Accès aux soirées privées et aux galas

We should be clear about what we are selling here, because many are not: we hold no allocation of places, and nobody holds one for evenings of this kind. So we will never guarantee you entry one hundred per cent, and if anyone does guarantee it, ask them how. What we have is an address book built inside the houses of Monte-Carlo and a network of people we call directly, and with that, in practice, we almost always find a way. Sometimes it is not the way you pictured: a table on another floor, arriving after dinner rather than at the cocktail, or a neighbouring party you had not heard of that turns out to be better. What we owe you is to say early and plainly when a door is shut, rather than keep you waiting until the night before. The only real lever is notice: three weeks ahead, almost anything can be arranged. The day before last, very little.