Wenn ich mir die Yachten, privaten Terrassen, Luxushotels und exklusiven Partys ansehe, habe ich eine echte Frage an Leute, die am GP-Wochenende in Monaco waren:
Wie viel von dem ausgestellten Reichtum ist tatsächlich Milliardärsvermögen und wie viel kostet es, diesen Lebensstil für ein paar Tage zu mieten?
Bemerken die Einheimischen überhaupt den Unterschied zwischen einer GP-Woche und einer normalen Woche in Monaco?
Ich bin gespannt auf Geschichten von Leuten, die dabei waren.
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Von Dangerous-Guava-9232
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Yes we notice the difference. The winter months here are the best. It’s a village full of locals going on with their daily lives
GP weekend is absolutely too busy for my liking. Even just trying to get back to my apartment on foot is a massive headache due to all the diversions / crowds.
Yes, there is a huge difference, of course. Most of the people who live or work in Monaco don’t even stay here during those days.
But you have to understand that most of the people on the balconies, in the hotels, and at the parties are not billionaires or millionaires. I know because I’m one of them, and I’m not rich at all.
Most private terraces are rented out for the weekend, and when you work here, there’s a good chance you know someone who has offices overlooking the circuit and can get you a free pass. This situation is actually not that uncommon.
I’ve never paid for anything here simply because everything works through invitations.
I assume it’s very different on the boats, but the view of the circuit is pretty bad anyway, so who cares?
As another user has said, most of the people you see on balconies and such are not even millionaires but simply normal people.
I have seen the GP live dozens of times and from some of the most coveted locations completely for free and I am nowhere rich and I haven’t even lived in Monaco for most of my life.
Because of my father’s job I have seen it 3-4 times from Hotel de Paris suites with full view of the Place du Casino, then when those clients were not there anymore I have been countless times on the terrace of HdP with full access to the entire hotel for the full event, that’s usually where I used to bring friends who were visiting for the GP.
Seen it at least five times from one of the buildings on the starting line because a friend lives there. Long time ago his mother didn’t even care to rent it so she was just leaving the house for her kids to do whatever they wanted and we just had parties there the whole weekend and few times we were sleeping at the start just to be woken up by the cars (which is quite annoying).
Been a couple of times to the VIP lounge in front of the pit lane, don’t know the name. Again some free tickets from my father through his job at HdP.
Through my own job I went couple of times to the building facing Avenue d’Ostende, don’t remember the name of that one neither but it’s the one from where you can see the climb.
Honestly, it gets boring…
I went last weekend. I’m from the US and I’m a motorsports fan. A lot of people I met were doing it for bragging rights. Consider a few things:
1 – It’s not the best place to actually see the race. Watch it on tv if you want to know what is really happening on the course, with the drivers, and with the teams. In fact, it’s not really even considered the best course in the Grand Prix. I have heard it referred to as the “F1 Parade.”
2 – It’s not really the best place to bring a yacht. You’re tucked in with everyone else, not really *using* your yacht for yacht things.
3 -Terrible place to get around during GP. Walking, driving, trying to eat/drink. It’s a zoo full of surgically-enhanced dummies and wealth-signaling emotionally bankrupt monkeys.
4 – Monte Carlo isn’t a great place to gamble. If you actually like gambling, you can find way better experiences. When I went to the casino last weekend, all they really had for open games were blackjack, roulette, and yes, slot machines. I saw a morbidly obese woman in a leather recliner playing a video slot machine called “Piggy’s Prizes” while her husband languished behind her in utter boredom at a closed off baccarat table. Craps eventually opened up, but it was three-deep at every spot around the table and took forever to get in on.
…so yeah. I could go on, but anything that makes Monaco worth visiting outside of the Grand Prix is shut down during race week. Jardins Exotique, the palace tour, etc. The restaurants and hotels are packed with major wannabes. They all want to pretend like their business acumen or some unique quality is what landed them there, but they’re insufferable pricks. You will meet people of all stripes, but it is definitely “Influencer Disneyland.”
I had my own reasons for going, and beforehand I heard a lot of negative comments like the ones I just made. It made me wonder, “if everything sucks, then why do people go?” Many people I asked would say, “you just have to *experience* it, there’s no way to describe it.” Nah, I think I did a pretty good job describing it. The people who insist you *have to experience it* are just unable to meaningfully answer what would actually make any of it worth it.
Ever heard of yachting?