AMWC in Cannes: event venues and a guide to the city
āØ AMWC moves to Cannes
After some twenty years at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, the Aesthetic & Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress is moving to the Palais des Festivals for its 25th edition, from 1 to 3 April 2027. The organisers expect close to 18,000 attendees from 141 countries and more than 350 exhibitors. If your brand or lab plans to host clients, distributors or key opinion leaders around the congress, here is a guide to the city and eight venues for events in Cannes.
ā Discover our venues in Cannes
The good news for organisers: Cannes is small. The Palais, the restaurants, the rooftops and the private beaches are all within walking distance of each other, so a day at the congress can roll into a dinner and a cocktail without anyone getting in a car.
šŗļø How Cannes works during AMWC
The Palais des Festivals and the Old Port
Everything starts at the Palais des Festivals, sitting between the Old Port to the west and the start of the Croisette to the east. The congress takes place here, and most business meetings orbit around it. Addresses within a ten-minute walk are the first to go during congress week.
Le Suquet, the old town
Right behind the Old Port, Le Suquet climbs the hill with cobbled lanes and restaurant terraces. It is the neighbourhood for small dinners and views over the bay, five minutes on foot from the Palais.
The station and rue d'Antibes
Cannes station is about a ten-minute walk from the Palais. In between runs rue d'Antibes, the main shopping street parallel to the seafront, lined with restaurants, bistros and private rooms that work well for a breakfast meeting or a working lunch.
The Croisette, all the way to Port Canto
The Croisette follows the sea for about two kilometres, from the Palais to Port Pierre Canto on the far side of the bay. Grand hotels, apartments with a view and private beaches line the way. The further east you go, the quieter it gets, which suits a cocktail with your feet in the sand.
āļø Getting to Cannes, and on to Antibes or Nice
Nice CĆ“te d'Azur airport is about 27 km away. Allow around 30 minutes by taxi or ride-hail depending on traffic, about 45 minutes on express bus 81 from Terminal 2, or around 35 minutes by train, taking the tram to Nice AĆ©roport station and then a regional TER to Cannes. For guests short on time, a helicopter reaches the Cannes heliport in under ten minutes, and private jets land at Cannes-Mandelieu airport.
The TER also links Cannes to Antibes in around ten minutes and to Nice in roughly half an hour, which opens up accommodation and dinners along the whole French Riviera. Taxis are in high demand during the congress, so book your guests' transfers ahead.
š½ļø Restaurants: full buyout, private room or group booking
There are three ways to set up a business dinner in Cannes. A full buyout gives your group the whole restaurant. A partial buyout gives you a dedicated room or area while the rest of the restaurant stays open. A group booking sets a menu and a time for your guests, seated among the other diners: the most flexible option when your guest list keeps changing until the last minute.
A restaurant to book out entirely
Station and Palais Ā· up to 55 guests
Run by two brothers, this small restaurant serves generous Mediterranean cooking in a 33 mĀ² dining room that opens onto a sunny terrace. It seats 40 and takes 55 standing, five minutes on foot from the Palais. Its size makes it a natural fit for a full buyout: a KOL dinner or a client evening where the whole place is yours.
Intimate restaurant for private dinners in Cannes
A private room with a terrace
Station Ā· up to 25 guests
A 45 mĀ² private room with a 40 mĀ² terrace, three minutes from the station and six from the Palais. You can book it by the half day from 8 am, for the full day or for the evening, which covers a breakfast with your distributors, an advisory board or a dinner for 25. It is the classic private dining room: a closed setting with full restaurant service.
Private room with terrace for events in Cannes
šļø Private beaches and rooftops: April opens the season
By early April the Riviera is back to mild, bright days. It is when private beaches and rooftops start hosting outdoor events again, ahead of the May and June rush. Pick a venue with a covered area so you have a fallback if the evening turns cool.
A beach restaurant for 500 guests
Seafront Ā· up to 500 guests
A brightly coloured seaside restaurant with a 70 mĀ² dining room plus a terrace and beach that add up to 270 mĀ² outdoors. Up to 500 guests standing or 250 seated, Mediterranean cooking from its own kitchen, a professional sound system and DJs on request. The format for a large brand party seven minutes on foot from the Palais.
Seaside restaurant and beach in Cannes
A private beach to book in part or in full
Seafront Ā· up to 210 guests
A 100 mĀ² indoor room and 100 mĀ² of beach, about a kilometre from the Palais. You can book part of it or all of it, with sharing plates from the in-house kitchen or the caterer of your choice. Up to 210 guests standing and 155 seated: a Mediterranean setting for a networking cocktail or a seafront lunch between talks.
Private beach for business events in Cannes
A panoramic rooftop over the port
Le Suquet Ā· up to 300 guests
In Le Suquet, five minutes on foot from the Croisette and the Palais, this rooftop in Cannes has 400 mĀ² of open air facing the port and the beaches. Two meeting rooms come with it: a 260 mĀ² modular room for up to 168 theatre-style and a 110 mĀ² room with a sea view. Meetings by day, sunset drinks in the evening, with DJ and sound on site.
Panoramic rooftop overlooking the port of Cannes
š Apartments and a hotel: a more immersive experience
Renting a private property lets you house part of the team and host guests under the same roof. Your guests experience the congress from an address that reflects your brand, away from the bustle of the exhibition halls. For more on this, read why companies are choosing apartments for meetings in Cannes.
An apartment facing the Palais
Croisette Ā· up to 40 guests, 5 bedrooms
240 mĀ² on the fourth floor of a Croisette residence, about a hundred metres from the Palais, with a 25 mĀ² terrace looking straight onto the red carpet. Five bedrooms sleep ten, and up to 40 guests can gather for drinks. An ideal base for an exhibiting brand: the team stays on site and client meetings happen a short walk from the show floor.
Prestige apartment facing the Palais des Festivals in Cannes
A penthouse on the Croisette
Croisette Ā· up to 30 guests, 3 bedrooms
200 mĀ² on the top floor of a residence with a lift, opening onto a large balcony facing the sea. Three bedrooms and a separate studio sleep six, and the space takes 30 guests for a lunch or a meeting. An apartment in Cannes for a leadership meeting or a dinner with your top clients.
Penthouse with sea-facing balcony on the Croisette
A hotel with a pool in Le Suquet
Le Suquet Ā· up to 70 guests, 22 rooms
A four-star hotel in historic Le Suquet, with a pool, a patio and a veranda. Its 22 rooms sleep up to 51, and the indoor rooms seat 45 theatre-style with a projector and flip chart. For a sales team flying in from several countries, it covers everything: accommodation in Cannes, a meeting in the morning and dinner by the pool.
Hotel with pool and veranda in Le Suquet, Cannes
šÆ Book early for the first Cannes edition
For its first edition in Cannes, AMWC brings thousands of professionals to a city where the best addresses go months ahead. The sooner your brief lands, the more choice you keep, especially across our off-market inventory.