Marseille Walking food and culture tour 3 hour Private tour

Posted By : mauramulligan
Amazing tour with Sophia. Great group on the tour and interesting food and some very nice wines. The weather was perfect and everyone in great form after the rugby match the previous evening. We won 🙌🏼
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Posted On : 2024-02-06 11:07:09

Posted By : _A7873RV
When we complained to the Marseille Tourist Office, they said our guide was known as "a man who guides a culinary tour and serves food from a thermos." It seems others had similar experiences.

There were a group of six French people, two German tourists, and two guide interns on the "3-hour walking food tour." I think one of the recent reviews might be from an intern pretending to be a tourist. The German girls are also upset about the poor quality of the tour and are in touch with us.


We started by drinking fish soup from a thermos, accompanied by poutargue, in the middle of a gallery where we felt out of place.



We couldn't get chickpea crepes because the place was closed, much to our guide's surprise. 


Then, our guide wanted us to drink anise liqueur from a thermos in front of the Opera when another place was closed.


In a desperate move, our guide led us to a dingy shop that sold cheese, fish, and meat together. The guide ordered one small cheese to share, plus whelks and chickpea chips that expired six months ago. We ate them because we were hungry.



It was only later that we noticed the chips' expiration date. When we pointed this out to our guide, she said that such items don’t spoil. After looking around, I noticed that there were a lot of expired items being sold in this shop. It seems like it might even specialize in selling such things.

We didn't finish the whelks, and the guide told to the shop owner that her son would pick them up later in the afternoon.


After two hours, we realized it was a scam and confronted the guide. We even called her boss, but he didn't want to talk to us.

The guide said there would be more to see and taste, so we followed, skeptical.

And rightly so. Our "grand finale" consisted of one bottle of wine, two baguettes, two identical cheeses, and some tapenade jars arranged haphazardly on a random bench.

Please refer to the attached photo of our pitiful picnic for eight.



In conclusion, this experience was not only disappointing but also a clear case of being scammed.
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Posted On : 2024-02-02 15:25:12

Posted By : I417KNlilyf
I attended a tour with a group of two Germans and six French people, as indicated on the site the tours can be done in several languages ​​so here we had French and German mixed since it was not a private tour. This really annoyed the French so there was a bad atmosphere from the start...
We tasted tapenade, an anchoidade, wine, whelk, pastis, two cheeses, soup, poutargue, rouille which is already 9 dégustations.
We visited the districts which hides the history of Marseille and its ships explained well by the guide , we also visited the Marché de Noaille, it is a place hidden from tourists which clearly shows the diversity in the history of Marseille.
Unfortunately at 2/3 of the tour the French were unsatisfied because they didn't have enough to eat, and stopped the tour to attack the guide instead of leaving (as they kept saying) they couldve asked for a refund or an explanation from the boss after the tour. Because of this the end of the tour was rushed with only half an hour left because we lost 30 min arguing
we were not able to visit the quartier du panier.
Unfortunately this all happened because of unsatisfied customers, which I can understand but dont ruin the experience for others please.
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Posted On : 2024-01-31 04:31:54

Posted By : I9159ENchrisp
My brother in law and I had a really fun tour with Laurent, who was v informative and genuinely cared about us learning about the fabulous city. Although not as much wine as we thought there would be.. we were provided with a great sample of food, snacks and drinks (much of which Laurent himself had prepared). Laurent even helped us to get to the Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde, which he didn’t have to do (v kind). You should definitely do this trip to explore, discover new things and laugh a lot.
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Posted On : 2023-09-30 03:17:47

Posted By : Mark_C
tour guide cancelled citing not enough people. Why state private if you require a minimum, I would have paid what a private would cost!!
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Posted On : 2023-01-19 10:11:22

Posted By : iriding
We had a superb tour with Alex what a character
We strolled through town chatting like old friends
He took us all over town
We had an awesome time high;y recommend
Ask for Alex you won’t go wrong
Book with confidence
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Posted On : 2022-09-12 15:08:30

Posted By : robinr697
Delightful wander through town along with some history lessons. Laurent is a chef and made us several items to taste which were delicious. We stopped for chocolate twice, pastry and bread, empanadas, wine and a good luck shell fish hinge. We wandered through an old time hardware store and a very old herbalist shop. We stopped at a medicine market. Our ambulation was only marred by a high wind and lashing rain at the last 10 minutes.
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Posted On : 2022-04-24 03:18:57

Posted By : Flyer766406
Laurent did an excellent job taking us to many different parts of Marsielle. I especially liked the Middle eastern market and the empanada shop.
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Posted On : 2022-04-11 11:49:08

Posted By : P8816KNjamesn
Perfect Tour to get to know the city, people and food options in the city of Marseille.
Laurent is a very nice tour guide who understood to combine the history of the city with food, wine but very "customized" for everyone. Perfect start for a city weekend!
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Posted On : 2021-12-06 06:01:14

Posted By : Robert_R
Very disappointed. The tour operators never showed up for the tour. We met others on the same tour and between us we called the tour operators and sent text messages both went unanswered. I would not recommend using the tour operator.
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Posted On : 2021-11-08 03:52:34