Your evening at Monaco Grand Prix
The race finishes in the afternoon, but the principality switches into evening mode before the podium is taken down. Deck lights come on in the harbour, extra tables go out on Place du Casino, security at the receptions starts checking names against lists. What follows is the part of the weekend half the guests actually flew in for: a team reception, dinner two streets from the circuit, a deck in Port Hercule, the casino past midnight. The question is simple — spend it alone with your phone, or have someone beside you who carries a conversation in English and French and doesn't ask the wrong questions. We're the second option. Fifteen years in the principality.
Dinner
Le Louis XV at the Hôtel de Paris. Joël Robuchon at the Métropole. Cipriani on Avenue Princesse Grace. After a race day — a table where nobody rushes you between courses.
Reception and yacht
Team and sponsor receptions, Amber Lounge, decks in Port Hercule. Dress code and entry point agreed in advance — nobody arrives on spec these days.
Continuation
The casino on Place du Casino, Jimmy'z until morning. Evenings often run past midnight; the schedule is settled first.
NDA for public guests
Models sign a non-disclosure agreement. Photos from meetings are never published — not once.
Holds the room
Fluent English, part of the roster with French. At a team reception she reads as a guest of the weekend.
Chat lives 72 hours
Then it's deleted. That's been the standard since 2018 — not an option on request.
Video verification
Who's in the photo is who arrives. No match — the model doesn't go.
About the forum
The Monaco Grand Prix has run since 1929. Antony Noghès organised the first race on 14 April that year with the backing of Prince Louis II, and from 1950 it has been part of the Formula 1 World Championship. The organiser has never changed: the Automobile Club de Monaco, which also runs the Monte Carlo Rally and, in even years, a historic Grand Prix two weeks before the main one. The contract with Formula 1 runs to 2031, and the last corner carries Noghès's name.
The Circuit de Monaco isn't a purpose-built track. It's the streets of Monte-Carlo and La Condamine, closed off for a week: 3337 metres, nineteen corners, 78 laps, roughly 260 kilometres — the one race on the calendar allowed to fall short of the mandatory minimum distance.
The layout reads like a list of addresses. The start is on Boulevard Albert 1er along the harbour, then Sainte Dévote and the climb up Beau Rivage to Place du Casino, where the cars pass within metres of the casino and the Hôtel de Paris. Then the descent through Mirabeau to the hairpin outside the Fairmont Monte Carlo — the slowest corner in Formula 1, taken in first gear at the speed of a city cyclist. After that Portier and the tunnel, the only one on the calendar, where cars reach nearly 290 km/h, then the harbour chicane, the Piscine complex, La Rascasse and the run to the line.
There is essentially nowhere to overtake: in places the road barely allows two cars side by side, and the barrier is centimetres away. So the weekend is decided on Saturday — pole is worth more in Monaco than anywhere else, and Sunday often becomes seventy-eight laps of positional defence. In 2025 a two-mandatory-stop rule was introduced here for the first time. The win record belongs to Ayrton Senna. The trophy is presented by the Prince.
People don't only watch from the grandstands: they watch from hotel terraces above the circuit, from private apartments overlooking Beau Rivage, from decks in Port Hercule. A yacht for Grand Prix weekend is a market of its own — trackside berths are spoken for a year out, and a harbour mooring costs more than a week's charter in high season. Most of the daytime receptions happen on those decks.
The crowd splits roughly in half: the corporate side — teams, sponsors, hospitality guests booked from the morning briefing to the evening reception — and the private side, boat owners and residents who came with their own circle. We've worked in Monaco since 2012, and we know a paddock reception and an evening on deck aren't always the same model.
since 1929
run in the principality
to 2031
contract with Formula 1
Forum at a glance
| Forum | Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco |
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| City | Monaco |
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| Venue | Circuit de Monaco |
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| Dates | May 27–30 2027 |
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| Format | Companion for dinner/reception/yacht/evening |
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| Languages | English · French · Russian |
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| Booking lead time | two to three months ideal; two weeks minimum |
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| Selection | 2–3 profiles for your evening |
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How we operate during the forum
In an ordinary week the principality is calm: a request comes in two or three days out and selection takes thirty to sixty minutes. During the Grand Prix that doesn't apply — hotels sell out in winter, restaurants close their books, the model calendar fills long before the first session.
