Nice Travel Forum

Since it is off season, is it easiest to rent a car in Nice and drive to St Tropez, as opposed to taking the boat and a bus or train?

Hi has anyone driven from Nice to Bilbao or San Sebastian in Spain?
How long will this take?
Is it worth doing? We will be spending the majority of the time in Spain.

Hi there,

I will be staying in Nice and will have 12 full days to explore and enjoy the city and the surrounding area. If my itinerary of towns to visit seems a bit ambitious, keep in mind that I am a professional photographer (with a focus on travel images) and am there as much to work as to play.

My question to you all is this: Can each of the following towns be reached by bus or train (from Nice)? I will not be renting a car.

I have consulted the Ligne d'Azur PDF of bus routes, but found it difficult to navigate and couldn't quite figure out if certain buses stopped at some of my towns of interest along the route to their final destination. If I could see more than one town in the same day, that would be good to know (and likely to do).

Gourdon

Antibes (Bus 200 from Nice Gare Routiere)

Biot

Grasse (Bus 500 from Nice Gare Routiere)

St. Paul de Vence (Bus 400 from Nice Gare Routiere)

Vence (Bus 400 from Nice Gare Routiere)

St. Tropez

Gassin

Grimaud

Ramatuelle

Bormes-les-Mimosas

Cassis

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (Bus 113 from Menton)

Gorbio

La Turbie (Bus 116 from Nice Gare Routiere)

Menton (Bus 100 from Nice Gare Routiere)

Monaco (Bus 100 from NIce Gare Routiere)

Peillon

Saorge (Bus 905 from Menton or Tende)

Sospel

Villefrance-sur-Mer

Tende (Bus 905 from Menton or Saorge)

Eze (Bus 112 from NIce Gare Routiere)

Peille (Bus 116 from Nice Gare Routiere)

Sainte-Agnes

Coaraze (Bus 303 from Nice Gare Routiere)

Ventimiglia

Dolceacqua

Apricale

Roccetta

Any bus numbers/advice, train info/advice you can share would be immensely helpful. Advance merci!

I'll be Nice for 3 nights. I would like to take a train to Monaco.
How do I find a time schedule?
Or any othere suggesions? One day trip.

If I take a train from Nice to rapallo, there is no direct train and I must go to Vingtimille and then Genoa....On raileurope site it showed NA, which means not available and I do not understand.

Any possibility to go by bus from Nice to Genoa, how many buses a day from la gare routiere ? After Genoa, I may take a train or bus to Rapallo.

Thanks for any reply. I am leaving this Friday.

Hi,

Where do wise thrifty folks buy beach straw-mats?

Does anyone know whether there is an early morning bus starting at 6.30am or will we need to get a taxi? If it's the taxi can you recommend a reasonably priced one (if there is such a thing?)

I love this forum, so useful.

I have been quoted a price of £10 per person for breakfast at the hotel I'm staying at.

I wanted to know the average price for breakfast in cafe's in Nice. I imagine it varies greatly but for cafes in the areas of Rue Marechal Joffre I wondered if there were any budget traveller priced cafes to eat breakfast.

Thanks.

We are travelling through France in August, by caravan. I heard that there are few camp sites and parking possibilities for camp mobiles along the côte d'azur. We do not have any reservations made and we are only travelling through (stays in monaco, nice and cannes for one night each). Does anyone have a good suggestion where we can spend our nights? Thanks in advance for any hints!

Hi,

Does anyone by any chance know anything new about Ivan Bunin’s villas in Grasse?

P.S.
Yes, I know this is Nice forum, not Grasse forum.
I already tried Grasse tourist office, luckily the helpful lady there wrote a paper on Bunin, which means she knew who he was, good by local standards. With a page of directions and a somewhat approximate map I found Belvedere which was in private ownership in 2006. I am now heading to Janette.

Hi

We are regular travellers to Nice. For a change next year we are hoping to fly to Nice and ski in Isola 2000. I see that the Santa Azur Bus goes daily, leaving from Gare Routiere and then to the airport. As we are depending on this bus for transport my question is this..... what happens if the bus is full? Do the bus company provide a second bus or is it just tough and they leave you standing there for the next bus the next morning? Any help from people who have used the bus would be useful.

Hello,
My husband walks with two big metal canes due to an accident. It is difficult for him to move around in crowds. Are there any hotels with rooms that have a good view of the parades? Thanks for your input.

Hi

My husband and I are travelling to Nice, France next weekend for 10 days and would like to take in a farm tour. Do you know if this is possible within a 100km radius? We are opent to any type of farm, dairy, tillage, livestock etc.
Any information that you can provide would be gratefully appreciated

what is the best way to travel from nice, france to athens, greece? any local airlines?

is it best to stay in NICE and then travel by train/car as day trips to monte-carlo, cannes and st.tropez??

