I am planning on taking a half day tour of Monaco, Monte Carlo and Eze on Sunday Sept 23. Is Sunday a bad day for this tour? I can perhaps change it to Monday. Also, has anyone used Viator?
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you don%26#39;t drive a lot, so don%26#39;t worry for sunday, that will be ok
Nice to Monte carlo is only 25 km
but it%26#39;s better morning, if you can choose your half day
I don%26#39;t think Viator exists on French Riviera, they sell on their website and send you to their local partner
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Thanks for the reply regarding taking this tour on Sunday.
Is 4 hours enough time to see everything? Are there any other tour companies beside Viator that you would recommend? This is our first trip to the French Riviera.
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I don%26#39;t know who is the local partner of viator so may be is a good company
the most important company are : medtours, sunnydays and tour azur.. I think but I don%26#39;t know who is the best.
they have a lot of drivers, so that will depend the drivers, if you are 4 or 10 people in the van...
I don%26#39;t know if you have time but sometimes I recommand to take a bus from Nice station to Eze Village (line 82 or 112, 1,3O euro one way). you visit yourself eze village (1 hour and a half including the exotic garden). you can ask also at the tourist office organized a tour (6 euros each). You can also visit the perfume factory Fragonard (one hour), it%26#39;s free
after take a bus , 20 min, (line 112) to Monaco and visit yourself Monaco (palace family, oceanographique museum..) and Monte Carlo (have a look the Casino square). Monaco/ Monte carlo is a small country, so you can walk in Monaco
Monaco and Monte Carlo, I recommand 3 hours
after take a train or bus line 100 directly to Nice
if you want to do this trip, do it on monday because the bus line 112 is off on sunday and you will not have guided tour on sunday at eze tourist office
and may be you can start by monaco early (take train or bus 100) and finish with a lunch in eze
with a tour company the summer, it%26#39;s like a factory
go in tourist office, take a map and free guide, it%26#39;s better
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Thank you very much! I will take your advice and visit these areas on our own on Monday.
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I was planning on doing a similar tour on my own on a Sunday.
Does the bus from Eze Village to Monte Carlo operate on Sundays?
Either that or I cant read a bus timetable.
Cheers
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The regional #100 bus Ligne d%26#39;Azur runs on Sunday but I know that some of the more local buses do not run on Sunday.
Prior poster mentioned Medtours. We used them for an all day tour in May 2007 and were VERY DISAPPOINTEd. During the entire tour we only had about 20 minutes of English commentary. They were efficient in getting us to the villages and cities listed in their brochure but we were very disappointment in the guide we had: he was a driver not at all a guide.
So be careful in choosing a tour company.
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Ignore Nancy%26#39;s post ,www.medtours.com offer a great service, pretty expensive yes, but worth it, especially if time is limited.
Will do it again !
J
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Whats all this %26quot;tour%26quot; business? The Train from Nice Gare Ville to Monaco is around every half hour to hour on Sundays - about ten euros return. The 100 TAM bus also does the trip every twenty minutes 2.60 euro return. Weekdays is even more frequent.
There is only 2 kilometres coastal width to all Monaco. Monaco and Monte Carlo are virtually the same place.. It takes less then thirty minutes to traverse ithe whole %26quot;country%26quot; There are only around 4 - 5 things worth seeing and that is all on foot. This is Europe, its very small.
Eze is a slightly different beast, as the Nice buses dont run on Sunday, but its a couple of kilometres by taxi - I have walked it! Why poeple are paying tour companies for these simple travel things its beyond me.You either dont care what it costs, moneys not the issue for you, or if money matters, there are many alternatives on public transport.
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Glad to hear that Dublin18 had a good experience with Medtours. As another poster pointed out, it depends on the driver/guide. Other people on our tour had taken another Medtour and had a great guide. Our guide, on that day, provided very little English commentary. So, if booking a tour and you want commentary about what you are seeing and the history of the area, see if you can find out what the tour company actually will provide.
We did use local transportation for much of our stay but opted for a tour to some locations further from our hotel. Medtours did get us to the villages and cities listed in the brochure but the driver provided little information other than the name of the next stop and what time to meet him.
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Re Medtours and many other trips: if someone makes a comment, it is valid and probably happened good or bad; one has to balance what is being said; advice to %26quot;ignore%26quot; is best ignored; take it into account. All organised trips rely so much on the driver/guide; one day a good one; another a bad one.
I know NiceLife is a local yokel and finds Nice travel very easy. BUT it IS very easy; very cheap; very clean; modern. Only caveat is that thanks to the French way of doing things (unions?), buses tend to finish quite early (8pm ish); are reduced or don%26#39;t run on Sundays and holidays just when you want them. We are 59 and 60 and travel all over the Cote d%26#39;Azur on the buses and trains; you can even reach many of the smaller, hilltop villages by local bus; if you have to change, the second bus is often from the same stop or nearby.
Esp if you travel weekdays, excellent bus service to Eze (get off at the village, not the terminus). Eze is all alleys, steps and some hills; no cars so a tour won%26#39;t get you any closer. You must go into the garden mentioned (small charge) as that is where you get the fantastic view. Then another local bus on to Monte Carlo. MC is very built up and a bit of a concrete jungle BUT it has Ferraris and Maseratis by the dozen. Once there get a local bus up to the Palace, cathedral and other older attractions. Then bus or train back to Nice.
Your time is your own this way. You may want to take longer than a half day; you can do that on your own.
Remember when you have a bus ticket you have to %26quot;validate%26quot; it in a machine near the driver every trip (hefty fine).
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