just read buses full, taxi cost Nice Air P -Le Dortoir?

After reading on here about buses often being full and hard to catch, is it better to catch taxi to and from Nice Airport to my Hotel, The Dortoir? Or are buses to and from the airport not too bad? Just dont want to have to wait and wait for a bus and be late for my flight or check in time....do you have to book taxi in advance from Nice Airport to Hotel or are there loads at airport available? What kind of price sholud I pay?

thanks

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Le Dortoir , rue Paradis , off Place Massena? No, you do not need taxis from the airport - its a huge rip-off and entirely unnecessary. Do not confuse the day to day hassle of TAM buses between the Riviera towns with the airport run - they are entirely a separate issue.

The Nice Airport Express bus at four euro is a gold standard premium service is no probblem and not to be confused with the one euro cattle-truck up and down the coast.

If you are indifferent between four euro and thirty five euro for the same journey, by all means take a taxi. Sensibly, most people take the route 98 airport express from either Terminal 1 or 2 to Albert 1st Garden/ Place Massena, and its a short 5 mn walk to rue Paradis.

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Thanks for your reply. I know you off virtual tourist,, read some of your pages on there. Will take the bus now for sure...

cheers

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RachNorfolk - our usual rants on this forum are about specific longer distance services like the 100 and 200 bus routes that connect Nice with Cannes, Antibes , Monaco etc. As NiceLife says you will have absolutely no problem in getting a bus from Nice airport into town or on the services within Nice.

Ed

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Hah, you have seen through my cunning disguise. Perhaps using the same name and photo on VT was a bit of a giveaway. (Thinks...Perhaps I should adopt a bird picture, like some of my fellow posters. An owl,may be - %26quot;wise%26quot;...)

Cheers!

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Hi RachNorfolk,

just got back from Le Dortoir, it was beautiful %26amp; i followed the advice of forum replies got bus, it was very easy %26amp; found the accomodation easily as well.Enjoy!

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Sounds perfect, thanks for your reply. Cannot wait now.