Holiday information

- Holiday type
  
  City Add-On
- Included extras
  
  Notes for a self-guided city walking tour
- Average carbon footprint
  
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  15kg CO₂e per person, excluding travel
- Nights
  
  2
- Accommodation
  
  Centrally located hotel
- Meals
  
  Breakfast every day
- Price
  
  From £165pp
- Travel
  
  None included
- Start
  
  Any day
- When you can travel
  - J
  - F
  - M
  - A
  - M
  - J
  - J
  - A
  - S
  - O
  - N
  - D
  The season for this holiday is:
  01 April 2024 - 31 October 2024
  01 April 2025 - 31 October 2025

Nimes

Situated midway along the Via Domitia linking Italy and modern-day Spain, Nîmes was a prosperous Roman city, and that’s where its attraction lies – the city boasts some of the largest Roman monuments in Europe, and certainly the best-preserved remains you will find anywhere in France.

There are two other important sites – the superbly proportioned Maison Carrée and the Porte d’Auguste gateway – but the real focal point is the 1st-century amphitheatre, Les Arènes. Beyond the numerous archways of its impressive exterior, gladiators fought wild animals and one another while a blood-thirsty crowd of thousands looked on.

To pull yourself back to the present, visit the glass-and-concrete building housing Nîmes’ museum of contemporary art, as stark a contrast as you can imagine to the city’s ancient past.

Explore the city

Notes for a self-guided walking tour included

Notes for a self-guided walking tour included

As you’ll discover as you follow our self-guided walking tour, Nîmes’ three star attractions are all of Roman origin. The first, Les Arènes, is so large that it could seat 20,000 spectators for gladiatorial fights and other events. The second is the Porte d’Auguste, a gateway into this once-walled city that was named after Emperor Augustus, while the third is the Maison Carrée, a colonnaded temple of harmonious proportions sitting in its own square. Just a stone’s throw away is a very different building altogether: the Carré d’Art, an imposing modern building designed by Norman Foster which houses a museum of contemporary art. After strolling through the alleys and squares between this and the cathedral with its sculpted frieze depicting Adam and Eve, head for the Jardin de la Fontaine, where you can wander up the wooded slope, past a series of grottoes, to the Roman Tour Magne, for views that are claimed to stretch as far as the Pic de Canigou in the Pyrenees.

Accommodation

The hotel is ideally located for exploring the city. We provide suggestions for where to eat out in the documentation that we send you prior to your holiday.

Hotel Marquis de la Baume

The centrally located and beautifully decorated Hotel Marquis de la Baume is a charming mix of modernity and tradition, having been converted from a 17th-century town house complete with an amazing stone staircase and a vaulted entrance hall and breakfast room. The very comfortable bedrooms have modern furnishings and are equipped with air conditioning, a hairdryer, satellite television and wi-fi. There is a small bar.

Meal arrangements: breakfast only
Facilities
- Small bar
- Courtyard
- Wifi
- Air conditioning
- Lift

Prices

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Prices for first-named hotel (£ per person based on 2 sharing)

Add-on price

Hotel Marquis de la Baume, 2 nights: 01 April 2024 - 31 October 2024 & 01 April 2025 - 31 October 2025

Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above

Starting	Add on 2 nights	Single supplement
1 Apr - 30 May 2024	£205	£205
31 May - 30 Jul 2024	£240	£235
31 Jul - 30 Sep 2024	£205	£205
1 - 29 Oct 2024	£165	£165
1 Apr - 30 May 2025	£215	£215
31 May - 30 Jul 2025	£250	£245
31 Jul - 30 Sep 2025	£215	£215
1 - 29 Oct 2025	£175	£175

Includes accommodation and meals as described. No travel is included as it is assumed that you are travelling via the city as part of your main Inntravel holiday.

If you are flying via a different airport and would like us to arrange connecting travel, please contact us for a quotation.

Room upgrades & extra nights for first hotel

Room upgrades (£ per person per night)

Hotel Marquis de la Baume, Nîmes
Superior: 01 Apr - 31 Oct 2024	£18
Superior: 01 Apr - 31 Oct 2025	£19

Extra nights (£ per person per night) in a double or single room

Hotel Marquis de la Baume, Nîmes (B&B)	Double room	Single room
01 Apr - 30 May 2024	£88	£174
31 May - 30 Jul 2024	£103	£204
31 Jul - 30 Sep 2024	£88	£174
01 Oct - 31 Oct 2024	£73	£143
01 Apr - 30 May 2025	£92	£181
31 May - 30 Jul 2025	£107	£212
31 Jul - 30 Sep 2025	£92	£181
01 Oct - 31 Oct 2025	£76	£149

Getting to the city centre

This information is for guidance only; no travel is included in our prices and you should pay locally for your chosen option.

For more information about the airport, visit the Nîmes airport website.

Getting between Nimes airport and the city (15km):

Public transport	Approx. duration	Frequency
Bus	15 minutes	after every Ryanair arrival

Other options	Approx. duration	Approx. cost
Taxi	20 minutes	25€

Reviews

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Mr W Helin

USA

10 September 2022

My wife and I, along with three dear friends, completed the Postcards of Provence bike ride the second week of September 2022. It was our first experience with Inntravel and we absolutely loved the trip. Inntravel customer service was exceptional throughout. I highly recommend anyone planning a trip to communicate early and regularly with Inntravel staff; they are ever so responsive. The bike ride trip notes were, simply, great. There were, for example, recommendations for wine domaines and we loved the two places we visited. The hotels were fabulous and the bike rental company prompt and super helpful. We so enjoyed each and every day of our ride and, though we were not able to complete the final day due to high mistral winds, loved having the day to further explore Arles. We also took the advantage of the Nimes add-on and highly recommend it.
Mr R Morgan

Wilmslow

06 June 2022

Highlights included the walks from Roussillon and Gordes, visits to Venasque and the Lavender museum. At the end of a hot day's walking, dipping our feet in the icy waters of the Sorge in the mill race at Hotel du Poete as recommended by Tva, one of the staff, was wonderful!

The arena at Nimes was awesome and the outlet of the aqueduct from Uzes was most interesting, especially as we'd done the Pont du Gard holiday in 2018.

INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers combined our Colours of Provence holiday with a stay in Nimes.

Mr W Helin

USA

10 September 2022

My wife and I, along with three dear friends, completed the Postcards of Provence bike ride the second week of September 2022. It was our first experience with Inntravel and we absolutely loved the trip. Inntravel customer service was exceptional throughout. I highly recommend anyone planning a trip to communicate early and regularly with Inntravel staff; they are ever so responsive. The bike ride trip notes were, simply, great. There were, for example, recommendations for wine domaines and we loved the two places we visited. The hotels were fabulous and the bike rental company prompt and super helpful. We so enjoyed each and every day of our ride and, though we were not able to complete the final day due to high mistral winds, loved having the day to further explore Arles. We also took the advantage of the Nimes add-on and highly recommend it.

Mr R Morgan

Wilmslow

06 June 2022

Highlights included the walks from Roussillon and Gordes, visits to Venasque and the Lavender museum. At the end of a hot day's walking, dipping our feet in the icy waters of the Sorge in the mill race at Hotel du Poete as recommended by Tva, one of the staff, was wonderful!

The arena at Nimes was awesome and the outlet of the aqueduct from Uzes was most interesting, especially as we'd done the Pont du Gard holiday in 2018.

INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers combined our Colours of Provence holiday with a stay in Nimes.

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