Stayed on the port and was able to wake up to the beautiful views of the port for 2 days. The area…read moreitself during the holiday season was decorated beautifully and the walk was very nice and not too chilly. They have many restaurants and hotels in the area and if you continue to walk out the port area, they have some good shopping and churches to visit. Marseille also has a double decker hop on hop off tour.

Strolled along the waterfront admiring the tourist vendors, fish mongers, brassieres, seafood…read morerestaurants @ tourists. FroM here we had views of churches & passing tour buses.

Large shopping mall on the port - underground parking- food court and nice selection of stores…read more There is access to an outdoor terrace in the port side - fabulous views of the sea and ferries... Apple Store is amazing!

I came here on a Wednesday evening in August around 5 PM to do some shopping and to visit the…read moreterrasse. The mall was very conveniently located, easily accessible by metro (and by foot, if you're staying in the Joliette area). I entered via an entrance to the food court and a security guard had to pass a wand over me and check my bag before I could continue on. The mall is pretty large and had a lot of the stores I was looking for, including Pull & Bear, Zara, and H&M (I had underpacked for my trip and needed to buy some inexpensive clothes). The stores were reasonably busy given it was a weeknight. I finished my visit by going up to the terrasse; there were clear signs in the mall pointing to the direction of the terrasse. There was a lovely view, especially since the weather was nice. Even if you're not interested in shopping, I would definitely pay the mall a visit to go up to the terrasse, as it's a nice (and free) view.

We had the most awful experience with this car park on Aug. 14, 2018. Our car was vandalized--a…read morepanel on the bumper where fog lights would go if we had them in that place was stolen. We discovered it after we left the garage, called them and were told to come back. Once there, the guy in the office who had no uniform or identification tag (we wondered later whether he was an actual employee) told us that vandalism of our car is not their business and we need to go to police. He refused to tell us where to find the police--and it is not that easy in downtown Marseille--or what the procedure is, or to help us in any way. When we asked his name, he said he had none and that there was nobody responsible for the garage besides him, and then he got violent and physically assaulted my wife when we asked again who he was. The person at the headquarters we called the next day was of no help either and told us that we should go back to the garage because "the agent there can advise us on how to proceed." This suggests that the agent was at least theoretically expected to be helpful because otherwise they could have advised us over the phone to go straight to police. All this while the QPark site advertises that they have video surveilllance everywhere, implying it is a safe place, not to say they charge more than most other garages. We did report the incident (both the theft and the assault) to the police and submitted a message on the QPark France website, but (unsurprisingly?) we've heard nothing from them. Anyway, avoid QPark in Vieux Port if you can help it.