VILLA VICTORIA HOTEL ^{* * * *}

We are extremely well travelled English folk in our seventies. |One couple ( us) part own a 35 bed hotel in Cumbria so we know what we're looking for.|(We booked this "hotel" on the recommendation of friends who stayed about 20 years ago!!)||Anyway, Be aware that this is more of a B and B than a hotel, as there is nothing available in the way of tea/ coffee or food service after breakfast. ||A quick resume:|Location : good. 10 mins walk to Prom Anglais, longer to the Old Town.||Staff : very nice, helpful when asked||Reception and Sitting area: smelt strongly of cloying artificial air freshener. Why? What are they hiding? Most unpleasant and incredibly bad for you. Cancer inducing when inhaled on a regular basis. |No comfortable seating ie no lounge.||Garden: lovely||Room : quite small, balcony overlooking the garden with two chairs. One chair in room like a dining chair. Beds very comfortable. Pillows dreadful if you like a soft feather or goose down - these are very very firm foam. We always travel with our own pillows.||Minibar : great, useful for milk, cheese and the greek yogurt we bought.||T and C facilities : fine if you're a Nespresso fan, but if you like a morning or afternoon cup of tea bring your own tea bags and two large mugs as no tea pot and the mugs are like egg cups.||Cleanliness : good||Bathroom : fine||Breakfast : usual selection of carbs - croissants, bread rolls etc, cheese tomatoes cucumber. Cornflakes. One other.|Small selection cheapish yoghurt, fruit salad. Odd stuff called white cheese.|Eggs - boil your own in a hot bath. Hilarious if a number cooking at once as noone can remember whose is whose.|Scrambled egg bacon, available in bain Marie but rather dried up and unattractive.|Make your own coffee from various machines, my husband declared his coffee to be be ok, my tea was a bag floating in hot water. Why can't the French make proper tea?|All rather expensive for 17 euros.|Would recommend not prepaying for breakfast but amble out to one of the excellent cafes. Edmond is excellent and the best hot chocolate ever.||Eating out : avoid the horrid touristy restaurants near the old town. Ask the staff for recommendations. It's a shame there isn't a file listing decent eateries in the hotel.|Good fish restaurant round the corner in the next street. We ate lunch out and snacked in the hotel in the evening on cheese and bread we brought in.||Parking: available at 20 euros a day which is well worth it.||Places to go: St Paul de Vence lovely. Eze is ghastly - don't bother. Villa Ephrussi super.|Great couple of hours seeing Nice on segways which was fun.|Antibes we like.|Venturing to Mougins tomorrow so no feedback yet.||All in all:|Nice and the whole area has become very built up and busy since we were last here, so we probably won't return, and sadly most definitely not to the Villa Victoria, but that's our personal opinion of course.|Our friends thought it was ok. |We paid 1580 euros for 7 nights in. March which included parking ( 20 euros a day) and breakfast ( 34 euros a day for two) ||Our friends who hadn't been before say they would return, but would self cater as good fresh food available in the market.

Très bien placé, très propre, silencieux.
Bon qualité/prix

閑静な高級な通りにあり、海にも近く好立地。とても清潔で設備も朝食も素晴らしい。

Good Hotel and friendly services.

Emplacement très central. Petit parking payant de 5 véhicules bien pratique quand on vient en voiture car le stationnement est très compliqué à Nice. Chambre très bien insonorisée et chaleureuse. Literie confortable. Jardin très sympa, même si nous n'en n'avons pas beaucoup profité car nous sommes passé en février. Le personnel est charmant.|Le seul bémol est le petit-déjeuner qui est facturé 12 € et qui est très moyen. Un croissant et un pain au chocolat nain. Une salade de fruit avec beaucoup de pommes. Cela manque un peu de générosité.