OFII Bordeaux experience
All right, so I'm back from Bordeaux!:smow:
Veeery easy. Very nice people. Here's how it went:
I planned to take a taxi but as soon as you walk out of the train station, the tram stop is just to your left. I took a "C" tram (without crossing the tracks, it's the one that stops on your side of the road) to the stop called Quinconces (it's quite a distance so walking is NOT recommended). You need to buy a ticket before you board the tram though, there's a machine on the tram stop that accepts coins and gives you your change back, and a one-way trip is 1.40€. The views of the city are quite breathtaking as you ride.
Once I arrived at Quinconces, the local Office de Tourisme is right there on the corner so I walked in and asked for 55 Rue St Sernin, and they gave me a free map and explained how to get there. It's very close (about 10 min on foot max) and easy to find, just follow the map.
They're all extremely friendly and helpful there. Please note that the OFII closes down for lunch and you can't get in, but they opened the doors again a good 15 minutes before their opening time of 13.30.
I approached the reception and they checked my convocation and passport and asked if I had the stamps and a photo ready -- obviously, some people forget to do it. Then they lead you into a small waiting area where you wait with a few other people for the doctor to call you. The medical consists of three parts: an X-ray room, then a sort of lab where they check your blood sugar (yes, you are supposed to eat before coming and they ask you what you had for lunch), check your eyesight, weight, height and ask a few other questions: your past diseases, hospitalisations, etc.
Finally, you go to the doctor hugging your giant X-ray and he gives you a proper check, measures your blood pressure and stuff. They're all very friendly and cheerful people. You might need to wait a few minutes between these three checks (the X-ray, the lab and the doctor) because they keep rotating people: one person is sent to the X-ray room while another one is sent to the lab, then both have to wait until the doctor is finished with somebody else, etc. So the whole medical took probably about 40 minutes. They call out everybody's names, so there's no queue or anything of the kind.
Once you're done with the medical, they send you to an office where a friendly young lady puts your file together, glues your photo and stamps on it, checks your other paperwork (electricity bill, etc) and enters it all in the computer, then pastes a yellow sticker in your passport. And that's it! The whole thing took exactly an hour.
Basically, it was painless and the workers were, repeat, very friendly and cheerful.
Good luck!