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Dar Mouna Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Location Aït Ben Haddou village, Nearby Places
Transportation Follow signs from the rd. for 200m (655 ft.)
Phone 028/890840, 061/385720
Fax 028/823080
Web site www.darmouna.com
Room Information 12 units
Prices 550dh-620dh ($69-$78/£34-£39) double; 650dh ($81/£41) suite. Children under 2 stay free in parent's room. Rates include breakfast. TPT not included
Credit Cards MC, V
In Room Amenities A/C
Parking Covered parking
Other Restaurant: Menu du jour 100dh ($13/£6.25)

Frommer's Review

Abdellah Mouna's family-run guesthouse was the first in the village and is the one of the friendliest, with a terrace that looks directly over the riverbed to their old house in Aït Ben Haddou. Constructed in tabout throughout, the main building surrounds a cozy interior courtyard with comfortable lounges and a clay-brick fireplace that is perfect on cold winter nights. The rustic inward-facing rooms are on two levels opening on to the courtyard. Low-lying beds with natural-fiber spreads and floors covered with Berber rugs, grass mats, and lamb's wool hides complement the rustic, earthen walls. Most rooms have good-size bathrooms with ceramic basins atop stone pedestals and large walk-in showers; the sole suite has a small, separate lounge room and a private terrace.

Note: The kasbah view that is offered with the more expensive rooms is only through a small window and partly obscured by decorative ironwork.

An earth and stone restaurant adjoining the main building is furnished with wrought-iron furniture and has two fireplaces and a small lounge area. The 30-seat restaurant offers a menu du jour, for lunch and dinner, of fine, home-cooked Moroccan fare. Nonguests are welcome with prior notice. Note that the restaurant isn't air-conditioned and doesn't serve alcohol, though you can bring your own.

The large terrasse panoramique stretches the length of Dar Mouna and is where you will want to spend most of your time. Woven grass umbrellas afford some shade from the sun as you while away the hours simply looking across to the famous ksour. Request your meals to be taken out here. A garden at the rear of the small, walled property has a vegetable patch to supply the restaurant, as well as a swimming pool and some woven-grass sun lounges, though at press time, this area was in need of some attention.

Facilities:
Restaurant; lounge; pool

Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.


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