We wish you most welcome to our apartment at best location in Nice. Within a minute you cross the Promenade des Anglais getting down to the beach. If you instead pass the Opera, you’ll in a few steps reach Cours Saleya and the old town, or Vieille ville as the Nissarts call it. Restaurants, bars, jazz clubs, concerts – everything happens right where you are.

Welcome to our apartment in Nice

We hope you will feel as much at home here as we do. Below are some practical things to keep in mind before and during your stay.

We have a fantastic and charming apartment with an ideal location in the footsteps of the Old Town and a balcony with a sea view. It’s ideal for two, but four persons can easily stay too.

About the apartment

The living room has a dining table for four, a sofa group and a TV with access to the balcony furnished with a table and chairs. Here, you can relax after a well-spent day with a glass of rosé in the evening sun.

One bedroom has a double bed and access to a separate bathroom with a shower. The other bedroom comes with a bunk bed and no window. The second bathroom is also modern and has a shower and a WC.

   

 

 

Amenities: AC, Balcony, Dishwasher, Elevator, Sea view, Washing machine and fiber connected Wifi. Note that the elevator starts from level one, why it’s not suitable for strollers or wheelchairs. Pets are not aloud.

How to get there

The address is 14, Rue Saint Francois de Paule, a parallel street to the seafront, at the lower corner of the Old Town (Vielle Ville). Follow the tram tracks down Avenue Jean Médecin, past Galeries Lafayette, across Place Massena, past the fountain and down to our street. Turn slightly left and you’re there. Our entrance is opposite the Town Hall (Hôtel de Ville, written above the door), between the wine shop and the Alziari shop with the blue olive oil tins.

Use the key fob to enter, then take the first staircase up to the elevator and go to the 5th floor. Turn right when you exit; our door is the one on the right. There is a small “Westerberg” label on the doorbell.

A few things to know

When you arrive

• Pull up the shutters, step out on the balcony, and enjoy the view – the best in Nice!

• If it’s hot or cold, switch on the AC just inside the front door by pressing the orange button. “Auto” and 22°C is usually fine. Always keep windows and balcony doors closed when the AC is on, otherwise condensation drips onto the floors. You can switch it off for a while if you want fresh air. Always leave it off when the apartment is empty – it cools down quickly once switched on.

• Turn on the water heater by flipping up the fuse in the fuse box behind the dining table (marked with a cross, next to the oval bubble symbol in the middle of the top row).

• Turn on the fridge with the dial set to 2.

During your stay

• Please be careful with the drains in both the toilet and kitchen. The house is from 1850 and the pipes are very narrow – sanitary products, food scraps, etc. should go in the bin.

• Shower one at a time, turning off the water while soaping up, etc.

• Use either the dishwasher or the washing machine – not both at the same time, or it will flood under the sink.

• Dishwasher: program P4.

• Washing machine (access from the balcony): use program 4 on the first dial, 30 or 40°C on the second, sun symbol on the third. Other programs take several hours, and drying takes time.

• Garbage: dark green bins in the courtyard, plastic and cardboard in yellow bins. Glass goes in the containers at the waste station near La Petite Maison.

• Avoid closing shutters after 10 pm, as it should be quiet in the building then. In summer, we usually lower them during the day when out – it keeps the apartment cooler.

• Please hang towels, swimwear, or laundry on the drying rack on the balcony instead of over the railing, where items can blow away.

• Please water the plants on the balcony from time to time.

• Refill water bottles from the tap and always keep some in the fridge.

• Enjoy!

On your last day in Nice

• Run the dishwasher and empty it, so everything is clean for the next guest.

• Remove the bed linen.

• Take empty bottles, paper, and plastic to recycling.

• Empty the trash into the courtyard bins.

• Roll down the shutters completely, making sure they close tightly, and check that no table or chair is in the way.

• Lock the door.

• Head to the bus, tram, or train.

À bientôt!

To see and do

Mornings at Cours Saleya

This apartment has an idyllic location between the Old Town and Promenade des Anglais and the Sea. Croissant, flowers or both for breakfast in the morning? Go out to the right and the boulangerie is on the next corner. At Rue Alexandre Mari you’ll find a brand new Monop’ supermarket, a couple of blocks away also bigger Monoprix, Carrefour and Casino.

Before you return home, take a stroll at the market Cours Saleya two minutes away, to buy some beautiful flowers, fresh fruit and vegetables. Brought your bathing suit? Get a quick swim, you do live just beside the sea.

Sun bathing in style

At Côte d’Azur, you have access to public beaches, clean and nice ones, often with toilets and showers. But if you fancy a more stylish tan, you choose one of he private beaches and pay from 25€ and up per day

for a sun bed and access to whatever you need of parasols and towels, food and drinks. Beau Rivage and Opera plage are on either side from us, Castel up to the left is the one we prefer.

Aperó et restó

From where we live, the Old Town welcomes you with more restaurants, cafés, boutiques, and galleries than any other place in Southern France.

Nowhere else you find as fresh fruit, vegetables and seafood as in Nice. But before you get to restó, to eat, you have to have le aperó, a drink in the sunset before dinner. Try wine bar Babel Babel on the outside of Cours Saleya, La Cave du Cours and Barrique just inside of market square and Les Destilleries Ideales, open every night, all year around. For rooftop bars you have Anantara Plaza, Marriot Victoria and Le Meridien in row down Avenue Verdun just to the left at Place Massena.

It is of course very nice dining at home, markets and grocery stores are irresistible. But for coolest dinner tonight you have La Petite Maison to the left, where stars and presidents dine – exquisite, crazy and expensive. Our favourite is Le Frog, just by the Opera, as well as La Merenda, one block up.

La Voglia and La Favola at Cours Saleya have long lines for their generous portions of pasta and pizzas, but you will be served quickly. Safari is always trustworthy and if you walk up the narrow streets of the old town, we love Bistrot d’Antoine at 16, Rue de la Prefecture. Pizza Pili is the best one for take away and a nice newcomer is Le Coq Rouge at the corner of Place Rosetti. Afterwords, move up to Shapko at for cool, live jazz and soul, as well as the bars at hip Rue Bonaparte by Place Garibaldi. Or get back to Waynes, one of the pubs at Rue de la Prefecture that have live music most nights.

See, do and explore

Famous Nice jazz festival occurs in July, other concerts are given regularly at Parc Paillon by Place Massena, where also shopping area starts. Be as extrovert or introvert as you want along the Promenade, discover Russian church, Musee Chagall or Fondacion Maeght in St Paul de Vence. Follow the sea around the Château hill and take the free ferry across the port. Walk the stairs up and down the rocks of Mont Boron all the way to Villefranche, bring water and a camera.

Hiking, horseback riding, yoga, biking, sailing, water sports, winter sports – within one or two hours you have it all. If you use a car, exit of the spacious Parking Sulzer is on the corner of our house. Fifteen minutes uptown are the main train stations for going along the coast to Cannes and St Raphael, to Ventimiglia in Italy, or up in the mountains to Entreveaux. Just watching the sea is perfectly alright too.

Enjoy!

About us

We, the owners, are Maria and Ulf Westerberg, living normally in Stockholm but since many years also at our dream location: in Nice. Maria is a senior consultant and a travel guide writer, aborut how to take the train to the Mediterranean. Ulf is now retired as a senior partner at PWC, now coaching others in the real estate business.

Bienvenus à Nice!

Feel free to get in touch by email to maria@withinreach.se
NB: The apart is now for Family&friends only!