| From: JW, United Kingdom |
| Date of Stay: August, 2008 |
| Started bad with a dingy room we were offered not what you want after travelling we were however offered an alternative at a push not that much better told the hotel was for business people? do they just put up with anything!if it had not been for the breakfast and the good morning welcome we would have classed this as one of our worst stays |
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| From: Reviewer has requested to be kept anonymous. |
| Date of Stay: July, 2008 |
| Very good hotel for the price! |
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| From: Victoria Smith, United Kingdom |
| Date of Stay: August, 2008 |
| Great hotel in the heart of the old port. Easy to get to restaurants etc. Only stayed the night to be near airport and was going to use taxi then shuttle bus from station but a helpful taxi driver took us to airport for same price as the two combined prices. For 3 of us ( with large suitcases)it worked out well. |
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| From: Lesley Calvert, Australia |
| Date of Stay: June, 2008 |
| This had the smallest bathroom we have ever seen but it was functional. Room also very small but the hotel was in a great location with relation to the port and all its attractions.Very helpful information centre just around the corner. A fair walk to the train station but we did it twice! Breakfast expensive- coffee shops nearby. |
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| From: VY, Belgium |
| Date of Stay: May, 2008 |
| A nice hotel in the heart of the old city. It gives good opportunities for walking routes, taking a boat to the Calanques of Casis and other scenery places. Near by there are a few good fish restaurants and the personnel of the hotel will give you enough guidance to find them. The guys and girls there were very friendly, speaking lots of languages, which is quite useful for international travelers. The hotel is 100 meters away from the metro station. The GPS (TomTom) found the hotel immediately. Down sides: (1) There is no parking lot owned by the hotel, but there are several public underground parkings (Vinci parks), which are not very expensive and are safe. However, if you do not want to carry your bags from the parking to the hotel (5 min walk) you will have to stop on the street and quickly drop your stuff at the hotel as there is no place to park stop in front of the door. (2) It is an old building and the elevator was added later, which did not allow it to go to the reception floor. You must climb a few stairs to reach it, but personnel recognizes that and is helpful with the baggage. (3) The rooms on the side of the street are very noisy until late in the night if you keep the window open. If it closed, then you do not have a problem as soon as the central airco is already switched on. (was not in early May) We recommend this hotel for a short stay with the idea of discovering the city. |
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| From: GS, Australia |
| Date of Stay: August, 2007 |
| The hotel is not easy to find. The entrance to the street looks like a footpath, not a road! If you miss it there are lots of one way streets and it is hard to get back to where you want to be! The hotel though was fantastic, in a great location and we had a lovely stay. |
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| From: Christopher Sugden, United Kingdom |
| Date of Stay: August, 2007 |
| Excellent location for the best part of Marseille. Only downside was that there was a flight of stairs to climb before you reached the lift, a bit of a problem carrying cases. |
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| From: John Stirk, United Kingdom |
| Date of Stay: October, 2006 |
| The location is excellent. Its right in the centre of the Old Port area, and the metro station is next to the hotel. We found the staff very helpful. The rooms were a little on the older side, but reasonably well maintained. Despite the central location there was no street noise although from our room it was possible to hear the elevator. |
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| From: ZL, USA |
| Date of Stay: September, 2006 |
| This is one of the best budget hotels I have stayed at so far. The hotel has several strengths - extremely well located (just a minute of walk from the metro station) in a great area of Marseille; friendly and English-speaking staff is helpful; and the room is very clean and quiet, which is something I always look for. This is definitely a hotel I would stay at the next time I visit Marseille! |
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| From: Bobbie Hook, USA |
| Date of Stay: June, 2006 |
| The staff was very friendly, and many of them spoke English. The common areas were nicely maintained. Our hotel room was small, even for French hotel standards. The carpet was stained and dirty, as were the walls. We discovered after showering that the stains were from the shower pipes leaking under the bathroom tiles into the bedroom carpeting and extending almost into the hall. Hotel staff did not seem alarmed at this, or inclined to fix it in the near future. There was also no shower door or curtain, so the bathroom was always unpleasantly wet. Also, you should be made aware that the a/c temp is controlled by the hotel, and that it is turned off from 10am to 4pm. If you ask, they will turn it back on for you if you are in the room at that time. The hotel is in an area convenient to the port, nice restaurants, and tourist services. A good area, but I probably wouldn't risk another stay there after getting that particular room. |
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| From: SL, Canada |
| Date of Stay: October, 2005 |
| Other hotels, even hostel offer free internet uses, not this hotel, not only so, also charges so much; This is not a clean city, TOO many dog droppings on the sidewalks, I should say all over the sidewalks |
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| From: KL, Hong Kong |
| Date of Stay: July, 2005 |
| well located at city centre with tourist info round the corner and the old port closely nearby. |
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| From: NW, Australia |
| Date of Stay: October, 2004 |
| Rooms near the stairwell, can be noisy depending on number of people going up and down then at different times during the night. |
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| From: HL, Finland |
| Date of Stay: July, 2004 |
| Very nice location and good feelings. Ask for the rooms at backyard. Other rooms may be noisy sometimes. Showers were not that good but otherwise excellent location and quality vs. price. There is air conditioning too. |
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