Car Hire in Cannes

Car hire

All the usual companies are to be found in Cannes and at the airport. Find cheap car hire here. Try a really cheap car hire company called Sixt at 50 Boulevard de la Croisette. We know someone who's tried them and says it was good.

You can look for the cheapest petrol prices in Cannes on www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr

Casino Supermarche in La Bocca is consistently a good price, if not always the cheapest.

Parking meters are not expensive and there are many car parks - most with the first hour free - to be found in the centre of Cannes. Be careful about parc Gray d'Albion - their pay machines are faulty. Some even catering for private coaches. Cannes has 9,135 parking places including on street parking and car parks. Ten car parks offer the first hour free.

The French government has raised parking meter fines from 11 euros to 20. Each town in the Alpes-Maritimes has slightly different rules. For example, in Cannes you are given a few minutes grace but in Cagnes sur Mer you get no leeway. Cannes and Menton have free two hour (12-2pm) parking at meters at lunchtime but not elsewhere on the Cote d'Azur. Double parking in Cagnes and Nice will land you a 35 euro fine. Parking meters operate until 7pm normally but in Nice it is 8pm. The only town with free parking on the seafront is Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.

One good thing to report is that all parking meter fines go to the town and must be spent on road improvements. Cannes does not separate out parking meter fines but all motoring fines raised 3.9 million euros in 2008!

Always dreamed of driving a Ferrari down the Croisette in Cannes? Now you can.

For 89 euros you can drive an F430 from Palm Beach to the Carlton Hotel - it takes about six minutes.

Small price to make a dream come true - and you can dine out on it for the rest of your life.

Contact John-Marc Ayache at Société Liven Up on 06 11 52 31 51.

The other extreme for poseurs and poseuses

is a two seater mini-Hummer electric car which you can drive without a licence, but only up to 20km per hour, from Wills Car Centre at 24 Marechal Juin, Cannes, tel: 04 92 92 05 05

Rate: 120 euros per day

Weekly rental: 78 euros per day

See website

For a sensible car at a reasonable price go to National at 12 rue dLa Tour Maubourg near the Croisette.

Tel: 04 93 94 67 42.

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