Generally easy walking with few ascents / descents, but perhaps the occasional long day.
The season for this holiday is:
13 May 2021 - 15 July 2021
01 September 2021 - 10 November 2021
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
°C | 11 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 26 | 26 | 23 | 19 | 14 | 12 |
mm | 77 | 79 | 74 | 66 | 61 | 46 | 22 | 43 | 65 | 104 | 101 | 78 |
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6 nights: 13 May 2021 - 15 July 2021 & 01 September 2021 - 10 November 2021
Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above
Starting | Price | Single room |
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13 - 14 May 2021 | £1060 | £795 |
15 - 23 May 2021 | not available | not available |
24 May - 9 Jul 2021 | £1130 | £875 |
1 - 16 Sep 2021 | £1130 | £875 |
17 - 25 Sep 2021 | not available | not available |
26 - 30 Sep 2021 | £1130 | £875 |
1 - 12 Oct 2021 | £1060 | £795 |
13 - 27 Oct 2021 | £835 | £555 |
28 Oct - 4 Nov 2021 | £745 | £485 |
3rd & 4th person discount | -£40 | |
Single traveller supplement | £40 |
Includes accommodation, meals and services integral to the holiday as described, plus walking notes and maps, but no travel from the UK, nor any connecting travel from the airport unless stated below.
Book your flights through us and we'll find the best route and times to suit you. Please contact us to find out more about our flight booking service. We can also book connecting travel - see below.
6 nights: 13 May 2021 - 15 July 2021 & 01 September 2021 - 10 November 2021
Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above
Starting | Price | Single room |
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13 - 14 May 2021 | £1345 | £795 |
15 - 23 May 2021 | not available | not available |
24 May - 9 Jul 2021 | £1395 | £875 |
1 - 16 Sep 2021 | £1395 | £875 |
17 - 25 Sep 2021 | not available | not available |
26 - 30 Sep 2021 | £1395 | £875 |
1 - 12 Oct 2021 | £1345 | £795 |
13 - 27 Oct 2021 | £1130 | £555 |
28 Oct - 4 Nov 2021 | £1025 | £485 |
3rd & 4th person discount | -£40 | |
Single traveller supplement | £40 |
Includes all elements in the 'walk price', plus standard-class travel by Eurostar from London St Pancras or Ebbsfleet International to Lille or Paris, with onward travel as described below.
Included travel from the UK: UK–Paris (Eurostar), Paris–Carnolès (TGV/regional rail), approx. duration 11h plus 0h10 walk to the hotel. Home, Villefranche-sur-Mer–Paris (TGV/regional rail), Paris–UK (Eurostar), approx duration 10h30 plus 0h10 walk from the hotel.
> More about 'by rail' prices
> The 'rail experience': what to expect
If you book your holiday less than 6 months in advance of your travel date, seats may no longer be available at the tariffs on which our prices are based, but we may be able to offer you seats on the same services at a supplement.
Room upgrades (£ per person per night)
Welcome Hotel, Villefranche-sur-Mer | ||
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Deluxe with sea front view & balcony: 13 May - 15 Jul 2021 | £50 | |
Deluxe with sea front view & balcony: 01 Sep - 31 Oct 2021 | £50 | |
Deluxe with sea front view & balcony: 01 Nov - 10 Nov 2021 | £32 | |
Junior suite: 13 May - 15 Jul 2021 | £100 | |
Junior suite: 01 Sep - 31 Oct 2021 | £100 | |
Junior suite: 01 Nov - 10 Nov 2021 | £65 | |
Suite 'Bateau': 13 May - 15 Jul 2021 | £58 | |
Suite 'Bateau': 01 Sep - 31 Oct 2021 | £58 | |
Suite 'Bateau': 01 Nov - 10 Nov 2021 | £32 | |
Suite 'Voyage': 13 May - 15 Jul 2021 | £100 | |
Suite 'Voyage': 01 Sep - 31 Oct 2021 | £100 | |
Suite 'Voyage': 01 Nov - 10 Nov 2021 | £65 | |
Superior with sea front view & balcony: 13 May - 15 Jul 2021 | £28 | |
Superior with sea front view & balcony: 01 Sep - 31 Oct 2021 | £28 | |
Superior with sea front view & balcony: 01 Nov - 10 Nov 2021 | £16 |
Extra nights (£ per person per night) in a double or single room
Hotel Prince de Galles, Menton (B&B) | Double room | Single room |
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13 May - 31 May 2021 | £114 | £182 |
01 Jun - 15 Jul 2021 | £125 | £205 |
01 Sep - 01 Oct 2021 | £125 | £205 |
02 Oct - 10 Nov 2021 | £100 | £150 |
Welcome Hotel, Villefranche-sur-Mer (B&B) | Double room | Single room |
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13 May - 15 Jul 2021 | £182 | £360 |
01 Sep - 17 Oct 2021 | £182 | £360 |
18 Oct - 31 Oct 2021 | £122 | £242 |
01 Nov - 10 Nov 2021 | £100 | £198 |
Travelling from the UK
Outward route | Airline |
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Birmingham - Nice | jet2 |
Birmingham - Nice (via Paris) | Air France |
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Bristol - Nice | easyJet |
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Durham Tees Valley - Nice (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
Outward route | Airline |
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Edinburgh - Nice | easyJet |
Edinburgh - Nice (via Paris) | Air France |
Outward route | Airline |
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Glasgow - Nice (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
Outward route | Airline |
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Leeds Bradford - Nice | jet2 |
Outward route | Airline |
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Liverpool - Nice | easyJet |
Outward route | Airline |
