Welcome
Nice airport is situated 7km from the city of Nice on the French Riviera in the south of France. It is also known as Nice Coted’Azur (blue coast) airport. It is the destination airport if you wish to visit the principality of Monaco. Nice airport if the 3rd most important airport in France after Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports, both in Paris. Almost 11 million passengers passed through Nice airport last year. Apart from the usual facilities to be found at a busy international airport such as car hire, shopping, cash points etc. Nice airport has perhaps one of the most extensively equipped business centres in the world, certainly in Europe.
This centre provides eight rooms in terminal 1 equipped with video conferencing, internet, video recorders, television, slide/video projectors, camcorders, telephones,whiteboards and minitels. Nice airport also has a 250 person conference room and a helicopter service to the city. The reason for all this technology is to cater for the annual film festival held in nearby Cannes.
This is a huge event attended by all the most important film making moguls from all over the world. Car hire will allow you to visit other places of interest in the south of France such as St. Tropez, St.Raphael, Juan les Pins, Antibes and Grasse where perfume is manufactured. Car hire is a must to enable you to make the most of your visit to this exciting and unique area. Car hire operators at Nice airport include Avis, Budget, Europcar, Hertz, Libertans, National/Citer and Ada. A good selection of car hire operators to choose from so you should be able to find something to suit you. You will have to budget for this, as like everything else in the south of France, car hire rates will be quite high so be sure to shop around before you go.