Transatlantique Hotel Agadir

We hit the big city of Agadir, it's a bit of a big hotel kinda of place. Big, sandy, crescent shaped beach which nobody was using at the time we were there. Eddie found a great room at a fantastic price, pool, restaurant, balcony all for 38 dollars a night. We found the towna bit quite, for example ...

... reunite with some Surf Maroc pals which made London even sweeter. It felt rather appropriate that I visit London again after living in the English Colony of Surf Maroc, but this was all the more reason it was hard to leave when it was time to go. I got to see another special friend in Oxford, Briony, my trekking sister from Nepal over 10 years ago. Warm fuzzies for good times.<br><br><br ...

... in the lush Palm Bay and enjoy the sun, because it's always there to light up your day! The opportunities for play during your day are plentiful, including a variety of water sports! There's also a golf course and tennis court. If you're more into relaxing than getting active, or need to wind down after too much activity, sip a rejuvenating beverage in one of the six bars inside ...

After a long sleep, I woke up fresh as a newborn=)<br><br>This day was a day when I decided to finally buy unbought souvenirs and presents. The first thing in my plans was a Confiserie where I could bought great morroccan pastry as a present=) It's Incredible... We walked the streets of Agadir to get to the La Fontaine Place where the Patiserie was situated... The city lives a very interesting life, non-familiar to us ...

... Green. Has the only real SPA in all Agadir. Has grand conference rooms. Has lots of restaurants, cafe's, Facilities. Really Impressed. Rooms are ok though, nothing unusual, just good. Here we stayed for a free lunch, which was great, Yummy=)))<br><br>Lunch is over, time to work again.<br><br>Adrar Agadir 3* - Awful pool, rooms are good.<br><br>Argana 4* - Pool is simple, rooms are okay. But the view from the window is awful. Though the hotel ...

... cliff high above it. Pro: Visiting a tiny dusty village and being invited to drink the national drink- "homemade" mint tea with honey and then having a fantastic lunch of chicken cooked with saffron in a table top clay oven along with couscous and local vegetables. Con: Knowing that 80% of visitors to Morocco contract some degree of food poisoning and wondering about that during our entire meal Pro: Seeing an ...

It had snowed quite a bit overnight, just not enough to make a mess out of the city, which I greatly appreciated for going to the airport again. 11 days in Germany, enough to do my laundry, recharge my batteries and swap guidebooks. I was happy to escape all those Christmas songs that were now playing non-stop on the radio. Three hours and twenty minutes flying time and I found myself in Agadir ...

... and the rooftops of the buildings below, where people had built brick rectangle rooms and spliced wires to bring in the electricity. Rooftop dwellers, like pods. We felt like spies... it was really fun and comfy. We chatted with the sweet lady at the front desk and mozied about the town at night, checking out the happenings, finding a good pastry shop, ordering in Arabic, and having a great time outside of Agadir. A little odd, a little shady, but Inezgane was a good place to be.

... and after negotiating the price stripped down to shorts, then entered through a doorway into a warm room where the owner filled up a couple of buckets with very hot water. And told me to keep walking with the buckets, all along I was followed by this enormous black guy. I arrived in the next room which was a bit hotter and then finally in the last room which resembled an enormous sauna. There were already a couple of other men there, either washing or just ...

... causing more delay than others, I got through in about 20 seconds. A taxi arranged by my trip organiser Sunway Holidays, arrived to transfer myself and two other passengers (John and Kristell) to our hotel. I tried to exchange my travellers cheques at the airport but they were not accepted. John offered me £100.00 to change into Dirhams which was extremely kind of him. The baggage handler wanted a tip but only in "Inglish munny". We arrived at the 4 star Hotel Argana after ...