Riviera Soleil
Veronica of Riviera Soleil helped us immensely to locate suitable accommodation at the last minute. We needed a place for three weeks and a hotel would be inappropriate and expensive. She has a selection of superb apartments. All are immaculate and well presented. We were met at the airport and dropped off and shown around the place. She helped with a few tours that we had planned and also gave us a lift back to the airport. Talk about silver service! Well I will definitely use their services again as I would have had a big dent in my pocket and my health would have suffered eating out every night. Instead we bought items at the local supermarket, fresh and tasty! more
Fenocchio
Award winning icecream maker with dozens of delicious flavours to chose from, even for people who don't have a sweet tooth. You can either get a cone and wander around the streets of the old town or sit at a table and watch the world go by. more
Fondation Maeght
Museum is about 10 km from Nice in St-Paul-de-Vance, home of many famous artists over the years. This museum was purpose built in the 50's to house a collection of paintings (Chagall, Matisse, Kandinsky) and there is a fantastic garden filled with sculptures and fountains by artists like Miro and Giacometti. Opening times: 1.7.-30.9. 10am-7pm, 1.10.-30.6. 10am-12.30pm & 2.30pm-6pm. Tickets 11 Euros more
Hotel Windsor
Lovely boutique style hotel with individually decorated rooms. Rates off season drop considerably and a double room can be had from 75 Euros. It has an exotic garden with a pool, a restaurant and bar and on the top floor a meditation room and steam bath. The foyer is decorated with oriental art, the stairwell with Tintin posters. The staff are brilliant. The hotel is about 10 min walk from the station, 5 min from the sea front. more
Restaurant Odyssée
Nice familiar restaurant with Italian speaking owners (Nice belongs to France only since 1860, being before part of Italy, and many people still today speak a local dialect with a mixture of French and Italian. The statue of Garibaldi, who was born in Nice, is looking to Italy because he became angry with the city when its citizens voted to be incorporated to France).
Main dishes are lasagne and pizzas that are made before of you by the father, a simpatico Italiano with long moustaches. The wife and beautiful daughters are the waitresses.
It is located at about 100 metres from the railway station, and around there are hundreds of hotels at good prices. more
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