Grand Hotel Beauvau Vieux-Port

Location and History

This stylish, well-run, centrally located boutique-hotel cuts a deep moat around the competition and cements Accor's domination of the market in Marseille.

Siblings Mercure, Novotel and Sofitel have staked out their prospective corners around the old port, yet these brands' crisp modernism and commercial overtones give this traditionalist plenty of room to thrive.

Nestled at the busy east end of the old harbor, eyeing the bustling corniche and port's bobbing masts and ferries, this is a perfectly positioned lodge for tourists, and the restored, five-story neoclassical facade hints at the period-inspired fashions within.

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