Tangier Hotels - Reviews and Rates

One cold, dark winter in London, I escaped to north Africa via Spain. Once again guardian angels walked with me. I stepped off the bus in Tangiers and met two young men who offered to be my guides. I was safe in their hands and saw the Medina, a snake charmer, bought real powdered kohl for my eyes, and drank sweet mint tea whilst discussing a dr...

We had a 6.30am start today ... after some food we set off in cabs at 7.15 for the short trip to the train station - we probably could have walked but its all too hard that time of the morning. We waited on the platform until 7.47 and thats when our train to Tangier left. We were in second class and it was quite nice - 6 to a compartment with cl...

I caught a quick ferry to Tangier from Algeciras in Spain. The crossing took an hour and a half. Not as quick as I would have liked. It got a bit rough in the middle. I was meet on the way out of the port by a pestering guy who wanted me to say in a hotel for 15 euros. I was on my way to the youth hostel but 15 Euros sounded like a good deal esp...

That line from Josh Ritter's lovely folk song 'Idaho' seemed to be on continuous repeat along route to the city of Tangier. I showed up 15 minutes early at the train station anxious to put some distance between me and the city of Fes . It had been weeks since I'd been out of town, and I was starting to feel it. Kyle and Emily appeared right on t...

Tangier is a seedy port town, not too long removed from its status of "international zone," when it was governed jointly in the early 20th century by Britain, France, Spain and Italy and therefore quickly became a dodgy, lawless refuge, attracting brilliant deviants such as William S. Burroughs, Paul & Jane Bowles, and Henri Matisse, as well...

OK, so Morocco was always going to be the bravest mission we chose to make and boy have we had some experiences and troubles and delights! Thus we begin to relay our Morocco story - we apologise for the length of the blog but we are covering two weeks! Our journey begun once our ferry touched terra firma in our first travel point, Tangier, which...