Getting from Nice to Cannes / Cannes to Nice

VMworld Europe 2009 is only 1 week away, woohoo! I'm certainly getting pretty excited about it, so I thought I'd post up some info for anyone who is getting into Nice outside of the VMware provided bus times and travelling on their own dime or on restricted company dime (times are tough, I suspect most of us are lucky to be going at all).

The buses services around the Cote d'Azur are great - I've taken them a few times during various jaunts to the area and been amazed at what you get for a basic 1€ ticket. From Nice Airport, you have 2 options for buses - the 1€ Cannes RN7 (bus number 200, around 90mins journey time along the coast) or the ~15€ "Aeroport Express" (bus number 210, around 50mins journey time via the highway).

Here is a link to the timetable, route and departure location info for all buses departing from Nice Aeroport (might be worth saving the Bus 200 and Bus 210 pdf's to your phone / laptop / ipod). Below is a screeny from the Nice Aeroport website with some basic info on the Bus services to Cannes.



UPDATE Hit the comments for direct links to the Bus 200 timetable and route info PDF. Thanks Anonymous, and sorry to hear you won't be there.

VMworld Europe 2009 - "vinternals" Will _Not_ Be There...

... but Shyam and Stu from big-european-investment-bank-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-vinternals will be. Why am I saying this? Because it would be irresponsible of us not to have some dicussions with various vendors regarding their roadmaps and other potentially sensitive information during the course of the event. We completely understand that such discussions are not possible with media-blogger-types.

So to anyone out there who we do talk to, rest assured that the corporate non disclosure "cone of silence" will be in full effect, any information disclosed under NDA or the like will not make it's way into the public domain via us. We are _not_ attending VMworld as "vinternals", we are attending as responsible corporate citizens. At least while we're sober ;-)