Lovely Riad, Shame About the Location

Advantages: Rooms and food are great, very relaxing
Disadvantages: Location, location, location!

...We have just returned from spending the Easter weekend at Riad O2 in Marrakech. Prior to visiting Marrakech we had good email contact with the riad, and we confirmed with them that we would like to be collected from the airport and have dinner in the riad on our first night. We then arranged to pay the outstanding balance by bank transfer. We arrived at Menara airport after a really easy three hour flight, and we were quickly met by one of the riad's drivers, Hamid. He helped us to his car with our bags and we set off for the medina. Having read a couple of reviews on other sites before leaving we were a little wary of the area that Riad O2 is situated in, and unfortunately on arriving I have to admit our worries were confirmed. Hamid pulled up at the end of a road near Sidi Ben Slimane, and we then walked for three or four...

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Review of Riad O2, Marrakesh

Peace and Tranquility in a Busy City

Advantages: Peaceful, pretty with wonderful owners and staff. One of my favourite places ever.
Disadvantages: No tea making facilities. Early morning call to prayer gives a swift awakening

...What kind of traveller are you? Do you like to spend your holiday budget on a luxury villa somewhere, with all the mod cons, or do you prefer more Spartan accommodation, on the basis that you're just renting somewhere to rest your head at night? Usually, I fall into the latter category - as much as I like luxury, I cannot justify spending large sums of money if I'm visiting a city in order to get out and about, and discover the culture and meet the people. However, I've just returned from Marrakech, and found a happy medium. Riad Dar Sbihi is in the northern part of the Medina (old city) in Marrakech. A riad is a traditional Moroccan dwelling. It is laid out around a central courtyard, with the rooms communicating with the courtyard, but not with each other. The result of this design is that you step from a bustling (and dusty...

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Review of Riad Dar Sbihi, Marrakech, Morocco

Riad Al Moussika Marrakech : The hidden gem of Marrakesh !

Advantages: Central location, very good value for money, haute-cuisine food, very professional service
Disadvantages: I can't find any

...The Riad Al Moussika, ( www.riyad-al-moussika.com ), where I spent with friends a long weekend at the beginning of our journey to the south of Morocco in early January, is a place that has stopped time, where the magical atmosphere, relives Morocco of Pasha of 1800, but with all the comfort of our century. Everything is perfect, authentic, calm, serene... I recommend strongly this hotel for its central location, even for the excellent and very professional service provided by the young boys of the staff, always smiling and present without being intrusive. The chef and owner, Khalid, a nice and helpful big boy, who speaks I do not know how many languages, but among them an excellent Italian that has enabled me to know a world of things about authentic Marrakech, thing impossible otherwise, due to my language limitations, and, most...

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Review of Riyad Al Moussika, Marrakesh

Eating&spleeping in a riad in Marrakech

Advantages: good food, clean, great cocktails, nice rooms
Disadvantages: --------------------

.... Emphasis on the cheese. My boyfriend had rigatoni quattro formaggi and I had gnocchi al pesto, each around 100 dirhams. Dinner comes with a basket of assorted breads flavored with various herbs and spices. Price per person includes having wine. I eat a great Tiramisù and my boyfriend a dessert that I never had haerd, called Pavlova: super. The manager, Mr Paolo, told us, that the Cafe has 2 double rooms and a minisuite. We asked him the see the rooms. No problems, in this way we could shoot some photos. I think it's a good idea to sleep in a riad for enjoy the real Morocco, that's not possible in a 5 stars hotel :-( ....next time The Sunday Moroccan-international brunch tasts optimal. It's a great buffet, for 200 DHS. It's not expansive, but unfortunatly it comes suspended in July and August because it is too warm and the buffet it comes...

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Review of Cafe Arabe

The best holiday we have ever had !

Advantages: spa
Disadvantages: not

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Review of The Palais Rhoul Riad Marrakech

Hotel Riad Al Moussika -A fantastic place!Discretely gay friendly

Advantages: The food served is really first class, superior service; perfect location; gay friendly
Disadvantages: Impossible to reserve at the last momemt.

