Guest User
April 18, 2022
This property has loads of character and whimsical outdoor art and colors. We were the only guests. There are several birds - peacocks, geese, Guinea fowl, chickens - and penned up goats/horse. It is located in the High Atlas Mountains, near Ourika Valley, 1 hour from Marrakech. It gets mostly Moroccan guests, not foreigners. From road, you walk across a bridge to a reception of singers to greet you with milk and dates. Then you walk through outdoor dining areas and up 223 very steep steps to a big room for settling in with mint tea, water and snacks. Up a few more stairs to the guest rooms. Porters prance up easily, carrying your luggage. Singles are on the first level (very small, no view) and doubles, etc (huge, lots of storage, balconies with mountain view, but no WiFi) one level higher. Strong WiFi in rooms, multiple networks, different network in public areas. My single room, tiny but cozy. Warm a/c, tv with satellite channels (small flat screen). 3 hooks on back of door for hanging things. No closet 2 twin beds pushed together tightly for full size bed. 2 night stands, 1 small bureau. Very limited room to put anything. Nowhere to put things in bathroom. Shower head to left, sink straight ahead, toilet to right. Really comfy, firm bed and wonderful fluffy bed covering, sheets and pillows. Extra blankets in high-up storage space by a/c. I could barely reach the knob to open it and then couldn’t reach the blankets (and no chair to stand on!). Thick and not too rough towels. Rugs on tile floor. Bamboo ceiling and round branch-like hanging light. Took awhile for shower to get warm, then very low water pressure. Afternoon water pressure good and water got hot. Staff is extremely friendly and demonstrate excellent customer service. The property began as a restaurant and they later built hotel rooms last year. Breakfast included barley soup (with milk), oj, coffee, M’Semen (square naan-like bread - the best here of anywhere I had it), round crepes, round/cornmeal type bread, plain omelet (good) with greens, olives, honey, oil, argan oil and peanut (like peanut butter), thyme, dates. Wonderful lunch - very flavorful veggie tangine including fennel and fresh herbs. Dinner is ordered from a menu. I was not crazy about the food but may have ordered the wrong things (puréed veggie soup - maybe fava bean and omelet with cheese, canned mushrooms, onions).