A very enjoyable stay

From: Steve Mills and Karen Blake Hello! We recently stayed with you (Room 6) on 22nd July with our two boys Sam and Ethan and we wanted to say how much we all enjoyed the experience. You were very welcoming and friendly and we had a great time. Thank you for your kindness and hospitality. We would love to come back again sometime; hopefully we will! All best wishes from the UK.

Dreaming

From: Fuhrmann Mortensen family Sitting here in the Danish cold, we are dreaming to go back to La Tangerina. Thanks a lot for a nice stay in summer 2009. It was the most pleasent way to stay in Tangier. Best wishes for all, Jesper, Mai, Christian, Andreas

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Can't Wait To Get There

From: Geraldine Toltschin Have just found by chance your website. As from this minute, I'm counting the minutes to get there! I live in Southern Spain, have not had the pleasure of your country yet. Alas, 2010! Congratulations on a very lovely place. Geraldine

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Fantastic Hotel!

From: Imdad & Khatoon We stayed at the La Tangerina in October 2009 for a relaxing break. It was fantastic! Thanks to all the staff who made our 5-night stay a very pleasant one...

A wonderful calm in a place of beauty

From: judewhyte This is a wonderful place indeed. Everything is catered for in so many ways.transformed to a world of jazz and Classical music as well as smells,scents and ambiance off the Muslim and Arab world it oozes class, hospitality, wonder, warmth and manners.. something long one from the holiday world...they say see Naples and die I say see La Tangerina and live a dream...as near to heaven as one can be without dying judewhyte@ireland.com

Thank You!

From: James Connington & Paulinne Downey We had a wonderful stay, thank you very much. The room was beautiful, all of staff were so welcoming, friendly and helpful (Ahmed thank you so much for early breakfast you are a real gentleman and a great asset to La Tangerina). A truly beautiful place which added hugely to our visit to the wonderful city of Tangier. Go raibh maith agaibh from Dublin, Ireland.

Stylish Tangier by the New York Times

This Moroccan port has always been a city of extremes, a surreal crossroads where Northern Africa meets Europe, the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic Ocean, and hedonism and history seem to intermix. But a new generation of artists and expats is giving this fabulously shabby port a new shine.

A view of Tangier from the roof terrace of La Tangerina, a 10-room hotel with a small hammam


Photo slideshow by: Ingrid Pullar for The New York Times

Visit a Moroccan Hammam for an enriching scrubdown!

La Tangerina private traditional wood fire Hammam available by reservation

Hammams, or public bathhouses, are a part of daily Moroccan life. Along with the mosque, medersa and communal bakery, it is an essential facet of traditional Moroccan life found in every neighbourhood.

To set foot in a hammam in Morocco is not only re-energizing and exfoliating but leaves you with a cultural experience you’ll never forget! It is the perfect spot for a respite from the simmering heat or to wash off the streets funk of the medina; where you get to mingle with the locals and share one of their most important customs.

Where to find a Hammam

You have two choices: go the traditional route and opt for a hammam in the medina or get a luxurious treatment at a fancy hotel or an upscale riad. The public outposts are more of an authentic experience, a soak-and-socialise centre where chatter flows like tap water. On the other hand, the fancy hotels and riads upscale versions are usually solitary and silent, but hospital-clean, modern and with a variety of professional treatments. Note that these hammams are private and as such not open to non-guests.

Hammam Etiquette

Men and women take their hammams seperately, so it is important to ask when the womens’ hours are. Inquire also about the fees, as most hammams charge a nominal fee for bathing and a seperate fee for a massage.

For a public hammam, tote your own toiletries, towels and bathing supplies - the stuff you would normally take to the shower. Hit the souk ahead and buy a bucket to douse yourself with water, a small plastic stool or mat to sit on and don’t forget a black scratchy glove called kese (pronounced key-s). The traditional soap - or ghasoul - is available onsite or can be easily purchased anywhere in the souk. Look for sabon beldi, plastic baggies of gooey olive-oil soap, and rhassoul, dried chips of herb-infused clay that functions as shampoo and body soap when you add a splash of water.

Unlike in Japan, your public bathhouse experience in Morocco doesn’t involve getting nude, so leave a pair of dark underwear on and a dry pair to change into afterwards. You are also expected to tip a few dirhams to the chap who looks after your bag.

What to Expect

Bathing in the Hammam is not your typical rub-a-dub-dub, the process involves different steps of scrubbing and soaking, drenching and dousing. If you’re a first-time visitor, this can befuddle so err on the safe side and order the services of a tayeba ( washing person).

Here’s a run down of the head-to-toe scrubdown experience: First, choose a spot in the hot room where you’ll sit on your matt. Now, the tayeba will apply sabon beldi all over your body and then alternate between scrubbing and lathering you thoroughly with the kese and splashing warm buckets over you. If rhassoul is used, it will be mixed with water and applied all over your hear. Again, it will be repeatedly rinsed out, while combing from the roots until your hair feels silky clean. This process of cleansing, scrubbing and kneading will take about an hour, with the finale a ceremonious dumping of the bucket over your head!

If you’ve never used a hammam before and all this constant scrubbing and cleansing sounds like an abrasive massage, just wait to see several layers of skin peel off like strands of dirty spaghetti! You will literally come out in new skin, as soft as a newborn’s.

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This is one great place - trip advisor review

Jun 15, 2009 | Trip type: Couples
Eugene, Oregon

After a long day of traveling: Granada to Algeciras to Tangier. via bus and ferry, this was one great place to finish!

The room was beautiful. The tea service on the terrace after check-in was far beyond any possible expectations. The terrace itself, with the view of the Atlantic, was wonderful. We couldn't have been happier!

