once in monaco from villefranche??

[eliopia]

reaching monaco by train from villefranche turned out to be very easy after researching but once there and out of the station, how to get to all the attraction(or some of them),i read here that it is very hard to get from one place to another as it is a hilly place.Any tips??

[festivalfrau]

We walked from the train station to the Casino, but it was quite a walk! We then took the bus to the Palace, walked arounf that area, and then took the bus back to the train station.

 

Use tom's port guides (do a google search). They are very useful for getting around on your own.

 

Happy travels!

[John Bull]

If you want to get all the serious hill-walking done at the outset, walk from the station up to the Palace. Along the zig-zag road or the more direct steps, but it's quite a climb, mebbe 15 mins of steps.

You can get the little road train from there for a tour of Monte Carlo, including Casino Square, the harbour-front and a significant part of the Grand Prix street-racing circuit. Takes vaguely 40 minutes, costs vaguely €8. The road train starts & finishes at the Palace, it's a complete non-stop tour, not a ho-ho.

And yes, the top of the hill is a damn silly place for a turnaround point.:rolleyes:

 

Plenty to see in the Palace area, then decide where & how far you want to go on foot - your little jaunt on the road train will have shown you the distances & how easy/difficult the walking. The train station is close to where the road train first joins the Grand Prix course

 

Villefranche itself is an excellent little place to use up your wiggle-time when you get back, but I'm afraid it would bore me silly to spend the whole day there.

 

JB :)

[eliopia]

If you want to get all the serious hill-walking done at the outset, walk from the station up to the Palace. Along the zig-zag road or the more direct steps, but it's quite a climb, mebbe 15 mins of steps.

You can get the little road train from there for a tour of Monte Carlo, including Casino Square, the harbour-front and a significant part of the Grand Prix street-racing circuit. Takes vaguely 40 minutes, costs vaguely €8. The road train starts & finishes at the Palace, it's a complete non-stop tour, not a ho-ho.

And yes, the top of the hill is a damn silly place for a turnaround point.:rolleyes:

 

Plenty to see in the Palace area, then decide where & how far you want to go on foot - your little jaunt on the road train will have shown you the distances & how easy/difficult the walking. The train station is close to where the road train first joins the Grand Prix course

 

Villefranche itself is an excellent little place to use up your wiggle-time when you get back, but I'm afraid it would bore me silly to spend the whole day there.

 

JB :)[/

i guess will go with that plan,although i would prefer to skip the walking to the palace,are there any buses from train station to the palace?

[Keith1010]

I agree. Getting to Monaco is not hard at all.

 

Keith

[John Bull]

i guess will go with that plan,although i would prefer to skip the walking to the palace,are there any buses from train station to the palace?

 

Here's a googlemap walking route, a total of under 3/4 of a mile.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Rue+Grimaldi&daddr=Rampe+de+la+Major+to:Unknown+road+to:Av.+Saint-Martin&hl=en&ll=43.730794,7.425041&spn=0.016001,0.095615&sll=43.730736,7.424119&sspn=0.002221,0.005976&geocode=Fe9emwIdUT1xAA%3BFSZNmwIdZDZxAA%3BFSVJmwIdHjxxAA%3BFYBHmwIdf0xxAA&oq=Rue+Emile+de+Loth+Monaco&t=h&dirflg=w&doflg=ptm&mra=dme&mrsp=3&sz=18&z=14&layer=c&cbll=43.730769,7.425064&panoid=Xrw_BgPOnO0mmjx_rjXWKA&cbp=11,40.56,,0,0

The green A is the rail station, next to Ste Devote church.

The walk to the bottom of the hill (Green B) is reasonably level.

B to C is the hill. Googlemap reckons it at 4 minutes if it were level ground, you need to at least double that.

C to the land train at D (opposite the Oceanography centre) is pretty level.

 

Yes, there are buses at the top - here's the proof (if you don't have googlemap it's Route No 1.)

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Rue+Grimaldi&daddr=Rampe+de+la+Major+to:Unknown+road+to:Av.+Saint-Martin&hl=en&ll=43.731585,7.42547&spn=0.002,0.011952&sll=43.730736,7.424119&sspn=0.002221,0.005976&geocode=Fe9emwIdUT1xAA%3BFSZNmwIdZDZxAA%3BFSVJmwIdHjxxAA%3BFYBHmwIdf0xxAA&oq=Rue+Emile+de+Loth+Monaco&t=h&dirflg=w&doflg=ptm&mra=dme&mrsp=3&sz=18&layer=c&cbll=43.731584,7.425467&panoid=bxaBWx4lO2rBECGnlv2z-A&cbp=11,228.37,,0,0.77&z=17

But I have no idea where it runs from other than that the bus's destination board says St Roman.

 

Or it's only a short taxi ride.

 

BTW, my bad. Where the road train joins the Grand Prix route is close to the harbour at the corner known as Rascasse, it leaves the Grand Prix route close to the rail station, at the corner known as Ste Devote (green A on that map). But bear in mind that you cannot get off en-route. It goes in broadly the opposite direction to the Grand Prix.

 

The Monaco Grand Prix is this coming sunday 26th May.

http://www.monaco-grand-prix.com/2542-monaco/

Hopefully you'll have the opportunity to see it, or at least snippets of it, on TV.

We walked the course in about 40 minutes. That's a little slower than lap record-holder Michael Schumacher (1 minute 14.5 seconds)

 

Its quite difficult for a stranger to figure Monaco from a map, because of steep hillsides & tunnels. But the important part is tolerably compact.

 

JB :)

[eliopia]

Thank you JB,very helpful.:)