travel42 Hotel Review: Grand Hotel Beauvau Vieux-Port

Grand Hotel Beauvau Vieux-Port travel42 Professional Hotel Review

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...