The nearest airport to Les Basses Beaumettes is Nice Cote d'Azur, one and a half hour's drive away. There are many low cost direct flights to Nice from the following airports:

• Belfast
• Birmingham
• Bradford
• Bristol
• Cork
• Dublin
• Durham Tees Valley
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow
• Leeds
• Liverpool
• London (Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton and Stanstead)
• Manchester
• Newcastle
• Southampton

For further details, check out the Nice Airport website. Information on flights going to and from Nice Cote d’Azur in their website can be found here.

Low cost airlines flying to Nice include bmibaby from Birmingham, British Airways from Gatwick, Heathrow, Birmingham and Manchester, jet2 from Leeds, Bradford and Manchester, Easy Jet  from Belfast, Bristol, Liverpool, Gatwick, Luton, Stanstead and Newcastle, flybmi from Dublin, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Heathrow and Manchester, Globespan from Durham Tees valley, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Flybe from Southampton, Aerlingus from Cork and Dublin.

Ryanair flies to Marseilles (2.5-3hrs from Les Basses Beaumettes) from London Stanstead , Glasgow Prestwick, Dublin, Madrid, Porto, Brussels (Charleroi), Eindhoven, Frankfurt (Hann), Karlsbruhe Baden, Oslo, Gothemburg City, Malmo, Hamburg and Rome. They also fly from London Standstead to Toulon (2.5hrs to Les Basses Beaumettes). Please check where Ryanair airports are, as they are not always where you think they are, or where the pilot expects them to be!

Please note, this is in no way intended to be an exhaustive list of airlines flying to and from Nice, or departure airports. It is always worth having a good look around for other options.

Car hire

If you intend to hire a car, please make sure that you take BOTH parts of your licence with you, i.e. the paper endorsement part AND the credit card sized licence part. You must take your licence with you when you are driving anywhere whilst staying here.

The following companies hire cars at Nice Cote d’Azur airport:

• Ada
• Avis
• Budget
• Europcar
• Hertz
• National/Citer/Alamo
• Sixt

The Nice Airport website has further information on car-hire here.

You can also book a car through the Wheels Abroad website, which is all done over the web thus cutting down on administration costs.

Cars can be booked on-line with Carrentals, amongst others.

By Bus

Bus routes 800 and 810 go every day from St Auban to Grasse. For further information have a look at the TAM website.

Overland

If you are planning on driving or getting public transport down, check out this French Travel Planner with over 700 links to sites in English to help plan your trip. Meanwhile, the Drive-Alive website gives great deals on ferries and en-route hotels as well as lots of information about routes and driving in France.

Directions

Very easy to follow, precise directions will be sent to you before you leave home, to help you find us.