Montpellier - Transit strike and no Left Luggage

Between Barcelona and Nice we slept in Montpellier, hoping to have an evening there and leave the following afternoon. However the train station had no left luggage, so we had to go straight to the hotel, which was said to be 10 min away by tram. It was actually triple that distance, then across a highway, and the transit system was on strike so trams stopped at 8pm, so we didn't go back out. Because of the distance to the hotel, we went straight to the train station the next morning rather than leave our bags (and our bags were too big to take with us). All this to say, we didn't see Montpellier in our day there.