Moroccan House Hotel Marrakech

... alleyways leading back to our hotel all the while dodging touts, scooters and motorbikes. Most of the riads ( traditional Moroccan house or palace) have an open to the sky interior courtyard that rooms open out onto and we have often wondered ...

... mountains in the distance. We stopped at a place where women make almond oil and marmelade from scratch and a real berber (moroccan) house where people actually lived (they were eating lunch as we toured their house, weird). Then we stopped on the ...

... for Paul who was coming down with a cold and wasn't used to places like this. The highlight of Marrakech was the hammam. A hammam is a traditional bath house which includes black soap scrubs, body wraps and massages as well as a steam room. It was also ...

... Madrid right after Marrakech. I arrive in Marrakech Menara Airport at 5 pm. Expecting a prickly, desert-like heat, the climate in Marrakech was actually quite comfortable - it was sunny, but not sweaty; cool, but not cold. In fact, it was actually hotter ...

Day 2 of the adventure - still at the Es Saadi Hotel in Marrakech. Today we started with a horse-drawn carriage tour of the city.  We rode over to the Menara Gardens, leaving our carriages across the street with a little pony and horse ...

... otherwise, that the local bus is broken, not running, etc etc) we made our way through the Marrakech airport terminal. The architecture provided an intro to Moroccan ornament at an extreme scale. The terminal looks as though it were cut from one huge ...

We left Heathrow on time, bound for Casablanca and a connecting quick flight to Marrakech. I was wide awake a couple of hours later when we dropped into Marrakech at twilight. I'd seen the red hills of Africa and the Mediterranean from the air. ...

... 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 ...

... Easy Jet flights from Britain and mobs on package tours as well as the usual array of backpacker types.  Our hotel was centrally located just off Marrakech's most famous sight, the Djemaa El Fna.  Yes, you read right, a hotel, the first one ...

... and car or airplane – and not in at all in a bad way! Just a quick note to let everyone know we arrived safely in Marrakech and survived our first trip to the big market - we didn't even get lost in the Souk - but the visit is young!  We kept ...

... show "Medieval Times" look rinky dink.  Randy and I were overwhelmed.  It was awesome. Tired and full of Moroccan food we went back to our hotel room for a last, relaxing drink in the courtyard and to wonder what the next day would ...

... nights in Marrakech as we passed through on our way to and from the desert. In the final analysis, Marrakech turned out to be our favorite Moroccan city, but after so many comings and goings the bloom was rapidly and predictable fading from the rose. ...

... ! However, all of the reservations I had about the country seemed to dissipate when we arrived at our hotel, the Le Meridien N'fis in Marrakech. They upgraded us to a wonderful suite overlooking the pool and promptly delivered a complimentary bottle of ...

... prostitutes (these are his only flaws, as far as we saw, and not the reasons why he is our favorite Moroccan). So, a quick two things about Marrakech.  First, the old part of the city (the medina) is completely functional, but it’s like time ...

... ; We have only been here for one day and I finally got up enough courage to go to a hammam - a traditonal bath house, and Josh took a Moroccan cooking class.  The hammam is quite an experience.  Most hammams are in the medinas and are quite the ...

... (markets) and learning about local traditions ·         Trying an espresso laced with traditional Moroccan spices (though my tummy didn't care for this) ·         A farewell ...

... 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 ...

... in love with a Monet painting – House Among the Roses.  The three days allowed me time to prepare for the Marrakech experience. Since getting here I realize that I could not prepare myself for what I was going to see.  It feels like the ...

... it. I wish we could have spent less time in the palaces and gotten to see a lot more of the market. Even still, I really enjoyed Marrakech. It seemed like a really great city that I'd want to spend more time in. During the day in the square all the snake ...

... the city. What few annoyances we suffered were more than compensated for by our awesome home base, a Riad run by a Moroccan guy and his French girlfriend.  Our slightly traumatic arrival was immediately forgotten as we soaked in the surroundings ...