Half-Day Wine Tasting and Saint Paul de Vence Tour from Nice

Tim_K, Dec 2024

Excellent tour but the best part was our van driver and guide - Alex!

The town of St Paul was beautiful.

Jamie_R, Dec 2024

Alesandro was a great tour guide! He was very knowledgeable and funny. Saint Paul de Vance was stunning and the winery was on a beautiful hill. The wine was wonderful and the people were very friendly. The only thing I wish they would do is give more time at both palaces. We were only at each place about 45 minutes which just isn’t enough time.

Ellen_C, Dec 2024

We really enjoyed the wine tasting at the vineyard. Our host was friendly, informative, knowledgeable, and made it a fun experience. We also thoroughly enjoyed the walk through St.Paul de Vence….would have liked more time there. I was disappointed that our tour did not have us on the list that day even though I received an email confirmation and a text day prior. Driver had to turn around and pick us up late which shortened our time.

Susan_R, Dec 2024

Highly recommend this trip. Alex our tour guide was very well presented, friendly, polite, professional, full of local information, and fun to travel with. He arrived on time and his vehicle was spotless. Our wine tasting host was super welcoming, very informative, we tasted 8 varieties of wine in a beautiful picturesque setting.

avman67, Dec 2024

This is about a 5 hour trip from Nice out to St.Paul de Vence village and then ending in a wine tasting visit to a vineyard. While this was an enjoyable trip it is a bit misleading.

The driver picks you up at your hotel in Nice. There may be multiple stops along the way to pick up others. After everyone is loaded it is a trip off to St. Paul de Vence village. This is a medieval village that is absolutely gorgeous to walk around in. The views are breathtaking indeed. The issue is that the trip talks about a "guide", but this person driving you does not accompany you into the village. You are dropped off at the entrance where there is a map of the village and told you have an hour to spend there. And that's it. Our driver only talked to the two people sitting next to her in the van and not to the rest of the participants other than maybe once or twice asking a brief question. So you aren't provided any information or help getting around the village.

After visiting the village it is a twisty drive up to the vineyard. Again the views are incredible but there is minimal to no commentary from the driver about what you are seeing. Once arriving at the vineyard you sit on their deck with a great view of the surrounding area and the owner gives a very interesting presentation to you about the history of the vineyard and the wines you are tasting. Now personally I found this fascinating and enjoyable sitting and sipping wine. But if you are hoping for a tour of the vineyard or the wine making process that is NOT part of this excursion. So you need to set your expectations properly. The wines were not personally my style but the only way you know this is to taste them, so I was perfectly happy with the visit to the vineyard. Again though your driver does not join you after delivering you to the vineyard.

Once the vineyard visit is over you are delivered back to your hotel. I think the price charged for basically just a ride is very high. If this was a guided tour that would be different but it is not. Our driver also did not seem to know the way very well and was following another driver who also made mistakes in their driving. We had to turn around twice as both drivers were going the wrong way. While the driver was certainly a pleasant person and professionally mannered this tour was not worth the money.