Sofitel Casablanca Tour Blanche

Sofitel Casablanca Tour Blanche stands on Rue Sidi Belyout, in the business quarter between the port and the old medina. The location is the point of it: Casa Port station is one block away, the medina walls begin a short walk to the west, and the Hassan II Mosque is visible from the upper floors. For anyone arriving by train from Rabat or Marrakech, this is about as close as a hotel gets to the platform. The hotel is contemporary rather than historic, and it plays to that. Rooms and suites run from around 33 to 100 square metres. So SPA occupies two floors, with a heated relaxation pool and a hammam, and So Fit is the gym. There are two restaurants, Brasserie Flaneur for French and international cooking and Min Koy for Japanese, plus the CasArt bar. Meeting rooms run from 35 to 500 square metres, which is why it fills with business travellers midweek. Choose it if you want to walk to the medina and the art deco centre and to step off a train into your hotel.