The £136m (US$240m, 200m euro) Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel and Resort opened in Monaco on 7 October.

The resort was masterminded by Brussels-based Monegasque architect Louis Rué, consultancy Atelier d’Art Urbain and architects lori & Giraldi.

Covering an area of 431,000sq ft (40,000sq m) on the Larvotto peninsula, the centrepiece of the development is an L-shaped hotel, inspired by Mediterranean palaces and complete with 11 floors and 337 rooms and suites.

The hotel gardens also include Europe’s first sand-bottomed lagoon with sculpted rocks, palm tree islets and child-friendly wet beaches with links to an indoor swimming pool.

Find out more about Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel and Resort, the new hotel in Monte Carlo at http://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/newsdetail.cfm?codeID=12692.