INTRODUCTION
This web site is the only one edited by the hotel. The site provides general information about the hotel. In addition, a few comments about Nice and the French Riviera are provided, above all for first-time visitors to the area
THE HOTEL
Hotel Cronstadt is a small and comfortable hotel in the heart of Nice. The hotel is reached through an entrance at number 3 rue Cronstadt, right across the street from the Hotel Negresco. The distance from the hotel to the seafront is less than a hundred metres. The hotel building, from 1925, is located in a flowered courtyard. Surrounding buildings screen off traffic noise. The hotel is very silent, mainly due to the courtyard location. There are ten rooms, all with private facilities. The bathrooms are small. The rooms are all different, fairly big, individually decorated, with high stucco ceilings and equally high window bays. The rooms are well heated during the winter period. Air conditioned is provided during the high summer period of more intense night heat. The hotel is a low-cost operation, owned and operated by a married couple. There are no employees. The reception is open for enquiries and check-ins between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. After prior agreement, a continental breakfast can be served between 8.30 and 10 a.m. With a typical number of breakfast guests between five and ten, the breakfasts are most of the time quite intimate, cosy events.
Mail address: Hôtel Cronstadt - 3 rue Cronstadt - F-06000 Nice
Phone number: +33 493 820 030
E-mail address: reservation@hotelcronstadt.com
THE DESTINATION
Please find below a few tentative hints for first-timers to the area: The Riviera enjoys a unique climate of all-year-round appeal. Nice, being one of the major French cities is open and busy at all times of the year. Before WW1, the Riviera was above all appreciated as a winter destination. More or less affluent foreign visitors fled the cold and darkness of northern Europe, spending the European winter on the warm, sunny and then quite fashionable Riviera. Many foreign residents in the area still apply a basic pattern of spending the winter in Nice and the summer elsewhere. All this to hint that for many, the winter is the best season in the area. In terms of numbers of visitors, the high season now occurs during the summer months, largely from May to October. The microclimate in the area is nice at all seasons and most of the time. There are a few months with the dry type of summer heat, typically from the second half of July to the second half of September. Reversely, there are also a few winter months with early morning temperatures sometimes only a few degrees above zero. Frost and snow are non-existing down at the seafront, a few flocks for a few hours every ten years or so. The city of Nice is a first-class tourist destination in its own right. Special events taking place every day of the year. There's no off-season. Our general advice is to give Nice itself plenty of time. Public means of communication are excellent with Nice being the hub of the bus traffic within the county. A second more general advice is to refrain from renting a car in advance. A third is to avoid city-hopping within the area. You may consider making Nice your base for the whole time in the area, then making daytrips. Please note that France itself is a fairly big country and that e.g. Provence is a much wider geographical area, at a considerable distance from the much more limited french riviera.
SOME LINKS
The city of Nice edits a comprehensive site in French, www.nice.fr A somewhat inaccessible source of information. Here you can read, among many other topics, about the some hundred different museums and all the guided city tours. Other locally edited sites are www.guideriviera.com , www.nicetourism.com and www.businessriviera.com More links from these sites.