Port St Laurent du Var

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Spoke to a berth broker at LIBS who told me there are some berths for sale at St Laurent du Var for relatively modest money. Well, modest for the Cote d'Azur
I know this marina is close to the end of the runway at Nice airport but anyone know whether it is really bad for aircraft noise? Rumour has it that boats get covered in aircraft fuel residue. Is this correct? What's the place like otherwise?
 
well, it's ok actually. Yes, end of runway just visble tho must be a mile away or more and when i have stayd it wasn't invasive at all, very open so no reverb perhaps. It is not like heathrow frinstance.

The best thing is that the airport is just a £3 cab ride away, so it only costs erm about £10 and a miserbale look or row from cabbie who waited for an hour or more, hoped for a fare to St tropez at 250 euro and you want to go to flippin SLDV!

Actualy, i have found it cheapest and hassle free to book rentacar which is cheap, 70 euros long weekend over the web. mrs tcm has web address who rented me a big motor with satnax for 60 euros 3 days just got back.

Bikes etc all very possible for run into Nice etc. It is a townie marina, no question, tho also one that is probly a bit ded in winter, restaurant-wise anyway. It's a fantastically convenient airport-boat-park, really. Make sure you get easyjet to T2 if rentacar else the trip to terminal 2 for rentacar from BA at T1 is er furthr than just walking to boat...

Think you know quite good boating spots nearby. Baie des anges is free lunch stop with a pool, but the pool is 12 euros. But nice change for kids. Mind you the luch restaurant next to the pool is ded cheap, with fab views.

There is a beach close by for lolling around on if that's attractive? V popular crushed-out with hotels and new developments in season cos so close to airport, like majorca/spain i suppose.

But the whole area west from there to Cagnes sur mer is demonstrably getting fixed up from drabbish old style sixties stuff - long queues west of that marina with nice roadworks and spanking new pedestrian promenades, so the three lane road is being narrowed to2 or 1 in places, harumph.

Must be pretty well served with buses into Nice as well i pose, tho tis er however long the runway is, about 2-3 miles ish.

A supermarket can't be far, lots of hol apartments and the "cap 3000" mall is about a mile away praps, huge draw in region, like er bluewater but better. You can buy an actual gamba from Nicaragua that is as big as a chicken! And loads of othr stuff, clothes etc.

As you demonstate with your post, so handy for airport I reckon marina berths v shiftable, people buy boat stay a year or so, plans change, they move on. But berths always a touch cheaper than elsewhere cos of that airport. Some of the restaurants a bit pizza-ish, seem to change hands.

Vociferous anti-airport lobby ensures that fligths are in daytime i believe. They don't those horrid tourists thankyou very much, not in the cote d'azur.

Actually, on that riviera, the flipin worst is anywhere where the trains are hard up against the coast esp in Italy side cos they PRARP as they go thru tunnels nearby at 6am. But at Nice the train is inland a bit. So you get a long lie-in until er an aeroplane sounds as tho it has landed on the foredeck, perhaps...

Defintely worth considering. Oh, and i wd want to be landside i think, not on the outer wall, must be a longhack round, really. Or ded cheap I spose.
 
Thanks, tcm, very useful. I spoke to Triangle at LIBS and they are quoting €130k for a 15x4.5m berth at SLDV compared to double that or more anywhere else.Just seems to cheap to be true
 
Mike

I asked the same question a few months back so it may be worth trying a search for the responses to that post. I can only comment from driving down to the place that the surrounding area looks like a middle of the road holiday resort with no town to speak of. Of course Nice is close, but not walking distance. SWMBO wasn't hugely impressed, but then we'd spent the weekend living it up in Antibes so she was comparing with that. Its big plus point of course is being so convenient for the airport. A couple of other more general things that put us off, firstly as all the berths are sold not rented in the area there seems little incentive for the marina owners to really smarten the place up, so it will probably stay as it is, secondly as it seems so difficult to find visitor berths in Cd'A during summer you may end up spending a lot of time in your home berth, so more important that it has a nice feel to it with easy access to good restaurants etc.