— The ideal lead time is two to three months before May 27. Settling it by the end of February is best. In that window we agree the days, the type, languages, venues, the dress code for each evening, and a meeting point that accounts for the closures.
— The minimum lead time is two weeks. We'll take it, but by then the choice is narrow: only a handful are left for Saturday and Sunday.
— Same-day — only if a slot has opened up; across four days that's rare. The honest answer is usually "today won't work, let's look at Thursday."
The languages we keep for the Grand Prix:
- English — the baseline of the weekend and a hard requirement for the Monaco roster
- French — at dinner and social-conversation level; close to mandatory for receptions with a local audience
- Russian — most of the roster, for guests from Moscow and the CIS
- Italian — selectively; the border is ten minutes away
What we do without being asked:
- Agree the dress code for the specific venue. A daytime terrace reception, a deck in the harbour and dinner at Le Louis XV are three different looks. Generically smart doesn't pass: in the casino salons and at Ducasse, jacket required applies during race week too.
- Work the route around the closures. The meeting point is fixed in advance — a specific entrance, lobby or quay.
- Keep the guest's work chat out of the evening. All questions go through the manager.
- Keep the size of the place in mind. Monaco is small, everyone sees everyone, and in public we behave accordingly.
Where guests stay
Guests divide into those who want a view of the circuit and those who want quiet after a race day: the first take addresses on the loop, the second head for Larvotto. Rooms go in winter, and some hotels only sell them as a full-weekend package.
Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo
Place du Casino. The Société des Bains de Mer flagship since 1864, reopened after the 2018 renovation. The circuit runs past the facade: cars come through Casino Square metres from the terrace. Inside are Le Louis XV — Alain Ducasse, Le Grill and the Salon Rose bar. Private entrance on Allée Saint-Charles.
Fairmont Monte Carlo
12 Avenue des Spélugues
The hotel Formula 1 turns around: the hairpin follows its perimeter and the tunnel passes underneath. Rooms and terraces with a direct view of the track are booked six months out at race-week rates. Nobu Monte-Carlo is inside. The noisiest address of the weekend, and the most wanted.
Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
Square Beaumarchais. Belle Époque, 1900, with the Winter Garden's glass dome by the Eiffel workshop. It doesn't sit on the circuit, but Place du Casino is two minutes away and an underground passage connects it to the casino — during the closures that's working logistics. Our pick when a guest wants the SBM standard without the main facade's exposure.
Hotel Métropole Monte-Carlo
4 Avenue de la Madone
Not part of SBM; its own format, with interiors by Jacques Garcia. Joël Robuchon Monte-Carlo and the Japanese restaurant Yoshi are inside. The street behind the casino is quiet — right when the race is a daytime affair and the evening is about food.
Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort
40 Avenue Princesse Grace, Larvotto
The SBM resort format by the sea: a lagoon, a spa, its own casino, the Blue Bay restaurant. Furthest from the circuit here, which over race weekend is the point — this is where people come back to sleep.
Who you can spend the night with at these hotels
A hotel suite is only half of the evening. Below — companions available during the forum in Monaco. Choose a face; the manager confirms whether she is free for your dates.
VIP night with Vlada
from €2,000
Night with Emma
from €2,000
Date with Emili · 4 hours
from €2,000
Private party with Klavdiya
from €2,000
Rooftop date with Arina
from €2,000
Date with Anzhelika · 4 hours
from €2,000
Night with Katarina
from €2,000
Date with Sofia · 4 hours
from €2,000
Date with Masha · 2 hours
from €1,500
Dinner with Melaniya
from €2,000
Date with Inna · 4 hours
from €2,000
Photoshoot with Svyatoslava
from €2,000
Forum day logistics
A race weekend is harder to run than any conference: the city is cut in two by the circuit, and for four days the usual routes stop existing.
How the days work.
