Our visit to Nice had us coming and going by plane and train. After some research, we ended up staying at the Sheraton Nice Airport on our travel days. The Sheraton Nice Airport offered more convenient transfer options than the inner city hotels in Vieux Nice, as a result of it’s proximity to the Nice Côte d’Azur International Airport and the Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer (SNCF) St Augustin train station. Our stay at the Sheraton Nice Airport was more than expected with a full service hotel just steps from transportation networks.

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Review: Sheraton Nice Airport Hotel, Côte d’Azur, France

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“A Brand New Sheraton Hotel that is oddly convenient, contemporary in design and that surpassed every expectation, except for the neighbourhood that it found itself located in”

Booking the Sheraton Nice Airport:

Our visit to the Sheraton Nice Airport was a stay while we were getting “in and out” of Nice, France. As a Marriott affiliated hotel, the Sheraton Nice Airport was the ideal combination of convenience and modern amenities. The main reason we had chosen the Sheraton Nice was the hotel’s proximity to the SNCF Nice St Augustin train station, the Nice Cote d’Azur International Airport and the local Nice Airpot rental car depots. It was easier to access than our other stay at Le Meridien Nice, which was located more centrally near Vieux Nice, France.

Our visit to this property was two one night stays over two separate visits. We would end up staying here prior to taking a train to Cinque Terre as a result of it’s convenient location to Nice St Augustin train station. Secondly, we were able to stay prior to our morning flight on British Airways Club Europe Nice – London Heathrow as a result of it’s close location to the Cote d-Azur airport.

The Sheraton Nice Airport was priced at a much more competitive price point than the inner city Nice hotel. Rates were typically around 110€ in the off season, climbing to upwards of 200€ a night in the summer months. We were able to book a cash rate under a AAA rate for approximately 143€ a night for a base level Deluxe Guest Room – 1 King.

As with other hotel stays on this trip, our booking strategy was to book the cheapest room possible and hope for a Marriott Bonvoy Platinum / Titanium level upgrade to a better room.

As always, I booked through the Marriott Bonvoy website, which as a Marriott Titanium Member, entitled me to a complimentary upgrade to the best available room, including select suites, and a complimentary late check out up to 4 PM.

Marriott Bonvoy Opportunities:

The Sheraton Nice Airport can be an absolutely bargain using Marriott Bonvoy points. Rooms can be found for as little as 40,000 Marriott Bonvoy points with variable princing up to 65,000 Marriott Bonvoy points. It is worth checking out to see whether there are any Marriott Bonvoy point redemptions available in order to maximize value.

As a refresher, If you value Marriott Bonvoy points at 0.8 cents per point, it only makes sense to redeem points under the right circumstances. For example, it didn’t seem to make sense to redeem 65,000 Marriott Bonvoy points for a room valued at 144€ ($156 USD) when those same points are worth approximately $520 USD.

Marriott Bonvoy members get the fifth night free when redeeming five or more day stay. Keep in mind that by redeeming five nights, and getting the fifth night free, will increase the value proposition by lowering the average number of points per night.

Getting to the Sheraton Nice Airport:

We arrived to Nice via Sixt rental car, having visited Grenoble, France for the day. We arrived into Nice with a touch of rush hour traffic. The hotel is an impressive looking modern low rise building, located just across the street from the Nice Côte d’Azur International Airport.

The traffic surrounding the airport was a bit challenging to navigate with traffic almost at a standstill on most access points towards the hotel. As a brand new hotel, the entry to the hotel was not signed all that well. Guests that arrive by car are funneled into an underground, which wasn’t super handy for guests like us that wanted to unload our bags, then return our rental car at the airport across the street.

In our case, we would end up having to access the front loading area of the hotel by driving the wrong way down the only one way out street, in order to access the hotel loading area.

The Sheraton Nice Airport is located immediately across the street from the Cote d’Azur International Airport. It is also located one block away from the SNCF Nice St Augustin train station.

Both are easily accessible on foot and even with a reasonable amount of luggage. This makes the Sheraton Nice Airport a perfect hotel if you’re needing to access public transportation networks in the area.

