Hotel Atlas Marrakech

... High Atlas Mountains Minibus to Essaouira Hotel: a riad (2 nights) Fri, 9 Oct: Public bus from Essaouira to Marakech Hotel: Hotel Corail (2 nights) - Avenue Hassan II -Gueliz-, 40000 Marrakech Sun, 11 Oct: (Tour with Intrepid ends Sat night) ...

... washing lines. It was nice to see and you can imagine how there is a whole different, far more relaxed side to living in Marrakech. With palace numero uno conquered, it was onto to the second, only a few minutes away, the other side of the rose ...

... Pass. The road is very curvy and I needed to keep my eyes focused on the horizon to keep from feeling ill. Arriving in Marrakech, several guys head straight out to a local hammam. I organize dinner for this evening at the beautiful Dar Moha. Our plan is ...

... to Marrakech, you absolutely must eat here. Check it out at toscamarrakech@menara.ma. The address is 4 rue Badr, Gueliz, Marrakech. Phone: +212.524.430.039. Adorable Chistopher is the manager, and he and his excellent staff will provide an unforgettable ...

... to true experience, go to the square at around 8pm onwards and they have the best food stalls i've ever seen.   the Atlas Targa hotel, around a twenty minute bus journey from the city center is a lush hotel, very relaxing with a huge pool.  ...

... give them the leftover bread and food or unfinished drinks. If all this is not enough, right behind the square are the Marrakech souks or marketplace.  They are roomier than the market stalls in Fez, which were incredibly narrow, but they are still ...

... at about 6.30pm, had much-needed showers back at hostel, and then met up with our little posse in the main square of Marrakech medina for dinner at one of the many food stalls - pretty good food and very cheap. Good experience. After having desert of ...

... ironed and beautiful. Wednesday -today Ahmed took us to everywhere on Tom’s list.  We did the monuments, drove thru old Marrakech.  Then Ahmed took us down a little side street in the old Souk to a beautiful hotel to have coffee. ...

... coffee and divine hot crepes.  Yum.  Abdul and the medina quide picked us up and we went off to explore Marrakech's medina.  The streets here are a little wider than in Fes but the same hustle and bustle and distinct smells still ...

... in their way. As we return back to the old town within the walls of the medina, we spend some time learning of Marrakech's history at the museum & the Ali ben Youssef Medersa - a theological college that was founded in the 14th centurty and ...

... in the choreography required to navigate Oxford Street at rush hour on a Friday night, then try any street in the medina of Marrakech. Dropped off by our taxi from the airport, we found ourselves wading upstream as cyclists, donkey carts, the odd car and ...

... atractive place! The best thing to do is climb to the terrace, where one can enjoy a marvelous 360° view around. The whole Marrakech is completely flat and only the south is dominated by the Atlas mountains. Quite funny to see palms and storks [which ...

It is hot in Marrakech, and the group agrees to forego lunch in order to have more free time this afternoon to enjoy the pool at the hotel or do independent activities. We power through about five hours of nonstop visits, stopping occasionally for ...

... Rhapsody.  Ait Benhaddou was used for scenes in many films, notably Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator.  We stayed in a nearby hotel instead of bushcamping due to the torrential rain, probably one of the only times we could do so on this trip. ...

... Naturally, we couldn't resist. If Rabat is the political capital of Morocco, and Fes the spiritual and intellectual center, then Marrakech is the place where Moroccans (and tourists) go to have fun. Indeed, Marrakechis are known to other Moroccans as ...

... in the morning to inspect another property that does have 13 rooms available for the duration of our stay in Marrakech. We arrive at the hotel quite late, and the general impression of this new property is that it is still somewhat unfinished, and ...

Ouarzazate (pron war-za-zot) is on the other side of the Atlas mountains as Marrakech and is a classic 'getting there is half the fun' trip, but maybe more in this case. We were originally going to access this area via 'excursion' out of Marrakech but ...

... front seat for this trip due to the seat rotation and both of us made sure we wore our seat belts. We arrived in Marrakech around 6.30pm having travelled over 500 klms since leaving Fes. Marrakech is the third largest city in Morocco with a population of ...

... . We bought some sodas and used the restroom in town, then got back on the road at 12:14 p.m. for the trek through the Atlas Mountains to Marrakech. We climbed uphill for most of the next hour and a half, heading over the Tizi n’Tichka Pass at an ...

... of the Marrakech climate. Once everybody was back aboard the bus we headed across the Atlas range via precariously narrow mountainous tracks to Marrakech. At this point we were feeling exceptionally nervous about the return journey the following day ...