I agree that Cannes is probably the most central location if you want to tour around between St. Tropez and Nice. Personally, I also like to visit Menton and just over the border into Italy, San Remo. But at the same time, I also agree that moving around by car is a must and yet a pain in the butt at the same time. I find the Cote d'Azur to be really not be a very 'movement friendly' place at all. With only a week to work with I would suggest not trying to cover so much ground and concentrating on a smaller area to limit travel time spent in a car which I consider pretty much wasted time. I prefer to spend my time in places rather than in between places.

I hate the idea of visiting Eze as part of a tour or even independtly during the day. The same applies to St. Paul De Vence. The reason is that they are so full of tourists during the day although in May I suppose iti will not be quite so bad. If you really want to experience either of those, the way to do so is to stay in them. Like many such popular 'day trip' destinations, the atmosphere is entirely different before and after the tour buses arrive and depart.

Some years ago, we spent a week staying in Chateau Eza. Breakfast on the balcony of our room each morning before leaving by car about the same time as the tour buses started to arrive. Returning for the evening about the same time as the tour buses departed. Château Eza - Hotel Chateau Eza | Eze Village | Site Official | Cote d?Azur But that was as an older traveller.

If I were in my mid-twenties and single, I wouldn't stay in any of the places suggested. Instead I would head for the relatively new (built 2011) Royal Antibes and be within walking distance of the nightlife of Antibes. A lot less of us old fuddy-duddys as well I expect. The Royal Antibes is a contemporary hotel designed to suggest a yacht I could easily have spent a week there in my younger days and while my intentions might well have been to visit all the places nearby I had heard of, chances are I wouldn't have got outside of Antibes.

Come to think of it, back in my younger days, I spent 2 months in Antibes and never got very far from it. I have some very fond memories of that summer and a certain bar where I spent many a great evening.