Nice: Eze, Monaco & Saint-Paul de Vence Full Day

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Duration9h

GroupUp to 40

LanguagesEN · FR +1

PickupAt your hotel

Six Côte d'Azur villages in one morning and afternoon, starting from Nice

You're picked up in Nice and driven through six villages and two principalities in nine hours, with entry to the Fragonard perfumery included and a guide who knows the roads and the stories. You see Eze's clifftop medieval streets, walk Monaco's old town and Monte Carlo's casino square, stroll Cannes' famous promenade, explore Antibes' Greek-founded harbor, and finish in the art-filled village of Saint-Paul de Vence. The pickup and drop-off in Nice are included, so you don't arrange transport or timing yourself.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Riviera villages and cities

Pickup from accommodation in Nice
Admire Promenade des Anglais in Nice
Enjoy panoramic views of Villefranche and Bay of Millionaires
Visit picturesque village of Eze
Tour Fragonard perfumery in Eze
Walk Monaco old town streets
See Prince’s Palace, Courthouse, and Cathedral in Monaco
View Mediterranean Sea from Monaco
Drive along Monaco Formula 1 race circuit
Visit Monte Carlo casino and hotels
Walk Cannes Croisette promenade
Discover Cannes Palace of Festivals
Explore Antibes old town and market
Visit St Paul de Vence art village

The Experience

The Promenade des Anglais curves along the Bay of the Angels in a long, elegant sweep—that's where your driver picks you up, and it's the last calm moment before the day opens up. You leave Nice heading east, and within minutes the coast starts to climb. The road to Eze winds upward through hairpin turns, and the Mediterranean keeps getting smaller below you until you're standing 429 meters above it, in a medieval village that looks like it's balanced on the edge of a cliff. Eze is the kind of place where narrow stone streets fork without warning and you can see all the way to Cap Ferrat and the Bay of Millionaires, where the villas sit so far back you can barely see them.

The Fragonard perfumery sits in the heart of Eze, and the guided visit walks you through how scent gets made—from the raw materials to the bottles you see in shops across the Riviera. It's not a long stop, but it's the kind of thing you'd skip if you were driving yourself, which is why having a professional guide matters on a full-day Riviera tour. After Eze, you drop down toward Monaco, and the drive itself becomes part of the experience: the guide takes you along the streets used for the Formula 1 race circuit, pointing out the corners and the barriers, before you reach Monte Carlo with its casino and the Hotel de Paris sitting right there on the square. You walk through Monaco's old town—the Prince's Palace, the Cathedral, the Courthouse—and the harbor is full of yachts that cost more than most houses.

Cannes comes next, a shorter stop where you walk the Croisette and see the Palace of Festivals with its red carpet, the one you see on television every May. Then Antibes, which is older than most of France—Greek merchants founded it in the 5th century—and now it's where yacht owners and market shoppers cross paths in the same narrow streets. The final stop is Saint-Paul de Vence, a village so full of galleries and artist workshops that you can spend an hour just looking at doorways. The whole day is nine hours from pickup to drop-off in Nice, which means you're moving between places, not sitting in a van, and the air-conditioned vehicle and professional driver are the things that make six stops feel like one coherent day instead of a scramble.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel or accommodation pickup in Nice, an air-conditioned vehicle with a professional driver/guide, a guided visit to the Fragonard perfumery in Eze, and drop-off back in Nice at the end of the nine-hour tour. You'll walk through the villages and towns at your own pace during each stop, but transport between all six locations—Eze, Monaco Old Town, Monte Carlo, Cannes, Antibes, and Saint-Paul de Vence—is handled for you.

Good to know

Moderate physical level

Operated by Happy Riviera Tours

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to see the main Côte d'Azur highlights in a single day without renting a car or planning six separate journeys—the fixed itinerary and included transport are what make six stops fit into nine hours.