The Babel Community “Vieux Port”
Marseille 🗺️ in France 🇫🇷
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since 2021, offering:
Hybrid coliving and coworking residences — places where you can live, work, eat, play sports and (above all) meet!
Comprises 168 apartments and studios.
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Just ok/not all that clean/needs a kettle/previous tenant dirty plates & laundry/electricity turned off too early. Balcony was nice/bed comfortable.
All I can say is ‘this was just ok’. First impression, the corridors were strangely lit (too bright strip lighting) and smelt horrible. The room had mod-cons like fully electric curtains & lighting & air-con that were all controlled by a control panel on the wall. The bed was comfortable. The balcony was nice.
The room was not cleaned all that well. Dirty floors and toilet. The dishwasher was full of the previous tenants dirty items. The washing machine/dryer was full of the previous persons laundry.
The only option for hot drink was a Nespresso coffee machine. But I only needed hot water, so I tried to use the machine to give me hot water for a tea. I flushed it out 6 times and still the murky, brown liquid that came out was not good for making tea. I don’t know why there couldn’t just have been a kettle provided. It’s definitely cheaper than a nespresso coffee machine and any of the Nespresso drink pods you have to buy.
There are only ‘tiny’ glasses and cups to use, (I don’t know why there can’t be average size items to drink from). There were no tea-towels, (so we couldn’t dry any items).
To top it all off, on the final day (bearing in mind that check-out is at 11:00). The apartment electricity supply was turned off at ~09:00! This meant that the curtains could open. Lights wouldn’t switch on. Internal bathroom/toilet in pitch black. I couldn’t wash my hair as the hairdryer wouldn’t work. The air-con went off so the room got stuffy. I couldn’t charge my phone. (This may explain why, like us, the dishwasher wasn’t put on by the pervious tenant!)
We went to the rooftop bar for an afternoon drink. The bar staff men were very friendly. The server lady was a bit rude. We decided not to go back there.
Overall impression, it was ‘ok’, (we’ve stayed in worse places), but we probably wouldn’t stay here again.
Good morning,
I need to change the location to republic. I was sure that I can use both of them. As manager at veux port said so. But it’s impossible and I love near republic. Could you please help me to do it as I just bought my monthly pass.
I’m okay to pay extra in case the price is different.
Thank you very much!
Check-in was super convenient, the location is great, and the rooms offer ok value for money. Hands down, the rooftop is the absolute highlight of this building, and we loved having breakfast there. The co-working spaces are nice, though a bit small, and the AC could be improved (it was super hot there). However, the overall atmosphere of the building was a disappointing. Dark floors, rundown and smelly staircases, and limited interaction with service staff made the experience much less welcoming. We would have appreciated a more inviting and community-oriented vibe.
I do not recommend this place to rent for long or short stay. From the first moment we had a bad experience. Our DOUBLE ROOM was not ready when we arrived at our CHECK-IN time, and we were 20 minutes late. Spacious and nicely designed. It had NO HAIR DRYER (as it said in the description of the amenities) and the AIR CONDITIONING DID NOT WORK WELL. In reality it was an air conditioner but it did not work well, there were times when the little air that was blowing was not enough to cover a 4x4 room. We had to sleep every night with the window open and wait for the air to cool down a bit in the early morning when the temperature dropped. Some technicians came to check the air-conditioning system (twice), one of them woke us up at 8 am, without prior notice. And worst of all, they took us as fools saying that the device was working and that the room was cool, after having spent the whole night with the window open letting in the cool outside. Very bad attention, very few workers to highlight that have been friendly. BATHROOM, no hanger to hang towels. They never came to change or offer to change sheets or towels (our stay was 5 nights) .KITCHEN, equipped just enough and nice (when we settled in the dishes were being washed in the dishwasher, we did not have to use at the time a glass or cup) .BREAKFAST, normal, to my taste lacked some options, such as including some vegetable milk, eggs or toast. TERRACE, beautiful view and where breakfast is served. DESIGN OF THE ELEVATOR HALLWAYS, horrible. A lot of unnecessary light and the smell of sewage. GYM, small but good, some music would be nice to accompany the exercise.
Had a wonderful experience! The location was incredible and the staff were tremendously friendly and helpful. The room itself was super spacious - it was minimalist, but that was perfect for my one-night stay
Rooms are very clean. The staff is amazing and very friendly. Perfect location.
I recommend and will come back
Great experience.
I had a fantastic experience with the Babel community. Abdi Salam, one of the staff members, was incredibly welcoming and helpful. The staff's hospitality, combined with the inclusive and engaging community, made my time enjoyable and memorable. I highly recommend Babel 🌟
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