Dar 91 Essaouira Blog - Luxury guest house holiday accommodation for rent Essaouira

Late availability in September

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:19:16 +0000

We have space in our new apartment, Next Door @ Dar 91, between 15 and 22 September…and we’re offering 15% discount if you book for a week or more! We also have space in October.

Check out the coolest new address in Essaouira: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Essaouira/Dar-91-Essaouira/138803832582?v=photos

Moroccan tourism on the up…

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:35:49 +0000

…where will it end, we ask ourselves?

Just three to four years ago Marrakech airport had one terminal. Now it has a fabulous main terminal building which dwarfs the original.

And now there’s a tender out for the construction of a third one – along with a second terminal at Fez!

Apparently by 2013 Marrakech will be able to handle 10 million passengers a year – more than double its current capacity.

Of course if you’re heading to Essaouira you can also use Agadir – or our local airport…still waiting for routes other than Paris/Casablanca!

September discounts

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:14:24 +0000

Book for at least a week in September and we’ll give you 15% off! Or shorter stays (3 night minimum) available with 10% discount.

Dar 91 is available between 2 and 10 September, and Next Door is available between 13 and 22 September.

More photos of Next Door

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:28:15 +0000

Next Door @ Dar 91 is our lovely new apartment – now taking bookings. To see photos please visit our Facebook page. For more information please email us on info@moroccoholidayhome.com.

Latest photos from the new apartment

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:55:40 +0000

As in all the best photo-shoots, it’s the stuff that’s NOT in shot that’s the most revealing…but for now, sit back and enjoy some bits of the new place that we CAN show you!

Click here to see the photo album on our Facebook page – ‘like’ the main page there and you’ll get to see new photo albums as we add them…eventually we suppose we’ll get to the point where there isn’t a building site behind the photographer!

Class glass

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:02:05 +0000

One of the joys of renovating in Morocco is the abundance of coloured glass. We are particularly loving the deep green and rich yellow of these windows, which we found at the junk market and have brought back to life…

Check out the splashback on that

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Yes indeed, we’re at the point where we can start to show you the charming little details that will hopefully make the new flat a thing of beauty. We’re loving these antique tiles salvaged from a riad on Rue d’Agadir, set into mosaic in the 2nd floor kitchen…

Rubble trouble

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:50:36 +0000

One of the most time-consuming (and expensive) aspects of renovating a house in the medina is clearing away all the rubble you create. It all has to be bagged up into little sacks and left on the street overnight, for a horse and cart to take away first thing in the morning.

We’ve produced hundreds of cartloads since starting our renovation…hopefully not too many to go now!!

Within these walls

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:50:37 +0000

The walls in our house are not exactly uniform, and all manner of old stones and rubble break off during the ‘grattage’ process.

But even so we were pretty surprised to find this bone set into some of the plaster. Images of mafia-style killings filled our minds, but one of the builders assured us – with an alarming level of certainty – that it comes from “a dog on the beach”. Quite how he’s able to be so specific, we’re not sure…

The mystery of the secret door

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:00:21 +0000

When your house is built onto the battlements of a walled city, you don’t really expect your walls to contain a blocked-off doorway that might at some point have ushered you straight out of the city wall.

But that’s exactly what we found on the ground floor of Dar 91, as shown in this rather grainy photo (You’re just going to have to trust us on this one…it’s pretty dark down there and we didn’t have a lighting crew with us, ok? Ed). Which suggests our house pre-dates the city wall – or that our house was built where there used to be a door into the medina (which seems unlikely).

Kind of annoying, too – could make a rather natty shortcut to the off licence…