With Spring officially here, it’s time to see what the warm weather is bringing to your favorite Time & Place destinations around the world. Our luxury vacation homes provide the comfort and amenities you’ll be delighted to return home to after experiencing these memorable events!

Life was tough for Queen Victoria. During her reign in the late 1800s, vacation was an ordeal. Just to enjoy a little royal R and R at her favorite hotel on the French Riviera, she’d have to tow along a staff of 60 to 100 of her peeps. They shipped in her own bed and her own food(!) Things have changed on the French Riviera. You don’t have to squeeze into a cramped, noisy hotel. You and your entourage can spread out in a world-class luxury villa where every bed is fabulous. Here’s how you’ll vacation BETTER than royalty in the exclusive, ultra-glam principalities that dot the Cote d’Azur:

The French have Hitler and Mussolini to thank for their beloved Cannes film festival. Seriously. In a measure of poetic justice, apres guerre, the Festival de Cannes becomes the center of art film; good film. Everyone who’s anyone comes. Sophia Loren, Kirk Douglas, Max Von Sydow and Ingmar Bergman. It’s huge and crowded, but also exclusive.