Suggestions for Marseille, June 2024?

We (2 adult daughters and 8yr granddaughter) will be stopping in Marseille for 6 hours in late June. I’ve been looking at a private tour to Aix en Provence through a Rick Steves recommended website Toursbylocals.com but the cost seems to be really high for even just the four hour tours. The cruise excursion for the same length of time goes to the same spots for a fraction of the cost. Has anyone else used another local tour company? I was also given the suggestion of booking a taxi for a round-way trip from the port to Aix en Provence and that cost about the same as the excursion cost.

Any other ideas how to spend our short time in Marseille? Thanks!

Kelly

We took a public bus about 10 years ago. They were more frequent than trains.

We are pretty adverse to canned tours from Ship, Viator and other tours although we do look at them to get good ideas. Homework: The internet used to be better with fresh breadcrumbs of people excited to tell the details of how to buy bus, train fares, etc but people are fatigued and many posts are old. So do your homework.

It depends how you and your group are. Do you like someone telling you tidbits right then/there, then get a tour.

We are pretty savvy at getting to a place, hunting for big items, and roaming around for food, etc. We are content with Wikipedia deep dives on what we saw after the fact on the ship or back home.

We like to save money. IOW we are cheap.