THE PRIVATE BEACHES
The private beaches in Nice are the most appalling value and 2004 has shown this to perfection with rows of empty sunloungers.
The beaches are so expensive that only the rich or foolish can afford to use them and there is no reduction when they are empty.
First a large sum of money is charged for the loungers and the parasol is extra! The next charge for the unwary is for the thin well worn scraps of material that the call towels, at 3 or 4 euros a go pretty poor value even if they were new.
The loos are primitive and the changing facilities prehistoric rather like the campsites of 20 years ago.
The restaurants serve pleasant but expensive food and this is usually in unbearable heat.
Why don't the beaches adopt the easyJet system, cheap for the first-comers and getting more expensive as the loungers fill up? This year must have been terrible for the concessionaires who pay the city a lot for the space on the beach. There were occasions, even in the afternoon when there appeared to be about 20 people on the Castel Plage.
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At Least Do This: If you must go to a private beach, take your own towel and eat at your lounger as the sandwiches are better value than the meals at the table.
Take a tube of ibuprofen gel for massaging into the neck muscles which will be soon aching from craning round trying to catch the attention of a waiter.
Alternative: Scarborough has beautiful golden sands, and on a baking hot day there is no better place with cheap beer, fish and chips and donkeys.
Keep an eye on the English weather and if it is good, get a flight from Nice and nip home for a few days of heaven in Scarborough.
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on Nov 5, 2004
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