parking next to Palais de la mediteranee Nice?

I%26#39;m thinking about hiring a car during my stay in Nice 17-21st of May 2008.

I have a 4 nights reservation @ Palais de la Mediteranee..spending some time in central nice but I also want to do some daytrips?

Or is it better to ddrive with the bus along the coast? Prices for hiring a car are dirt cheap 160 euro for one week for a small car.

Is there any car park or basemaent garage next to the hotel? very expensive?

Is there lots of traffic in Nice?..easy to drive around?

thanks

Toby

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The bus is a flat one euro fare: now that is dirt cheap. Car parking is around one euro and hour, 24 four hours a day - add that to 160 euro a week for car rental - looks expensive to me.

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It is hard to believe that 160 euros is the real price. Car hire companies are expert at finding extras when you arrive. Hertz once pointed out that their %26#39;fully inclusive rate%26#39; was fully inclusive apart from insurance against theft, so if the car was stolen I had to pay the full cost. I paid the enormous extra amount to cover this. Recently, I paid 60 euros for the smallest car for one day%26#39;s hire in Nice. Nice is a warren of one way streets with cars parked everywhere you can possibly imagine. You will see that 90% of cars are damaged, so make sure you have totally comprehensive insurance.

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