2 night sin Hospital - and I liked it!

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Room 535
June 24, 2017 by EXPERT

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InterContinental Marseille - Hotel Dieu
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Now we come to the reason for the whole trip - I had to burn an Intercontinental free weekend night certificate!

 

My choice was Intercontinental Hotel Dieu Marseille as it´s one of the newer Intercontinentals with good reviews. The hotel was a hospital in the past and was transformed to a hotel.

 

I booked an Executive Suite what brought m a guaranteed and in advance confirmed upgrade to the Presidential Suite. Don´t know at which price they sell this suite (forget to ask but read 6600 $ in 2013). At 1200 € for 2 nights not the worst deal.....

 

The hotel is a landmark an can be seen from de la Garde

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Facade

 

 

 

 

 

At night

 

 

Check In

When we arrived we were fastly greated and the doormen escorted us to the front desk. Check-in was good, manager on duty introduced himself and we were give a tour through the property and our room. Definitively above average IC-standards.

 

Public spaces

They did a good job with the transformation, the hotel has character but is nevertheless modern.

 

View through the lobby:

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I liked the art on the wall

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Fresh flowers!

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Old staircase

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Terrace

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Room

The Presidential suite offers 156 sqm indoor space and a 80 sqm Terrace. It was designed by Jean-Philippe Nuel and is different in style from the other rooms.

I liked the floors at the hotel

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535 has a different entrance door from the other rooms, in fact it has 2 more at the pantry and the dressing room.

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The entrance with my the new favourite sofa of my company:

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Guest bathroom:

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View through the suite from the dining room:

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The dining/ conference room:

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The living room:

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Nice welcome gifts and flowers:

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Decoration

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Bedroom:

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View through the suite from bathroom

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Bathroom with a sofa

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Dressing area

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Toilet and shower

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Dressing room (little small for my lagguage, must take a bigger suite next time.......)

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The terrace - perfect to host as small group:

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The famous view to de la Garde and the harbour:

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The terrace is nicely eluminated at night

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The view at night

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Pool

The hotel offers also a pool. The pro: The pool is stylish and well done. Only thing I missed was a hot tub.

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Location

From the hotel it´s a 5 minutes walk to the harbour, so I would call it perfect.

Breakfast

As we used our voucher breakfast was not included. They charge 25,00 € for the buffet what is OK. It´s served at the main restaurant:

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Buffet itself offers many choices and was good. Not the best I have seen so far but solid

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I ordered an omelette what was OK

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Bar

One evening we had drinks at the bar. It´s stylish and it was very frequented. Our (non-alcoholic) cocktails were good.

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Dining

I had dinner once at their Michelin-starred restaurant but will do a separate post.

Last day we had room-service. Solid.....

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Overall

The IC Marseille is a good hotel and I guess by far the best option in Marseille. I can absolutely recommend it.

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