Cruise Passengers Cannes

Guide for Cruise Passengers arriving in Cannes

Cruise Ship arriving at Cannes

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Cannes, unlike Villefranche and Nice, is able to welcome the increasingly large vessels. The largest liner to visit Cannes was the Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas (340 metres long),with 4,375 passengers on board.
Visitors come to see the sites of the old town, to view the Film Festival red carpet, relax on a beach, to shop and enjoy a French meal. 
 
Did you know... every cruise passenger spends on average 100 euros each in Cannes

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Cruise Ships in Cannes

Le Suquet

Cruise ships moor offshore and tenders ferry passengers to the Quai Laubeuf (ferries run from here to the Iles des Lerins) or to the Gare Maritime.  From Quai Laubeuf, pick up a map and walk across the car park to reach the number 8 bus stop. Take this open topped bus along the Croisette (the seafront) and see the many famous luxury hotels like the Carlton and the Martinez.  The toy train also leaves from here and there are two tours available plus the combined Big Tour.
Alternatively, a short (signposted) walk towards the town centre goes along the Quai St Pierre, with its beautiful yachts moored up, and leads you to the bus station. (There is also a bike hire shop not far, past the Canopy by Hilton hotel.)  Opposite the bus station is the Bar St Antoine and the beginning of Le Suquet, the oldest part of Cannes.

If you turn right along the harbour you will come to the Palais des Festivals and the tourist office.
From the Gare Maritimes you can climb aboard a toy train with a multilingual commentary.

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Le Suquet

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​To visit Le Suquet, take the pedestrian way up the hill, at the side of the bar, to the 12th century Tour de Mt Chevalier and the church of Notre Dame de l'Espérence. Completed in 1648, its charm lies in its wood panelling and a collection of 19th century paintings, including a fresco by George Roux.
 
From the ancient rampart wall in front of the church, you can see east across the town, the port and the bay to the Cap de la Croisette, and to the west across the Gulf of La Napoule to the Esterel mountains.
 
While you are up there visit the town's museum where, besides an art gallery featuring views by painters of Cannes, you can walk amongst ancient artefacts of the classical world

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Forville Market

​Open in the morning Forville market can be reached by walking up the rue Gazagnaire, diagonally opposite the bus station by the Crystal bar.
In the market you will find flowers, fish, fruit and vegetables as well as dairy products, spices, chickens and ducks...the list goes on.  The market is open 7am till 1pm every day except Mondays. There are excellent specialist shops as well as cafes and restaurants around the pedestrianised market.
On Mondays it is an antiques and bric a brac market.
Close to Forville market is the  pedestrianised rue Meynadier which  offers everything from cheese and bread shops to clothes and Provencal shops.

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You may want only to relax all day on a public beach or one of the many private beaches. 
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But there is also the option to visit Monaco. Take the train - buy an all day ticket.
The journey takes one hour 10 minutes.  You can get off and on anywhere along the route.

See timetables Mandelieu/Grasse to Ventimiglia and Marseilles to Ventimiglia, Italy.

Cannes Railway Station left

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Popular Sightseeing Trips:
​Antibes, Juan Les Pins, Golfe Juan, Le Cannet, Mougins, Mandelieu La Napoule, Theoule sur mer, Vallauris

​WHAT'S ON IN CANNES 2024

​COTE D'AZUR FRANCE
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 77th Cannes Film Festival 2024