Petit Train Touristique

I mistakenly thought this was a hop on hop off affair. Turns out it had a single stop, and then after you walk around, they pick you back up. One route does a city tour, the other goes up to Notre Dame which is on top of a hill. It was 8€/person.

Perhaps not the greatest value, but I didn't think it was excessive for a pleasant drive along the water and then long climb to Notre Dame. As much as we enjoy walking around and exploring, the hill is steep and long.

A train picks you up in the same parking lot as you are dropped off. Their schedule when we did it was about every 10 minutes as there were a lot of people. Try to sit with skinny people as the 4 across bench is tight.

I would say that this is a pretty good deal in town. In Paris, a short train ride up to sacre core (sic) costs more. For about 8 euros a person, they provide a one hour plus tour of the city of Marseilles where you get beautiful scenic views of the city and coastline. You also climb up this steep hill to get to the cathedral. I would not want to climb up this hill myself.

It was pretty straightforward and comfortable. The only issue I had was that they kind of rush you to come back. You can only explore the cathedral for 20 min. The climb up the stairs will take you 5-10 min alone. We wanted to take a later train but the staff said to not risk it since there might not be another one. However, we saw that another train was waiting by the side as we drove down. What a missed opportunity to stay longer. Had they communicated better between trains, we could have done this.

Great tourist attraction for the whole family!

Grandparents get a break from walking, little kids can nap, everyone enjoys the view and multilingual recorded narration.

We took the route up to the Norte same church on the hill. Good views there although I'm generally not a fan of churches as tourist attractions. Make sure to use the elevator for little kids or elderly.

Not everyone follows proper queuing procedure when leaving the church on the return trip, but there should be plenty of room.

It's rare for me to get on a tourist train of any kind normally, but, in this instance we decided to use it. As Marseille is quite a hilly city it kind of makes sense. We did both routes, red and green. The red route is in the old city and green route takes you to the Notre Dame up the hill.

I wish we did not do the city tour as, we could have easily walked it ourselves. We love exploring cities by walking around and the trip was a total waste, considering how short it was. They drop you off for 30 mins at Rue de Panier and you are kind of stuck there for a while. The one going to the Notre Dame drops you off at the church and picks up twenty mins later. This is worth doing or, you can hop on the number 60 bus at Point Vieux and get up to the cathedral for about €1.90 ;-))

They pack you in 4 to a row and I am sorry it's not comfortable when you are in the back row with three others packed in. I would recommend this trip for the Notre Dame but not for the city tour. You can do that yourself without spending any money ;-))

All in all an ok experience and I am unlikely to take such tours again :-) walking is a great way to explore European city and getting lost in the laneways is part of the fun :-))) you also discover some amazing places in the process :-)))

It's €7 and €8 for the trips per person. I would say taking public transport might be cheaper however, you would have to up with some rude French along the way, like we did. Pets are generally not allowed on Public transport from what I hear and, a few people were quite rude to us on the bus.

We took the train tour that went to Notre-Dame de la Garde. There is a ticket booth at the harbor where the trains leave from. It was about a half hour ride through town and then up to the Basilica, where you can stay and catch a train later.... although you may have to wait in line for a train. My recommendation for best picture taking is to sit on the right side of the train.

My only reservation in recommending this ride is that the employees were trying to fit too many people in each row of the train and it was definitely not well received by the passengers.!!!

Cost was 8 euros.

Skip this, it is a rip off. You are forced off the train at the cathedral even if you do not want to get off. They do not tell you this when you board the train and we speak French. Then you have to wait for another train to return. The crowd is huge waiting to leave. The seating is not assigned but they will not let you sit where you want to. It was awful and not worth the money.