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Hotel Welcome Goes Perfect With Sea Views and French Wine

Where: 1 quai Courbet, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 06230

Celebrities from Jean Cocteau to the Rolling Stones have spent time in Villeranche-sur-mer, a seaside French village neatly located between Nice and Monte Carlo, but without the overwhelming crowds. This weeks UK Times raved about Villeranche-sur-mer and has one big recommendation: stay at the Hotel Welcome.

Hotel Welcome is a 36-room place directly on the water, and after a 2002 renovation, each of the rooms has a balcony with a view over the sea. The Times suggests that, although the rooms are simple, the location is so perfect that "you can while away a portion of your weekend watching the comings and goings along the front".

You have to leave the hotel to get to a restaurant, but not if you just want a drink: the terrace-level Wine Bar takes care of that quite nicely. And they reckon it's just a hundred yards to nice restaurants anyway. While enjoying a stay at the Hotel Welcome, you can go diving, take a boat to Cannes or Monaco, rent your own sail boat, or just enjoy some good French wine. We pick the wine.

[Photo: BenYoe]

Related Stories:
· Hotel Welcome reviews [TripAdvisor]
· Instant Weekend: Villefranche [Times UK]