Clean and efficient metro. The staff was very pleasant. It's very easy to go to Cannes, Nice, or…read moreMarseille from here.

The railroad buff in me just has to feature an historic train station for my 2000th review…read more Gare de Nice-Ville is the main train station in Nice. This spring, we arrived here from Paris and later departed from here for Florence. The historic Beaux-Arts exterior has been well maintained, and a pleasure to behold. Trains arrive and depart from the glass-domed train shed behind the station. Platforms are accessible by stairs and lifts. Be prepared to stand on a platform waiting for a train. Ticketing kiosks are located near the station entrances, and the queues are long in the morning. If you need to buy a ticket, allow 20-30 minutes -- kiosk instructions could be clearer. There's also a small but nice concession for take-away coffee and food. Taxis and ride shares stop out from of the station.

Quality/Quantity - A major train station in Nice. Unlike the station in Cannes, France, there are…read moreplenty of employees to help. Especially since the self service kiosks are only in French... There is an English/UK button to click, but that only translates minimum information on the kiosk. Ambiance - It is a major public train station, so come early if you are not experienced. Crazy busy as expected. Pay to use toilets. Service - Overall good. The best service was our train station, Inoui in Marseille. Price - 20-25 Euros depending on where you are going. Owner Comment - Thanks for having affordable and smooth transportation in Nice. With this station, we made day trips to Cannes, Monaco and now Eze.

OK... I have to out myself here! We didn't actually ride the Train Vapeur de Pignes. In this…read morecase, we decided to exercise the cheaper (and more adventurous) tack of train-chasing the Train de Pignes. Starting with a bit of lolly-gagging around station in Puget-Théniers while paying customers boarded the train, then racing up the road toward Entrevaux and Annot in hopes of a few photo-ops of all the huffing and puffing! Amazing! These rails are actually a commuter line that runs from Nice up to the city of Digne-les-Bains, which by the way, would be worth the trip just to ride up this scenic route in the daily diesel powered rail-cars. But on Sundays in the summertime, they fire up this old steam locomotive (apparently built in the 20s in Cassel, Germany) and make the twenty-kilometer run from Puget-Théniers to Annot - Maybe not the best part of the run, but a very good part of the run. We had just done a steam train ride in Provence a few days before, so we didn't have the compunction to buy a ticket to ride on this one. But had we done so, we would have missed out on the chance to photograph the 'little-engine-that-does.' I'm sure it's a great view from the train, and I suspect we'll buy a ticket and ride it one day, but just seeing that living, breathing locomotive pull the train up this gorge is one of life's richest moments. Ride it. Chase it. Photograph it. But only on Sundays! Worth planning your holiday around this! And much safer than the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona!

From the owner: Trains express régionaux Implanté dans un quartier typiquement niçois, la gare de Riquier est la…read more2ème des Alpes-Maritimes avec 5 000 voyageurs quotidiens et 2 000 salariés abonnés.