Visiting Morocco

Casablanca

Villa Blanca Urban Hotel Casablanca
Address: Avenue de la Corniche, Borgogne, Casablanca, Morocco
Phone: +212 (0)522 39 2510

Villa Blanca is one of the best hotels in Casablanca, Morocco. The hotel is located on the Corniche just five minutes’ walk from the beach.

Villa Blanca Urban Hotel in Casablanca has 40 guest rooms. Each room is decorated in neutral decor with white bed linens and beige and brown accents.

The hotel’s restaurants are also top notch. The French brasserie, which is called Le Relais de Paris, and the Lebanese restaurant, called Le Loubnane, are both frequented by locals as well as people visiting Morocco.

In the evenings, there is a nightclub at Villa Blanca Urban Hotel called Le Carre de Casablanca. It is one of the best clubs in Casablanca, and stays busy well into the night. If you are sensitive to noise, make sure to request a room away from the club.

During the day hotel guests can enjoy Villa Blanca’s pool and hammam, and in the evenings Le Skybar is the perfect place for pre-dinner cocktails.

Rooms at Villa Blanca Urban Hotel in Casablanca start at 175 GBP per night. This rate does not include breakfast.

Google maps are available for Morocco. 

Google has free maps of Morocco inside of Google Maps. 

There are street and road maps, major and minor cities, and rural and mountain areas of Morocco. 

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Road to Ouzoud Falls

Every major guidebook company from Lonely Planet to Let’s Go makes at least one Morocco guidebook.

Most guidebook companies make a book on Morocco as a whole, but the country’s territory and diversity of places to visit make for enough material for a full guidebook on specific regions and cities like Marrakech.

If you’re only planning on visiting one city in Morocco, getting a specific guidebook for the city is a good idea. For example, Lonely Planet’s book on Marrakech gives good in-depth coverage of Marrakech and the surrounding area.

If you’ll be visiting lots of places in Morocco, getting a larger guidebook like The Rough Guide to Morocco is a good idea. If you’re handy with scissors, you can cut out the chapters you need and leave the rest of the guidebook at home to save room as you pack your bags.

Once you know what size Morocco guidebook you need, shop around for a guidebook that fits your travel style. If you’re backpacking, Lonely Planet, Let’s Go, and the Rough Guide are some of the best Morocco guidebooks.

If you’re going upscale, look into guides like the Hg2 Marrakech (A Hedonist’s Guide to Marrakech) or the Wallpaper Guide to Marrakech that offer more high-end suggestions for Marrakech riads, great hotels, top restaurants, and shopping in the souks.

If you love sightseeing, consider picking up the Eyewitness Travel Guide to Morocco. With photos and illustrations on every page, the Eyewitness Morocco guidebook is great for explaining the details of Morocco’s many historic buildings and landmarks.

On a budget? A lot of the best deals on Morocco guidebooks can be found on websites where travelers that have just returned from Morocco are selling their books. If you’re lucky you can get a copy with good notes and suggestions written in!

One last tip on finding the best Morocco guidebooks: check the date the guidebook was published. If it is more than a year old, don’t buy it. Things change so quickly in Morocco that an old guidebook will be of little use to you today.