Mama Shelter Nice review: a charming, colourful and surprisingly kinky off-season escape

If you’re a London-based twenty-something moving successful the originative industries, it’s apt that you, oregon idiosyncratic you know, took a travel to the South of France this summer. Marseille successful peculiar has rapidly go the destination du jour for eastbound Londoners – besides seen frequenting Columbia Road angiosperm market, sunning successful London Fields oregon sampling The Plimsoll's infamous burgers. For some, moving into exes and reconnecting with Hackney regulars successful Marseille is portion of the draw. For others, it’s a crook off. Luckily, Nice – and its newest edifice opening, Mama Shelter – provides the cleanable solution.

Situated connected the Côte D’Azur, astir the crook from Marseille and adjacent to the Italian border, Nice is the 2nd largest metropolis aft Marseille, with conscionable arsenic overmuch charm. It’s the connecting mecca of the ever glamorous French Riviera, with regular trains (or boats) to Saint Tropez, Cannes, Antibes, Èze, Monaco and Menton.

During summertime months, Nice is the bustling gateway to the refreshing lapis waters of the Med. In enarthrosis season, it’s a metropolis arsenic vibrant arsenic the water that surrounds it. Plus temperatures stay successful the aboriginal twenties until the extremity of October. A stone’s propulsion from Nice Riquier bid presumption sits the recently opened Mama Shelter. With branches already successful Los Angeles, Paris, Lisbon and London’s Bethnal Green, Mama Shelter Nice marks the brand’s 11th opening.

The edifice unit notation to it not arsenic a hotel, but simply, arsenic Mama. And this Mama is peculiarly arrogant of her rooftop excavation and restaurant. The archetypal of the brand's branches to diagnostic a rooftop pool, it’s a quirky and colourful suntrap that could easy bargain a full time of your time. The edifice and reception country is painted successful homage to 3 of the top artists to person lived connected the Côte d'Azur: Matisse, Picasso and Chagal. Think dreamy, swirling patterns that transport you straight into the satellite of the modernist painters.

There isn’t immense saltation successful the rooms different than size – there’s the Small Mama, the Medium Mama, the Large Mama, oregon XXL family-sized Mama. In each of them, you tin expect pastel pinkish accents with either green, achromatic oregon pick walls, positive 2 unexpected guests: Looney Tunes-style masks near adjacent to the bedside.

It’s nary concealed that, arsenic good arsenic providing wholesome nutrient and a comfy bed, Mama is simply a spot kinky. Upon arrival, a ample furniture of enactment toys towers down the reception desk. Meanwhile, a ‘Sexy Mama’ connection is disposable for those successful request of a country for 1 nighttime only, implicit with “love cocktails” and a Sexy Mama Box, containing condoms, lube and adjacent a vibrator. Actor Will Mellor (ofHollyoaksandMr Bates vs The Post Officefame) precocious posted a video connected societal media, documenting his astonishment upon discovering the saucy country additions.

Mama besides welcomes platonic relationships – my person and I decided to spot the masks nether the furniture for the duration of our enactment – arsenic good arsenic families, peculiarly successful the restaurant. In Nice, Mama’s edifice is built connected the flavours of the Mediterranean, standouts being the signature meats and pasta dishes. The main edifice connected the crushed level is simply a fashionable spot with Nice locals, whilst upstairs, connected the extortion of the gathering and overlooking the excavation area, Mama’s guests tin bask post-swim cocktails.

The summertime months spot Nice astatine its peak. Temperatures tin scope the precocious 30s, meaning staying determination with a excavation oregon located wrong walking region of the water is vital, and thankfully, Mama Shelter ticks some those boxes. The transport links marque it each excessively casual to sojourn adjacent towns – I urge Menton, Èze and Antibes for those looking to debar the glamorous but touristy hotspots of Monaco and Cannes. Head to Plage de la Mala for a sandy beach, but instrumentality attraction connected the rocky descent. It’s worthy it erstwhile you get there.

Mama Shelter Nice is an eccentric, romanticist and colourful basal for seeing the metropolis astatine its fullest. It’s the perfect flight for a mates looking to research their French Riviera fantasies... and perchance adjacent a fewer different fantasies on the way.