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At Marrakech's Dar Ayniwen, Snag a Suite With a Private Terrace If You Can

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Tafrata - Palmeraie, Marrakech, Morocco
January 13, 2012 at 4:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

Our series on Marrakech concludes with the grandest suite we saw during our four day jaunt to the Moroccan city.

Dar Ayniwen, like Jnane Tamsna, is located in La Palmeraie, providing a sea change in terms of environment when compared to the Medina. The estate-turned-hotel that doesn't shy away from pomp and circumstance: stately excess best describes its decor, from the textured Berber rugs layered and peppered throughout its interior, to walls plastered with vintage travel posters, to the plush gardens surrounding it, with a variety of bird species chirping a natural soundtrack for the villa.

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Organic Eating and Sunlit Garden Strolls at Marrakech's Jnane Tamsna

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Douar Abiad, La Palmeraie , Marrakech, Morocco
January 12, 2012 at 4:03 PM | by | Comments (0)

Removed from the frantic climes of Marrakech's Medina, Jnane Tamsna is located in the city's Palmeraie district, tucked away from other sizeable resorts in the area. We planned an afternoon sojourn to the grounds after learning about on-site cookery classes featuring staples of Moroccan cuisine. Fans of former Gourmet Editor-in-Chief Ruth Reichl may remember Jnane Tamsna's house chef, Bahija, featured on an episode of Adventures With Ruth.

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Pancakes, a Fez and Babouche Slippers Took the (Birthday) Cake at Riad Joya

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Hay Mouassine, Derb El Hammam Nr. 26/27, Marrakech, Morocco, 40000
January 11, 2012 at 4:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

Yesterday we teased today's full review of Riad Joya, a boutique hotel planted squarely in the middle of Marrakech's Medina, the most ancient part of the city. Having made the claim that Joya provided us with the best service ever experienced, it's only fitting that we elaborate on such a bold statement.

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Why Hotels Should Take a Cue From Marrakech's Riad Joya

January 10, 2012 at 1:44 PM | by | Comments (0)

Mint tea and fresh Moroccan pastries: now that's a check-in greeting

Though London's winter has been comparatively mild to previous chillblain-inducing, blustering holiday seasons of years prior, us local Hotel Chatter-ers found ourselves craving a mid-season warm weather getaway nonetheless. Marrakech, Morocco won out over other similarly balmy cities for its proximity to the U.K. capital (it's just a three hour flight away) and the promise of tangines peppered with Ras el Hanout and preserved lemons.

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Million Dollar Lister Wins Email War With Marrakech Concierge Over Broken Boxes

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: AVENUE BAB JDID, Marrakech, Morocco
March 16, 2011 at 8:54 AM | by | Comment (1)

Our VIP Hotel Reviews Series is back. For those of you with goldfish memories, this is the series in which we hand-pick experts in the travel and media worlds and beyond to tell us what are their favorite hotels and why. From time to time, we'll feature a hotel review from said VIPs about their favorite leisure or business hotels.

Our next VIP reviewer is Beverly Hills manse lister Josh Flagg. Josh is a Los Angeles real estate agent, star of Bravo!'s Million Dollar Listing, and an avid traveler. He has vacationed with his family in all the top resorts and hotels of Europe America and the Middle East. In 2011 Josh released his first book, a biography of his grandmother Edith Flagg, known also as the queen of polyester. The book is entitled "A Simple Girl; Stories My Grandmother Told Me". He is now releasing his second book, an autobiography on himself: Million Dollar Agent, Brokering the Dream

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Feel Like Spending New Year's With Broadway? Then Head to Morocco!

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Avenue Bab Jdid , Marrakech, Morocco
December 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM | by | Comment (1)

All week long, we'll be fantasizing about some of the Over The Top New Year's Eve events and packages that ritzy hotels are putting together. Who knows? Maybe one of you moneybags out there will invite us to party with you! Know of an OTT hotel package for NYE? Send it to us!

