多美德拉格納雷酒店 Domaine De L'arganeraie

The resort is pretty, the pool area is very nice. Breakfast is good and served by the pool. The waiter Yousef was really lovely and very helpful, going out of his way for us which we really appriciated. They have lots of tortoises in the garden. They have two dogs who are also very friendly.

The resort is very hard to find, local taxi drivers don't know it, and it's very poorly signposted. It's set down 2miles of rocky, farm tracks that most petit taxis refuse to drive down. The owners know it's difficult to get taxis to go there, they have set up a taxi service of 4wheel drive cars that don't mind driving to the hotel, but you have to pay alot for them, 100 dirhams each way to Essaouira. Local taxis, if you don't mind walking 30min to main road cost us max 50 dirhams a day. The room we had was tired and had lots of ants in it, with clean but stained towels. We weren't allowed to use the living areas in our 'Riad' even though we were the only people staying in it the whole of our trime there. The pool had big patches of algae.

The Riads are great, the silence at night, the place is very friendly and safe. The hotel is great for children. I liked very much every employes, the persons are received like a family(they helped me resolving some problems with a flat tire, (Jean Philipe, again, thanks). I have made a friend for life, with Aziz Youssef(employe of the restaurant). Everybody is very friendly, make as feel at home. When i went away the entire family was sad:(

The way to the riad from km8, "2km" in a road that is not for every kind of car. But it is not so bad and it´s no reason for us not to come back one day.