Getting from Marseille Provence Airport to the hotel
Two ways of making this trip are documented below: a taxi from the rank in front of Terminal 1, and the airport coach towards Aix city centre. Every figure carries the date we checked it and a label saying where it came from, because a published fare, a distance we measured ourselves, and a fare nobody publishes are three different kinds of answer.
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Where your journey to the hotel begins.
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| Option | Fare | Journey | Walk to reception |
|---|---|---|---|
Taxi from the airport rank Airport taxi rank, Terminal 1 from Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) More from the operator: their own page | €60 day rate, estimate rather than a fixed price Verified Published by the operator or the airport. Source: the operator page we checked | Journey time not published no change of vehicle available through the night Verified Published by the operator or the airport. Source: the operator page we checked | Nothing to show. We have not measured the walk to the entrance for this option. |
Airport coach to Aix city centre (line A2) La métropole mobilité from Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) More from the operator: their own page | No fare on the page Not published as of The operator page exists and carries no such figure on that date. This is what we found, not what we failed to look for. Source: the page that does not carry it | 30 minutes one every 30 minutes no change of vehicle departures 05:35 to 00:25 no service in the small hours Verified Published by the operator or the airport. Source: the operator page we checked | 740 m about 10 minutes on foot from Aix-en-Provence bus station (gare routière) Measured Measured by us on the OpenStreetMap network, not published by anyone. Open the route and you get the same figure. |
Walk from the bus station from Aix-en-Provence bus station | Nothing to show. We have found no page that publishes a fare for this. | 10 minutes no change of vehicle Measured Measured by us on the OpenStreetMap network, not published by anyone. Open the route and you get the same figure. | 740 m about 10 minutes on foot Measured Measured by us on the OpenStreetMap network, not published by anyone. Open the route and you get the same figure. |
Distance from each starting point
| Starting point | Distance | Time | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|
Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) | 25.6 km | 30 minutes by road | Measured Measured by us on the OpenStreetMap network, not published by anyone. Open the route and you get the same figure. |
Aix-en-Provence TGV station | 15 km | 21 minutes by road | Measured Measured by us on the OpenStreetMap network, not published by anyone. Open the route and you get the same figure. |
Aix-en-Provence bus station | 0.7 km | on foot, see the table above | Measured Measured by us on the OpenStreetMap network, not published by anyone. Open the route and you get the same figure. |
Our reading of each option
Taxi from the airport rank
Our read, not the source's. We mark this as workable with large luggage on one criterion only: the trip has no walking segment and no change of vehicle, so suitcases stay in the car from the rank to the address. We have made no assessment for children or for groups, because we have found no first-hand statement about child seats or vehicle capacity.
Airport coach to Aix city centre (line A2)
We have not assessed this option for luggage, children, or groups. Doing that honestly needs a first-hand statement about hold space on the vehicle, and we have not found one.
Walk from the bus station
We have not assessed this walk for luggage, children, or groups. The measured route is a distance and a time on the map, and it says nothing about kerbs, crossings, or the state of the pavement, which is what those judgements would need.
Fares and timetables are set by the carriers, not by us. A figure here is a record of what an official source said on the date beside it, so check with the operator before you rely on it.
How to read the table
Each row is one way of covering the trip. Each column is one group of facts, and every group carries its own check date, its own source link and its own provenance label.
Four labels appear on this page. Read them as a ranking of how much weight a figure can bear.
Verified means the carrier or the airport publishes the figure on its own page. That is the strongest thing we can offer, and it is still only as good as the day we checked it.
Verified, city source means the figure comes from the official tourist office of Aix. The office speaks for the city with authority, but it is not the carrier, and it does not set fares or timetables.
Measured means we measured it ourselves on the OpenStreetMap network and nobody published it. The link opens the same route, so you can repeat the measurement and get the same number rather than take our word for it.
Not published as of is the label that most sites leave out. It means the operator's page exists, we opened it on the date shown, and the figure was not on it. An empty cell says nothing; a dated absence says quite a lot.
