Hello fellow and sister travelers,
We are a family of four who will be in France from mid-June to early July, mostly in Provence and the Alps, so we are renting a car. We are also dipping down for a couple of nights in Cassis so we can paddle around les Calanques (wow!) before picking up the train in Marseille back to Paris.
We're seeing that it's hard to have a car in Cassis, that parking is expensive and sometimes small for rental cars. We've been trying to figure out if we could drop it off before hand somewhere that would be pretty easy to then get to Cassis via transit. We've looked at Aubagne (very few places to drop a car, hard to tell how easy it is to get to the train station from there, or the bus for that matter) and Aix (too far, too long afterwards). We are not huge fans of the big cities so have hesitated to drop it in Marseille - also don't want to lose nice beach time or stopping-in-small-towns time to navigating the bigger city.
Those of you who have been to Cassis - is it a hindrance to have a car?
The price of parking comes out about equal to the price of transit.
Thank you all in advance. Your answers and advice have been so helpful before.
Also, maybe it's bad form to put this in the same post (I'm new to this - pardon if I get it wrong), but we're also up for hearing any opinions about kayaking the Calanques.