 euros a head, of which roughly 58 comes back.
Arriving: private dock for yachts. A separate tender runs for drinks-only guests at 15:30 and 16:30, weekends through June and September, daily in July and August.
2. La Guerite, Ile Sainte-Marguerite, Cannes
La Guerite is on an island off Cannes, so there is no version of this where you drive. Everyone arrives by boat, which makes it the rare place where turning up in a tender is normal rather than an entrance.
The booking routes tell you what kind of room it is. There is a standard table booking, and there is a members’ route.
The venue publishes no sunbed rate, no minimum spend and no walk-in policy. Numbers circulate on aggregator sites, and none of them trace back to the restaurant, so we are not repeating them.
Arriving: shuttle boat from the Capitainerie at Port Canto, Cannes, roughly ten minutes. During the Cannes Film Festival it moves to Moure Rouge. Open daily from noon to 18:00, May to September.
3. Da Luigi ai Faraglioni, Capri
Directly under the Faraglioni, which is the view people come to Capri for and one of the few places you can sit inside it rather than photograph it from above.
There are no walk-ins. Booking is in advance and only counts once the confirmation email arrives, and you have to be there by 12:30. A no-show forfeits an 80 euro per person hold.
Entrance is 115 euros a head for 2026, and 60 of that comes back as restaurant and bar credit. A front row pair sells from 580 euros for two, including four towels, an umbrella, a welcome glass of Franciacorta and 120 euros of credit.
The venue’s own site still shows an older 100 euro block next to a 2023 season line. Ignore that one.
Arriving: the genuine yacht answer. You take one of the buoys offshore and the venue’s own tender brings you in. There is also a scheduled boat from Marina Piccola, 10 euros a head each way, no booking needed.
4. Phi Beach, Baja Sardinia
Built into the rocks at Forte Cappellini, above Baja Sardinia, and trading as Nammos Beach for the 2026 summer. It is a sunset place first and a beach club second.
What makes it hard to get into is not a door policy but a payment one. The beach day is prepaid only, single day, no multi-day bookings, and the price is not published anywhere on the site.
The venue says openly that it varies by season and bed type, and you only see the figure inside the booking flow. There are five bed categories, from shell beds on the sand to premium beds on a wooden terrace over the rocks.
Worth knowing before you plan a day around it: there are no showers and no changing rooms.
Arriving: the venue runs its own tender service, and its own buoys take boats up to 30 meters on reservation. Above 30 meters you anchor off and tender in.
5. Monte-Carlo Beach, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
The most expensive published rates of any venue we checked, and the only Monte-Carlo Societe des Bains de Mer hotel you can reach by boat. It sits just over the border in France, which surprises people.
A pontoon sunbed is 390 euros per person in peak season, 150 in April. A double bed for two, or a pool lounge for four, is 720 euros in peak. Cabanas and sun terraces carry a separate entrance fee of 70 to 100 euros a head on top.
The number that tells you what kind of place it is sits at the bottom of the rate card. From the 2026 season, new cabana members pay a 50,000 euro membership fee, before the seasonal cabana rate of up to 37,594 euros.
That is the actual exclusivity, and it is published.
Arriving: a shuttle boat from Quai Louis II at Port Hercule, fifteen minutes, six guests a trip, every half hour through the middle of the day. Free from Port Hercule.
6. Loulou Ramatuelle, Pampelonne
Loulou publishes less about itself than any venue on this list. No sunbed rate, no minimum spend, no door policy, no walk-in guidance. There is a booking link and there is a phone number.
That is a choice rather than an oversight, and it is worth reading as one. A place that tells you nothing until you call has decided who it wants to hear from.
Arriving: the site lists a batelier on Canal 13, call sign Loulou Ramatuelle. Beach from 11:00 to 19:00, lunch from 12:30, closed in the evening, April to October.
7. Le Club 55, Pampelonne
The most famous beach club on the coast, and the cheapest published sunbed in this entire list. Forty two euros. An umbrella is 19. A paillote is 62, sunbeds not included.
The exclusivity is not in the price. Reservations are taken by phone only, and the club sends no confirmation by email or telephone. You call, you are told yes, and that is the whole arrangement. In August that is a genuinely uncomfortable way to plan a day for twelve people.
One practical thing that catches people out: you cannot have lunch on the sunbeds. The beach and the restaurant are two separate transactions and two separate bookings.
Arriving: Club 55 has its own pontoon and boatmen on VHF Channel 17. Open 9:30 to 18:00 daily, late March to the start of November.
8. Juan y Andrea, Formentera
On Illetes, and built around the boats that anchor off it. Juan y Andrea is not a sunbed operation at all. It is a restaurant on the sand, and all of its money is in the table minimum.
That minimum is the highest we found anywhere in the Mediterranean. The 14:30 and 15:00 slot is 250 euros per person, prepaid, with no departure time, so the table is yours until closing. The earlier and later slots are cheaper: 150 a head on the seafront row, 120 on the sand.
There is one real way in without paying a minimum. The random tier gives up any say over where you sit, in exchange for no minimum spend and no prepayment. It is the closest thing to a walk-in on this list.
Arriving: a dedicated tender collects from the boats anchored off Illetes, on VHF Channel 74. The restaurant publishes its own coordinates, 38.7535762, 1.4330123.
The Famous Ones With No Published Way In
Eleven of the nineteen venues we checked publish no boat arrangement at all, and most publish no rate either.
Nammos and Scorpios on Mykonos, Principote at Panormos, Beso Beach and Cala Bassa in the Balearics, La Reserve a la Plage at Ramatuelle, Il Riccio and La Fontelina on Capri, Conca del Sogno at Nerano, and the Cala di Volpe hotel beach in Sardinia.
Some of these are reachable by tender in practice. Nerano is a classic anchorage and La Fontelina sits on the water below the Faraglioni. But none of them says so, and none of them will tell you what a bed costs until you are in a conversation with them. That is not an accident either.
If one of these is the reason you are going, tell your broker early. It is a phone call someone has to make, and in August it is a phone call that needs making weeks out.
How This Actually Works From a Charter
On a crewed charter the reservation is not usually yours to make. The captain or the chief stew makes it, and the venue takes the call differently when it comes from a yacht than when it comes from a guest.
The practical version: name the two or three places you actually care about when you sign, not on the morning you want to go. Everything on this list except one tier at Juan y Andrea requires a reservation, several require prepayment, and two of them will not confirm in writing at all.
And if a week like this leaves you wondering about a boat of your own, that is worth a conversation too. We wrote about what a week aboard tells you that a boat show cannot.
Broker insight
The captain books the table, and it works because the venue wants the yacht as a customer. It goes wrong when a concierge sits between the guest and the captain, because then nobody owns the reservation.
Marcelle Hailwax
Charter Broker
Image credits
Photographs used under Creative Commons licenses via Wikimedia Commons. Ile Sainte-Marguerite: Bernard DUPONT, CC BY-SA 2.0. Costa Smeralda: Ökologix, CC0. Capri Faraglioni: sneakerdog, CC BY 2.0. Baja Sardinia: Hajotthu, CC BY-SA 3.0. Monaco: Erik Cooper, CC BY 2.0. Pampelonne: dronepicr, CC BY 2.0. Ses Illetes: MrPepanos, CC BY 3.0. Saint-Tropez: Stephane Lesbats / Ifremer, CC BY 4.0.
