To ask for your feedback on my holiday itinerary for next year?

[ThatCyanSheep]

I'm bored, and fed up of the weather so I've fully planned my holiday next year.

Any opinions of what more I can fit in/what I should take out are welcome!

NICE, France

Hotel: Ibis Budget Californie Lenval

Saturday 29th August

• Fly to Nice - land at 11:30am (ish)
• Tram to Hotel - 20 minutes by bus/9 minutes by tram
• Store bag at hotel/check in (I am an ALL member so I have free early check in) and sort daypack/change to explore
• 12:00 - about 3pm
• Explore Nice old town & get lunch
• 3pm - 5:30pm
• Head back to Promenade des Anglais, get gelato, explore beach, coffee
• 5:30-6:45
• Head back to hotel, shower, freshen up, change
• Dinner - find restaurant along Promenade
• After dinner - sunset stroll then head back to hotel

Sunday 29th August

• Breakfast in Nice
• Nice ➡️ Vilefranche-sur-Mer
• Walk around - visit harbour & town centre
• Coffee & walk
• Villefranche-sur-Mer ➡️ Antibes
• Lunch on train or Antibes
• Explore Antibes
• Picasso Museum
• Visit the port
• Antibes ➡️ Nice
• Relaxed afternoon - read on beach, try to catch some of the F1
• Stroll back to hotel
• Freshen up
• Dinner

Monday 30th August

• Monaco day trip
• Breakfast in Nice
• Nice ➡️ Monaco
• Coffee & explore old town
• Lunch
• Walk the track (or at least some of it)
• Visit the harbour, stroll along and eat
• Monaco ➡️ Nice
• Dinner

Tuesday 1st September

• Beach club day

MILAN, Italy

Hotel: Ibis Milano Centrale

Wednesday 2nd September

• Nice ➡️ Milan (early train, aim to arrive in Milan by midday)
• Head to hotel, store bag and sort daypack
• Explore, head to Duomo for fan event (or wherever the fan event is, it has not been announced yet)
• Find somewhere for dinner
• Back to hotel

Thursday 3rd September

• Breakfast around hotel, explore the area
• Head to Monza for the fan stage and other events
• Back to Milan around midafternoon
• Find lunch and explore
• Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and Brera
• Dinner

Friday 4th September

• Day trip to Lake Como
• Train Milan ➡️ Como Lago
• Breakfast in Como
• Explore, visit the cathedral, funicular ride?
• Como ➡️ Bellagio
• Explore Bellagio
• Bellagio ➡️ Varenna
• Villa Monastero gardens
• Varenna ➡️ Como
• Como Lago ➡️ Milan
• Dinner around the hotel

On Friday, visit grocery store to get water and snacks for the race weekend

Saturday 5th September

QUALI DAY - day in Monza

Dinner near hotel after qualifying

Sunday 6th September

RACE DAY

Dinner near hotel after qualifying
Pack bags
Full body shower to prepare for flight

Monday 7th September

• Breakfast at hotel
• Head to airport at 8am
• Flight home around 11:30

The shower thing comes off a bit odd, I can see why people think that - but it's just making sure I have enough time on the Sunday to do everything I need to, which includes washing and drying my hair (I have extensions so that can take an hour!). I genuinely love planning like this, it's really enjoyable for me!

Sure, but I go away by myself on a fairly regular basis, often travelling between different places, always cramming in as much art as possible (when I was in Madrid last January, I was literally in the hotel to sleep and eat breakfast), and I have never scheduled my washing time a week before I left, far less nearly a year before.

I'd be too exhausted contemplating all that to even go! I prefer to have one or two ideas for each day and see how it feels when I get there.

I’d go to St Paul de Vence before heading to Italy and maybe Juan Les Pins/St Tropez as well. The Côte d’Azur is beautiful for just sitting in cafes as well. There’s a nice lighthouse walk in cap d’Antibes if I remember. I was an au pair there about a billion years ago. You don’t mention any markets or going to Grasse - at certain times of the year the lavender fields are amazing.

I wish I’d had the guts to do this five years ago, I’d have loved to be an au pair.

Thank you for this thread @ThatCyanSheep My DD's friend (25) is a big F1 fan and has been trying to work out how she could do Monaco, without impossibly trying to book accommodation there. We can fly to Nice in around two hours. My DD would go with her if other stuff was on offer and this thread has given lots of ideas. My DD is autistic and would also schedule everything.

I was an au pair just outside Antibes in 1990, and I absolutely agree on St Paul de Vence. (The kids grandparents lived near Le Lavandou, and I spent a lot of time in the rural bit of the Var, too, but that’s too difficult for the OP to access.)

@MaybeIf I was a couple of years after you. I was based in Cagnes sur Mer but regularly in Antibes as ex neighbours lived there.

@ThatCyanSheep I’d recommend it. But will be even nicer on a solo holiday without having to wipe noses and carry kid snacks!