Toulon-Cable car to Mt Faron-anyone done this?

[Bobal]

We are stopping in Toulon in July and would like to take the cable car from the town to Mount Faron. I've found some information about this by doing a web search but no details on how to get from the cruise port to the Cable Car. Has anyone done this? Is it walkable? Is there a bus or would it require a taxi journey? I've found the cable car on Googlemaps, but it's difficult to judge how easy it would be to get there by foot

[kate52]

Hi- we did the cable car on a Sunday a few years ago. Well, more accurately I did it- OH waited at the bottom! We got the bus easily to the cable car station, it was really quiet. Nothing at the station itself, but OH managed to find a hotel just up the road to have a drink while he waited. There is a nature reserve at the top, cafe, museum. To be honest I only went for the views so didn't venture too far from the cable station. Being Sunday, the bus service wasn't great, so rather than have a long wait, we went into the hotel and asked them to get a taxi for us, which they did with no problem. You can see the ship from the bus stop area, but it's quite a long way- about 15 minute bus ride. It was ok, but not memorable, much preferred the trip to Aix we'd done on a previous visit. Maybe if I'd explored the nature reserve a bit more I would have been more impressed.

kate