Unfortunately, there is limited off property dining in this particular location. Aside from the hotel restaurants (and other hotel restaurants) there are no indepedent restaurants or grocery stores in the region. The nearest grocery store is located up Promenade des ‘Anglais at Carrefour Express and is about a fifteen minute walk. The lack of other independent restaurants and bar is probably the Sheraton Nice’s Airports only disadvantage, as you’re limited to the on property restaurants.

Checking into the Sheraton Nice Airport:

After unloading the vehicle, we navigated through some clumsy to pass through with baggage rotating doors.

We had a friendly to check in at the front counter lobby. We were provided instructions on the location of the lounge, and the breakfast set up. If you happen to be parking a vehicle, self parking was 30€ a night during our visit.

We had some expiring Suite Night / Nightly Upgrade Awards. As a result, we were lucky to have them redeemed against a view suite with an outdoor balcony. We were assigned room #544, which was near the top floor of the hotel.

The Room: An Executive Room – Sea View with Terrace

We took one of the two elevators up to the fifth floor. The hallways were lined with a plush carpet, which made rolling suitcases along the passageway a little more challenging than it needed to be.

Room #544 was located at the far end of the hallway, facing the right hand ocean side of the property.

The Executive Room was a nicely appointed modern room with an excellent view. While it was not as spacious as the Executive Room might lead one to imagine, the room offered every convenience.

Immediately upon entering the room, the room was oriented in a rectangular format. The bedroom space featured a Sheraton Sweet Sleeper King Size bed, which occupied a substantial amount of real estate.

The opposite side of the room featured a flat screen television, and a small seating nook. Underneath the television, there was a small bench style seat, which also doubled as a luggage stand.

A small round table filled out the space. The table was pretty small, and pretty much only useful for wallets and car keys. The room offered complimentary bottled water.

The room also featured a Nespresso Coffee Maker, in addition to an in room kettle. The room also offered an empty in room fridge. There was also an in-room safe.

The bathroom offered a modern set up with a stand up shower and a single vanity. The shower was spacious and comfortably large in order to wash. A large bathroom is always terrific, especially in Europe where hotels in older buildings typically feature smaller bathrooms.

Surprisingly, there were even clean bathrobes offered. MrsWT73 always appreciates hotel bathrobes, but it is something that I don’t tend to use that much myself.

The Executive Room featured a balcony with perhaps the best feature of all; a view over the Nice Cote d’Azur International Airport. With just a step up from the room, large floor to ceiling windows offered a terrific view of the airport operations.

Stepping outside, the large balcony offered a lengthy strip of outdoor happiness with sweeping views. The outdoor balcony was the most impressive part of the room. I could have easily spend a sunset out here enjoying the view, if my travel scheduled happened to align with a sunset period.

In terms of sleep quality, the Sheraton Nice Airport had excellent sound proofing. Despite facing the runways, the sleep was peaceful and was not interrupted by jet engines. The Nice Cote d’Azur airport shone a bit of surplus light into the room, which was well masked with heavy curtains.

Around the Hotel Property:

The Sheraton Nice Airport is a full featured hotel with all the expected amenities. This included a unique and modern rooftop hotel pool. A rooftop pool is among the last things that I might expect at an airport hotel property. However, the space is really pleasant and actually rivaled the roof top pool space at the nearby Le Meridien Nice hotel.

Outdoor Pool:

The top floor of the Sheraton Nice airport contained the roof top outdoor pool and deck. There was quite a bit of space up here for dozens of sun deck chairs and a small outdoor food and beverage or event space.

The deck chairs offered an elevated view over the Nice Côte d’Azur International Airport for plane watching. It is not a typical pool side view (I usually prefer the ocean) but it’s unique enough that it’s worth sun tanning.

The roof top pool also featured views of the nearby “She’s Nice Roof Top Sky Bar”. The She’s Nice Roof Top Sky Bar is only open seasonally during the summer months for sunset drinks.

Unfortunately, on both of our visits, we missed the opportunity to enjoy a drink at the roof top bar, since it closes quickly after sunset.

Hotel Gym:

Much like other international hotels, the hotel offered a small gym. The gym space was located below ground in the conference room area. As a result, it did not have a lot of natural light.

While I didn’t use the gym on this trip, it’s always handy to have an indoor option when the weather isn’t great. Realistically, the Sheraton Nice Airport is right next to some great seaside running trails on the Promenade des Anglais. If I was aiming to run, I would probably head there for sea side views.

