Mr & Mrs Smith

Madada Mogador

Essaouira, Morocco

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