I'm planning to spend four days on the Cote d'Azur at the end of an active two week trip at the end of the September, hopefully to relax a bit before returning to the stress of the real world. After going back and forth between where I wanted to stay, and whether I wanted to stay up in the hills or down near the water, I've narrowed my focus on the Grand Hotel du Cap Ferrat. The location is fantastic and I like that Cap Ferrat is supposed to be pretty quiet. My goal is to enjoy the scenery and relax, and this seems like a pretty good candidate.

But the end of September still has high-season-ish rates and having been burned too many times before I'm wary of paying north of a thousand bucks a night for a small, unremarkable room with no view in a very famous hotel, only to wish I had spent that money to more effect somewhere else. This will be my first real trip to the French Riviera and I don't have any experience to go on, so I thought of asking the collective wisdom of this forum...assuming I'm not going get a suite and instead spend just over 1k a night for a deluxe terrace room or maybe grimace and pay a bit more for a 300+ sq ft sea view room...is it worth it? Or should I spend that same money somewhere else nearby around Nice?