Journey With Ann is an independent travel guide featuring practical destination articles, local recommendations, and trip-planning information.
Journey With Ann is an independent travel guide featuring practical destination articles, local recommendations, and trip-planning information.
Nice is a practical base for exploring the French Riviera without changing hotels every few days. Regional trains run along the coast in both directions, putting Monaco, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Menton, Antibes, and Cannes within easy reach.
Planning a trip to Nice on the French Riviera? This guide covers the parts that matter once you are actually there: where to stay, how to get around, what to see, what the beaches are really like, and which small details can save you time and frustration. I have also included the things I noticed on my first trip that were much harder to find in other travel guides.
On a map, the attractions look extremely close. In reality, once you add wandering through the Old Town, climbing viewpoints, taking photographs, visiting a market, stopping for lunch, and walking the entire waterfront because it looks beautiful, the steps accumulate very quickly.The walking times below are therefore realistic estimates between attractions, not sightseeing times. A ten-minute walk can easily become twenty minutes when you stop for photographs—which, in Nice, you probably will.
