scot1

ok ryanair are staring flights from prestwick to marseille.been in france lots but heard v.contadictory reports on marseille.any advice??

mpprh

Hi

I visit Marseille fairly often.

The rumours of drug fuelled violence must be from some bygone age.

It is a good base for visiting Provence, the Calanques, etc.


Peter

kevin_widrow

wholeheartedly agree with peter.

it's a big city - which means the problems of any big city - but the setting, energy, good food, museums, etc. make it more than worth a visit.

-Kevin

kappa

To me Marseille is not only the city I fairly like but also the Marseille regions including the calanques that I adore(mentioned above by mpprh). I too hesitated for a long time to travel to Marseille but thanks to the opening of the direct TGV line Geneva-Marseille, finally I discovered the city and the calanques in September 2004. Since then I've been there 4 times, each time to hike on the calanques between Marseille and Cassis. I will be there again in 2 weeks (you can tell I don't hate Marseille, can't you?). Without calanques, probably I will not visit Marseille that often. Actually I use Marseille (and Cassis)as the base to visit different calanques every day. If you are wondering what the "calanques" look like, the folloings are the photos I took last month. They are of the calanques of Sugiton and Morgiou.

http://photobucket.com/albums/c294/k...c%202005/?sc=3

Underhill

What surprised us about Marseille is that it's a "white" city, like San Francisco before all the ugly high-rises sprang up and blocked the view of the older, whiter buildings. We really enjoyed our too-short time in Marseille and plan to return some day.

scot1

i have booked a campsite for cote d'azure for a week in april so will fly to marserille & spend 3 days there before hiring a car to frejus. any hotel recs?