Hôtel Villa M Marseille hosts residential seminars, conferences, gala evenings, product launches, weddings and family receptions for up to 500 guests, seated in rows or standing for a cocktail. The four-star hotel stands at 17 Place Louis Bonnefon in Marseille's 8th arrondissement, opposite the Borély racecourse and close to the Prado beaches.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells complete packages for business events that combine meeting rooms, bedrooms and catering, including residential seminars. Its events page lists meetings, conferences, car launches and gala evenings for up to 500 participants. Sports teams are a second specialty: a whole floor of bedrooms can be reserved for one group, with dining, meeting and storage space on the ground floor and room for the team bus to park at the entrance. Event participants can use the wellness area, with an outdoor pool in summer, a sauna, a hammam and a jacuzzi.
Weddings and receptions
For private events the hotel hosts weddings, birthdays, religious celebrations and family gatherings, in its reception rooms and on its terrace overlooking the racecourse and the sea.
Rooms and capacities
All event space is on the ground floor: 1,000 m² divided into ten modular rooms of 20 to 600 m². The two largest rooms, Marie Curie and Charles Livon, measure 300 m² each and combine into the 600 m² Louis Pasteur plenary room. Both have daylight, a view of the racecourse and the sea, a ceiling height of 3.96 m, a 4 by 3 m screen, a projector, Bose sound, wireless microphones, a 16 m² modular stage and a lectern.
Dominique Métras (73 m²), Simone Sédan (64 m²) and Crinas (44 m²) also have daylight and the same view, each with a screen and a projector. Isabelle Brès and Léon d'Astros measure 40 m² each, and several breakout rooms of 20 to 25 m² complete the floor. Rooms can be set as theater, classroom, cabaret, U-shape, boardroom, cocktail, banquet or buffet. The hotel does not publish a guest count for each room.
Accommodation
The hotel has 140 bedrooms: classic rooms, deluxe rooms with a private balcony over the racecourse and the sea, family rooms and suites. Dogs are accepted. Check-in starts at 3 p.m. and check-out is by noon. The reception desk is open around the clock, and guests have access to the gym, the hammam, the sauna, the jacuzzi and, in summer, the outdoor pool.
Catering
The restaurant serves homemade cooking based on fresh seasonal produce, with vegetarian options at every course. Groups can eat on the terrace, and the bar looks out over the sea. A buffet breakfast is served every day from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.
History and setting
Villa M describes itself as a new four-star lifestyle hotel. It faces the Borély racecourse and the Mediterranean, a short walk from the Prado beaches, with Parc Borély, the Orange Vélodrome stadium and the Palais des Sports nearby.
Getting there
From Marseille Saint-Charles station, take metro line 2 to Rond-Point du Prado, then bus 44 to the Clos Bey Leau stop, about 25 minutes in total. A taxi takes about 30 minutes from the station. Transfers from the station or from Marseille Provence Airport can be arranged on request. An underground car park below the hotel has 80 spaces, to be booked ahead, with domestic sockets for charging electric cars. The hotel is accessible to people with reduced mobility.
