Leaving from Nice bus station, is Eze, Vence, St. Paul deVence and returning to Nice doable in one day. If so, do we buy one ticket for all three or point to point tickets? Can we purchase a round trip ticket ? Also, which order would work best? Thanks in advance for any responses.

Vence and St Paul de Vence are easy to combine as they are but a few miles apart.

I did a nice walk thru a forest between the two - coming out at the Maeght Foundation.

Eze is quite a way aways from the other two - yup could do but i think a full day would be the two Vences - esp if you want to visit the Maeght Foundation's world-class art show.

I would personally leave Eze for last as there i think the view over the coast is the lure and days are long in summer.

IMO Eze the village is far far less dreamy than either Vence or ST-Paul-de-Vence.

You would be going in opposite directions; St-Paul and Vence are to the west of Nice, while Eze is off to the east. You'll need to look at bus schedules to see whether they will work for what you want to do.

You could but as stated above, if you start with Eze (i'd do Eze first) then you need to come back to Nice Bus terminal where you started, then take No.400 for St.Paul. First go to Eze Village, do it rather in early morning before tour buses arrive (if you are going in busy season), e.g. 8 - 10am. You could do Eze as the last as well though. I had a nice early evening visit of Eze once ending with a(expensive) glass of champagne at the terrace of Hotel Chèvre d'Or.

As to the tickets, you could buy a day pass for 4€. You could use that even for tramways when you are back in Nice in the evening, until mid-might. What I'm not sure today is, a few years ago when i took the bus for Saint Paul, the ticket needed to be bought directly from the driver while the ticket for Eze is in the same Nice network so 4€ day ticket is good for Eze. I know there has been some changes since then. e.g. back then a single ticket was 1.3€ and now it's lower €1. That's so cheap so even if you buy all the ticket separately, it doesn't cost much. About the ticket for Saint Paul, you could ask at the bus terminal or post the question on TA Nice Forum, there are local residents and frequest visitors to the city that answer there (called D.E. destination experts).

http://www.lignedazur.com/tarif/?rub_code=7

It seems like No400 Bus for Saint Paul completely part of the network so €4 day pass should be ok. Still I would check locally. All those scenic bus rides (+ Nice city transports) for only €4, that's cheap.

Also this page helps.

http://www.allaboutnice.com/buses_an...s_in_Nice.html

Curious on why people think St. Paul is more dreamy than Eze? For some reason, the thought of a village clinging to the side of a cliff overlooking the water just sounds amazing hence why I think I would like Eze bettr since St. Paul doesn't overlook the water.

Hi; They are both different. Both lovely. We have visited each a few times and have stayed within the walls in both villages and would go again. Jill, go and have lunch on the terrace at Chateau Eze, looking 1300 feet down into the water. Enjoy

Jill - having been to both a few times i feel St Paul-de-Vence is infinitely IMO nicer than Eze - as a village not as a viewpoint - in that Eze is unparalleled - views over the Riviera Coast from a few thousand feet or so on top of a cliff

St Paul is a classic Riviera hill town - ancient cobbled lanes - ancient buildings, etc.

Eze to me seemed not even to be much of a village and was dominated by the Ersatz perfume factories where every tour bus in a 500-mile radius seemed to be stopping at (real perfume factories are in Grasse - near to St Paul.

But many rave about Eze so i guess i will have to go back again and see just why!

Does Eze have the cobbled lanes? I love those. Is the perfume factory right in the middle of Eze village?

Perfume factory as i recall is on the highway side of Eze - most convenient place for the tour buses to roll up to.

Actually Eze was so elbow to elbow the times i have been there i could not actually see if the lanes were cobbled - i suppose they are and don't get me wrong - there is a village aspect of Eze that you can see once the tourist hoardes have gone for the day.

Once again many folks rave about Eze so this is just one person's opinion.

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seems they have a perfume shop in St-Paul-de-Vence as well - and St Paul can also in season be overrun by day tripping tourists. Depends on when you go - July and August everything is overrun with tourists on the Cote d'Azur IME