Grandstands and barriers go up around six weeks before the start and come down over the three weeks after. Thursday is arrivals, accreditation, the first receptions and the harbour filling with boats; Friday is free practice, Saturday qualifying, Sunday the race. Until 2022 practice ran on Thursday with Friday off; the schedule is standard now, but Thursday is still the evening of receptions.
Getting around.
Inside the principality you walk. Some streets are shut, others run on resident passes, and the underground passages and lifts are the main way to cross the circuit. Place du Casino to Port Hercule is ten minutes on foot, Larvotto twenty — but the route doesn't match the map, and not knowing the crossings turns ten minutes into forty.
The road from Nice.
Nice Côte d'Azur airport is about 25 minutes off-peak, longer on race days. The helicopter shuttle to Monaco Heliport in Fontvieille takes 7 minutes and is booked well ahead. The train to the underground Monaco Monte-Carlo station is around half an hour, and over the weekend that is often faster than a car.
The evening.
The substance comes after the race: team and sponsor receptions, Amber Lounge, private formats on the boats in the harbour, dinners around Place du Casino and in Larvotto — Le Louis XV, Joël Robuchon, Cipriani, Twiga, Buddha-Bar. Then the Monte-Carlo casino, and Jimmy'z, which closes later than usual. Tickets and accreditation are the guest's side; the model comes to an agreed point, and in a closed-off city you can't move that point half an hour beforehand.
Getting back.
After the Sunday race the exits take hours to clear, so if the evening started in Monte-Carlo it's more sensible to stay there. We settle it in advance — the model accompanies you to the hotel, or you part at the venue.
Who it's for
- Guests on trackside terraces and apartments
- Yacht owners and their guests in Port Hercule
- Team and sponsor delegations
- Public guests and invitees
Archive of past years
2026
June 5–7
a rare move away from the traditional late-May slot
2025
May 23–25
Lando Norris won from pole in the first race with two mandatory pit stops
2024
May 24–26
Charles Leclerc became the first Monegasque to win his home race
2023
May 26–28
Max Verstappen won from pole in changing weather
The Grand Prix is the most predictable peak of our year. A short chronicle:
2023 (May 26–28) — Max Verstappen won from pole in a race where rain arrived mid-distance and the tyre calls decided the order. A classic Monaco plot: Saturday set the result, Sunday held on to it.
2024 (May 24–26) — Charles Leclerc became the first Monegasque to win his home Grand Prix. The race was red-flagged on the opening lap, and after the restart nobody passed anybody. That year our Saturday and Sunday slots ran out in March.
2025 (May 23–25) — Lando Norris won from pole. The experiment year: to break up the positional race, two mandatory pit stops were introduced. The teams worked out how to use the rule immediately, and the post-race talk was about strategy, not overtaking.
2026 (June 5–7) — a rare case of the event leaving its late-May slot for early June. For us it was a test year on logistics: the shift changed how the weekend overlapped with the yachting season and how the hotels filled.
2027 (May 27–30, expected dates) — the FIA approves the calendar in the preceding year. Monaco has historically sat at the end of May; if the schedule moves, the manager will tell you and shift the bookings.
Key facts
- The Monaco Grand Prix 2027 is expected on May 27–30 at the Circuit de Monaco; the FIA approves the season calendar in the preceding year. The official name is the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco, the organiser is the Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM), and the contract with Formula 1 runs to 2031.
- The race has been held since 1929: the first edition ran on 14 April 1929 on the initiative of Antony Noghès, backed by Prince Louis II, and it has been in the Formula 1 World Championship since 1950. The final corner carries his name.
- The Circuit de Monaco is a street track through Monte-Carlo and La Condamine: 3337 metres, nineteen corners, 78 laps, roughly 260 kilometres — the only round allowed to fall short of the mandatory minimum race distance. Key points: Sainte Dévote, the Beau Rivage climb, Place du Casino, the Fairmont hairpin (the slowest corner in Formula 1), the tunnel beneath the hotel and the harbour chicane.
- Overtaking is close to impossible and the weekend is decided in Saturday qualifying. In 2025 a two-mandatory-pit-stop rule was applied here for the first time. The win record is six, held by Ayrton Senna.
- Until 2022 practice at Monaco took place on Thursday with Friday off; from 2022 the event follows the standard Friday-to-Sunday schedule.
