Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
BICYCLE & CAR Mistral Location
( 04 93 39 33 60;
www.mistral-location.com
; 4
rue Georges Clemenceau)
rents out bicycles/ scooters/cars for €16/35/52 per day. You'll
find the usual car-hire companies at the train station, too.
PARKING
Street parking is limited to two hours in the centre. Car parks such as
Parking
Palais des Festivals
(Palais des Festivals)
,
Parking Forville
(Rue Forville)
or
Parking
Gare SNCF
(Rue Jean Jaurès)
; train station) have no time restrictions but are expensive
(€2.70 per hour).
TRAIN
Cannes is well connected to Nice (€6.40, 40 minutes), Antibes (€2.70, 12
minutes), Monaco (€8.70, one hour) and St-Raphaël (€6.70, 30 minutes), with services
every 20 minutes or so. There are half-hourly trains to Marseille (€28.40, two hours).
Îles de Lérins
The two islands making up Lérins - Île Ste-Marguerite and Île St-Honorat - lie within a
20-minute boat ride of Cannes. Tiny and traffic-free, they're oases of peace and tranquil-
lity, a world away from the hustle and bustle of the Riviera.
Camping is forbidden, and there are no hotels and only a couple of eating options, so
bring a picnic and a good supply of drinking water.
Boats for the islands leave Cannes from quai des Îles, at the end of quai Laubeuf on the
western side of the harbour.
Riviera Lines
(
www.riviera-lines.com
;
adult/child €11.50/6
return)
run ferries to Île Ste-Marguerite (adult/child €12/7.50 return), while
Compagnie
Planaria
(
www.cannes-ilesdelerins.com
;
adult/child €12/6)
operates boats to Île St-
Honorat (adult/child €13/6 return).
In St-Raphaël, Les Bateaux de St-Raphaël (
Click here
)
also runs excursions to Île Ste-
Marguerite.
ÎLE STE-MARGUERITE
Covered in sweet-smelling eucalyptus and pine, Ste-Marguerite makes a wonderful day
trip from Cannes. Its shores are an endless succession of castaway beaches ideal for pic-
nics, and there are numerous
walking
trails.
The island served as a strategic defence post for centuries.
Fort Royal
(Île Ste-Mar-
guerite; adult/child €6/3; 10.30am-1.15pm & 2.15-5.45pm Tue-Sun)
, built in the 17th
century by Richelieu and later fortified by Vauban, today houses the
Musée de la Mer
,
with exhibits on the island's Greco-Roman history, artefacts from the numerous ship-
