I%26#39;m spending 5 nights in Nice next month and i wanted to a take a few day trips along the coast to Monaco, Cannes, St. Tropez etc. What is the fastest and cheapest way to get to all these places. Is there a train or bus line that runs along the coast going to all the coastal towns? if there is such a thing, does anybody know the website for it? thanks in advance.
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I recommend the train:
http://www.voyages-sncf.com
This site might be even better but it%26#39;s available in French only:
http://www.ter-sncf.com
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From Cannes to Menton (on the Italian border) no probs with the train or the bus. Very cheap and easy to use. St. Tropez is the real problem and if you look at other posts you will find that it is one of the most difficult places in the area to access.
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It depends where you are staying.
The number 100 bus is great for Monaco and if you are near to the bus station will be much quicker and easier than the train.
St Tropez which will be over an hour on the train and much longer on the bus and Cannes which will be about 40 mins on the train and perhaps 2 hours on the bus.
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Just to correct the last post.There is no train station in St Tropez to get there you need to hire a car and drive or take the train to St Raphael and then the bus or take a 2.5 hour (each way) boat trip. On a short trip it really just takes too much time but if you are determined come back and we can give more details.
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An easier way to understand the trains than the links above is to download the timetable.
Go to nice-airport.com/acces_stationnement_en/… and download the second PDF Marseille-Nice-Vintimille. (The first PDF %26#39;Les arcs%26#39; etc. has additional trains and stops)
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web address in previous post should have been nice-airport.com/acces_stationnement_en/…
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St Tropez is probably a bit too far and difficult to get to from Nice if you%26#39;ve only got 5 days in total this time.
The only way to get there by public transport next month will be train to St. Raphael, then bus or boat from St Raphael.
The direct ferry from Nice or Cannes only runs from June onwards.
The Nice airport website mentioned above is a great source of information on transport all along the coast.
Anglo info is also good:
…angloinfo.com/af/18/riviera-travel-and-tour…
Train time tables and fares in english (and german !) on
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en
In May provided you are not trying to get anywhere during the Cannes Film festival or Monaco Grand Prix, public transport should be fine.
Going east toward Monaco take the bus or the train. For Antibes and beyond- eg Cannes, the train will be more expensive but much faster.
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Trains are cheap but profoundly unreliable. I got the train twice week before last, one was 25 mins and the other 40 mins late. Buses are slower but almost free and much more reliable. The bus station is on the eastern side of town. There is little building development east of Nice and therefore fewer hold ups, usually, in that direction. My rule is if going east, use the bus, going west, use the train. Unless the train doesn%26#39;t turn up at all, which is not unknown, going west of Antibes will be quicker by train.
The train timetable, by the way, is fiendishly complicated, with trains running only on certain days, between certain dates, stopping only at certain stations and so on. I have often pointed out to foreign visitors that they are waiting for a train which runs only until 28 March or from 28 April until 16 May or on or perhaps not on public holidays, although the timetable points out helpfully that %26#39;Le Lundi de Pentecote 12 Mai n%26#39;est pas considere comme un jour ferie.%26#39; (Sorry about the lack of accents)
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