Guynemer

... Sat, 26 Sep: 12.55pm Air France 2496 CDG > CMN (Casablanca) lands 2.00pm Sat, 26 Sep: Casablanca Hotel: Hotel Guynemer (2 nights) - Rue Mohamed Belloul (Ex.Pegoud), Casa-Anfa, Casablanca 20000, Morocco (Tour with Intrepid begins 6pm Sun, 27 Sept) ...

... have much of a history (though it was founded 2000 years ago), and that the movie Casablanca wasn't even filmed here. Hotel Guynemer - incredibly friendly staff here! We were shown to our rooms, where we quickly sucked down some water, and headed out for ...

... couple of hours the next day looking for a place that was not quite so rustic. The next morning we checked into Hotel Guynemer. It was a three star hotel where we somehow negotiated a price to accommodate us at 'Becky and Stefano prices' aka stingy, ...

... well on the plane.  I was really cranky when we arrived in Casablanca Friday morning.  We couldn't find the person from Hotel Guynemer who was supposed to pick us up, and then I couldn't figure out how to call the hotel on my cell phone, ...

After leaving Newcastle over 24hrs ago we arrive at Mohammed V airport, Morocco. Taxi to Guynemer Hotel and checkin. Still only about 9am so go for a wonder. Being in the less affluent area it is fairly dirty and run down with lots of street vendors and ...

... clock.  Picked up by a driver from the hotel, and along with two other Aussies (girl and a guy from Sydney) to Hotel Guynemer.  Poky little room, but comfortable bed and flat screen TV with CNN and a tiny bathroom with a hot shower so all ...

... a wonky table which was embellished with a heavily stained tablecloth. As you may have gathered, I wasn't exactly enamoured with Hotel Guynemer and I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who was. I studied my fellow group members, 17 people of ...

... the line terminates there. We get off the train, lots of tiny taxis. We get in one, and go for a mad drive to the Hotel Guynemer. Turns out they are overbooked, and they take us to the Hotel Paris, assuring us it is just as good, and run by his cousins. ...

... of the Atlantic...with a much appreciated cool breeze! Bruce has already lost lbs from the humidity. The friendly staff at Guynemer have tolerated our pathetic efforts at dereja....but we keep trying....We are off to Marrakesh by train in the ...

... stone crown on the roofline.  This was the start of a wealth of impressive and itneresting facaes, including the Hotel Guynemer's art-deco styles and many byuildings on Rue Tahar Sebti.  After struggling to find Rue Chaouia, the 1922 Hotel ...

... at 2.15pm. The same rugby scrum of intransigent taxidrivers awaited....but this time we had Simo's help.  Dropped him at Hotel Guynemer en route to our hotel on the Corniche. Hotel Val DÁnfa is quite flash, set overlooking the Atlantic amongst ...

... very relaxed and organized. He is from Essaouira and has a degree in Eng Lit. Jolly dinner together at the Hotel Guynemer. Ten Australians, a Slovene & an American (who has been working in Iraq). Personalities jelled quite well.... 21 Oct The ...

When visiting Morocco, you pretty much have to fly in to and out of Casablanca -- and it's more of a gateway than an attraction in and of itself.  (The movie wasn't filmed there, and there wasn't a Rick's Cafe until around 2004).  Really, all ...

Food Funnies: Morocco Addition In Marrakech we saw a sign for a business called 'Typo Edit'. At first we thought this was an ingenious service offering to correct goofy English translations for various foreign business. It turned out to be only a ...

I didn't sleep much the night before leaving for Morocco...perhaps it was from excitement...perhaps I was just conscious of sleeping through my alarm...I was being picked up at 5.30am after all....but who cares I was off on another adventure.  A ...