City Residence Marseille

Honestly, it depends on what kind of a trip you want to have. Location: If you’re up to walking a lot/using public transportation for at least an hour or using taxi services that will cost you a lot, it’s a good location but its quite far from the center, the beach and the old port. We had to use uber/bolt and each trip cost around 11-16 euros. Our room: The room and bathroom were overall clean but we discovered that our pillow covers had brown stains on them underneath. The room was provided with a fan but it either wasn’t strong enough or it was just too hot in Marseille. It was unbearably hot in there. Obviously no AC. Deposit: Upon arrival you’re asked to deposit money (in our case, 70€) for potential coverage of furniture damage, smoking in the room or other issues. After check-out it will return to you if there were no problems in the room. This has never happened to me before and there was no indication in the booking details that i would have to deposit this money. It would’ve been nice to know in advance. Keep in mind that there’s no 24/7 reception, so if you arrive a bit early there’s usually no one to either check you in or leave your baggage with. The reception lady was very nice though :)

The accommodation and staff were amazing but the area that surrounded it was horrendous empty smashed up building yards littered all Round live rats running around and dead ones and the smell coming from these decaying buildings was not very good Aldo nowhere in the brochure or accomodation website did it say that the area was full of midges as we say in Scotland