Dar Siham — Hotel in Fez

Dar Siham is a small, private guesthouse at the heart of the medina. The location could hardly be better, just a few minutes from the blue gate (Bab Bou Jeloud) and several other attractions. The couple that runs the house (Siham and Idriss) try their best in order to make their small, private house a cozy, friendly and attractive place to stay. The rooms and bathrooms are clean and spotless, and we notice in every detail the extreme effort that Siham and Idriss do in order to respond to all your small desires. The breaskfast is a small feast, with an assortment of products that you hardly expect on this type of lodging. The house is a typical Moroccan house, what also adds up to the beauty of the place.||||If you stay here, you'll be on a fantastic location, in a extremely safe environment, and in the best possible hands, since the owners will do their best to make your experience a really unique one. Nevertheless, there are some minor points that I believe that could be improved, and that refrain me from giving a full 5 star review.||||1. I love to stay at private homes, but possibly due to my age I do not feel any more comfortable with shared bathrooms. I never reserve a room with shared bathroom unless there is no suitable alternative. At Dar Siham we (a party of three) reserved two rooms using a major reservations website, being that one was described having a private bathroom, the second with a "private bathroom on the exterior". I assumed that the "private bathroom on the exterior" was on the exterior of the room, but that it was just for me. I did not love this model, but it was acceptable. I was surprised when I found the the "private bathroom on the exterior" is in fact inside the house and quite near my room, but it was a standard shared bathroom, without any privacy, and also used by some other rooms. The other room with a real private bathroom was OK. Before leaving, we called the attention of Siham that it was unacceptable that the rooms had a wrong/misleading description on the site, and she promised to revise the description. Unhappily, more than one month later, I just checked that the description remains the same on the site. So, please do not be fooled by the "private bathroom on the exterior", that in fact does not exists.||2. The main photo on a major reservation websites suggest that there is a staff team and therefore that this is a small hotel . Forget it. There is no such support team, this is just a private house run by Siham and Idriss. The "support team" is a family photo, but I never saw any of them around.||3. The mattresses, of traditional manufacturing, are quite hard and a little bit uncomfortable for those of us who are not used to them.||4. Idriss suggested an official guide for us to have short tour of the medina. While we found the tour quite interesting, and the guide was in fact very good, with a deep knowledge of the area and speaking an almost native english, we found it slightly expensive: 10 Eur/person for a two hour tour for three of us, given that we were later joined by a party of four american girls. If the rate was the same for all, it seems a very profitable...

i booked i double room with the bathroom outside the room. the facility inside was pretty good and specially the location was fantastic and the breakfast was amazing. Problem is, the room i booked was the only one with on heater or air conditioner, which means it would be quite cold at night in wintertime. but generally speaking it deserve the price. ||||HOWEVER!!!||what i've never ever seen is:||in the evening before i was checking out, the boss asked me to get in his house and demanded me to give him a top comment on booking with in a threatening way. (i had to give, cause it just seems like if i didn't he would eat me.)||||I'm saying that which doesn't means the guesthouse was not good or what. But the behavior of the boss was just so horrible!! (maybe it's not the worst. Fes is beautiful. but once if u've been in Fes Medina u will know that the whole medina is just like a huge trap. it's just like every local people there who are able to speak english are liar....

The lady owner is a bit rough around the edges. ||Very impatient if you ask me.||When we checked in, the Lady owner demanded a "tax" of 20 euros. ||After I eventually paid, I checked to see if my online booking was all inclusive, tax etc. It turned out it was but the owners refused to give me back my money. ||They were trying to pretend the reservation never went through and wanted the cost of the whole reservation in cash. ||So in turn, they wanted double the cost.||Just shady.||||As for the place, I messaged her regarding the bathroom situation. She told me is a "private bathroom"||Of course it wasnt.||The bathroom itself was tiny, cold, smelly, old etc||No toilet paper half the time.||The wifi was odd. Slow and not working pretty much the whole time.||||Breakfast was served at 9am. While we were eating, there was another couple just standing there waiting their turn. Little bit uncomfortable to eat when people are standing over you.||||Avoid...