French Riviera SUDAZUR Explore Pass

I haven't looked at the pass itself - but €35 a day is huge price. How much transport can you reasonably use in a day? In Monaco, tickets from the bus driver are €2. On an app or a machine it is only €1.50 a ticket. 35/1.5 = 23 tickets.

In Nice and vicinity single tickets cost €1.70 and a day pass is €7.

What do you get for that €35 for a day?

The pass is for 3 for €35, 7 days for €50 or 14 days for €80, so €35 for three days and ease of use doesn't seem to bad to me.

We have six nights planned in Nice in October, and at this point plan to just buy the seven day pass, so we don't have to worry about tickets and so on.

The only downside seems that it isn't particularly easy to buy, a shame it can't be bought on line.

Hi Nigel, My mistake, the passes are for 3/7/14 days, which is quite a different structure than what I typed. Sorry for the confusion! Note that the pass is good for trains, too, including intercity travel, and day trips to the interior.

In our case, we'll be in Nice for 3.5 days, which nudges us to the 7-day pass for 50€. By my rough calculations, we'll come up a little short of getting full value in ticket cost, but the convenience is more than enough to make up the small difference.

I bought the 7 day pass last October. I was able to buy it from a machine at the Nice airport train station. Older information often says that you can't buy it at the airport but that was not correct. The machine is on the platform for the trains outside the airport, not inside the airport. I bought the 7 day pass even though I would only use it five and a half days. I did not keep track whether I broke even or not, but I felt that the convenience of never having to worry whether I needed to buy a ticket or needed change or had enough money on the card made it worth it. It also made me feel a little better when I felt stupid for hopping onto the wrong bus or train :).

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In February we purchased the 14 day Sud pass at the Nice Ville station. We were in Villafranche for a month so we took most of our day trips in that 14 day window. It worked great on all trains, buses and trams in the region. We went as far north as Tende, east as Ventimigla and west as Mandelieu. For fun I kept track of our travel expense. We took full advantage -- 80 euros gave us 147 euros of travel but more importantly the ease of just jumping on whatever we wanted.

Thanks to all for your helpful information! FWIW, I submitted the guidebook update form with the pass details.