Why it matters

In summer, parking is the quiet test of any day on the Cap. Port Gallice car park answers it well. It sits inside the port enclosure at the marina entrance, on Boulevard Edouard Baudoin, a short walk from the Juan-les-Pins beaches, the Pinède Gould and the start of the Cap itself.

The essentials

• 500 spaces, including six for people with reduced mobility
• Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• First 30 minutes free
• Automatic pay machines taking cash and card
• CCTV and a security agent on site

For longer stays

Visiting yachtsmen and tourists can ask the port office for 24-hour and weekly packages, and year-round berth-holders at Port Gallice are offered a preferential subscription, limited to one card per vessel. Rates and subscriptions are published by the port.

Make an outing of it

Leave the car and explore the port on foot. Port Gallice is a garden-port, planted with Mediterranean trees, with a lookout on the large jetty, a rooftop terrace, and La Crique, a straw-roofed snack bar and restaurant on the beach known for its pan bagnat. The fishermen's morning sale at Port du Croûton is a few minutes away.

Staffed hours

The port lists staffed hours by season: 7am to 7pm from May to June and in September, 7am to 9pm in July and August, and 7am to 6pm from October to April.