The words “Monaco” and “budget” are rarely uttered in the same breath. Throw in Grand Prix weekend and it’s perhaps almost laughable to consider the principality as a realistic city break for anyone without seven figures sitting in their bank. But – and hear me out here – a trip to Monaco during the most extravagant weekend of the year isn’t as inaccessible as you might think.
With the popularity of F1 surging thanks to the Netflix genius of Drive to Survive, the appeal of watching the likes of Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and George Russell battle it out at a Grand Prix is expanding far beyond the petrolheads. Grand Prix attendance numbers soared to over 6 million over 24 race weekends in 2024, a 9 per cent increase on 2023 and a huge jump from the 4.16 million spectators that attended the 22 races pre-pandemic in 2019.
