Dar Tanger Medina

Staying here, in the Medina, is definitely a different way to experience Tangier – but I don’t think I’ll return. Not that difficult to find (google maps worked amazingly well in the Medina and the Kasbah). The staff were very friendly and helpful, checkin was fine, bear in mind you have to pay in cash when checking in. My room was decently sized, nicely decorated with Moroccan lamps and woodwork. Small flat-screen with a few channels, including BBC. Wifi worked fine, in room and at breakfast. No real storage space apart from a cupboard with a few shelves. There’s an a/c which worked fine. Small table and two chairs. The room was not really well-maintained, Out of two beautiful Moroccan lamps, one had a horrible white led bulb, one wasn’t working. The bathroom was large, but the shower head holder was broken. The room is carpeted, but the carpets (and the bathroom mats) were not clean at all. The windows opened onto the street, and it was noisy, even late at night – despite closing the windows and the rolling blinds. Breakfast was good – some fruit, bread, spreads, juice, coffee, tea – individually served.

The place is absolutely dark, dirty, falling apart, no amenities at all. Had to ask for towels and toilet paper. (The breakfast staff were great)The rest was so disappointing and over priced for getting no service at all. The terrace is hot dirty and the guy who runs it just sits up there and smokes. I’m sorry I ever took my family here. No place to relax it just felt dirty. I’ve stayed in many riads in Morocco, this just ******. 0/10 in every area of this place.

Very disappointed in the stay. The pictures are incredibly deceiving and the place is not what it looks like at all. The rooms feel more like a cheap hostel than a riad/hotel. We stayed in cheaper places in morocco that were way nicer. The owner also pulls some type of scam where they make you pay their posting fee/commission fee that they owe to ***********, which I have not had to pay at any other riad/hotel in Morocco. Would highly NOT recommend this place as it was dirty, staff were unfriendly (besides the breakfast guy, he was kind and helpful). The rooms felt like being in a dungeon during medieval times. AVOID this place if you can, and do yourself a favour and stay in a nicer hotel for your visit to the lovely city of Tanger.

There are better deals to be had if you know what you are doing. But you should at least stay once here in the Medina (a market maze). You are .1 mile from Cafe Baba where celebrities like the Stones and expat artists, Kerouac, Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, hashed. Staff is friendly and very helpful in finding what you need.