This hotel is only a 5 minute walk from the Gare de Nice-Ville train station. Excellent front desk staff. Room was much too small - no place to put luggage or hang up clothes, but room was very quiet. The shower was very small, but worked OK. Beds were hard as rocks. Had to use my old trick of putting blankets under sheet to get comfortable. Price included breakfast, but cornflakes were not even tolerable! Croissants and French rolls with meat and cheese were OK. Lots of restaurants of all types within 5-10 minute walk. Easy to find central part of town and tour buses with a map as most streets are well sign posted.

First let me say, this is a scary neighborhood at night, felt like French version of Harlem. Daytime, its actually not bad at all, and yes i will say that it is convenient to have the train station and tourist information office so close to the hotel. So if you happen to be cavorting to Cannes or Monaco and get back late to Nice, its nice to know you can walk to hotel so near when you get back. Other than the fact that the hotel is quite close (5-10 minutes walk) to the famous Russian Orthodox church in one direction and the Marc Chagall Biblical Museum in another, most other sites in Nice are away from this part of town. you can walk to old town nice and the promenade/beach but will take at least 20 minutes through an ugly part of town undergoing heavy construction, not a pretty walk at all.

The hotel itself... the staff are friendly enough and can speak english and seem to care. Management will probably claim its quaint and charming, but depending on how you look at it, it could translate to small and old. A little bit of a smell that you don't notice after a bit and the bed is a little old and creaky as is the carpet. I won't nitpick about everything bc it is something you can live with, for goodness sake. there is a tiny safe and a comfortably old sofa but the breakfast is pretty bad. Both Medicis Hotel and the Choiseul Hotel must contract with the Sunfish Cafe, which sits in between the two. A cold breakfast, with same menu every day: Cold croissants, cold ham, one cheese. On the side, you have some cornflake cereal, milk, plain yogurt, and OJ, some jams/spreads. Can't get too much more basic, not much variety or taste. The waitresses are nice though for French.

Overall, a hotel whose staff tries hard to make up for the fact that it is a little old and run down and in a not so nice part of town. It would definitely have been a much worse experience if not for the staff, which made it a passably ok experience.

We have just returned from 4 nights in the Medicis - the end of a tour so we did not choose our hotel in Nice. It was honestly the worst hotel I have ever stayed in. Room 331 (to be avoided) was dark and over looked a narrow street. We were almost on speaking terms with the residents of the flats opposite our room by the time we left, as the street was narrow and our windows did not close properly - so we could hear all our neighbours conversations. The location of the hotel is perfect for the railway station, however like many districts adjoining railway stations, there were numerous adult shops in the vacinity. Good restaurants were about a 10 minute walk away, however it was a 15e taxi fare to the old town or the prom - walkable in 20 minutes, but we were not comfortable walking in that area when it got late. We had 2 very narrow beds, and a stained green sofa bed. The walls had black marks, and the wardrobe had a big black hole on one side ...so we didn't take our clothes out of our cases. On the same night, (Thursday the 12th) the fire alarm went off with a smell of burning coming from the antique lift shaft, and we lost our hot water. The next morning we still had no hot water, and had to start the day with a freezing cold shower. The hotel had no breakfast room (we were B & B) so we had to use the Sunfish Cafe a couple of doors away. The cafe was in complete chaos on the one morning we attempted to have breakfast, and the unfortunate staff were inundated with complaints. Overall a very unpleasant experience.

I spent a week in Nice in August on holidays and decided to try the Medicis as I had read a couple of decent reviews about it . Overall I found the staff plesant and welcoming , happy to help despite the suffocating heat that Nice suffered in those first days of August . The hotel was full but yet everyone was smiling and managed to remain efficient during my whole stay . Monsieur Stephane , the owner , is obviously a strong character and he has a clear idea of how to run his hotel based on client satisfaction . The hotel is centrally situated by the train station , it takes about 15 mn to walk to the beach and another 15 mn to hit the wonderful old town of Nice where everything happens at night . It is also very cheap , I paid about 90 euros per night breakfast included . Highly recommended .