Le Casablanca Hotel

Le Casablanca Hotel sits at 19 Boulevard Moulay Rachid, in Anfa, the leafy residential quarter west of the business centre. It is a boutique house rather than a tower: the interiors are done in an art deco register, which is the city's own architectural language, and the scale is small enough that the staff learn your name. The garden holds an outdoor pool, and there is a spa with treatment rooms and a fitness room. La Pergola is the restaurant, cooking Mediterranean. The hotel keeps a conference room and valet parking, and it can arrange airport transfers at any hour. This is the alternative to the big chain hotels downtown: quieter streets, a garden to come back to, and a short drive rather than a walk to the Hassan II Mosque.