Antibes

Antibes is one of the main hubs for the yachting industry. Many aspiring yachties fly to Antibes to find their first position and seasoned yachties tend to return to Antibes in between jobs and at the end of the season. All the main crew agencies are located right by the dock and it is also in the centre of the French Rivera, only a train ride away from all the major ports along the coast of the south of France, Italy and Spain. 

There are a number of crew houses, which are cheap hostel like, affordable places for yachties to stay. They enable an easy way to meet other yachties and provide the opportunity to make contacts in the industry, through living with like minded individuals. 

A few of the crew houses in Antibes include:

The Crew Grapevine

The Crew House

Amma's Crew House

Backpackers House

I spent a couple of weeks in Amma's crew house as well as staying in a number of Airbnb's with different groups of friends I made in Antibes, which worked out to be very affordable once split equally between us. 

Antibes has a number of bars which are hot spots for yachties in the area. The most well known spots to visit where it I highly likely to bump into others that work on yachts are Le Blue Lady Pub, a very well known venue selling English pub food along with a full English breakfast. The Hop Store, an Irish Bar which has live music and DJ's. Happy Face and Drinkers are also very popular with the seating spilling out onto the street.