Riad Baddi — Hotel in Bab Lamrissa باب لمريسة

Fantastic service with breakfast offered on the roof terrace at at the early morning warmth at 9 am.||||Large room very comfortable, member of staff accompanied me to the supermarket as upon arrival I was ripped of by a serious of taxi drivers.||||The Riad is only 10.8km (6miles) from the airport. Hopeing to save some cash, I took the airport bus into the centre of town was was then pointed to a taxi rank.||||The driver drove me around the town for 20 minutes then stopped and demanded that I pay him 40 dirham! And I was no where near my hotel!!!||||I then asked a Moroccan police officer for help, (all this happening after midnight and I was so so tired after my flight), he stopped a taxi driver who was in full Muslim garb, the cop told him where I wanted to go and said it would cost me 3 Euros.||||After another ten minutes he stopped to pick up another couple by the side of the road, five minutes after that he passed me onto yet ANOTHER taxi and did not want the 3 Euro that he originally asked for, but 30 Dirham instead!||||I landed at Rabat airport at 22.40 by this time it is 00.55 and yet a third taxi and I am no where near my hotel and by this time losing the will to live!!||||I gave the third taxi driver the telephone number of the hotel manager, and despite 3 calls between them the driver still took me around in circles.||||For a airport to hotel journey that the airport information told me that should cost no more than 120 Dirham, I was robbed to the tune of 370 Dirham. The taxi drivers are out and out thieves! Beware they drop you off in the middle of nowhere that you want to be and sometimes in unsafe parts of town.||||The hotel or Riad was very comfortable but very difficult to find unless you have local knowledge.||||I did not find anything at all remotely interesting In Rabat, and left with a feeling of having wasted quite a lot of money||||The taxi drivers are nothing short of criminal so beware.||||||||||||||||||||After driving for around ten minutes, the driver stopped and picked up another couple who were standing at the side...

One bad experience can leave a bad taste and we had the wrong start to begin with. ||We booked 2 nights through booking.com. When we arrived at Rabat, we decided to stay for one night as we drove through Rabat. Booking.com let us cancel the reservation but not change the date so when we arrived, we asked the manager (front desk) there if we can only stay for 1 night. He said no problem. The same night he came to us and said he won't be there the next morning and demanded we pay him that night. We asked if we can pay with credit card and of course it didn't work (We found this to be true in many other riads we stayed in Morocco) So we got our cash together to pay him but he didn't have change. With disappointment, he said we could pay the next morning. Alas, he came back to us in the morning and told us to pay extra 11 Euros because booking.com charged him for two nights reservation. Overall, we settled without extra payments but really left us with bad experience. ||||About the Hotel:||1. clean rooms and roomy overall but felt little enclosed with sketchy street views from the room.||||2. Breakfast was decent but was ruined after he came to us with extra charges. ||||3. Location... well... most restaurants are in Rabat and there aren't really much to see around the hotel. We arrived late and went out to Rabat with the help of a electrician who was fixing their wires. They told us we can come back with the tram but tram stopped running after 11pm. So to come back, we had to take grand taxi because petit taxi won't come to Sale. We ended up paying 100 MAD for taxi ride otherwise we had no way coming back. Most taxi drivers turned us away and the driver who took us without any dealing had hard time finding this hotel without our google map.||||4. Internet only works...

Don't stay unless you speak fluent French.||This was a "night before the plane leaves" riad. ||Foremost, I can't speak French or Arabic and the manager did not speak any English. ||1. We couldn't get on the internet. - couldn't communicate with management - after an hour and a half and numerous trips up and down to the 3rd floor, we were given a new passcode. It did not work. We gave up. We couldn't check in for our flight.||2. The heater in our room did not work. - couldn't communicate. They finally got it running.||3. We booked a room with 2 beds. we had 3 singles and could not move around the room. They weren't very comfortable.||4. We were on the 3rd floor with lots of luggage that had to be lugged down at 5:00 am.||5. Dinner, which had to be ordered in advance, was the second worst meal we had in Morocco.||6. We were told we had to pay for the meal in Euros. IN MOROCCO? they wouldn't take Dirhams? I paid in Dirhams, had the manager scan them and sign the copy.||7. I've never had a problem when not speaking someone's language. I can get the 'idea' of simple things that I'm talking about with hand signals, for the most part - providing the other party is trying also. Not here. It was obvious, very early on, that I did not understand any French. But the manager kept speaking to me in rapid French - no pointing at what she was talking about and no attempt to get her point across.||8. Our room faced the 'alley' and my husband was woken up by loud arguing in the alley.||||This is a 'shady' location. We'd not have ventured out at night even if we'd...