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Getting to Villefranche sur Mer

If you are flying then the best way to get to Villefranche is to fly into Nice: As the second busiest airport in France, Nice is connected Europe-wide by most leading scheduled and budget carriers. In peak season there are over 30 direct flights to Britain every day.

The excellent (English) language airport website will give you all of the information you need for arriving on and departing from the Cote D'Azur. This will be regularly updated and you can even check to see if your flight is on time.  The following frequency breakdown contains many of the 95 air routes available from Nice Cote d'Azur airport.

All of the following airlines fly in and out of Nice on many different routes and new carriers are entering the race all of the time.
 
easyJet BMI Jet2 British Airways  Globespan Aer Lingus Transavia Brussels SN KLM Air France Swiss SAS Sterling Airlines Delta Emirates

to/from Nice airport

Airport Bus
The number 98 bus to the Gare Routiere (Nice bus station) runs every 20 minutes from both Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 and terminates just behind the Old Town of Nice. The route goes along the Promenade des Anglais (beach road) and turns up the Boulevard Jean Jaures to the bus station. The ride takes 20 minutes and costs ?4. For this price the ticket is also an all day excursion pass on any bus route in the general Nice area and ends at midnight on the day of purchase. The number 99 bus also departs from both terminals 1 and 2 and takes you to the main Nice train Station - the Nice-Ville Gare SNCF via the Promenade des Anglais until it turns left onto the Boulevard Gambetta and then to the train station. Same ticket policy applies for this route. Buses run every 20 minutes from 05h45 until 23h45.

From the train station there are many links both ways along the coast. The Station in Villefranche is conveniently located right behind the beach, it is then just a short 10 minute walk into the old town. For local train times click here

For the buses, once you are at the Gare Routiere in Nice you can change on to a selection of buses to Villefranche sur Mer and beyond.

The following are all pdfs of the timetables:

Map of all bus routes to and from Villefranche

Buses along Moyenne Corniche

From Nice Gare Routiere to Eze Village route 82

From Nice Riquier SNCF to Beaulieu SNCF route 84

From Nice Gare Routiere to Beausoleil route 112