Food and Beverage:

The Sheraton Nice Airport contains one lobby restaurant (La Tables des Sudes), one seasonal roof top bar (She’s Nice Rooftop Bar), and one Sheraton Club Lounge.

If these restaurants aren’t to your liking, the only other options are other airport hotel restaurants, food and beverage in the Nice Côte d’Azur airport across the street, or taking transportation into Nice proper.

La Table des Sudes:

The La Tables Des Sudes restaurant was the primary hotel restaurant that offered breakfast and dinner. On our visit, the restaurant was closed for lunch services.

The La Tables des Sudes is set into a contemporary space with high ceilings. The decor of the restaurant is about “as you’d expect” for a new hotel restaurant. It was bright and modern, but didn’t have a whole lot of personality to it.

During both of our stays, we arrived a little late. After initial drinks in the Sheraton Club Lounge upstairs, we enjoyed dinner at La Tables des Sudes.

The menu at La Tables des Sudes is priced as an airport hotel restaurant where there aren’t many alternate options. This means that the food is more expensive that what you might expect. Mains were priced at approximately 32€ per platter.

To navigate this, we ended up splitting a Chicken Burger between the two of us. The food was generously apportioned and fresh tasting.

Marriott Bonvoy Platinum Breakfast

During both of our stays, we opted to enjoy a Marriott Bonvoy breakfast at La Tables des Sudes, provided courtesy of our elite status. The benefit was offered for the full hot and cold breakfast buffet. There were no additional charges to upgrade to a hot breakfast. 

If you don’t happen to have Marriott Bonvoy Elite Status that offers complimentary breakfast, and you don’t happen to have a rate that includes breakfast, the buffet breakfast was 24€ per person during our visit.

Being a european breakfast, there were great cold cuts, charcuterie and croissants available. The croissant’s were typically flaky and filled with light crusty goodness.

The breakfast also offered a wide range of hot items, including sautéed mushrooms and provencal potatoes.

The breakfast at La Tables des Sudes was everything that I might have expected for an on property restaurant. Despite being priced at a premium, and a somewhat sterile hotel environment, the space was enjoyable and the food was better than expected.

Sheraton Club Lounge:

The Sheraton Nice Airport offered a Sheraton Club Lounge. I am happy to report that despite my visit being after the pandemic, the Club Lounge was open and operating.

The hours of the Sheraton Club Lounge during our visit were as follows:

• Seven Days a week from 7 AM – 11 PM
• Breakfast 7 AM – 12 PM
• Snacks 12 PM – 15 PM
• Sweets 12 PM – 7 PM
• Snacks 7 PM – 9 PM
• Wine and Beer 6 PM – 8 PM

The Sheraton Club Lounge was a compact space. There was a sole window, which offered a little natural light into the space.

The lounge tended to get quite busy during our visits. At times, it was difficult to actually get a seat as a result of how popular it was.

In terms of food offerings, there were the usual range of soft drinks, coffee machines and snacks. The snacks and wine were popular enough that they tended to run out on occasion. If you’re visiting, make sure you arrive early so you don’t miss out.

MrsWT73 enjoyed the rosé wine that was available during happy hour between 6 PM – 8 PM. Like a proper international hotel lounge, wine and beer was available on free flow at no charge.

The Sheraton Club Lounge was a great added value to our hotel stay. Given the hotel’s location away from neighbourhoods where you could easily pick up snacks and drinks, it was especially convenient to have the ability to pop into the lounge for a drink or a snack.

Bottom Line: The Sheraton Nice Airport

The Sheraton Nice Airport was surprisingly more than I was expecting for an airport hotel.

The Sheraton Nice Airport featured a great Sheraton Club Lounge, a fantastic roof top pool, and through Suite Night Awards / Nightly Upgrade Awards, we were given a fanastic room with fabulous airport and sunset views. The location of the property was also exceptionally convenient for accessing transportation networks.

The only negative feature of the hotel was, like many other airport hotels, that it was not located next to any off property restaurants or grocery stores. However, if you’re connecting to transportation networks, it’s hard to beat this property.

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If you have stayed at the Sheraton Nice Airport, did you find the location to be convenient ?

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