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My intention is not to give you the classic
palaces or very expensive places you can find in any guide. I
have some recommendations (self experienced, experienced by friends, relatives
or guides I totally trust) of
inexpensive (from 40 € up) to moderate (64.75-84.50 €) and slightly expensive
(83.80-122 €) hotels.
Add now 20% to all these prices, also below.
Very
cheap
Hotel
du Danemark, 3
avenue des Baumettes tel 0493624846.
Simple rooms, clean
and nicely decorated. Doubles for 36.50 € bath and WC. The house is sympathetic
with her ochre colours but the area is not so inviting. Too many high-rise
buildings. It’s cheap though and the owners are very sympathetic.
Hotel
Saint-Francois,
3 rue Saint-Francois tel 0493858869.
Quite
complicate system but cheap. You will have to pay for the showers (3 €) and
they don’t accept you any more after 10 PM. Near the bus central station, it costs
28 € for two and 39.50 € for
three. These are very simple rooms, not very well kept lately…..
Hotel
Au Picardy,
10 boulevard Jean-Jaures (near the Gare Routiere also) entrance of the old town.
Tel 0493857551
Count 32.50 € for two with shower, WC and breakfast. Without shower: from
24.50 €. Attention! The boulevard is noisy but the ambience is very convivial.
Cheap
Hotel
de la Fontaine,
49 rue de France, tel 0493883038.
What
is most pleasant at this place is the owner. Such a sympathy and agreeable man!
Courteous, nice and you can never bother him! Besides the rooms are nice, clean
and agreeable. In full centre of Nice, near the sea AND the pedestrian area...
Doubles go for 490 FF with shower or bath, WC and TV. Ask to be on the courtyard
side. Let the buffet-breakfast lure you. Only 7 €!
Hotel
Oasis,
23 rue Gounod tel 0493881229.
The
owner and the Tourist office pretend that Lenine passed some time in this hotel!
Anyway it is also located in centre town but quiet since off the street in a
sort of courtyard. Count between 61 and 70 € for a double comfortable room
with TV.
Hotel
Les Camelias,
3 rue Spitalieri tel 0493621554
A
haven of peace thanks to its little garden. Located in the heart of town this
place has a lot of very old-time clients. Rooms for 35.25 € (no bathroom),
43.50 € (shower and WC) 62 € (bath and WC)
Hotel
La Belle Meuniere,
21, avenue Durante tel 0493886615
Rooms
with wash basin 170 FF. Rooms for
two with shower and WC for 45 €. This house is very familial and convivial
thanks to its charming owners. I read somewhere that if you are more than two
you can reserve the large room with the balcony (for 4) 66.30 € only!
Hotel
du Petit Louvre,
10 rue Emma Tiranty, tel 0493901554.
Quite
a few Americans have already discovered this adorable old-fashioned little charm
hotel. Very reasonable says: double with shower for 34 €, 38.50 € with shower
and WC. Better book in advance with such prices.
Hotel
Ideal Bristol,
22 rue Paganini tel 0493886072.
Not
so young anymore that hotel. And they accept no checks and credit cards. Some
people don’t accept the 21st century. But they are clean and have a
refrigerator. With wash basin only: 23 €, shower 29 € and WC .You can sleep per
night in a dormitory for 12.50 € a night. Guaranteed ambience!!
Hotel
Clair Meuble,
6 rue d’Italie tel 0493878761 fax 0493168528.
If
you need a room where you can cook this is the inexpensive place! There are 14
rooms with a kitchenette, shower and WC. Prices are ridiculous: 28 to 35 € a
night for two and minimum accepted is 2 nights. Is it necessary to say that you
better reserve in the summer in advance??
Hotel
Amaryllis,
3 rue Alsace Lorraine.
Manhattan
style small hotel like you could find in New York.
Doubles for 51 € with shower, WC and TV. A few rooms on a quiet courtyard.
Hotel
Meyerbeer Beach,
15, rue Meyerbeer.tel 0493630880
A
bit the same as the hotel Clair Meublé. The rooms are equipped with a small
kitchen, casseroles, a refrigerator and forks and knives. It is also not new
anymore but it is clean. Location is excellent. 39.50 to 48 € for a double. That
seems moreless the right price.
More chic
Hotel
Excelsior,
19 avenue Durante tel 0493881805 fax 0493883969
This
is already another class!! Despite this hotel had a dark history in the war
(sinister HQ of the Gestapo) it is an agreeable begin 20th century
hotel enhanced by iron wrought balconies, stucco moulding and a cute little
garden. The rooms from 54 € to 80 € are agreeable with rustic furniture.
