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Room With a Killer View: History, Nature and a Pool from Branson's Kasbah

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  Site Where: BP 67, Marrakech, Morocco

May 29, 2008 at 8:52 AM | 0 Comments

We are suckers for a room with a killer view.  We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.

Thanks to HotelChatter tipster srte for dropping this in our Flickr pool. It's from Richard Branson's Kasbah Tamadot in Morocco, and we're more than impressed with this magnificent view from the terrace of the hotel overlooking the pool, and a fantastic garden.

We fell in love with this hotel the first time we looked at it and views like this only make our craving to get there stronger. In a perfect world we'd be booking the Deluxe Suite (which includes a pool) but the Escape Package for that (a three night stay) costs €2,470 (US$3,800) a double, which sadly doesn't fit into our budget this month.

The cheapest option during low season is €320 (US$500) a night for the double, which is more within the realms of possibility.

[Photo: srte]

T+L's It List 2008: The Good+The Bad

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  Site Where: 11 Rue du Riad Sultan, Tangier, Morocco

May 21, 2008 at 2:10 PM | 0 Comments

Travel+Leisure just released its "It List 2008: The Top 30 New Hotels in the World" and overall it's pretty feh. Some of the selections are just downright obvious, like the Regent Bal Harbour in Miami, London's The Connaught, Paris' Le Meurice and The Plaza in New York. However, there are a few choices for which T+L editors deserve credit for venturing outside the safe zone ...

One particular standout is the Hôtel Nord-Pinus Tanger, in Tangier, Morocco. We visited Tangier recently (though we stayed a short jaunt across the Mediterranean in Tarifa, Spain--at a hostel, ahem) and the destination hardly struck us as something that would fall on any travel editor's radar, unless the next travel trend is constantly being harassed by guys selling Moroccan tchotchkes.

T+L says Tangier is "fast recapturing the glamour of its glory days," and with the opening of this riad, "the Old Town finally has the chic little inn it deserves." The hotel possesses just one double room and four suites, which are decorated with bronze, marble and Indian silks. During high season, the prices start at about $440, which includes breakfast, dinner and shuttle to the airport.

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