- The race is watched from grandstands, hotel terraces, private apartments on the circuit and yacht decks in Port Hercule; a harbour berth is booked a year ahead. Hotels: Hôtel de Paris (circuit past the facade), Fairmont Monte Carlo (hairpin around the perimeter, tunnel beneath it), Hôtel Hermitage, Hotel Métropole, Monte-Carlo Bay.
- Evening formats: team and sponsor receptions, Amber Lounge, private receptions aboard boats in Port Hercule, dinners at Le Louis XV — Alain Ducasse, Joël Robuchon, Cipriani, Twiga, Buddha-Bar, plus the Monte-Carlo casino and Jimmy'z.
- Logistics: on race days the principality is closed off, movement is on foot, some streets run on passes. Nice airport is about 25 minutes by car, the helicopter shuttle to Monaco Heliport 7 minutes, the train to Monaco Monte-Carlo station about half an hour.
- APEX Escort has worked in Monaco since 2012. The booking lead time for Grand Prix days is two to three months, two weeks minimum. Languages: English as the baseline, French for the local audience, Russian for CIS guests.
- Monaco rates: €1,500 for two hours, €2,000 for four; a separate rate with a deposit applies on Grand Prix dates, overnight and full-day formats by arrangement. Video verification is mandatory since 2018, correspondence is deleted after 72 hours. Telegram: @Apex_concierge, WhatsApp: +995 571 214 362.
Frequently asked questions
How far ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix 2027 should I book?
Ideally two to three months, meaning a decision by the end of February; two weeks is the minimum. Same-day almost never works on race dates: Saturday and Sunday are spoken for well in advance.
What are the dates of the Monaco Grand Prix 2027?
The expected dates are May 27–30, 2027. The FIA approves the calendar in the preceding year, and in 2026 the event already moved to early June. If the dates change, we'll flag it and move your booking.
What makes Monaco different from other Grands Prix?
A street circuit of 3337 metres through Monte-Carlo and La Condamine: nineteen corners, a tunnel, a harbour chicane, the slowest hairpin in the championship. There is almost nowhere to overtake, so the weekend is decided in qualifying — and it is the only round watched from a hotel balcony or your own deck.
We're watching the race from a yacht in Port Hercule. Do you work in that format?
Yes — it's one of the two most common scenarios of the weekend. The model arrives at the quay at the agreed time and boards at the crew's invitation. For her safety we confirm the yacht's name and the captain's name in advance. The format runs 4–6 hours, occasionally a full day.
What languages do the models speak?
English is the baseline for the Monaco roster and a hard requirement. French at social-dinner level is common and close to mandatory for receptions with a local audience. Russian is widespread; Italian is selective.
What's the dress code at the Monte-Carlo casino and Le Louis XV?
In the evening the casino salons apply jacket required; trainers and sportswear are turned away. Le Louis XV is a formal room: a long or cocktail dress, minimal jewellery. No reminders needed — the models who work these scenarios know the code.
How discreet is this? I'm a public figure.
We don't keep correspondence longer than 72 hours, photos from meetings are never published, and models sign an NDA for work with public guests. Video verification before the meeting is mandatory. Extra conditions — no phone during the evening, incognito arrival, a separate hotel entrance — are arranged case by case. Monaco is small, and our reputation here is exactly as sensitive as yours.
What are the rates during the Grand Prix?
The Monaco baseline is €1,500 for two hours and €2,000 for four. A separate rate applies over race weekend and the slot is reserved in advance, normally against a deposit. Overnight, full-day and trips along the coast are by arrangement, quoted before the booking.
Can I book one model for the whole four days, and what about cancellations?
One model for the whole weekend is the format we prefer, with 10–15% off packages of three days or more. Cancellation 48 hours out or more is free, 24–48 hours is 50%, under 24 hours is 100%. On Grand Prix dates a free move needs 7 days' notice.
How do I book a companion for the Monaco Grand Prix 2027?
Message the manager on Telegram or WhatsApp two to three months before May 27 — we'll send 2–3 profiles for your evenings. Days, languages and dress code are agreed beforehand.
