"Upon check-in our reservation could not be located (2nd time this happened. 2 different stays within 2 years and 2 different ways of being treated). Somehow under my mom's name this time, which I put her name on the 2nd room in the event she needed to get re-keyed. We were asked condescendingly if we booked at the Novotel next door!
Told me to go on app to figure out name change as she couldn't do it but in the app, name on res was correct but never resolved. Garbage wasn't removed daily, coffee wasn't replenished daily, noticed the room may not have been vacuumed daily as there were crumbs still on the carpet. Was also never told about the welcome drink for the one room but happened to see it in the app the last night we were there.
It would have been nice to feel like the reception staff was trying to make some effort but that was far from the case. Asking if we had made our reservations at the Novotel next door instead, not seemingly willing to help resolve the name on the reservation and told me to figure it out myself on the app and was just not very welcoming at all. When we had the similar issue the first time (not finding the reservation), we were at least treated nicely by someone that had a pulse and smiled (that first issue was because of a change in reservation system upgrade but was eventually located and resolved).
Don't recall names but concierge and valet staff were great as were the turndown service crew.
Common areas of hotel seemed fine. Room was not emptied of trash daily and vacuuming was missed on a day or 2 in the rooms as noticed by crumbs still on the carpet.
This particular stay was downgraded on this trip primarily because of our check-in experience. The young lady had pulse of a jellyfish and did not seem willing to make any effort. We stay in hotels 100+ nights a year so this was quite disappointing. We brought my mom and her sister to Marseille to this particular property since we had stayed before and it was great, minus the difficulty finding our reservation (they've been wanting to go for years) so they could enjoy the spa area (they're older and we didn't know if they wanted to venture out or stay in). We've stayed at the Grand Hotel Beauvau Vieux-Port (same chain) which is an excellent location... Maybe a lower tier but great service. Only reason we didn't go back was because of the AC, but hindsight, this is where we should've booked
Adding review here as there was no response from the hotel regarding this particular stay."
