Is a week based in St. Paul de Vence too much? We plan to relax, sit by pool (weather in September is good??).
Perhaps, we will drive to a few towns and along the coast. The town seemed charming from what I%26#39;ve read and I%26#39;m hoping September is not too completely crowded.
Any advice for a nice, quaint town to spend a week -- we don%26#39;t speak French, so we don%26#39;t want to be %26quot;that%26quot; remote.
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Well, I figure one day in St Paul is about enough. Its a destination for mass day trippers (second most visited destination in France after Mont St Michel apparently). As a base, its travel connections are extremely limited. .
If you plan to spend most of your time by the hotel pool, honestly it doesn%26#39;t matter where you are, so St Paul is as good as anywhere. But if you have any ambition to travel and visit the other towns of the Riviera you need to consider somewhere with better travel access. Err like Nice? Go everywhere from there.
You don%26#39;t need to speak French anywhere - you can get by.
September is still good weather, but as for crowds, its all related to %26quot;La Rentree%26quot;, the date the schoolkids all go back, and all France disappears back home to Paris or wherever.
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Ditto what NiceLife says.
I%26#39;m all for %26quot;relaxing%26quot; when on holiday, but I think it would a shameful waste of time to spend a week. We returned there this summer, with friends who hadn%26#39;t been ~ they found that even half a day was plenty and so we drove off for a nice lunch and then returned back to our base (Cannes).
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We%26#39;ve used the charming small inn Le Hameau, just down the road from St-Paul, as a base for 4 days, which is about right. From there you can visit St-Paul itself and the nearby Maeght Fondation (fine modern sculpture and paintings), the old town of Vence, Tourrettes-sur-Loup, the perfume town of Grasse, Valbonne, Mougins, and Cannes. Then we finish up with 3 days in Nice and points east. That works out quite nicely.
Le Hameau has a gorgeous pool with a view across to the coast.
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Thanks all for your advice. We will have a rental car and hoped to pick one place to call %26quot;home%26quot; for a week. St. Paul de Vence looked charming...so, we thought it would work.
If we did decide to do 3 nights there and 4 nights a bit east...any particular place/town you%26#39;d recommend as a good base?
Thanks again!
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What is it with you West Coast guys, %26quot;relaxing%26quot; all the time?. Busy is good, you know. A different kind of busy can be very therapeutic.
If you are going east of St Paul for four days, you have some straight choices: Nice, Villefranche, or god forbid, Monaco.
For many many good reasons go Nice, then travel all around morning to early afternoon, and enjoy Nice late afternoon and evening. If you want a pool still in the city, theres the rooftop bunch (Le Meridien, Boscolo, or Sheraton) or at ground level fab location the rather lux pricetag La Perouse.
Cheers
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My wife and I spent 6 nights in a B%26amp;B outside of Tourette Sur Loup, along the road between Vence and Grasse. We visited St Paul for two hours (very touristy), but found Tourette to be a charming perched village. We had a car, also, and took day trips to the coast cities. We also visited Vence%26#39;s old town, Gourdon and the Gorge Sur Loup. The B%26amp;B was charming, with a large pool, hot tub, boule court and tennis court. Look in B%26amp;B%26#39;s on this site for Le Mas des Cigales for our review.
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