This forum is my new favorite time waster at work! The info is so helpful. A few things I%26#39;d appreciate some thoughts on:
1. We are arriving on Sunday March 29th into Nice and plan on staying a few days. It sounds like some of the city (markets, museums, etc) are closed on Mondays and Tuesday. Is this true? Are these better days to explore local towns, etc.? That being said the wife (both 30yrs old) and i are just as likely to sit at a cafe with some food and wine and watch the city go by, do some shopping, etc (any recommendations for this?)
2. Hotel Regence. In our price range, in a (seemingly) good location, gotten good reviews on this site. Thoughts? Better deals?
Thanks much - again, these posts are so helpful.
Joe
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Monday is a general day when things are shut in the wider area , not just Nice. The big shops and malls will be open but small shops often stay shut all day -esp in small towns except touristy shops in touristy places during the summer season.
Food and flower markets are shut on mondays , but antique-y junky brocante markets [fun to poke around and laugh at the inflated prices] often take their place .
Museums are variable but always shut on either monday or tuesday so you need to check the specific ones to make sure.
there will be plenty of places to sit and eat and watch the world go by in Nice on a monday
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Apart from the fact that the flower market is a flea market on Monday, I have never noticed any significant difference. In Villefranche, a place that does depend on tourists, one supermarket closes on Monday and the other on Tuesday or Wednesday.
The weather is a much more significant factor. Better to be in Nice or Monaco if it is raining, and it often does in March: better to go along the coast and to places such as Eze or St Paul when the sun is shining.
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The monday closing makes more of a difference in small places where that might mean everywhere is shut though some shops will open on monday afternoon.
However boulangeries , delis and small shops and even some cafes off the main streets stay shut in Nice on mondays esp outside the summer season -though it doesn%26#39;t make much difference because there is such a huge choice of places in Nice anyway.
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Sensible advice here as always. March weather is mixed - you may get sun, cloud or rain within the space of a few days, so a good plan is based on what the weather forecast on your hotel TV says on Sunday night rather than a just shopping list of potential destinations.
If the weather looks good out of your window, the Riviera is your oyster - wherever you fancy. Strutting the Croisette in Cannes is fun, and picnic on the blue chairs on wine, cheese and baguette out of Monoprix. Or head for Antibes and cast a critical eye over the £10m+ yachts in the International Yacht Club, and lots of places for lunch.
Eze and St Paul should be mercifully not overrun with tourists in March, but if you are hankering after that lovely view down the coast from Eze, don%26#39;t unless you have fine weather - I went up there when the clouds were blowing in from Corsica and enjoyed a fine view of exactly nothing.
If its not fine and things go downhill sometimes, its good to have a fallback - Monaco%26#39;s Musee Oceonographique is entirely indoors and the water is the other side of the glass. Nice has a lot to offer thats not weather dependent.
Enjoy - as you surely will.
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