Good hotel, beautiful country

Written: 8 august 2010
Travel time: 12 — 22 september 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 10.0
We rested from September 12 to 22 with a company of 2 couples. Operator Vand International. Arrived at 5pm. It took quite a long time to get to the hotel, it is the farthest from the airport, so it was the last one where tourists were taken. We settled in pretty quickly, without extortion and additional costs, we got 2 rooms not far from each other on the second floor overlooking the ocean. The rooms are quite good (very good for their money), everything worked, a large balcony with chairs and a table. Cleaned daily, bedding changed every 3 days. At first, the smell coming from the nearby port was a little annoying. But the most surprising thing is that the most fashionable district of the city "Marina" is even closer. The hotel area is very green. Food was taken for breakfast and dinner. The food is monotonous, but you won't leave hungry. There are quite a few restaurants nearby. Beach across the road, public. We were in Ramadan, so there were practically no locals on the beach, only on the last day, when Ramadan had already ended, there were a lot of locals on the beach. The ocean is dirty. The entrance is rather gentle, low tide is 50-70 meters. In general, I liked the hotel and the service, again for my money.
But most importantly, if you go to Morocco, you must definitely take a car and drive around the country. This is not the kind of country where you can wallow in a hotel. The country is very beautiful and diverse. The landscape outside the window is changing very quickly. Each city has some peculiarity. Very beautiful Atlas Mountains. We very successfully took a diesel Mitsubishi Pajero for 4 days for 280 euros without a mileage limit with all insurances. Usually Renault Logan is offered for this money. We managed to go around Essaouira, Cassablanca, Rabat, Meknes, Fes, Marrakech, Ouarzazate and Legzira beach in the Sidi Ifni area. Didn't make it to Tangier. I really liked Cassablanca. The city is apparently not very touristy, so there are no intrusive helpers and you can safely walk around the Medina, taste all the charms of the eastern city. Insanely beautiful on Legzira beach. Didn't like Fes. Although the largest Medina, but a huge number of very obsessive helpers who spoiled the whole impression. Do not succumb to their obsession, even if you pay them for a kind of excursion, he will lead you mainly to shops that share the proceeds from tourists with him. You won't see anything else.
For the whole trip, only the difficulty of finding an opportunity to eat outside the tourist areas in connection with Ramadan was annoying.

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