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Madada Mogador 5 rue Youssef El Fassi Essaouira 44000 MA

Madada Mogador

Essaouira, Morocco

Style Parisian apartment

Setting Ocean-view ramparts

With a built-in wooden bookshelf acting as reception desk, hotel shop and concierge, Madada Mogador feels more like an enormous private Parisian apartment. Five of the tadelakt bedrooms are off the central sand-coloured salon, with a staircase leading to two more. The uninterrupted sea views of the upstairs rooms must be the best in Essaouira.

Need to know

  • Rooms Five rooms (three rooms with ocean view, two rooms with medina view), a junior suite and a suite both with an ocean view
  • Rates Double rooms from $144.16 (€115), excluding tax at 10 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of €2.50 per person per night on checkout.
    ? Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (€115), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
  • More details Rates include breakfast.
  • Facilities Library, board games, WiFi, iPod dock, a treatment room with views of the bay for massages and manicures, and cook services if required.
  • Check-out Midday.
  • Children Children are warmly welcome, though the layout of the hotel doesn’t make it particularly suitable. Under-twos are not charged for; there is a cot available, and babysitting at about €10 an evening.
  • Also No pets. Smoking allowed.

Food and drink at Madada Mogador

  • Hotel restaurant There’s no restaurant, but After Five, right beneath Madada, is a trendy modern European bistro, open seven days a week.
  • Dress code Whatever you like lounging in.
  • Last orders After Five takes last orders at about 10.30pm
  • Room service Snack service during the afternoon until 7pm: paninis, omelettes, salade niçoise.
  • Hotel bar You can order drinks in the informal lobby or on the roof terrace.

Madada Mogador 5 rue Youssef El Fassi, Essaouira, 44000


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Our favourite rooms

The Madada room opens onto the ramparts, with private terrace and tadelakt and aged brass in the bathroom. Warm-red Sabra room has a bath in the room and club armchairs; Assala room has a wall-sized bedhead and big ivory tadelakt tub.

Also

Try your hand at tajines with a two-hour lesson in Moroccan cookery, taught in either French or English, and culminating in a two-course meal. The cookery classes are held in L'Atelier Madada, a former almond warehouse on the ground floor, and include a guided tour of the souk. There's also a pastry workshop held every afternoon.

From the Guestbook…

Madada Mogador was a lovely place to stay for a bit of luxury and relaxation. Sure it doesn't look quite as sparkly as in the photos but it is still amazing and the service from th...

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