Antibes holiday apartment

What a beautiful apartment to in a beautiful town.
It was like a breath of fresh air to stay somewhere so clean and in tip top condition within such easy reach of everything.
Antibes is an ideal location summer or winter or anytime in between. We visited in February during the childrens mid-term break, flying into Nice, car-hire was pre-arranged and the drive to Antibes very straight forward.
The apartment is in a great position, adjacent to the old town so that you can wander around the cobbled streets sampling the vast array of restaurants and the market where you can easily get carried away buying fresh fruit and vegtables, fish and cheeses and take them back to the apartment which is very well equipped with fridge, microwave, cooker, washing machine etc.

It was a great chance to test our cooking skills with such plentiful supplies of high quality food and still if we so wished, we could stroll to any number of restaurants or bars to be fed.

We wanted to try our hands at ski-ing but did not want to book a week-long ski holiday, the owner of the apartment recommended the ski resort of Auron for beginners such as ourselves and we set off at ease on a Wednesday morning about 10.30am. Our ski lesson was booked for 2.00pm with the ESF (Ecole Ski Francais) and we arrived at 12.00 midday. We went to the nearest ski shop and hired our ski equipment, all very easy, and did not realise that you can actually drive up to the side of the slopes so instead we purchased tickets for the cable car - which was probably more enjoyable than just driving in the car - and spent the next three hours with our instructor Sebastian. It was a great day but we all agreed that it was much nicer to be able to drive back down the mountains to Antibes rather than staying full time in Auron as it can be cold out of the sun, whereas in Antibes it was sunny - unbelieveable that you can be ski-ing one afternoon and walking around in the winter sunshine in the evening at the harbour area in Antibes.

There is a supermarche at the top of the Boulevard Albert a stroll from the apartment, which means if you do not feel like driving to Carrfourre you can still stock up on all necessities.

The beach is at the bottom of the Boulevard Albert and had views right across the bay towards Monaco and Cannes. If you hire a car you have the additional benefit of parking off street in the underground car park of the apartment block.

There is a very nice reception area and lift in the block and everything is kept in very good condition. We can't wait to go back in the summer and have already booked for our next winter ski break!!!!

Highly recommended.