They are cheap though /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Certainly convenience to the airport is a major selling point for SLDV. As tcm says maybe only £3 taxi ride, but just down the way in Baie Des Anges it can cost up to 40 euros from the airport in the summer. St tropez from the airport in the Winter is about an hour and a half, in the summer it's a good 3 and a half hours. I'd check if they have planned any airport extensions in the near future.
 
Good point, houghn, about the summer months. It is difficult to actually go anywhere by boat in the CdA so your home marina has to be comfortable
 
As usual I will diasgree about SLDV !

Being where it is it is a bit difficult to access anywhere decent by foot - apart from Cap 3000 ( the shopping centre). Cagnes and St laurent are really downmarket extensions to Nice - they may not have the problems of the cites but hardly 'Cd'A living' - very much local places for local folks. I would be amazed if you could actually get a cab to pick you up there to go to the airport as (if you go the quick way!) it is less than a mile 1/2 from the airport terminals ( so a bit like taking a cab from an airport hotel to Heathrow T1.

Personally I also don't like driving around there ( you're only a 1/2 mile from the Promenade des Anglais and accessing the autoroute is a pain) -- however there is a train station reasonbable ( walkable) distance away.

Because so many local folks berth there ( cheaper and they don't care about aircraft noise as they can go home !)

BTW - there is a free shuttle between the two Nice terminals .. TCM must just enjoy the exercise !

If you are serious I can go into SDLV ( or wherever) when I am back ( a week or so) - prices cheaper direct ! Also JFM well webbed with another broker ..
 
Thanks, Learner, good to hear from you. The more I hear about SLDV, the more I understand why it's cheap. Thanks for your offer but it looks like SLDV is not for us
 
Hi Mike
I stayed there 6 or 7 times last year on sami so know it well.
You havnt been I take it or you wouldnt be asking the question.
I personally like it,although its a bit shabby compared to anywhere else on the cote,The water isnt that clean in the marina and its a bit shabby with several closed down business around the marina office.
The nearest supermatket is about 20 min walk away although theres a few good restarants including a good thai,a not to bad indian a creperie or 2 .The nearby beach is pebbly with a very commercial prom nearby .
A lot of the boats in the marina are a bit shabby its def not your antibes by the sea
Pm me if you want a chat before you fly out to see it I may save you a flight
regards
 
I strangly enough liked the 2 body builder ex army hardmen who run the place
Although i have heard of a few people who fell out with them
definetly not for the faint hearted those 2
There a bit serious at 1st but if your not to intimidated by the muscle there quite a laugh
And I like the walk to the airport it only takes 30 mins
 
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I strangly enough liked the 2 body builder ex army hardmen who run the place
Although i have heard of a few people who fell out with them
definetly not for the faint hearted those 2
There a bit serious at 1st but if your not to intimidated by the muscle there quite a laugh
And I like the walk to the airport it only takes 30 mins

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..a nd there I was thinking we were dicussing the C d'A not Brat Camp ...silly me /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Agree the other comments. Actually lots of the marinas there have aircraft noise, incl Antibes and Baie des Anges, and you tend to zone it out, but unlike the others SLDV does smell of fuel and is a bit grimy. It would be perfectly ok if you were sure to get out of the place as soon as you arrived, and return just in time for your flight home. Treat it just as a boat parking space, in other words.

The one good thing about SLDV is the gorgeous Helene Rizzardo in the SLDV branch of Monaco marine.

I'll be there this Friday - our boat went in this morning for annual engine service at Monaco Marine. Lemme know if you have a berth number in mind and want a photo or anything
 
Thanks jfm. The more I hear about SLDV, the less I think I'm going to like it but if you are there on Friday, I would be grateful if you could take a quick look at these berths
They're advertised by Triangle and I've e-mailed them to confirm the berth numbers
 
OK. Let me know if you do get the berth numbers but I think they will keep that info close to their chest, for fear that buyers will by-pass the broker. The 23x6 must be on the outer mole but the 15m ones could be in lots of places. Praps I can get you some general pix of the place, in case it's been a while and you have forgotten what it's like
 
I'll see how Triangle respond to my request but they did'nt seem fazed when I asked them
 
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