Hotel Des Arts Suites & Spa

We arrived at night after a long and exhausting trip and a very long and expensive taxi ride from the airport (about 500dirham).

Very few people spoke English, yet those who did, were very helpful arranging taxi drives etc.

Due to the leveled layout of the apartment, the bed was on a higher level, we could overlook the ocean.

The rooms are tastefully decorated and great bathroom.

The kitchen in the apartment is very well equipped the bathrooms though are veeery small and uncomfortable.

After changing rooms twice we finally got our apartment which seemed nice, it even had a nice open fire place.

Our intial room stank - really stank - of drains (as, incidentally, did the reception), the next room much smaller and peeling paper on ceiling in bathroom.

The meal was really lovely (a large variety of authentic Moroccan food-even my Moroccan husband who usually hates the quality o fMoroccan food in restaurants thought the food was great) and the staff very friendly.

Statues in front of the dining restaurant, and the view between the hotel and the ocean is a small farm, I saw cows and sheeps.

Every single time we ordered something in the restaurant we got wrong dishes, even though we had people in the group that spoke French, Spanish,.

I was first introduced to the hotel when my husband and I went to have 'breakfast' during Ramadan last year with a friend visiting from Europe.

The receptionist also told us that here is no wireless internet in the hotel until finally we found out that there is a router in the restaurant for the guests to use.

Reception staff not helpful - no information about the hotel provided upon arrival and we did not realise until the thrid day there that there was a pool on the roof (which was too cold to use).

The staff wasn't particularly helpful this time, but we also didn't really need their help with anything.

The service was extremely slow and bad and the food sub-standard.

There is nothing included in the price you pay for a room in this hotel, such as indoor swimming pool or sauna (quite expensive), which i think is not normal for a five star hotel.

If you visit this hotel in summertime and you dont care about visiting the city i am sure this hotel is not such a bad choice, it has a nice pool on the roof and a very nice garden.

Gym was a joke and a health and safety nightmare - three bits of cardio (two of which were out of action).

There is Wi-Fi in one sitting area, which is also nicely furnished.