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 AU$138.93 (€105), excluding tax at 10 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of €2.50 per person per night on check-out.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (€105) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• 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. 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.

Food and drink at Madada Mogador

• Hotel restaurant

  La Table by Madada, right beneath the hotel, is an arched, bistro-etyle eatery with a menu that draws heavily from Essaoira's seafood-rich waters.

• 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