Palace State Apartments
Our first stop in Monaco was to head up to where the royal family lives, the Palace State Apartments . We got up there a little earlier than the palace opens. It turns out that our phones with our Europe sim cards did not work in Monaco, so we were navigating “data” blind. We walked around the top of Monaco while we waited for the palace to open. I recommend getting to the museum either right before it opens (so that you are first one in) OR come solidly after opening. We squeezed in right before three (seemingly) huge tour groups. The museum did give us audio guides. They were very thorough audio recordings. They also had the most awesome pronunciation of Monaco – something like maaan-a-co. The recordings covered lots of details about the room. Like the details about artist. We get to go through ten-ish rooms of the palace. No photographs. They had some paintings of Princess Grace Kelly and her kids....