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are toilets and showers on each floor, while breakfast is on the shared roof terrace beneath
a Berber tent.
Hôtel Atlas
INN
€
( 0524 39 10 51;
www.hotel-atlas-mar rakech.com
; 50 Rue Sidi Bouloukat; s/d/tr without bathroom
Dh90/170/250, d/tr with bathroom Dh350/450; )
Tucked in an unassuming niche along Rue
Sidi Bouloukat is this surprisingly quiet and peaceful inn. Its 32 rooms (12 en suite) en-
compass two shaded courtyards, one with a mosaic fountain, the other with potted palms
and trailing creepers. Top-quality coverlets, small bedside rugs, stained-glass lunettes, a
comfortable TV salon and jewel-coloured lanterns lift an otherwise standard budget hotel
above the norm.
Hôtel Sherazade
INN
€
( 0524 42 93 05;
www.hotelsherazade .com
; 3 Derb Djemaa; s/d without bathroom Dh180/ 230, s
Dh220-480, d Dh270-550, ste Dh690; )
Conversation comes easily in this inn off Riad
Zitoun el-Kedim, run by a Moroccan-German family, with 23 rooms (18 with air-con),
sunny terraces and a mellow-yellow courtyard with a trickling fountain. Terrace rooms are
bargains, but you'll want earplugs to sleep through the muezzin's call and the breakfast
rush (Dh50 extra). Light sleepers should ask for rooms in the ivy-covered rear courtyard.
Hotel Essaouira
INN
€
( 0524 44 38 05;
www.jnanemogador.com/hotelessaouira-marrakech.htm
; 3 Derb Sidi Bouloukat; s/d
without bathroom Dh70/100, r with bathroom Dh380-480, mattress on roof Dh40)
No frills, just the
cheapest hotel in the medina with 28 rooms and breakfast (Dh25 to Dh40) views of the
Koutoubia.
Riad Le J
( 0524 39 17 87;
www.riadlej.com
; 67 Derb el-Hammam; r Dh850-1450; )
What do you get if
you cross Italian furniture designers with Marrakshi craftsmanship? The wonderfully fur-
nished Riad Le J. Whichever room you choose from the range of four spicy options -
Mint, Saffron, Pepper and Cinnamon - you can lie back and gaze at antique painted ceil-
RIAD
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