How to Get Around Monaco

Getting in. Monaco has no airport. Nice Côte d’Azur is thirty kilometres away and is the arrival point for almost everyone, connected by bus, taxi and a seven-minute helicopter transfer that is the local extravagance.

By train is the best way. Monaco-Monte-Carlo station is underground in the middle of the principality, on the coastal line from Nice to Ventimiglia in Italy — about twenty-five minutes from Nice and ten from Menton, running frequently.

On foot is how you get around. The whole country is walkable, and a network of public lifts and escalators, free and marked on maps, does the climbing for you. Working out which one to take is the single most useful local skill.

Buses run six routes across the principality and are cheap and frequent. A solar-powered water bus crosses Port Hercule in two minutes.

Driving is best avoided: parking is scarce and expensive, and the road network is complicated by tunnels and one-way systems.