# Kid-friendly places in Nice

33 listed places in Nice: 15 playgrounds and things to do, 8 hotels, 6 restaurants and 4 cafés. Each lists high chairs, changing tables, kids' menus and wheelchair access where known.

Last updated 2026-10-21, from the newest confirmation among these places.

## Narrower lists

- [Kid-friendly restaurants in Nice](https://ourplayday.com/france/nice/restaurants) (6)
- [Kid-friendly cafés in Nice](https://ourplayday.com/france/nice/cafes) (4)
- [Family-friendly hotels in Nice](https://ourplayday.com/france/nice/hotels) (8)
- [Playgrounds and things to do with kids in Nice](https://ourplayday.com/france/nice/playgrounds) (15)
- [Places with high chairs in Nice](https://ourplayday.com/france/nice/with-high-chairs) (4)
- [Places with a changing table in Nice](https://ourplayday.com/france/nice/with-changing-tables) (5)
- [Restaurants with a kids' menu in Nice](https://ourplayday.com/france/nice/with-kids-menu) (4)
- [Wheelchair and stroller accessible places in Nice](https://ourplayday.com/france/nice/wheelchair-accessible) (8)
- [Hotels with cribs in Nice](https://ourplayday.com/france/nice/with-cribs) (5)
- [Hotels with a pool in Nice](https://ourplayday.com/france/nice/with-a-pool) (6)
- [Hotels with a separate bedroom in Nice](https://ourplayday.com/france/nice/with-a-separate-bedroom) (4)