In the morning was a breakfast which we didn't see improved the whole time we were in Morocco-- 3 weeks. Location to the Socorro Grande was perfect: far enough to give us a break, near enough to make it possible with relative ease.

Short version: we could happily have spent more time at La Tangerina and less time at some of the places we stayed later in our trip!

This is totally recommended for comfort, feeling welcome. and any other measure you might choose. No, I don't work for them... but I wish I could

I'm back!

From: Nacho I missed Tanger very very much, so I'm back ! On La Tangerina again, of course !!

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Wonderful!

From: Duane Coyle My traveling companion and I spent three nights at La Tangerina and had a great experience. Our hosts and staff were gracious and accomodating without being suffocating. Also, one has the opportunity to sit around the fireplace in the evening and compare notes with the other guests about the experiences of their day. The hotel is immaculate, but casual. I enjoyed seeing Tangier and the nearby areas and simply being immersed in something different. A very good time.

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email

From: Helmut Hallo Jürgen, die email an euch ist zurückgekommen. Irgendwas stimmt nicht oder die Box ist übervoll. Gruss Helmut

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Bountiful Tanger

What a great time of the year to be wandering around the souks of Tanger.





The hustle and bustle is as always but the harvest is in: feast your eyes on the explosion of colours and smells, the contrasts and textures of natures annual bounty.

The happy butcher

Grernadines and onions

Green peppers

The sheer abundance brings a smile and a hearty appetite.

Bon apetit Tanger.

Happy 10th Birthday to Ines

Happy Birthday Ines

Guapas Canarias

Tangier tennis club was swinging last Sunday when La Tangerina crew, family and friends descended to celebrate Ines's 10th Birthday.

Ines and Danny

It was a beautiful day made all the better by a surprise party that even caught me by surprise and I knew about it!

Faridas birthday surprise

Big thanks to Ines for the invite and to Pepe, Berta, lucky, Cesar and Miriam for making the after party such fun, my place next time enshalla.

visit and soon TO STAY

From: Adnane Abjayou J'ai visité l'hotel et j'y ai réservé sans me poser aucune question. c'est un bijoux, une beauté et une firté pour la ville de tanger et tous les tangerois. J'attend impatiemment que ce jours viennes pour que je puisses passer cette nuit..de compte de fés. Excellent travail...chapeau!!!

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Todo un placer

From: Sofía Tuve la suerte de alojarme en La Tangerina el pasado mes de junio¡fue todo un acierto!. No sólo es acogedor el hotel y sus habitaciones (en todos sus detalles), lo que más me gustó fue el equipo de personas que trabajan para que todo ruede, alegres y entrañables. Todo un placer que pienso repetir en cuanto que pueda. Gracias por todo.

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“Oasis in a crumbling city” - a trip advisor review

Trip advisor users rate us No.1 Hotel in Tangier

La Tangerina is an oasis of peace and tranquility, hidden in what is a filthy , dirty, seedy and unattractive town.


The rooms are fantastic, especially those with a sea view, and the service is excellent. If you fancy a relaxed dinner, they will cook you a meal that you can eat on the roof terrace, of which there was plenty and reasonably priced.



Only one issue was despite having given our credit card to pay, we were asked to pay cash on check out as they had no facility to use credit cards. Ensure you have cash handy to pay.


As a word of warning to those straight off the boat, many locals who meet arrivals will spin you a yarn on why you should have them escort you anywhere. Our experience was one met with rude and agressive locals bombarding you for cash, like nowhere else in the world I have been. Get a cab to this hotel.

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If your house hunting in the Tangier area stay at La Tangerina Hotel

Tangier Property offers year round value and this interesting report - makes good reading for those looking to escape the credit crunch and negative equity of the uk property market.

"If you're blessed with year-round good weather then year-round use of a home follows," says Holiday Rentals' Sarah Chambers. The best-known examples, such as Barbados, are the most expensive and most packed, but there are plenty of alternatives, typified by Morocco.
Tangier, Morocco, is 'like Spain, but sunnier'



Tangier is one of six Moroccan locations identified by the government to boost visitors from six million annually to 10m by 2011. There will be 600 miles of new roads and a 24-mile tunnel linking Tangier to Punta Palomas in Spain, 25 miles west of Gibraltar. There is now a daily hydrofoil from Malaga and car ferries take only 35 minutes from Tarifa.



Tangier is like an unspoilt Spanish city, but is slightly further south so even sunnier. There is plenty to do, too, and there is little sign that this is a Muslim country.



There are plenty of traditional riads, each built around an ornate courtyard, while outside the main town there is a major redevelopment of the coast. Part of this is the 2,500-home Tinja scheme. "These homes can be used throughout the year because of the good climate and facilities," says Majid Bennouna of Emaar, the Dubai-based developer.



Stephen Moss of the Hideaways Club, which offers fractional ownership of homes across the Mediterranean and has two properties in Morocco, says: "There is winter sun from September to April. A range of activities allow for different trips throughout the year, from trekking or skiing in the Atlas Mountains, to the history, culture and shopping oportunities in Marrakech.



"Being able to use the property during the year has a number of advantages," he adds. "For instance, you are not obliged to pay peak rates for plane tickets - and you are not restricted to a certain time of year to visit."

If you would like a beautiful and economic place to stay whilst property hunting in Tangier then visit our web site by clicking below.



thanks to the Telegraph overseas property section,

Another great stay it really is my home from home

From: Fraser Thanks for a great time at La Tangerina and I hope to see you soon Fraser

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New website in English launches at La Tangerina Hotel

Our brand new internet site in the English version went live today. We have 360 virtual tours of all our rooms and you can leave comments on your stay on the web site. The comments get published on here, our blog and hopefully your questions and comments will help other travellers when choosing a Hotel in Tangier.

We hope you enjoy our new internet site.