Akabar
The hotel is centrally located in the residential area of l'Hivernage, just a 2-minute walk from Avenue Mohammed V with its many restaurants, bars, nightlife options and shops and shopping centres housing countless international brands. The famous Jemaa el Fnaa Square is a 10-minute walk from the hotel, as are the souks, Menara Gardens and the Majorelle Garden. The train station on Avenue Hassan II is approximately 1 km from the hotel, Bab Doukkala bus station is around 1.5 km away and guests will find links to the public transport network just 500 metres from the hotel. The beach in Essaouira is around 3 hours' drive, and the Oukaimeden ski area is approximately an hour and a half by car. Marrakech-Menara airport is just 3 km from the hotel.
This air-conditioned city hotel offers guests a relaxing place to stay for a holiday or business trip, with 51 guest rooms and a wide choice of room types available, including doubles, singles, triples and suites. Guests are welcomed in a lobby with 24-hour reception and check-out services, a hotel safe, currency exchange facilities, a newspaper stand and lift access to the upper floors. Further facilities include a TV lounge, cafe, bar and restaurant. Guests may also take advantage of the Internet access, room service, a laundry service and a car park (fees apply).
The guest rooms are equipped with an en suite bathroom with a shower and bathtub, a double or king-size bed and a private balcony or terrace. Other in-room amenities include a safe, satellite TV, a telephone and individually regulated air conditioning and heating.
There is an indoor swimming pool with a separate children's swimming area and guests may also relax by the poolside snack bar. Sun loungers and parasols are provided free of charge at the hotel and for an additional fee on the beach.
The hotel chef offers a variety of Moroccan and international dishes. Fast food options and a wide range of drinks are also available.
Due to the surrounding area and the number of steps around the hotel, it may not be suitable for those with mobility difficulties.
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Tripadvisor Reviews
Bedbugs
This hotel from the pictures to reality were different. Some of The staff here were rude very rude Time to time. right, this hotel was kind of clean but the beds Hard bed bugs. Before coming here we stay at a different place and didn’t have this issue at all. I wouldn’t come here again. I recommend not to come here. I will post some pictures Plus, did not change the bedsheets they just clean them up and neat and tidy. Even the cleaning stuff, where as well When you ask for something Bite your head off And get annoyed.
Do not stay in this hotel
If I could give this hotel 0 stars I would. We went with a school trip and had the following issues.
- food gave pupils food poisoning (one ended up in hospital).
- plates not washed up properly
- vegetarians were not catered for and then given a tuna salad. When we pointed out they couldn't eat this, the kitchen scraped off the tuna and re-served it, even though there was still a lot of bits of tuna on the salad.
- bed bugs in several rooms - one pupil was bitten on the eyelid and it became very swollen.
- filthy rooms - stains on sheets, hairs everywhere,
- bathrooms very tired and look dirty. full of rust and many things broken. Several showers didn't work or were only a trickle. Other showers would spray all over the bathroom and there was nothing that could be done to stop this.
- other rooms were very noisy late into the night
- everywhere stank of smoke.
No other hotel we stayed at in Morocco had any of these issues.
Our impression was that the staff were trying their best but the lack of investment in hotel suggests the owners don't care.
Our First Taste of Marrakech
This hotel is located in a very nice part of Marrakech. The entrance is lovely and the lobby inviting, with beautiful ceilings. We stayed here twice, at the start and end of our Exodus tour. Our first room looked out on the main street and was very noisy. Our second room overlooked the restaurant in the back and was much quieter. The rooms themselves were clean and we had no issues. Breakfast was fine, with much choice. The attendant seemed to like my wife, as on our second morning, he brought a plate of fresh pastries over to our table. (We were the only ones in the breakfast room at the time.) We ate at the hotel several times, and we stayed outside except for once. Mistake: the inside room was terrible with cigarette smoke. Food was OK. Service was sometimes slow, but we usually were not in a rush. We were pleased that they served beer and wine. All in all, a decent pair of stays.
Lovely stay at the hotel, akabar.
The hotel is lovely very traditional in decor which is why we chose it. Yes, the rooms are very dated, but this had absolutely no impact on our stop here. A major refurbishment on going while we were there, the pool is out of action due to this being done,i think, so it will be ready for summer.
Our room was on the 4th floor,it was cleaned every day, and we got clean towels every day.
We had breakfast, which was very traditional and lovely. Yes, you can have wine and beer but not in the bar. we had to sit in the restaurant.😀 All the staff were lovely and couldn't do enough for you. Especially the man who looked after us at breakfast and the barman. The hotel is in a good spot for getting to both the madina and the new town. We would stay again.
We will not be going back there
Th minutes I stepped inside Irealised that this was not going to be a happy experience. There was no character or atmosphere in the place. The dining room consisted of small tables with white long table cloths and nothing else. The tables were not set and we couldn't get any smell of food. Luckily we had not paid for breakfast, so we never ate here. The room was quite pleasant but the bathroom was in need of redecorating. The water from the shower went all over the door. We left earlier than we were due to and booked into to another hotel.
