HotelChatter - Tag: Morocco Hotels

Morocco's New Mazagan Beach Resort Opens With a Bang

MsRebecca — 2009-11-03T10:15:23-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/mazagan_fireworks.jpg" class="top"> Fireworks. Fire eaters. Snake charmersjust another night for Lindsay Lohan. (And, no, those are not euphemisms.) If <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/2/105530/352/hotels/Lohan_Gets_It_On_Allegedly_With_Gerard_Butler_at_Morocco_Hotel_Opening">yesterdays report</a> of LiLos alleged tryst with Gerard Butler got your heart racing and you want to follow suit, heres a little more info on where the action went down. The Mazagan Beach Resort is located in El Jadida, Morocco, about 55 miles southwest of Casablanca. So, yeah, romance is built right into the sand dunes. And theres a lot of em here: the resort sits on a 4.3 mile beach and you can see the ocean from many of the 500 5-star rooms and suites. The best way to picture the sprawl of Mazagan? Just think of

Casablanca: Lohan Gets It On (Allegedly) With Gerard Butler at Morocco Hotel Opening

juliab — 2009-11-02T11:17:54-05:00

Whatever Halloween horrors you saw this weekend, we doubt it can have been much worse than what Gerard Butler might just have woken up to yesterday morning.

According to the Mirror, Gerard had escaped all those cheap tacky parties in LA to go to the opening night of Sol Kerzner’s swish new Mazagan Beach Resort near Casablanca.

Unfortunately for him, it turned out a bit cheap and tacky anyway, as dear old Lindsay Lohan was among the fellow guests. And apparently, after a couple of bevvies, they went through the old dancin’-flirtin-kissin’ routine at the hotel’s new nightclub, Sanctuary, before “leaving the party together in a golf buggy.” A smooth touch there, Gerard. Really smooth.

Marrakech: La Mamounia Is Re-Opening; Here's Hoping It's Cleaned Up Its Act

juliab — 2009-06-23T14:04:37-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/mamounia.jpg" class="top"> Three years is one long time for a refurb, but in the case of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/La+Mamounia/ian/109312">La Mamounia</a> in Morocco, it seems like it may have been needed. The Marrakech hotel stalwart, which originally opened in 1923, closed its doors in July 2006 to the relief of <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g293734-d301256-r13043629-La_Mamounia-Marrakech.html#CHECK_RATES_CONT">TripAdvisor</a> reviewers, whose general consensus was that it was in dire need of a refurb, and probably an attitude adjustment while they were at it. But <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/24/171524/771/hotels/Snapshot_Hotel_La_Mamounia_Closed_But_Still_Pretty_To_Look_At">this picture</a> taken last year gave us a bit more hope. And now, its been announced that it will reopen on September 29 this year. There will be 136 rooms and 71 suites in the new Mamounia, as well as three riads

Marrakech: The King Invites the Rich to Royal Mansour, Marrakech

amandak — 2009-06-10T10:15:37-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Royal_Mansour.jpg" class="top"> If the king owns the hotel, it's probably going to be somewhere close to a royal standard, right? That's why we've got a good feeling about Le Royal Mansour</a> in Marrakech, Morocco, with its 53 luxury riads and exotic location built into the ancient wall of the city.We've already <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/5/5/9235/57828/hotels/A_Luxe_Mega_Riad_Is_Coming_to_Marrakech">started getting enthused</a> about Le Royal Mansour and now we've got a few more concrete details on the opening schedule. For a start, there'll be a kind of soft opening in September but it's only by invitation and so far, sadly, we haven't found ourselves on the invite list.The grand dare we say royal? opening will take place in November 2009, and you'd better start

Marrakech: A Luxe Mega-Riad Is Coming to Marrakech

juliab — 2009-05-05T09:26:06-05:00

Anyone who's been to Marrakech will be able to testify to the myriad of places to stay. We used to chalk this up to entrepreneurship on a national scale, but apparently it's been planned at the highest level: the king himself has decreed that he wants 10 million tourists bedding down by 2010, and he wants 160,000 extra beds to put them in.

One that looks particularly exciting is Le Royal Mansour, a mammoth collection of 53 riads (traditional Moroccan houses) stuck together to make 78 bedrooms, as well as a 2500 square-meter spa and hammam, and tunnels running underneath the complex for staff to get around stealthily.