Flights are easy to price. So is a hotel. The part nobody can tell you in advance is everything else: what you'll spend once you've landed. Lunches, tram tickets, the museum everyone says you can't miss, the airport transfer you forgot to count.
On a summer evening Castle Hill in Nice is full of people waiting for the sunset. Many of them go home a little disappointed. From late April to mid-August the sun doesn't go down into the sea there at all. It sets far to the right, behind the hills and the foothills of the Alps, and it's often lost in the haze some time before the official sunset.
A weekend in Nice doesn't give you much time to visit the entire French Riviera, but certainly enough to get to know its informal capital, and even the Principality of Monaco.
Public transport in Nice is modern, efficient and relatively inexpensive. The network is operated by Lignes d’Azur, which runs trams and buses across Nice and many towns in the surrounding metropolitan area.
If you are visiting the French Riviera, you are definitely going to be wondering what to eat; which restaurants are good and cheap in Nice, and preferably even those recommended by residents. So to answer these questions, here is a list of verified places and a description of traditional regional dishes. Now you know what and where to eat in Nice!