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London City - Nice | British Airways |
Outward route | Airline |
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Gatwick - Nice | British Airways, easyJet |
Outward route | Airline |
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Heathrow - Nice | British Airways |
Heathrow - Nice (via Paris) | Air France |
Outward route | Airline |
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Luton - Nice | easyJet |
Outward route | Airline |
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Manchester - Nice | British Airways, easyJet, jet2 |
Manchester - Nice (via Paris) | Air France |
Outward route | Airline |
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Newcastle - Nice | easyJet |
Newcastle - Nice (via Paris) | Air France |
Outward route | Airline |
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Southampton - Nice (via Paris) | Air France |
This list of flight options should be used as a guide only, and you should check each airline’s website for current routes, frequency and schedules. Not all flights operate daily, and may not run for the entire season. You should also heed the latest flight arrival time and earliest flight departure time stated in the connecting travel section, as it may not be possible to arrange connecting travel outside these times. Please do not book your flights until we have confirmed your accommodation to you. Alternatively, our expert reservations team will be happy to offer advice and to make flight bookings for you. We charge £35 per person for our flight booking service (£60 for India and Nepal). Your flights are then covered by our package-booking conditions, which give you greater protection in the event of delay or cancellation, as well as providing ATOL cover.
Connecting travel options - flying via Nice
Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
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airport bus Nice airport to Menton (1h15) | £25 | 1900 |
direct taxi Nice airport to hotel (1h15) | £66 | flexible |
rail Nice Ville to Carnolès (0h35), own taxi (0h05, pay locally) or walk (0h10) to hotel | £6 | 2100 |
Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
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own taxi (0h05, pay locally) or walk (0h10) to Villefranche station, rail Villefranche to Nice Ville (0h35) | £2 | 1030 |
direct taxi hotel to Nice airport (1h) | £34 | flexible |
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The easiest and cheapest way to get to the airport from Villefrache is to take the bus to the port in Nice, cross the road, take the lift down to the waterfront and catch the tram. Total cost is one Euro fifty, you buy the ticket on the bus, which you catch at the top of the hill by the tourist information office, and the same ticket is valid for the tram. Remember to validate the ticket on the bus and the tram.
An excellent walking holiday to experience the Côte d'Azur. Very good opportunities to visit towns and villages and to enjoy peaceful, attractive walks around the Caps. Excellent (and very cheap) trains and buses along the coast add further possibilities to visit more distant locations. In Villefranche, the Welcome Hotel is wonderfully situated for peace, views and local interest. Whilst at Villefranche the bouillabaisse at Restaurant La Grignotière should not be missed and dinner should be eaten more than once at La Belle Etoile restaurant. Both of these restaurants are just up the slopes behind the hotel. Some of the restaurants along the waterfront are more expensive than they merit. An very enjoyable holiday, very well constructed and arranged by Inntravel.
We thought Sospel and Villefranche were lovely. Menton although interesting was a little busy for us.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers enjoyed a stay in Sospel before moving on to our Along the Côte d’Azur self-guided walking holiday.
The easiest and cheapest way to get to the airport from Villefrache is to take the bus to the port in Nice, cross the road, take the lift down to the waterfront and catch the tram. Total cost is one Euro fifty, you buy the ticket on the bus, which you catch at the top of the hill by the tourist information office, and the same ticket is valid for the tram. Remember to validate the ticket on the bus and the tram.
An excellent walking holiday to experience the Côte d'Azur. Very good opportunities to visit towns and villages and to enjoy peaceful, attractive walks around the Caps. Excellent (and very cheap) trains and buses along the coast add further possibilities to visit more distant locations. In Villefranche, the Welcome Hotel is wonderfully situated for peace, views and local interest. Whilst at Villefranche the bouillabaisse at Restaurant La Grignotière should not be missed and dinner should be eaten more than once at La Belle Etoile restaurant. Both of these restaurants are just up the slopes behind the hotel. Some of the restaurants along the waterfront are more expensive than they merit. An very enjoyable holiday, very well constructed and arranged by Inntravel.
We thought Sospel and Villefranche were lovely. Menton although interesting was a little busy for us.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers enjoyed a stay in Sospel before moving on to our Along the Côte d’Azur self-guided walking holiday.
