Cannes Bus Information - Local Buses
Cannes has great transport links. Bus Azur, BUS ROUTES and BUS MAP, operates from opposite the old port where you can pick u
p details of bus itineraries, containing maps of the route. Cheap 10-journey ticket – two of you? just validate it twice - and all day tickets can be bought at the bus station and at many tabac or presse outlets in town. Single journeys are purchased on board the bus and cost just 1 euro. All tickets are valid for one ho
ur, so you can change buses using the same ticket but you cannot get back on the same number bus. If buying a ticket from the driver get on on the right side of the rail and if validating a ticket get on on the left side. In Cannes it is normal to say Bonjour to the bus driver and it is still expected that younger people will get up to let older people sit, and men stand for women to be seated. That said there is still no such thing as a queue at the bus stop – it’s every man for himself (women usually win).
The number 8 open-topped bus is a great way to travel the Croisette to Palm Beach and back. It costs one euro or two euros for the circular trip.
É-LO (geddit?) is a small, green-diesel bus that travels in a circle every ten minutes along the Croisette, rue d’Antibes - the main shopping street - and the railway station before returning to the Hôtel de Ville. It stops on demand, whether hailing or alighting, as long as it is safe to do so or as soon as possible. Single and all day unlimited tickets are available from the driver and the usual outlets.
New for summer 2011
A new, improved night bus service - Midnight Buses - operates until 12.30am until 1 July when they go later until 29 August
- so no need to take the car out.
Note: Normal midnight buses resume service from Monday 30 August. see BUS ROUTES