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Review of Riyad Al Moussika, Marrakesh

Sas/sata Raid Backplane 4 X 2.5in For 5.25in Bay ~Star Tech

Advantages: SAS and SATA drive compatible
Disadvantages: None!!

...I have been looking for an enclosure that fits nicely into my desktop 3.25" bay - yet is RIAD compatible. It is critical that it can fit 2.5" SATA or SAS drives as anything larger would just take up too much space. Alas, I found this neat enclosure to fulfill just this. Also, I must say the product was delivered in good time; it was well packaged and the description of the product on the sellers site was excellent. The Star Tech product itself is to be used with a RAID control card and as such the latter is a separate purchase. However, I was looking for an enclosure for SATA/SAS drive - and here it is. I haven't yet used the product but looked at the quality of build - and it is good. It does have product information sheets included as well as the data cables. Overall, a good purchase. Happy shopping! Usman...

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Review of digital-fusion.co.uk

Rock to infinity and beyond!

Advantages: Rock to infinity and beyond!
Disadvantages: Nothing to say

...Track list: 1. "Chinese Democracy" Axl Rose, Josh Freese 4:43 2. "Shackler's Revenge" Rose, Buckethead, Caram Costanzo, Bryan Mantia, Pete Scaturro 3:37 3. "Better" Rose, Robin Finck 4:58 4. "Street of Dreams" Rose, Tommy Stinson, Dizzy Reed 4:46 5. "If the World" Rose, Chris Pitman 4:54 6. "There Was a Time" Rose, Paul Tobias, Reed 6:41 7. "Catcher in the Rye" Rose, Tobias 5:53 8. "Scraped" Rose, Costanzo, Buckethead 3:30 9. "Riad n' the Bedouins" Rose, Stinson 4:10 10. "Sorry" Rose, Buckethead, Mantia, Scaturro 6:14 11. "I.R.S." Rose, Tobias, Reed 4:28 12. "Madagascar" Rose, Pitman 5:38 13. "This I Love" Rose 5:34 14. "Prostitute" Rose, Tobias 6:15 After so many years of waiting, I finally got the latest Guns and Roses album tittled Chinese Democracy. And after so many years...

lowhin 09.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Chinese Democracy [PA] - Guns n' Roses

Watch out for the snake-poo

Advantages: Very different to anything in Europe, but very close to the UK
Disadvantages: You have to haggle over everything

...the Medina walls including the Royal Palace, tombs, mosques lots of busy back streets and markets and various other palaces. Places to Stay There are a variety of different types of accommodation in Marrakech from simple bed and breakfast places to grand hotels, but the most traditional type is the Riyad or Riad, which is a word now generally assumed to mean guesthouse, but in fact refers to the traditional architecture, arranged around a central courtyard with four flowerbeds. We stayed at the Riad Altair, a four star guesthouse costing £363.00 for one Double room for 4 nights Bed and breakfast. Hotel Riad Altair is a very pleasant old Riyad guesthouse with courtyard with alcoves enclosing Arabic style sofas and chairs and an enormous banana tree rising up through the centre of the three storey building to the roof terraces...

AndrewPo 24.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Marrakech (Morocco)

Marrakech - it's like marmite you love or hate it.

Advantages: The mix of the city and the lovely riads
Disadvantages: The polution from petrol

...My daughter and myself have recently been lucky enough to spend four days in Marrakech in October. It was to me an amazing experience. We had a very early morning flight with Easy Jet, which meant we had most of the rest of the day to spend in Marrakech. From emails that I had been exchanging with the mamagers of The Riad Zolah in whch we were staying I knew we were being met at the airport, and taken as close to the Riad as a taxi can get. We were the last people out of the airport as I had left some things on the plane, and had to wait for it be be boarded before they would go and look for them. Luckily they were still there, and so was the taxi driver. It is an easy 15 minute drive to where we were dropped off, and met by a young lad with a big wooden cart which took our luggage and he guided us through souks and bewildering...

Alison3 01.11.2008 · Read review
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