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Nice - French Riviera - expensive??????

  • 31-05-2005 8:29am
    #1
    disillusioned
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    I'm going to Nice for a week at the start of September.

    I've heard that it's an expensive city but I wonder what's expensive these days? Is it dearer than Dublin? Is a pint going to cost €5? Is a bottle of wine going to cost €20?

    Can anyone recommend some inexpensive restaurants, bars, shops, etc?


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  • #2
    HarryD
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    disillusioned wrote:
    I'm going to Nice for a week at the start of September.

    I've heard that it's an expensive city but I wonder what's expensive these days? Is it dearer than Dublin? Is a pint going to cost €5? Is a bottle of wine going to cost €20?

    Can anyone recommend some inexpensive restaurants, bars, shops, etc?

    It is pretty expensive, but not excessively..
    Last year a pint of the house beer was EUR6.40 in the O'Neills Irish bar
    (probably cheaper in other bars). Guinness was 7EUR.
    Wine is cheap of course..
    Eating out is a little cheaper Dublin..

    Nice is nice for a week, but not much more..
    The social life is pretty crap..


  • #3
    disillusioned
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    HarryD wrote:
    It is pretty expensive, but not excessively..
    Last year a pint of the house beer was EUR6.40 in the O'Neills Irish bar
    (probably cheaper in other bars). Guinness was 7EUR.
    Wine is cheap of course..
    Eating out is a little cheaper Dublin..

    Nice is nice for a week, but not much more..
    The social life is pretty crap..


    Thanks for that. Did you mean that it's cheaper in Dublin to eat out?
    Can you recommend any bars / restaurants?


  • #4
    Epitaph
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    I thought it was very expensive when I was there last August. Got nailed for 8 euro for a bottle of Corona near the promenade...think it was a bar near the Lenotron (don't ask me how I remember the name! :D)
    What we did towards the end was just drink outside restaraunts.

    Whereabouts are you staying? Near the railway station or nearer the beach? I can recommend a very good hotel if you're still looking.

    Warning: bring ****ty flip-flops or sandals to wear in the water. The beach isn't at all sandy, tis honestly more like a quarry. Literally had to climb out of the water - tide + wet shorts + sore feet + stones = a good minute to get out of the water.

    Wouldn't go back again, TBH.


  • #5
    disillusioned
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    Hotel booked - Hotel Nice Riviera (was the Rivoli) which is a few streets back from beach (Palais Des Congres area).

    Do you have to pay to use the beach? I got the impression that most are private.

    If you could recommend some cheaper places to eat and drink I'd appreciate it.

    Thanks for your advice.


  • #6
    Epitaph
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    disillusioned wrote:
    Do you have to pay to use the beach? I got the impression that most are private.

    Not at all spots, most of it's private i.e. linked to the larger hotels.
    If you could recommend some cheaper places to eat and drink I'd appreciate it.

    Blast, can't think of any of the names, all the receipts are buried somewhere. We went to a few restaurants between Rue Maccarani and the beach. There was one nice one, kinda recall a sort-of Aztec vibe about it, not bad grub.

    Expect to pay what you'd pay here for a decent dinner. Does breakfast come included in your hotel?


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  • #7
    disillusioned
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    Breakfast's not included.


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    Lots of restaurants up around the flower market area.
    Go to milo's round the corner from the meridien up a side street-nice onion soup and lasagne! mmmmmmm their lasagne is great

    As regards pubs-go to waynes the beer there is tasty ... just off the flower market,( take a left st at the bottom of the flower mkt to the next sq and its at the corner of the street running off that sq at its far side)thats an english bar but lots busier than o'niells or Thor(also lively) which is on the flower market.
    Bottles of heineken €3 a couple of weeks back which is cheaper than my home town.

    Theres a lively disco bar called the iguana I think, open till 6am ask around for directions to that,its got a strict door policy but they let us in.It's about a 5 min walk from waynes but my memory as to how to get there was blotched by the alcahol.


  • #9
    disillusioned
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    Thanks soooooooo much for all the advice, much appreciated.


  • #10
    simu
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    Drink is very expensive in pubs but really cheap in supermarkets so buy some and drink before you get out. It's not really all that expensive a place unless you go to all the designer shops and really posh hotels. Most of the Nice beaches are public but there are private sections every now and then. Go to on the train to nearby little towns if you want sandy beaches.


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