The Babel Community “Vieux Port”
Marseille, France 🇫🇷 and 3 other locations
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a coliving community · since 2021
Hybrid coliving and coworking residences — places where you can live, work, eat, play sports and (above all) meet!
Comprises 168 apartments and studios. [–Ed.]
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I needed to stay one night, and it was a great choice. Fantastically located hotel with a rooftop restaurant. There’s a capsule coffee maker in the room, which is cute.
The view on Marseille from the 7 (?) storied building is amazing. You also get a voucher for a free drink here in your room.
Service and reception very friendly and welcoming.
Location is convenient at the city centre.
Problem is the price performance of the rooms. Super small, ugly room for this price is unreasonable.
A complimentary drink that turned into a very bad experience because of the rooftop manager:
We were staying at the hotel and went up to the rooftop to enjoy the complimentary drink that had been left in our room. They were opening for dinner, so we tried to ask if we could sit down. The manager looked straight at us and turned her back to avoid us and immediately started seating people who were lining up.
We asked another waiter, who told us that “the manager had to confirm.” Since she kept ignoring us, we sat down at a table. Then, one of the waitresses came over and told us we couldn’t sit there, that we hadn’t asked the manager (which we had tried to do), and that we could only sit in a separate area with no view.
We went to that area, and right then the manager seated a family at the exact table we had just been told to take. When we said it was meant for us, she looked at us with clear disdain, made the family get up, and finally let us sit down. It was incredibly uncomfortable.
After finishing our drinks, we tried to pay for the extra water, but no one would help us. We insisted multiple times. One waitress, who was just clearing empty tables, told us someone else would come. When we insisted and the manager finally appeared, we overheard the other waitress telling her in French that we were being a pain for her.
The whole situation was ridiculous—snobbish looks, total disorganization, and a complete lack of professionalism. The manager clearly has a serious attitude problem and should not be working in a customer-facing role.
Beautiful hotel on a beautiful street just a few blocks from Vieux Port Metro Station.
The rooms were brand new, a little bit small but a really comfy bed and good shower pressure.
Really welcoming and informative staff.
Amazing breakfast at the rooftop with an incredible view of Marseille.
Yogurts, pastries, eggs, bacon, brie, juices, coffee as you like it. It was incredible.
We actually came back that very same day to get a drink at the rooftop as well.
Nice place. We stayed for 3 days. Perfect location, polite personal, everything is clean and cozy. In the room we had free coffee, tea, water. I’m definitely recommend
The rooms are super small, and the wifi is not very steady. Bed is comfortable, and the rooftop is very pretty, but they close for restaurant only until 3pm. I tried just having a drink at the rooftop and they did not let me stay, saying that it was closed for people having a full meal until 3pm. If im staying in a hotel for the rooftop, i wanna be able to have a drink there, not just after 3pm! Also, the place was empty, so it wasnt like there wasnt a table available. They advertise a gym but its only a room with a couple yoga mats and punching bags. Overall, way too expensive for what they deliver, there are nicer places in the city for the same price!
THEY WILL REMOVE YOUR ACCESS AT 10:30PM LEAVING YOU STRANDED ON YOUR FIRST NIGHT. My boyfriend and I stayed here for a long weekend and it was one of the worst and strangest experiences we’ve ever had in an accommodation. DO NOT STAY HERE. Our first day in Marseille we’d check in and upon initial inspection the room was fine, but the shower drain had a horrible odor coming from it. We looked past it and left the room in the later afternoon to explore the city. We returned at 10:30pm and our key card did not work. Initially we believed the card had demagnetized in my purse so we called the contact number from our booking. It went straight to voicemail. We began to panic. We were about to spend the night on the floor of the lobby. A while later a woman came out of the door that led to the elevator bay and I jumped up to grab the door. After my boyfriend spoke with her in French, we learned she was a server at the rooftop restaurant and she was leaving her shift. She was able to get us into the elevator bay, onto our floor, and SHOCKINGLY, into our room. ALL STAFF (EVEN RESTAURANT) HAVE COMPLETE ACCESS TO YOUR ROOMS. She was extremely kind and helpful and took down our names and noted our key cards did in fact indicate this was our room. I am so grateful she had access and was willing to help us, but this raised a huge security issue. After a rocky nights sleep, we went down to the front desk to ask them to fix the card that we had thought we’d messed up. The women at the desk looked in the system and they had intentionally revoked our access the night before for no reason at all. When my boyfriend asked why and if they would be doing it again, they just assured us it wouldn’t and that was that. I still cannot believe how close we were to spending the night on the ground. While this was our biggest issue, there were others things that inconvenienced us as well. Our check out was at 11am but our train wasn’t until 4pm. We needed a place for our suitcases which they claimed to provide. They also claimed to be open from 7am to 9pm (or something similar to that, essentially all day). We left our room just before 11 and they were no where to be found. We figured it was a good idea not to leave our luggage anyway as we had noticed this bizarre and unexpected closure. There was a chance of them not being there for us to retrieve our luggage in time for the train if they had decided to randomly close the desk. DO NOT STAY HERE.
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