I am going to Cote d%26#39;Azur from end september and I would know what place is better for two weeks stay. First, I want to stay 14 days in Antibes of Juan-les-Pins, but now I think may be better to change with another place like Menton or Nice or ;;;
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what do you want to do when you get here?
what age are you ?
what are your interests?
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I haven%26#39;t stayed in Menton but I stayed in Antibes this year and visited Juan les Pins. Juan is mainly a beach resort, whereas Antibes has beaches and a very nice old town too. All depends whether or not you want to spend your days on the beach really. Antibes is not far from Nice, and you can get the train all up and down the coast and visit other towns too.
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Hi Anisa
Most of us will have some negative opinions of towns along the Riviera which you can find in these Forums ( e.g. over priced, pretentious, over hyped and so on....) but there are few places which you can call Dull. Unfortunately Menton is one of those few.
Ed
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Menton gives you a glimpse of what the rest of Riviera might now look like if they had not curbed the property developers to protect its heritage. Except for a few gardens, its a mile of ugly holiday apartments, most of which appear empty the year round. Its a good place to visit for a day to see its old town and its gardens, but the idea of a week or two there - not while I still have a pulse.
Nice is the travel hub, and the gateway to visiting everywhere else, so many people make it their base.
Of your choices, JLP is a very small seaside resort -good for nightclubs and cocktails after dark if that is your thing, but Antibes has more depth and variety
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Thank u very much, after your describing I have understood that Antibes would be my best choice. I have bought TGV tickets for two weeks stay to Antibes, but was not sure.
And what about another towns of the Riviera from St-Trope to San-Remo like Frejus, Monaco etsetra, also for visit them.
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St tropez is awkward to get to without a car.
by public transport you need to take a strain to st Raphael then a boat or bus. Bus would be the slowest option and isn%26#39;t particularly cheap unlike the buses in the cannes/antibes/nice area
boat timetable
bateauxsaintraphael.com/files/…20TROPEZ.pdf
sanremo- take train to ventimiglia then a local italian train to sanremo
frejus -train
monaco train
cannes -bus or train
Nice-train
valbonne- bus
Biot- bus
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Ed %26amp; NiceLife,
I wonder why so many Italians have chosen Menton as their second home? Do you reckon it%26#39;s only because it%26#39;s so close to the border and they can rush back to Italy the minute they start feeling suicidal?
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The Italian are probably there because it%26#39;s only a few yards from civilization and real food back across the border, but not much further from Monaco where they have hidden their money from the taxman!
And if Menton is dull, thank heavens for dull. Of course I can see why some would think it dull. There are no English food shops, no English bookshops, you can%26#39;t listen to the happy sounds of English and Japanese on every other street corner, and it does have rather fewer of the multi-million pound mansions and expensive cars and yachts belonging to people who in another time and place would have been put up against a wall and shot. And the arriere-pays of Antibes is a blighted wasteland of identikit villas with pools, whereas Menton has beautiful steep valleys and mountains and lovely perched villages. And (OK, mostly not in Antibes proper - but I suspect a lot of what has been complained about in Menton may be in Roquebrune Cap Martin) what about the aesthetic delights of the out-of-town shopping sheds along the road to Villeneuve-Loubet, possibly the least attractive piece of near-coastal highway between Genoa and Marseille.
Having got some of my own prejudices off my chest, the OP has probably been given the right advice - Antibes is more central for a holiday on the Cote d%26#39;Azur.
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We all have our prejudices - vive la difference! I found the cemetery the most interesting part of Menton. If only because so many British are buried there (that should cheer you up, Perilizia! They came, they saw, they died! ;-)
I%26#39;m none too keen on the British abroad - never been in Heidis English bookshop or Geoffreys of London groceries in Antibes - horrid. I come here to get away from that! I just think Antibes has more going for it. Sandy beaches, culture, restaurants, the yachts, JLP and the Cap, access easy to Cannes. And better still twenty minutes on the train to Nice.
I guess the Italian residence secondaires in Menton is the same reason so many British buy in Northern France. Its not very far, and they are welcome to it. Seriously, the stretch between Carnoles and Menton I find depressing. I walked it once and it was once too often.
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Was I hasty in my assessment of Menton? Possibly the excitement of the Lemon Festival every February makes up for the rest of the year.
Nicelife - Heidi ( of the English Bookshop) is actually Swedish. They have a very good second hand section downstairs although it tends to be patronised by elderly English gentlemen wearing bicycle clips.
A visit to Geoffreys can help if feeling down - if only to laugh at the ridiculous prices - but on the other hand they are about the only shop in Antibes where you can buy chilled ( French) white and rose wines from the fridge at reasonable prices.
Ed
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