Club Med Opio-en-Provence

plan to go with family but i need to work at Nice.
how far from Nice?
i mean Nice airport?

appreciate your information

Opio is a little more than an hour's car ride from Nice's airport.

thank you for your update, drbri!!

first time trip to France, like to know estimated taxi cost from Nice airport to Opio.
do you know?

http://www.nice.aeroport.fr/acces_stationnement_en/taxi/default.asp

I recall prepaying at a counter for a taxi ticket/voucher first, then going to the taxi stand. Note that you must pay for the ticket in cash; I'm sure euros would be better but I bet I paid in dollars. In any event, the taxi driver didn't mind being tipped in dollars :)

many thanks, drbri!!

looking forward to visiting Opio!

My pleasure. It was interesting to go to a nonbeach village, and the GO team was very good. Plus, in addition to Nice, there are really good excursions; I suggest Antibes to see the Picasso museum.

Opio is less than 1 hour from Nice airport. It depends on the traffic and the road you may choose to get there. I would say about 30mn. 1 hour max. Opio is only 18 km from the airport (St Laurent du Var and not NICE as people think) but located on the hills. email for questions. I am French, happen to know the area very well (lived there for a couple of years).

good club with great Go's team.........very interesting place, i suggest you St paul de vence and Grasse to discover the "cote d"azur"....

Hmmm....J'adore Nice. Maybe I should go here for my second CM experience?

Opio is what I'd call a country club rather than a typical CM resort.
It's away from the Mediterranean Sea, so you don't have the beach activities. They did have a shuttle down to the beach and even beach activties, when they opened (in the late 80s), but that's has gone for a long time already.
While you have some nice excursions (expensive as always though) to do in that charming area, you're kind of stuck in the village, if you don't have a car with you (which most French do).

While I've been to the village some three times in the very beginning, I don't go back anymore. It has become kind of expensive and I miss the beach activities, although there's a compact but tricky 9 hole golf in the resort itself and a nice 18 hole nearby (Golf de la Grande Bastide) which is owned by the club. I think, it's fine to relax, for the spa, some tennis and golf.

A real negative thing are the business incentives there. You can find yourself with half the village filled with business people knowing nothing about the club and its etiquette, behaving like stupids and getting all the advantages like best rooms, best area in the restaurant, etc.
This is really what had put me off with that village.

I don't suggest to go there July/August. Too hot. The area around the pool (almost no shade) must be packed. It's ok for one week in late April/May/June or September. October is too late IMO. You can get rain and it starts getting cool.

The only breathtaking thing is really the view from the village over the hilly countryside and the Mediterranean Sea.

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Originally posted by Kiki de M

Opio is what I'd call a country club rather than a typical CM resort.

The only breathtaking thing is really the view from the village over the hilly countryside and the Mediterranean Sea.

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Good advice. I'm going to go back to Turkoise for the last week of April, get some sun before the Canadian summer (finally) arrives. Maybe next year I'll try an European resort. Thanks, Kiki!

<<Maybe next year I'll try an European resort.>>

You should. Try a party village then and this for two weeks.
June and September are best (for Italy, Turkey, Tunisia). Less expensive, less crowded, not unbearably terribly hot.

There is a very nice GO team for the winter season 2005/06 in Opio. Many of them will stay until the closure for refurbishment which will start in autumn 2006. The CdV (Xavier Gomila) is a very nice person, too. I do not hesitate to go back - when the temperature rises...

(to the GO team: I'm looking forward to seeing you again)

chrisbo,
Xavier is top. Have met him in Hammamet. But there are better villages, especially for someone who comes from Canada and for the first time into 'our' zone.
As said above, the village is fine, especially for one week, but if you're into beach activites, forget it.

You're completely right, Kiki de M. I did not pay any attention to the previous topic, and did not notice that it was a Canadian GM who wanted some info.

I would suggest him places in Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Egypt.

The village of Opio was sold together Peisey Vallandry, Val d'Isere e La Plagne during autumn 2005 to Metrovacesa (through Gecina) for about 225millions of euros. The questions is if Opio will be again a ClubMed village by a "lease back" technical instruments or if never will a C.M.
However i advise you to go at Opio because is wonderful.

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Originally posted by chrisbo

There is a very nice GO team for the winter season 2005/06 in Opio. Many of them will stay until the closure for refurbishment which will start in autumn 2006. The CdV (Xavier Gomila) is a very nice person, too. I do not hesitate to go back - when the temperature rises...

(to the GO team: I'm looking forward to seeing you again)

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Hi everyone !
I am living in France, just near the Opio Village.
It is in deed a very nice place, always agreable to change minds and ideas !
Talking about goods things to see around, you of course have Nice, Cannes, Monaco but also many small villages.
I live a a small town named Vence and have a hotel there, so if you are interested in finishing your stay with us, just click the link bellow.
www.hotel-diana-vence.com
(Family, Club Med ambiance)