Independent reporting from the Côte d'Azur
This is how InCannes works. We pick our own subjects. We pay for the rooms, the meals and the boats. We take no press trips and we declare every affiliate link. Nothing here is written to order and no establishment sees a piece before it runs.
We cover what we would tell a friend about. A hotel goes on the site because the room, the service or the position earns the rate, not because it runs a partner program. A table goes on because we would book it again. The rest comes from living here: what opens, what changes hands, what the season does to a street.
Nobody pitches their way onto this site. We answer press offices politely and then go and look for ourselves.
We book our own rooms, settle our own checks and pay for our own charters. When a place recognizes us, which happens, we pay the posted rate anyway and the piece says so. The bill is what keeps a review honest.
No hosted stays. No comped meals. No free charters, no gifted nights, no invitations that arrive with an expectation attached. When we are somewhere during the Festival or the Yachting Festival, we are there on our own account like everyone else.
InCannes earns a commission when a reader books through some of the links on this site: Booking.com, TheFork, Viator, GetYourGuide and a small number of direct partners. The price is the same as booking without us. The commission comes out of the platform's margin, not your rate.
What the commission changes about the opinion: nothing. We do not rank by payout. We do not add a place because it pays. We do not soften a judgment because a link sits under it. A good part of what we recommend carries no link at all, because no program exists for it. A recommendation we would not give a friend does not go on the site, whatever it pays.
There is none on InCannes today. If that changes, it carries a sponsored label at the top of the page, above the first line. It never sits inside an editorial piece. Money buys a page of its own. It does not buy a position in a review, a mention in a roundup or a sentence in a piece it did not fund.
No hotel, restaurant, agency or press office sees an article before publication. We do not send drafts for approval, we do not accept conditions on coverage and we do not take a piece down because someone asks. We do check facts with the people involved when a fact needs checking. That is a different thing from showing them the article.
This coast moves. Chefs leave, rooms are renovated, a boat changes hands, a price rises. If something here is wrong or out of date, write to studio@incannes.net and say what and where. We correct the page and we date the correction on it. A correction is not an embarrassment. It is how a site stays worth reading.
Two people who live on this coast, publishing without bylines. What we saw and what we paid is the evidence here. The reasoning behind that choice is on the About page.
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