Hotel
Grimaldi, 15 rue Grimaldi tel
0493160024 fax 0493870024
Email jlz@le-grimaldi
web site www.le-grimaldi-com
Near
the old town, on a quiet street back from the sea front, this graceful 1930s
house is totally renovated (the woman owner is English). Elegant, neat and
spotless. The decor is bright with provencal fabrics , white-tiled bathrooms.
Very helpful staff. Single 60.50-114.50 €, double 70-125.50 €, suite 184-221€
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Hotel
Durante,
16, avenue Durante tel 0493888440 fax 0493877776. Closed
in November. Nice façade, this hotel, run with an iron fist by a charming
landlady is hidden in an alleyway. Clean and well decorated rooms. They look out
on a garden and the Italian window-shutters keep certain freshness during the
summer. Doubles from 64.50 € with shower and WC, 70.50 € for bath and WC.
Hotel
Saint-Gothard,
20 rue Paganini tel 0493881341 fax 0493822755
No
problem here. A few steps from the train station, this is a place you will feel
at home. People from Nice when they want they can be very sympathetic and
welcoming. About 60 rooms well
equipped 54 € a double with shower and WC, 62 € a room for three.
Very chic
La
Perouse, 11 quai Rauba Capeu tel 0493623463
fax 0493625941
Email lp@hroy.com
web site www.hroy.com/la-perouse
Right under the castle
and close to old town, this largish hotel (Best Western) is the former summer
home from Sacha Guitry. Superb views of the baie des Anges, small swimming pool
and roof terrace. Rooms ok, air conditioned, nicely done with good reading
lights, small balcony. The bedrooms vary in size. The furniture in the corridors
seems antique.
Rooms for 92-285 €, suite
335-505 €.
Hotel
Windsor,
11 rue Dalpozzo, tel 0493885935 fax 0493889457
Now
this is a hotel and museum together. I never stayed here but a lot of people
recommended it and a guidebook I trust did the same. So I include it in my
recommendations. The place, hiding a high façade, is wonderful. A classic hotel
with a leafy garden in a small street near the sea front. Right at the
entry with the Asiatic furniture, you enter a fantastic world. In the tropical
garden, bougainvilliers, palm-trees and bamboos grow around a small swimming
pool. This is the place of contemporary art: every room is decorated by an
artist. Names as Peter Fend, Lawrence Wiener, Joel Ducorroy, Ben, Philippe
Perrin, Miguel Chevalier…Other facilities are: a Turkish bath, a sauna,
massages and a relaxation room. Doubles for 64.75 to 114.50 €. It’s cheaper in
winter. March. For dining, the restaurant has no carte but a 160 FF menu for a
good meal where the Provencal cuisine is at the rendezvous…then listen to the
birds and look at the art works. This hotel is a real gourmandise, maybe the
best in this category.
The staff is amiable and helpful.
Hotel
Gounod,
3 rue Gounod tel 049388262620 fax 0493882384
Large
house of the Belle Epoque , who kept its look. Quiet chic rooms, well equipped
and air-conditioned. Doubles for 62.50 €
out of season and 108 €
from April 1 to October 31.
Hotel
Locarno, 4 avenue des Beaumettes tel 0493962800 fax 0493861881.
Only
a few rooms have A/C but all modern comfort. Rooms were refurbished and cost 49 to
84 €. Welcoming and service very chic and courteous. Resting parlours and a
billiard hall. A few minutes by
foot from the promenade des Anglais.
Hotel
Atlantic,
12, avenue Victor-Hugo, tel 0493884015 fax 0493886860
Not
so cheap anymore but for what you get, the price is inexpensive! If you want to
play the tycoon in a real palace, …;-) without being ruined. Very classy
rooms: 85 to 110 € in winter,
118.15 to 139.50 € in the summer.
Le
Petit Palais, avenue Emile-Bieckert tel
0493621911 fax 0493625360
Up
in the elegant residential quarter of Cimiez, quite a way from the seaside this
former home of Sacha Guitry is a handsome white “belle epoque” mansion
turned into a hotel. Run with incredible helpfulness and warmth by the Lenzi
family, very professional staff and a flowery terrace. Rooms
are bright, air conditioned and well decorated but some bathroom towels have seen better days.
Shady terrace where breakfast can be taken. But finally this hotel is a good value for money in a city. It is a Best Western
and a Relais du Silence although I didn’t find it totally quiet. You can hear
noise early in the morning. Doubles 84-94 €. Suite
145-165 €.
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