Returned yesterday from Menton where we stayed for 4 days. Booked room with a sea view which was a good choice because the "mountain views" are at the back of the hotel and whilst you can see the mountains... it overhangs the road.. Our room (15) was clean, with excellent aircon - and large enough for us to feel it was value for money at £350 for 4 nights excluding breakfast (10eu per day per person).

The Hotel is on the front and the road is quite busy so its not exactly quite even with the double glazed doors shut - we found it OK though.

Hotel is less than 10 minutes walk from the station and easy to find (we returned back to Nice airport on the Express Bus which you catch opposite the hotel and takes you to the terminal at a cost of 18eu each (some people did have tickets in advance which may be cheaper??)

Re breakfast there is a patisserie minutes from the hotel in the Menton direction where an addictive selection of croissants etc at around 1eu which meant breakfast in the hotel was skipped each day - it did look nice though.

The staff of the hotel could not have been better, all spoke English and seemingly several other languages and were quite happy to provide us with the room key even if I kept asked for room 50 in my best schoolboy French.

Hotel also offer a free beech towel service which we used.

All in all an excellent break - the restaurant to avoid is called Le Stanley, in the square closest to the sea on the left hand side of the square from the bottom - looked great but when we asked for a translation of 4 items (we spoke enough French to understand the other 20..) all the staff lost interest, kept us waiting, pretended not to hear or understand us - it was a total disgrace, my wife was almost in tears - worst eating experience ever in any country. Hope you get the message. Avoid at all costs if you are British - the German family next to us were served OK even though they asked similar questions. They were embaresed for us.

My wife and I chose this hotel on the strength of Trip Advisor comments; we went to Menton for our 20th wedding anniversary and stayed four nights. The staff were unfailingly helpful, polite and, joy, able to speak good English! The hotel is very clean and our "side sea view" room gave us a good view of the sea and mountains. The room was well appointed and comfortable with a huge range of TV channels available. Breakfast was good value, served in the very pleasant lobby/terrace area of the hotel.
The railway station was less than a ten minute walk away and the town centre is nearby. There's a good bakers just over the road!
I'm a fussy user of hotels but I couldn't find fault in any way with the Princess and Richmond and recommend it without hesitation; the staff and the venue make this a number one choice.

We were thrilled with the warm welcome at the Hotel Princess & Richmond in Menton, France. Jean-Marc, at the reception desk, was friendly and kind and helpful. He got our whole stay in France off to a good start.
The rooms and bathrooms en-suite were spotlessly clean and well decorated, and the view from our balconies was fabulous. The little rooftop garden with a cool spa was a great place to lounge and look over the Mediterranean.
The hotel is furnished in good taste, is well-located to explore the French Riviera, the Maritime Alps, and Italy. From our balcony, we could see the lights of the French Riviera to the right, and the lights of Italy to the left.

We were thrilled with the reasonable price, also. I would recommend this hotel very highly, and will definitely stay there again.

Chosen this hotel according to the reviews on this site...and it is indeed very nice. Very clean and modern rooms. We had a mountain view room, which obviously doesnt have the nice view as the sea view rooms but we weren't in the room a lot anyway.
The room is soundproof from the busy road behind it. The location of the hotel is good and within 10min walking you are in the center...nice walk along the sea.

We took the option of the carpark from the hotel. It's 7,5 Euro's a day and you are safely parked underground. Along the street there are free spots anyway but think in july and august that would be different.

We did not take the breakfast in the hotel and that worked out perfect. There are loads of lovely little bakeries in town where you can pick all kind of sandwiches and crossaints. You'll spend only 10 euro for two and is very nice.

We also took our lunch at "the boss" just down the road from the hotel..again thanks to this site..indeed very nice food and reasonable price...can recommend the "big boss" omelet!

The sun terrace on the roof is nice. Guess there are around 10 chairs. The only downside is that the jacuzzi is underneath a roof...and that's straight away the only negative thing i can find about this hotel...

Best regards

Martijn