## Places

1. [Promenade du Paillon](https://ourplayday.com/places/promenade-du-paillon) (playground, Nice). A 30-meter wooden whale big kids climb inside, dolphins and a turtle for the younger ones, and a water mirror with 128 jets to cool off in.
2. [Residhome Nice Promenade](https://ourplayday.com/places/residhome-nice-promenade) (hotel, Nice). Studios and one-bedroom apartments with full kitchens and private balconies, a panoramic sun deck, and the beach a three-minute walk away.
3. [Hyatt Regency Nice Palais de la Méditerranée](https://ourplayday.com/places/hyatt-regency-nice) (hotel, Nice). An Art Deco palace on the Promenade des Anglais since 1929, behind a listed facade, with a casino still inside.
4. [Lou Balico](https://ourplayday.com/places/lou-balico) (restaurant, Nice). Socca, petits farcis and merda de can from a family kitchen in its third generation since 1979, with books and games for kids on request.
5. [Novotel Suites Nice Airport](https://ourplayday.com/places/novotel-suites-nice-airport) (hotel, Nice). Spacious suites, a guest washer and dryer, and the tram that runs to the airport terminals and Parc Phoenix.
6. [AC Hotel Nice](https://ourplayday.com/places/ac-hotel-nice) (hotel, Nice). On the Promenade des Anglais, with a rooftop bar and restaurant serving tapas and Mediterranean food with a panoramic view.
7. [Casa Nissa](https://ourplayday.com/places/casa-nissa) (restaurant, Nice). Local dishes and Italian cooking on a 30-seat terrace, with coloring kits for kids.
8. [Hotel Beau Rivage](https://ourplayday.com/places/hotel-beau-rivage-nice) (hotel, Nice). A sea-view apartment with two bedrooms for up to six, in the hotel where Matisse and Chekhov stayed, near the Cours Saleya market.
9. [La Pizza Cresci](https://ourplayday.com/places/la-pizza-cresci) (pizzeria, Nice). Pizzas from a wood-fired oven on full view since 1956, with a terrace on a pedestrian street and a brightly colored room upstairs.
10. [Le Plongeoir](https://ourplayday.com/places/le-plongeoir) (restaurant, Nice). Tables on a rock in the sea, where Belle Époque guests once took tea on a boat perched six meters above the water.
11. [Le Riviera Collection, BW Signature Collection](https://ourplayday.com/places/riviera-collection-nice) (hotel, Nice). Family rooms are two connecting rooms behind their own private entry, with a balcony, a family activity booklet, and board games and coloring for kids.
12. [Castle Hill](https://ourplayday.com/places/colline-du-chateau) (attraction, Nice). A lift up to the old castle's ruins, a waterfall, and a lookout 92 meters above Nice with views across the Baie des Anges.
13. [Clay](https://ourplayday.com/places/clay-nice) (café, Nice). Brunch all day: pancakes, French toast, rösti and an açaí bowl, with ube and matcha lattes.
14. [Hotel Le Negresco](https://ourplayday.com/places/hotel-negresco) (hotel, Nice). A pink dome, a collection of art and rare furniture from the Louis XIV era to today, and the hotel's own private beach.
15. [Nice Étoile](https://ourplayday.com/places/nice-etoile-kids) (attraction, Nice). More than 100 shops, cafés and restaurants right on the tram line, with strollers to borrow at the welcome desk.
16. [Parc Phoenix](https://ourplayday.com/places/parc-phoenix) (garden, Nice). Over 2,000 animals, a small farm with goats and pigs, and a pyramid greenhouse holding six tropical climates, one of the tallest in Europe.
17. [Archaeology Museum of Nice Cimiez](https://ourplayday.com/places/musee-archeologie-cimiez) (museum, Nice). Ruins of a Roman town, with its amphitheater, public baths and stone streets, beside a museum of finds and workshops for kids 7 and up.
18. [Confiserie Florian](https://ourplayday.com/places/confiserie-florian) (attraction, Nice). A candy maker since 1921 making candied fruit, crystallized violets and chocolate, with tastings and a look at clementines being glazed.
19. [Musée des Arts Asiatiques](https://ourplayday.com/places/musee-arts-asiatiques) (museum, Nice). Kenzo Tange's white marble and glass building on an artificial lake, free, with origami and calligraphy workshops for kids 6 and up.
20. [Musée Matisse](https://ourplayday.com/places/musee-matisse-nice) (museum, Nice). Nearly 600 works and the artist's own belongings in a Genoese villa in an olive grove, with family art workshops from age 4.
21. [Nice Observatory](https://ourplayday.com/places/observatoire-nice) (science center, Nice). Guided tours of a hilltop observatory under a dome designed by Gustave Eiffel, the largest moving dome in Europe. Free under 6.
22. [Novotel Nice Centre Vieux Nice](https://ourplayday.com/places/novotel-nice-centre-vieux-nice) (hotel, Nice). A seventh-floor rooftop pool, direct access to the Promenade du Paillon, and coloring books, games and a small welcome gift for kids.
23. [Train des Merveilles](https://ourplayday.com/places/train-des-merveilles) (attraction, Nice). A mountain railway up the Roya valley through 81 tunnels, three of them spiraling, and over the 300-meter Rivoira viaduct, with on-board commentary on some trips.
24. [Bocca Nissa](https://ourplayday.com/places/bocca-nissa) (restaurant, Nice). Tapas and Mediterranean cooking in the old town, with a planted rooftop of 250 square meters up top.
25. [Edmond Café](https://ourplayday.com/places/coffee-shop-edmond) (café, Nice). Good coffee and pastries, with no full meal for kids to sit through.
26. [Fenocchio](https://ourplayday.com/places/fenocchio) (ice cream shop, Nice). More than 96 flavors of ice cream, with violet, tomato-basil and Swiss chard pie among them, made since 1966.
27. [Fnac Nice](https://ourplayday.com/places/fnac-nice-kids) (attraction, Nice). Four floors of books, music, vinyl, video games and electronics on Avenue Jean Médecin.
28. [Galeries Lafayette Nice Masséna](https://ourplayday.com/places/galeries-lafayette-nice) (attraction, Nice). Five floors of fashion, accessories and beauty behind red-ochre Turin-style arcades, with a kids' space on level 2 and a restaurant looking over Place Masséna.
29. [King Jouet Nice](https://ourplayday.com/places/king-jouet-nice) (attraction, Nice). A straightforward toy store is handy for birthday gifts, beach toys or a rainy day rescue purchase.
30. [Librairie Masséna](https://ourplayday.com/places/librairie-massena) (attraction, Nice). A large local bookstore is a good place to pick up French picture books or something for the flight home.
31. [Marinette Kitchen](https://ourplayday.com/places/marinette-kitchen) (café, Nice). Pancakes, eggs and the familiar brunch plates everyone recognizes.
32. [Peixes](https://ourplayday.com/places/peixes) (restaurant, Nice). Ceviche, carpaccio and other small seafood plates with a Mediterranean and South American mix, in a little bistro tiled in blue and white.
33. [Terra Amata Museum](https://ourplayday.com/places/terra-amata) (museum, Nice). Built where early humans camped 400,000 years ago, with some of the oldest hearths known, a footprint, a milk tooth and a prehistoric floor cast you can touch.

## About this list

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