We had excellent weather and this provided the background to a very enjoyable holiday. I would recommend a trip to the Rothchild Gardens-we went by number 81 bus and walked back. The gardens are lovely and the musical fountains are brilliant.
A few museums in Menton were closed, the new Cocteau museum and the Palais de Carnoles, and the Basilica of St Michael the Archangel was under wraps and closed. You might warn future visitors. There was still plenty to look at and enjoy.
The Cocteau Museum is undergoing major refurbishment following storms in October 2018 which flooded the museum basement. It is not clear yet when it will reopen. However, some of its temporary exhibitions have been moved to the Bastion Museum, also in Menton.
Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild was wonderful. Loved all the different garden styles. Great excitement watching two large yellow turbo prop fire fighting planes buzzing over us then taking on water from the bays either side of the gardens.
The coastal footpaths were well maintained and views lovely. Walk notes were good with interesting highlights.
Excellent hotels. Stunningly beautiful walks. Seriously considering booking the same holiday again. We didn’t think we could ever match our Amalfi coast walking holiday, but we enjoyed this one just as much. the only thing was, we would like to have visited Eze. So maybe that could be included. We found a very good restaurant one minute from the Welcome Hotel. It was called La Caravelle. Rue de L'Eglise. Excellent food and price and was open in March.
My sister and I really enjoyed this holiday. We arrived on November 2 so at the very end of the season (which we quite like, and we are very well aware that it means many things might be closed!). But this was also just after the storm of October 31 (which also battered Venice) so we found there was a lot of damage to sea front restaurants and the sea wall at Menton. The Jean Cocteau Museum there was completely closed because of flooding to the basement as was the Bastion. Hope it will be open again by the spring of 2019? Meanwhile the Palais de Carnolès (behind the hotel) seemed already to have been closed for renovations for quite a while (this looked quite sad and abandoned!) but the public citrus gardens surrounding it are still open.
When at Menton we enjoyed the walk round Cap Martin but had to overcome a few challenges because of the storm damage E.g. discovering that the path we had just walked was actually closed because of stormy seas! Also steps down to/up from beach washed away... But we found another way...
We loved the gardens at Val Rahmeh. As you warn, to do the entire Route 1 around Menton might be too much of a good thing? The bus was difficult to work out so garden lovers might like to do as we did and get the hotel to book a taxi to the gardens to get us there as they opened. (Do check opening times as they close at lunch time!) and then wander back to and down through the old town as suggested. The cemetery is also definitely worth a visit.
Re restaurants: the nearest reasonably priced option to the hotel Prince de Galles as recommended by Inntravel was ‘le P’tit Resto’ which is only short walk from the back of the hotel. Highly recommended! We went there for our first night and then made a reservation for the next night and then the next as Madame was so friendly and the food so good. Also, not just tourist fare - langue de boeuf anyone? Small, unpretentious and quite busy with locals so do book!
Yes, once in Beaulieu (Walk 4) do spare time to go to the Kerylos museum. An ‘Edwardian’ take on an Ancient Greek villa and life there. Not to be missed and it is right on your route. Later on this walk we found that the cafe/bar at Paloma Beach had been completely wrecked by the storm.
The Hotel Welcome was lovely and our ’cabin’ room up in the roof gave us a wonderful view over the harbour (and fireworks on our final night there).
Thankfully a huge cruise ship (Celebrity Eclipse = passengers 2850) which was moored out in the bay when we arrived was in the process of re-boarding (which took several hours). Apparently these huge cruise ships, for which Villefranche provides a sheltered harbour, can put big pressures on this small town and its station etc? There is a web-site where you can check when cruise ships will be there and how big they are.
We enjoyed the Villa de Rothschild gardens, but not as much as the Val Rahmeh, though the musical fountains were good! The famed tea rooms were closed so do check dates online.
In Villefranche restaurants can be quite pricey. The recommended Le Serre was closed until Xmas. We enjoyed two meals at La Grinotiere (3 Rue du Poilu) and then an even better one at La Caravelle (3 rue de l’eglise).
In Villefranche the Chapelle St Pierre is worth a visit and the Citadelle and its gardens are worth a wander - it is free after all! (The galleries were closed when we were there.) Neither will take you long.
There is a lovely little open-air Provencal market every Saturday and Wednesday 8am - 1pm in the Francois Binon gardens near the tourist office. Tasty free samples!
Route 6: You advise that shoes or sandals are all you need for this holiday but this was one where we were very glad we were wearing boots (and wished we had our walking poles) as it was raining and quite slippery. The weather was not good so when we got to Pointe Sans Culottes we decided to return by road, which was easily done - just turn right at the top of the steps.
This holiday presented a very good introduction to the South of France. The information provided by Inntravel allowed the walking to be supplemented by a range of cultural and other visits.
We deviated to walk up to the Fort Alban on our way back to Villefranche sur Mer from Point Sans-Culottes. We had an excellent view and the Fort is interesting, but it did make for a very long day. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the Citadel despite your notes being a bit lukewarm about it. The walks generally were very enjoyable.