The taxi from Terminal 1
The rank sits directly in front of Terminal 1, and the airport states that it operates around the clock. There is no timetable to plan around and no change of vehicle on the way.
The fare in our table is the airport's own figure, and the airport is careful about how it describes it. The published amount is an estimate rather than a fixed price agreed in advance, and it excludes extras such as luggage and tolls.
That distinction matters more than it looks. A fixed price is something you can hold the driver to; an estimate is a guide that traffic and extras can move. Ask at the rank before you set off.
How long the drive takes is not published anywhere on the airport site. What we can give you instead is the road distance and a free-running drive time that we measured on the map, and you will find both in the distances table, labelled as ours rather than as the airport's.
The airport coach
The coach towards Aix runs every thirty minutes through the day, in both directions, seven days a week, and the airport publishes the first and last departures.
It travels under two different names, which is worth knowing before you look for it. The airport calls it line A2. The tourist office of Aix still calls it the shuttle 40, the name it carried before the network was reorganised.
Where it ends is the part that matters for the last stretch of your trip. The tourist office states plainly that the shuttle runs to its terminus at the Aix coach station, and that is the point we measured the walk from.
The fare is the gap. The airport page for this line carries a notice that fares changed and does not print the new one, so we have recorded that absence with the date and the link rather than leaving the cell blank.
We looked in the obvious other places on the same day. The carrier's own site would not complete a secure connection from our network, its parent operator returned a refusal we did not try to work around, and the regional fare page covers other services but not this one.
Arriving at the coach station
A separate row covers the walk from the Aix coach station to the hotel, because it answers a question of its own: you are standing at the terminus with a suitcase, and you want to know whether to walk.
Both the distance and the time in that row are measurements, not publications. They describe a route on a map, which is a poor guide to kerbs, crossings and the state of the pavement.
The same figures explain why the coach and the walk carry the same last-mile numbers. It is one stretch of pavement, measured once, shown in both places rather than quietly assumed.
Night arrivals
Late flights change the answer. The taxi rank runs through the night by the airport's own statement, while the coach has a last departure and a first departure with a gap in between.
Our time-of-day control reflects that. Set it to night and any option whose published timetable does not cover the small hours drops out of the table, with the reason shown rather than left to guess.
The fare also changes with the hour. The airport quotes a higher estimate at night than by day, and the table switches between the two figures with the control rather than making you do the arithmetic.
What we still do not have
The coach fare is the largest gap, and it is the one we would most like to close. Until the carrier or the airport prints the new amount, we will keep showing the absence rather than a number borrowed from a travel blog.
Nobody publishes a taxi journey time, so the only time figure we can offer for that trip is our own measurement, labelled as such.
We also have no verified option from the Aix-en-Provence TGV station. The distance from it is measured and shown, but a distance is not a timetable, and choosing that starting point in the control tells you plainly that we have nothing verified for it.
When any of those gaps closes, the figure will appear in the table with its source, its date and its provenance label, in the same shape as everything already there.
Checking any of this yourself
Every group of figures links to the page it came from, and every measurement links to the route that produced it. Follow either one and you have done in a minute what took us the afternoon.
If a source has moved on and our figure is stale, tell us. We recheck against the original, correct the value and update the date beside it, and we would rather hear it from you than leave a wrong fare standing.
Prices here are in euros because that is the currency of the place. We show no converted amount, since a conversion without the date of the rate is a number that quietly goes wrong.
Why this page exists
Anyone who has already chosen this hotel has three practical questions left: how to arrive, what it costs, and how long it takes. The booking pages answer none of them, because answering them is not what a booking page is for.
This page is our attempt at the answer, kept narrow on purpose. It covers the trip to one hotel in one city, from the points people actually arrive at, and it shows its working.
We take no bookings and earn nothing from your choice of transport. Reservations for the hotel itself are made on marriott.com.