The apartment is very well served by public transport and it is definitely the way to move around in the coastal area due to parking problems during the season.
There is a bus stop immediately outside the front door of Square Pauline for ligne 1. This will take you the main square in Antibes, Place du Géneral de Gaulle, and further on to Carrefour hyper market.
Along the road, a short walk away, are the bus stops for ligne 200 (and 250 express bus from/to the airport) which will take you to Nice one way and the other to Cannes.
The railway station is also very close and again will take you on a breathtaking journey along the coast to all the coastal resorts and into Italy as far as Ventimiglia (Ventimille in French) - which has a wonderful market of leather goods and designer clothes every Friday, see http://ventimiglia.town/shopping-2/.
The nearby towns such as Grasse, Valbonne, Vallauris etc. are accessible by bus, but if you want to travel into the beautiful mountains it would be advisable to hire a car.
CAR HIRE
The easiest place to hire a car is in Galfe Juan - Truche - https://www.truchelocation.com
GETTING HERE
By air (if you are coming from America it may be that you will need to fly to London to get the cheapest option)
Nice airport is accessible from many British airports. Check with your local budget airline, particularly Easyjet, for some fantastic deals.
The airport is connected to the apartment by special bus - ligne 250 express which costs 11 euros, 16.50 euros return.
Click here for details of bus travel from Nice Airport
Airline links:-
By rail:
Railway station - Juan-les-Pins. TER will take you there but the TGV will take you to Antibes where you can catch a TER back to Juan-les-Pins or get a number 1 or 200 from the Pôle d'Echanges over the bridge behind the station.
The following is the route to walk from Juan-les-Pins station:-
By road:
The motorways extend to the Cote d'Azur from Calais but you will need to make an overnight stop en route, perhaps at Lyon. Virtually every kilometre will be on a toll road, "péage", and the total tolls, there and back, will be in the region of £100.
Leave the A8 at the exit for Antibes. Follow signs to Antibes and then Juan-les-Pins (the road layout is very complicated). Eventually after a left turn at McDonalds you will drive along Boulevard Raymond Poincare The Jardin Pauline park, with lots of palm trees, will be on the left hand side - opposite it turn in over the pavement just before the bus stop and you will be in front of the garage doors.
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