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5 Απρίλιος 2024
There is so much to love and admire about this garden oasis set in the scrubland around Essaouira. The drive is beset with flowers draped down the sides of beige walls the rooms have been authentically decorated and the facilities are excellent. We loved our 5 days there. We first visited the Jardin de Douar in 2009 having bumped across a partly unfinished main road from Marrakech in a car that was more dents than car. We arrived at lunchtime and were greeted like old friends, fed lunch and generally loved for the few days we were there. At that time the accommodation was confined to the main house only, there was one pool. Fast forward to 2024. It’s huge with new villas built for larger groups, two pools, two dining areas mainly because the number of children at dinner means that many adults would prefer the quiet of the separate dining room. So it is with the second swimming pool reserved for adults only. But if you can’t get a table in the adults dining room then you could be faced with feral children in the main room and the cacophony of noise that accompanies them. In summary then intimacy has been replaced by commercialism. Dinner a la carte or fixed price is good but not outstanding. Tagines are a stable part of the offering but we had better in Essaouira. The staff are really not as attentive as they used to be. We were totally ignored for 20 minutes one evening in the restaurant. I spoke to a waiter to ask why, it wasn’t like they were super busy, more like they hadn’t decided who would wait our table. Breakfast lacks some diversity. This is a super critical review of a really really good hotel. Just a bit of management review and it could be one of the worlds great hotels.
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