When staying  on “La Citronneraie” you can combine the advantages of the big city of Nice (beach, luxury shops, excellent restaurants, busy and cosy evening- and night life, ....) with the advantages of the outside the city-life / “Campagne-life” (a lot of green, big garden, fresh air, …). The Nice city-centre and the sea are only a 5 minutes drive from the villa !   From "La Citronneraie" to the central trainstation Nice it is only 3 kilometers !  And to the historic Russian Church / neighborhood it is just a few minutes drive.  From the airport it takes about 20 minutes to get to the villa.

Below a map of the city of Nice; the situation of Villa La Citronneraie is pointed out with a red arrow:
 

How to come to Nice ?

The holidayresort Nice is located on the mediteranean Sea in the sunny south of France. It is in the middle of the famous Cote d'Azur region. Nice is very accesible both by car as by plane.

-by car:

When you come with your own car, Nice is perfectly accessable by the modern French highways.  Both from the northern (Lyon / Paris / Brussels/ Amsterdam / Geneva / Cologne / …),  as from the eastern (Genua / Milan / Venice / …) as from the western directions Marseille / Barcelona / Madrid) you can reach Nice directly and easily by motorway.

-by plane: 

It is only a 10 minutes drive from the city centre of Nice to the modern airport of Nice. After Paris, Nice International Airport is France busiest airport with a lot of direct connections. From London there are many companies flying directly to Nice; for instance British Airways, but also different low-cost carriers. For instance Easyjet offers very cheap tickets to Nice when you book in advance (see www.easyjet.com.). Other budget-airlines are: www.transavia.com , www.ryanair.com  , www.jet2.com,  www.germanwings.com and www.virgin-express.com .From the US for instance Delta Airlines is flying directly from New York to Nice (see www.delta.com.).
Other nearby airports: Marseille (150 km), Genova (150 km) and Milano (300 km).

Car-rental in Nice

For transportation in and outside Nice we recommend  car-rental. Besides well known rental companies like Avis or Budget you can rent for low cost rental cars (Smarts and Peugots 206) at  www.sixti.com. Another option is to rent  two 9-persons minibusses; this can for instance via www.locationdevehicules.fr  or  www.rentacar.fr.

Busses in Nice

When you arrive by plane you can also take a taxi or a bus to Villa “La Citronneraie”. By coach from the city-centre or the trainstation to the villa it takes about 10 minutes. Only 50 meters from the villa there is a  busstop. During the week there is an hourly service to and from the centre (Nice-city-busses; one-way Euro 1,50). In the evening and on Sunday the busservice is limited..

Restaurants & Shops

If you want to "eat-out" you can go to one of the numerous restaurants of Nice (about 7 minutes by car).  Typical French and a lot of Italian restaurants you find in the Old Town of Nice, modern and trendy restaurants are located in the new quarters of Nice, for luxurious restaurants you go to the exclusive hotels and Japanese and a lot of restaurants with reasonable menuprices are situated around the trainstation of Nice. So it will be hard to choose !  In the villa you can find a list with restaurants we can recommend you. 

Very near the house (walking-distance; about 200 meters) you find a small church with next to it restaurant "Mas des Oliviers"  (good food, reasonable prices, cuisine Nicoise, possibilities for breakfast, lunch and dinner). This restaurant has an outside terrace and also private rooms. Another restaurant on the same hill of the villa is "Bella Vista"; (Italian restaurant; pizza, pasta's but also some dishes with meat and fish). The view on the city of Nice is very nice. A third restaurant in the direct surroundings of La Citronneraie is "restaurant Cicion".  This is a more expensive, well known and exclusive restaurant which has a big terrace / garden with also panoramic views on the city and sea.   

Next to 2 of the 3 above mentioned restaurants there is also a small shop / bakery situated which sells among other things also daily fresh bread. You can find big supermarkets on the way into the centre of Nice.

Pizza & Pasta delivery to villa possible from various companies.

Weather & temperature

Thanks to its protected position by the Southern Alps and its mild climat Nice is one of the most important holiday destinations of Europe. In winter the average temperature is almost never under 10 degrees Celcius and in summer it is thanks to a refreshing sea-breeze always very pleasantly warm up to mostly 30 degrees Celcius. Even in the wintermonths the temperature can rise pretty high so even in this period one can regularly have lunch outside. Nice is famous for lots of hours of sun; even in a month as October you can get a tan with an average of 12 sunhours a day in this month. Click here for statistic weather details for Nice.

Cosmopolitan Nice is of course worth a visit; the Italian-like old city, the flamboyant Promenade-boulevard,  the famous beach of Nice, the Cours Saleya vegetable- and fruitmarket, the Russian Neighbourhood, many musea and cultural points of interest, etc. 

But the Côte d’Azur is a very compact area and “Villa La Citronneraie” is a perfect starting-point for trips to discover the varied and surprising surroundings. Within a 45 minutes drive you find among other things the millionairs peninsula “Cap Ferrat”, the mini-state and monarchy  Monaco, the cosy Italian beaches of Bordighera,  the city of Cannes with its glamour and film-festival and the surprisingly beautiful mountain-area behind Nice (with lovely provencial villages, magnificent natural parks, many sportive attractions and in winter even perfect ski-possibilities  to 2200 meters).