Name: Hotel Awayou
Address: Valé de rose, Boutaghrar, Boumalne Dades, Boumalne Dades, Boumalne Dades, 45200, Morocco
Rating: 8

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Hotel Awayou

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One night (Christmas Day) during a 2 week tour. 
Located in a small, peaceful ,rural village in a river valley, accessed by scenic mountain road.
Very individualistic ,one star family owned auberge . 
Outside  night-time temperature   sub zero ,main dining room/lounge warmed with patio heaters and  good ,hot food. Comfortable and welcoming.
Would be even better in warmer weather!!
Evening, staff(and guests) spent drumming, singing and dancing .
Small aircon/heater in room gave out minimal heat but OK if one stood under it! Small, very simple room. Lighting  basic but lit up room. Big  ,heavy ,clean blankets plentiful. Regular single bed with comfortable firm mattress.
Wet room  very basic,  do-hickey  but it all worked and the water hot.
Good WIFI in main lounge/dining and terrace only.
Fair amount of steps and no lift but helpful staff.
Breakfast (well it is out of  main season) fresh bread, Moroccan pancakes and a choice of eight different types /jars of chocolate spread!!!Honey available.

Authentic. Rural, rustic. Take a torch

Lovely stop for lunch in Roses Valley, the tajines were great, we had a kefta tajine and it was delicious. We also enjoyed the turkey kebabs that were very tender. Very good value and the view from the terrasse was beautiful. Lovely hotel for a lunch break whilst exploring Roses Valley.

Perfect lunch spot

We stayed there for 2 nights. The staff was very attentive. On the 2nd day, we did a beautiful hike in the valley of the roses. Of course, at this time of the year the roses are not in bloom, but I can imagine, the colours and smell of the rosebushes. The Hotel gave us a packed lunch which was plentiful. We walked to the Gorges d'Agouti, around 13km, crossing the river several times. The rooms are basic, but comfortable, we had plenty of hot water and the showers worked well. Yes, the WiFI doesn't work in the rooms, but there was WIFI in the lounge. A pleasant place to stay in the area.

We loved our stay the Hotel Awayou. The staff was incredibly attentive and friendly.  Both dinner and breakfast were plentiful and very tasty.  Dinner may have been our best hotel meal of the two week trip.  

Loved the look of the bedrooms and the local bedding (wish I had bought a pillows or a similar bedspread).

One of the staff members lead us on a 6 mile hike through beautiful scenery and gave us an opportunity to interact with locals.

Charming rooms, plentiful and tasty food

Stayed here as part of a tour. The people running the hotel were very friendly and the meals were good. The vegetarians were blown away with Berber omelettes. However the rooms were cold. The beds were small and the sheets did not fit properly.

Good food but...

Stayed here as part of a tour.  First, let me say that the owners are a family and they were very, very nice and accommodating.  We enjoyed a tea preparation lesson from the patriarch of the family.  The breakfasts were delicious, and one lunch was served on one of the terraces.  I passed on the dinner but others in the group really enjoyed it.  The location is terrific, especially if you wish to hike the area, which is very beautiful.  Now to the less than stellar--the mattress was like a board.  The very thin sheet did not really fit.  Very poor quality towels.  The sink was not fastened down so it wobbled, and the toilet lid was not working properly, and the toilet wasn't fastened down either.  I never got hot water, except once for a few minutes in the sink and several others in the group also had this problem.  Wi fi worked in the very comfortable, pleasant lounge but not in the rooms.  I'm not sure what other options there are for staying in this area, but I would say that this place is what I would call very basic.

Not the most comfortable

There is 'rustic' and then there is shoddy workmanship. Room 20 is a splendid example of the latter. I'm wondering if there is building code in Morocco because there were a couple of serious defects in my bathroom alone and they didn't look rustic either. Firstly the most worrying one was that the pedestal for the sink had not been concreted into place and wobbled alarmingly. Also some lazy person had drilled a hole as big as a fist as a home for the shower head but had changed his mind and placed the shower head below this spot. You or I would then have found some spackle and filled the hole - but not this chap. He has left it for prosterity. 
There were also cracks in the bathroom wall but then this might have been a rustic look. 
One of the taps in the wonky pedestal sink didn't work either.
There was no soap and only a container of that pink detergent goo which is horrible to use but cheap for hoteliers.
On the plus side the shower water was hot and I did have a very good shower.
The curtains on the window in the bedroom were thin and did not stop the light coming in.
The mattress did not have a cover and was just topped with a very flimsy and ill fitting bottom sheet. I found this disturbing as it brunched up in the night and I awoke to find myself lying directly on the mattress. I'm now wondering what skin disease I can expect.
The building is in a constant state of expansion so it has a very rough look. The light outside my room was not turned on when I went to my room after dinner and I was unable to see where the stairs were. Someone with a mobile phone had to turn the torch on to show me the way.
The owners are very canny and are aiming to make this into an enormous hotel over time. However might I suggest that instead of continual expansion for the sake of it, they pay more attention to the details that make a guest's stay more enjoyable?
And sorry I forgot to mention the el cheapo bathroom towels. I have never seen these coloured towels outside my mother's bathroom. Every other hotel or riad in the world has white fluffy towels.
That's what clients like.
Although there is free wifi  don't think that they have enough bandwidth as when the hotel was full of people I could
 never get on the Internet. In fact I was unable to log in for at least eighteen hours at one time. However when everyone went out I was able to get internet reception for two hours.
Apart from the above, the hotel is in a prime location for exploration of the Magoun Valley and I'm not sure how much better the other hotels in the area are anyway!

Well hmmm

Peregrine tour in an authentic Berber village. We enjoyed the valley walks. Plus it was xmas day a special xmas dinner and local Berber dancers was arranged for us on our arrival.

Hint : perfect local hosts ask the staff 

Peregrine tour Mgoun Valley

Hotel Awayou had a few things going against it - the bed sheets were too small for the large hard mattress  so came away at the edge of the bed, ending up bunched up;  the bath towels thin with a brown tinge (pale blue as well as the yellow one), the shower sent water over the floor - over the small terracotta basin that is the drain area for the shower and soaked a non-slip rubber mat which became water logged and squelched when walked on. The lighting in the room was very low with one small light high above the bed and one wall light; and there were only two power points - one in the bathroom and one beside the bed. AC warming seemed ineffective, once the remote was retrieved from the hotel staff but there were the really heavy blankets as found in other hotels.

According to our tour itinerary this was supposed to be "exclusive stay with a local family" - really a hotel,  with other people staying as well as our Peregrine tour. Our tour group had dinner in the hotel and it was delicious.

Breakfast was a good traditional meal, with the homemade bread pancakes, boiled eggs, fresh fruit (bananas and apples), bread, yoghurt, cornflakes, jams, olives, cheese triangles and fresh orange juice. Staff were nice and friendly.


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