Monaco 2027: What I’m Planning Now

The Monaco Grand Prix returns from 4–6 June 2027, with a Sprint added to the programme for the first time.

If Monaco is on your calendar, there are decisions I’d be making now.

Monaco is a weekend where a few early decisions have an
outsized effect on everything that follows.

Where you stay. Whether you want to be based aboard a yacht. How you intend to arrive. Where you want to spend your time once the circuit is live.

I’m already beginning those conversations for 2027.

First, decide what you want Monaco to look like

There isn’t one version of Grand Prix weekend.

For some clients, the hotel is central. They want to be close to the circuit, have somewhere they genuinely enjoy returning to, and move easily between the race and everything around it.

For others, Port Hercule is part of the appeal and the yacht becomes their base for several days.

And some will move between both.

That decision gives me the starting point for everything else.

If you’re staying ashore

Hotel choice during Grand Prix weekend is about much more than the room.

Properties commonly work with minimum stays across the event, and location becomes particularly important once Monaco is operating around a temporary street circuit.

Official Formula 1 guidance already warns that driving into Monaco during race weekend is heavily restricted.

So I’m considering where you want to watch from, where your lunches and dinners are likely to be, whether a yacht is involved and how much movement you actually want across the weekend.

A hotel that looks close on a map may not feel quite so close once Monaco is at full Grand Prix pace.

If Monaco by yacht is the plan

This conversation starts earlier.

The yacht needs to work for the number travelling and what you intend to do aboard it. Staying aboard as a couple requires something very different from hosting guests throughout the weekend.

Once the vessel is secured, the Port Hercule berth application can follow.

The official 2027 berth procedure has not yet been released. For the 2026 Grand Prix, Monaco Ports required a charter contract for chartered vessels, received substantially more applications than available berths and assessed allocations individually through a committee.

For that reason, I would never treat a Port Hercule position as confirmed until it is formally allocated.

For clients considering this option, I’m looking at yachts now with the aim of having the vessel secured well ahead of the application stage.

Arriving in Monaco

For clients flying into Nice, helicopter transfer is one option I’ll consider for arrival and departure.

Scheduled Nice–Monaco helicopter services currently operate the route in around seven minutes, avoiding a road transfer along the Riviera at one of its busiest times of year. Grand Prix-specific services are also operated around race weekend.

For some clients that will make perfect sense. For others, the wider itinerary may lead us to a different arrival.

The point is to decide it before Monaco is already busy.

Once you’re there, movement needs its own plan

This is one of the details that can materially change the weekend.

The circuit closes roads through Monaco and traffic builds quickly around the event.

Where appropriate, boat transfers can become a much more practical way to move between the harbour and parts of the weekend than relying entirely on road transport.

It is a small detail on paper. In Monaco, it can mean considerably less time spent waiting.

2027 adds another day that matters

Monaco will host a Sprint for the first time in 2027.

That means competitive Formula 1 sessions are spread across Friday, Saturday and Sunday rather than the traditional Monaco program.

For clients who want to follow the racing closely, Friday now deserves more consideration when we look at arrival timing, lunch plans and how much we place around the day.

If the Grand Prix is only one part of why you’re in Monaco, that matters too. We don’t need to schedule every hour around the circuit.

Dining needs its own lead time

Monaco during Grand Prix week is not somewhere I wait to plan.

Once I know where you are staying and how much of the weekend you want centred around the race, I can decide which lunches and dinners need to be secured early.

I’d rather have a few reservations we actually want than build an itinerary around wherever happens to have availability later.

And then there is everything around Monaco

For many of my clients, Monaco won’t be an isolated three-day stay.

It might follow several nights elsewhere on the Riviera. A yacht might continue along the Mediterranean afterwards. Monaco might sit between London and the South of France, or become one part of a much longer European summer.

I plan the Grand Prix with that travel already in view.

That can influence how you arrive, where you stay, how long you remain in Monaco and what I arrange next.

What I’m looking at now

For clients staying ashore, I’m starting with accommodation while there is still real choice.

For clients considering a yacht, I’m looking at the vessel considerably earlier because that decision has to come before the berth process.

And for everyone, I want to understand the weekend you actually want before I begin securing anything around it.

Monaco is far easier to enjoy when those decisions have already been made.

Monaco 2027

Private planning is now open for 4–6 June 2027.

Tell me who is travelling, how you’re considering Monaco and what you already have in mind. I’ll review your brief personally and come back to you with where I would begin.