[Football] How much did the Marseille cost you ? / Athens trip tips.

[Yes Chef]

Between £300-350. That's parking at Gatwick, flight, taxi from Montpellier airport to station, return train to Marseille, one-night's accommodation, match ticket, and food and drink (didn't really track this, but a decent guess I reckon).

You bought me lunch as well

 

[Bansko Seagull]

Train to Gatwick £27
Return flights Tuesday evening to Friday night £350
Metro / bus tickets £50
3 nights accommodation £190
Food and drink £75
Match tickets £60

This was for 2 of us

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

You bought me lunch as well

Money well spent.

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

Train to Gatwick £27
Return flights Tuesday evening to Friday night £350
Metro / bus tickets £50
3 nights accommodation £190
Food and drink £75
Match tickets £60

This was for 2 of us

Wait, you spent £75 for two people on food and drink over three days! Did you take a packed lunch or something?

 

[Live by the sea]

Really very helpful thank you all very much, definitely won't stay in a hotel as this seems to eat up quite a chunk of money and have started looking into the cheaper options, I've since found out £440 of the £1280 was on their hotel accommodation,I didn't know there was a Ritz in Marseille.

There aren’t many 5 star hotels in Marseille and it’s one of the cheapest cities in France to stay in if you look at bookings.com

I suspect its reputation precedes it . Too much crime

Even the intercontinental you can get for under £300 per night which is super good value for a hotel of that calibre .

 

[Bozza]

It should have been the following. Note: all car expenses were split four ways, so what I detail below is my quarter share.

Match Ticket - £27

LGW Parking - £11
LGW dinner - £20
Flight LGW - Geneva return - £63

Hire car incl. insurance - £36
Tolls - £17
Fuel - £25
Parking - £4

Uber to hotel - £5
Hotel - £45
Uber back to airport to get car - £3

Food and drink - £20

Total: £238

However, due to our hotel not having any rooms for us, I additionally spent:

Taxi to try and find another hotel - £15 (third share)
Hotel room - £53 (third share)

I'm expecting to get a refund back for the original hotel booking and, hopefully. some sort of contribution to the extra expenses paid out to find another room.

 

[dwayne]

Marseille 2 days

Luton to nice - 43
Nice to Heathrow - free (avios)

Train 65 return nice to marseille
Hotel 40 (half of 80)
Ticket 27
Taxis 30
Booze 70ish
Meals about 150 with a Michelin star lunch included. Very reasonable.

£425 .... not bad not bad at all. Especially as a week in St Tropez cost me nearly 7k a couple of months earlier !!

Amsterdam and Athens very cheap flights as I used avios again.

 

[S.T.U cgull]

Travel £250 + £40 for a taxi given train-strike
Hotel £90
I think I spent about £200 out there but I could well be mistaken by a bit up or down
£550 all in
Think the next one will be more!

 

[Official Old Man]

Marseille. Whatever it cost, which went up every day. Due to missing trains going out we had to rebook (3.5 hours to drive to St Pancras when we only allowed 2.5 hours).
Total each-
Trains - £400
Hotel - £250
Taxis - £60
Food & Drink - £100

Amsterdam. Driving so picking up a few cases of wine and cigs. Cost for two people splitting cost
Tunnel - £180
Fuel - £120
Hotel - £600
so £450 each plus food and drink.

Athens.
Taking the wife on holiday and booked a Tui 7 day holiday for £1100

 

[Albion in the north]

£45 return flight to Paris
£75 on TGV to marseille
€32 for a hostel in Marseille
£300 for 3 nights for 2 of us on the outskirts of Paris.
Plus food and maybe €40 on the Tram/Metro

 

[Albion in the north]

Amsterdam
£75 return flight from Manchester and €338 for 3 nights for 2 of us in a Hotel

 

[Live by the sea]

Marseille 2 days

Luton to nice - 43
Nice to Heathrow - free (avios)

Train 65 return nice to marseille
Hotel 40 (half of 80)
Ticket 27
Taxis 30
Booze 70ish
Meals about 150 with a Michelin star lunch included. Very reasonable.

£425 .... not bad not bad at all. Especially as a week in St Tropez cost me nearly 7k a couple of months earlier !!

Amsterdam and Athens very cheap flights as I used avios again.

Can I ask where you stayed in st Tropez ?

 

[Weststander]

Flight was around 200, hotel 300 for 3 nights, taxis approx 200 euros.....then there was my food and drinks bill.

About £5,000 then.
https://www.passiongastronomie.be/2015/07/le-petit-nice/

 

[Albion_Dave]

Share of short stay carpark at Gatwick £10
Return flight to Nice £68
Flixbus return to Marseille £19
Air BnB £50 for 2 nights
Match tickets £27
Total = £174

Food and drink a bit more so for the 3 days roughly £400

The enjoyment we had was priceless

 

[Driver8]

Return flights from East Midlands £100
Three nights at Meininger Hotel £200
Parking £70
Ticket £30
Food etc £150
Total £550

 

[Arkwright]

Far too much, but paid for travel and accommodation for all three.
So far managed to keep the bank statement away from my wife.

 

[Is it PotG?]

These trips can be as expensive and exotic as your wallet allows.

Early bookings and shrewd choices can make a mountain of difference.

Also depends if you want to post a photo of each course of your dining on social media.

Btw, there's a splendid Indonesian in Amsterdam, book early to avoid disappointment!

 

[Rowdey]

3.30am Taxi to HRW - £80
Thursday 6.30 Flight to Schiphol, then sharpish transfer onto Marseilles - £220
Taxi from airport to Joilette - £30
Lunch/pre game drinks 200m around corner from official dumping ground - £70
Game tix/in game drinks - 70
Ibis budget 1night - £60
9am Eurostar back to St Pancras - £180
New Oakley Ejector sunglasses that i bought at Schiphol , enjoyed for lunch/game time, but then left on TGV/Eurostar - 140
Thats (excl Sunnies) - £750 odd by time inc drinks/lunch on train etc..

And like other's, i would happily pay same/more to do it all again for next round of games.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Do we have the final cost of the Herr Tubthumper 5 star de-luxe luxury tour of Marseille's top gastronomic haunts?

[Drinking] - L'officiel Marseille rosé (and other food and drinks) thread

Just got home and now going out for dinner with Missus to tell her all about my adventure! I’m determined to eek another night out of this!

www.northstandchat.com

 

[Gwylan]

However, due to our hotel not having any rooms for us, I additionally spent:

Taxi to try and find another hotel - £15 (third share)
Hotel room - £53 (third share)

I'm expecting to get a refund back for the original hotel booking and, hopefully. some sort of contribution to the extra expenses paid out to find another room.

You're the third person who had trouble with a pre-booked room. Was it through booking.com? I'm trying to get a refund at the moment