After its big re-opening bash last November, we already know that La Mamounia in Marrakech knows how to party. So it seems like a logical--and completely OTT--place to spend New Year's Eve.

Now, we're guessing SJP won't be there, but there will be stars of a kind--the hotel is flying in the cast of the musical The Best of Broadway (from New York, London and Oslo) to perform a single show on December 31.

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La Mamounia Celebrates Reopening With A-List Celebs and Thankfully, No Lohans

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Avenue Bab Jdid, Marrakech, Morocco
November 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM | by | Comments (0)

While hotel opening parties stateside seem to be a thing of the past, in Morocco the parties seem more lavish than ever with a mind-boggling amount of celebrities in attendance.

We were just recovering from the Lindsay Lohan-Gerard Butler possible hook-up at the Mazagan Beach Resort last month when we heard that the famed La Mamounia Hotel threw an opening party with Orlando Bloom, Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Adrien Brody (who played the piano for guests), Juliette Binoche, Dree Hemingway, Paloma Piccaso, Jose Carreras, Glenda Bailey, Colin Cowie, Matthew Williamson and Salma Hayek in attendance.

So, what happened to Lindsay Lohan's invite? Well, considering that the hotel took about three years to renovate (done by internationally-acclaimed interior designer, Jacques Garcia), we guess they didn't want Lohan sullying up the opening festivities.

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Morocco's New Mazagan Beach Resort Opens With a Bang

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2 4000 El Jadida , Morocco
November 3, 2009 at 10:15 AM | by | Comments (0)

Fireworks. Fire eaters. Snake charmers—just another night for Lindsay Lohan. (And, no, those are not euphemisms.) If yesterday’s report of LiLo’s alleged tryst with Gerard Butler got your heart racing and you want to follow suit, here’s 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 there’s 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 one of owner Sol Kerzner’s other celeb-magnet properties, such as Atlantis in the Bahamas. The mega-resort includes an 18-hole golf course, a spa offering traditional Moroccan treatments, three kids’ clubs, 11 restaurants and bars, the Mazagan casino, and the Sanctuary Night Club, which promises parties “New York style.” Oh yeah, and there’s a huge conference center if you think you can talk your boss into a corporate retreat in the vein of the OTT Mazagan opening party. (The economy’s looking up, right?)

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

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 24 000 El Jadida, Casablanca, Morocco
November 2, 2009 at 11:17 AM | by | Comments (0)

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.

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

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Avenue Bab Jdid, Marrakech, Morocco
June 23, 2009 at 2:04 PM | by | Comments (0)

Three years is one long time for a refurb, but in the case of La Mamounia 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 TripAdvisor 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 this picture taken last year gave us a bit more hope. And now, it’s 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 – which each house three bedrooms, terraces and private pools. Add in a 27,000 sq foot spa, three restaurants, five bars and 20 acres of gardens, and it’s all sounding pretty good to us. Although it should be pretty good at these prices: starting rates for October are showing up as 6000 dirhams, or $745 (£458). The hotel calls it “more beautiful, more sumptuous and more magical than ever before”. Here’s hoping they don’t let us down.

[Photo: The Dadys]

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The King Invites the Rich to Royal Mansour, Marrakech

June 10, 2009 at 10:15 AM | by | Comments (0)

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 in Marrakech, Morocco, with its 53 luxury riads and exotic location built into the ancient wall of the city.

We've already started getting enthused 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 saving your pennies if you want to book a riad. The cheapest one will go from €1,500 ($2,100); if you want the fanciest "fit for a king" riad then you're looking at €20,000 ($27,900) a night.

King Mohamed VI is planning to get 10 million visitors to Morocco during 2010, and that's one of the reason he's gotten behind projects like the Royal Mansour hotel. But we have to wonder just how many visitors can afford €1,500 plus a night, no matter how cool the hotel looks. We've still got our fingers crossed for a September invitation.

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A Luxe Mega-Riad Is Coming to Marrakech

May 5, 2009 at 9:26 AM | by | Comments (0)

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.

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