Hi,

What is the best ticket to get if I want to go to multiple destinations? Do they have one day train cards or would I have to get singles?

Also, how far is Eze village from the train station?

Thanks!

Hello everyone!

My mother and I are planning a week-long trip to several Italian cities and after that another week in Nice, France (with trips to Monaco and Cannes).

I have two questions regarding our stay in Nice and would greatly appreciate the help of fellow travellers:

1) Any supermarkets you can recommend? We plan to make this trip as budget as possible when it comes to food, so except for one or two trips to the restaurant, we'd like to spend as little money on food as possible.

2) Where does one hop on a bus to Cannes or Monaco? Do you pay once inside or should you buy a ticket in advance?

Thank you.

Having visisted Nice before and seen the Cannes, Monaco sights, etc, we fancy flying to Nice then travelling to a small picturesque village that is accessible by local transport. I have stayed in Haut de Cagnes which was beautiful so any other ideas? We are an active middle aged couple who enjoy walking etc coupled with Nice relaxing restaurants

Hi

We will be in Nice this weekend and need to be in Marsille on Monday to catch the flight back to the UK

Whats the cheapest way to get to Marseille from Nice?

I have not booked train tickets was planning to buy them on the day of travel, hope its not ginormously expansive to do this?

Any cheap suggestions welcome

Thanks

ER

It's my friends hen do and we're heading for what we hope will be a "classy and mature" weekend in Nice. I'm currently trawling through the Nice pages on VT to try to find recommendations for hotels which are in the average price bracket, but a little bit special. No luck yet. If anyone has any suggestions they would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks, Jules

on cruise ship .seeking info to travel by train to nice .best way to view nicemax 6hours

we are going to nice in the summer.my wife is a coeliac and needs a gluten free diet. i am wondering if any fellow sufferers who have been to nice and the surrounding towns know of any places we can go where she can get something to eat

How many days are needed to travel between Nice, Cannes, St.Tropez and Monaco-Monte Carlo?? 5 days plenty? Thinking about stopping at these places before continuing our journey to greece...any suggestions??

Have not found so many night trains from Nice to Paris from 2000hrs. The IDTGVnight takes very long, but very chaeap and do they have sleeping car on IDTGVnight ? Seems it is an entertainment train but how one could sleep.

I will need to get to La Napoule/Mandelieu from St Paul de Vence on the 14th June.
What would be the quickest way without using a taxi, would I have to go via Nice?
Many thanks in anticipation.
Ray

Hello, My husband & are planning a 7 - 10 day holiday South of France in early Aug 09 with our 4 yr old daughter. Areas under consideration are Nice & maybe Corsica. Can you suggest :
1) Good family resorts in these locations, preferably near the beach?
2) Any other places we should consider visting closeby?

I can extend the holiday to max. 14 days. Any other destinations we should try and cover?

Any help much appreciated. D

Hiya,

We are booked to arrive in Nice on a saturday early morning and leave from Marseille on Monday afternoon,

We were thinking od apending 2 days in Nice and heading to Marseille for the day early on monday

Can anyone suggest any places we can visit around nice, should we try to fit in Monaco as well? or are 2 days not enought/too much for Nice?

We like to experiance local culture, food, monuments, architecture and visit scenic places.

Thanks

ER

Hey!
I have a flight leaving from the nice airport on thursday at 10am. I am now in montpellier, I haved tried to look for a train that leaves to nice in the morning but there isnt any.
And I thought about either go during the day on wednsday and spend the night in a hostel, or take the last train that arrives in nice 11.30pm on wednsday and either spend the night on the trainstation or airport.
Is that a bad choise? since Im an alone 20year old girl? Is there anything to do at the airport or trainstation? like do they have computers or cafes? whatever.

Any respond would mean alot!
Thanks!

Hi All,

Just wondering if you can help me?

I have booked 3 nights at Grand Hotel Le Florence in Nice, France and cannot find their phone number on their website.

Can anyone let me know if there is a Yellow/White pages or website where I can find the phone number for the hotel?

Many thanks

Twinkle

Hows ya folks,

Just wondering about camping around the south of france? I am thinking around nice area, we dont have transport dose anybody know if there is anything near the city which is safe, I have looked into holiday rentals.com is this a good option for a couple on a budget??

Also we dont have to be in nice just somewhere i the south of france near a beach, could even be off the beaten track if there is transport near. are all the beaches stoney over there??