Agadir, Morocco, is a beautiful place to visit, offering a great choice of hotels. Selecting the right 4-star hotel in Agadir can be challenging due to the numerous high-quality options available. This article provides a comprehensive review of hotels in Agadir, highlighting their pros and cons to help you make an informed decision for your Moroccan vacation.
Agadir Beach Club Hotel Exterior
First Impressions of Agadir Beach Club Hotel
Many guests have been impressed by the size and interior decor of the Agadir Beach Club Hotel upon arrival. The hotel is large and can accommodate up to 500 guests. The main reception lobby features a large circular area with several seating arrangements and huge pillars. A hotel porter promptly assists guests to their rooms upon check-in.
Location and Accessibility
The location of Agadir Beach Club Hotel is a standout feature. It offers direct access to a long stretch of oceanfront sands via a public walkway. The hotel also has its own private section of the beach. Agadir's wide avenues and boulevards are easily accessible, and cheap taxis provide convenient alternatives to long walks. The main promenade is a 10-minute walk away, with plentiful cafes, restaurants, and nightclubs. Souk El Had, with over 3000 market stalls, is an eight-minute drive, offering an insight into Moroccan culture. Agadir Marina's trendy boutiques are a 30-minute beachfront stroll or a 10-minute drive.
Agadir Beach
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Rooms and Amenities
Like common areas, rooms are dated, though they're well-appointed. Decor varies from peach accent walls and watercolor-like linens to bold plum bedspreads clashing with colorful floral carpet. Hand-painted ceramic lamps and tiles around carved arches add more attractive traditional touches. All rooms have sitting areas, while upgraded rooms have sash curtains dividing living spaces with crystal chandeliers and decadently Arabian satins. Amenities across the board include desks, satellite flat-screen TVs, phones, mini-fridges (minibars in higher-category suites), and AC, but no tea- and coffee-making facilities. Clean but underwhelming bathrooms have shower/tub combos, toiletries, and hairdryers. Furnished balconies are small in Standard Rooms, but those in upgraded suites have loungers, can be huge, and guarantee sea views. The alternative pool or promenade vistas aren't too shabby, either. Rooms can be fitted with cribs, but note, there's a charge for safes.
Dining Experience
There are several dining options on-site, including a buffet restaurant (L’International), Italian (Le Roma) and Moroccan eateries (Le Marrakech), and a seafood spot (L’Espadon). The hotel provides a wide variety of food options.
- L’International: The main buffet dining room serving all-inclusive breakfast and evening meal options with a wide variety of choices.
- Outdoor Lunch Buffet Area: A nice spot for lunch close to the swimming pool area, offering pizza, pasta, salad, and tagine options.
- Le Roma: An Italian restaurant that offers a memorable dining experience, especially on special occasions like Christmas Day. Note that most menu items require an extra charge.
- Le Marrakech: A Moroccan restaurant with a menu similar to the tagine options available at the buffet restaurants.
- L’Espadon: A restaurant specializing in seafood dishes.
- Snack L’Oasis: A snack bar selling burgers, sandwiches, and pizzas, and also shows Premiere League football matches.
Breakfast was a substantial and wide range of both western and local items, and with stations for omlettes, Moroccan doughnuts (!!), and juices. Food quality was consistently very good, but pricey for Morocco.
Minor Complaint: During the Christmas day evening meal at L’International, there was a set menu lacking vegetarian options; however, this was an exception, and other nights offered good vegetarian choices.
Service and Staff
The waiters at each restaurant were extremely friendly, polite, and helpful. The same goes for the staff at reception as well.
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Big Complaint: The service at the cocktail bar was notably poor, with long waits for orders.
Activities and Entertainment
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There are a lot of activities at Agadir Beach Club Hotel to keep you busy during each day. The standout features here is the private beach lined with loungers and umbrellas. It also offers a volleyball net and snack bar.
- Sports activities including 3 tennis courts, table tennis, a pool table and darts.
- Spa and fitness centre.
- Daily "morning stretches" to water polo at the vast outdoor pool.
- The bar's belly dancing and live music nights are popular.
- Kids' club, which offers scheduled activities, plus a mini-disco.
Agadir Beach Club Swimming Pool
Additional Amenities
- TV with several channels in each room.
- Mini fridge in each room.
- Airport shuttle option available.
- Free parking.
Connectivity
Big Complaint: The free Wi-Fi at this hotel was very unreliable throughout the week-long stay.
Pro Tip: Consider purchasing an eSIM via Airalo for reliable internet access during your international holiday.
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Other Hotels to Consider
- Amadil Ocean Club: Known for its fantastic experience.
- Allegro Agadir: Offers elegantly designed rooms overlooking the pool or garden area, with helpful and friendly staff.
- Hotel Argana Agadir: Features a lovely poolside area and very friendly staff.
Safety and Security
Agadir is generally a safe place to visit. There are locals and immigrants on the promenade and beachfront area trying to sell you goods constantly. My hotel had a security guard outside the entrance of the hotel to the beach. Of course, your safety should be your paramount concern and petty crime occurs everywhere you travel to, so always stay vigilant.
Fairmont Taghazout Bay: An Alternative Luxury Option
For those seeking a different luxury experience near Agadir, Fairmont Taghazout Bay is worth considering. This soignée beachfront property blends stalwart service and amenities with a laid-back vibe and Morocco’s exoticism.
The resort is new and well-run, with great service. Requests are taken care of immediately, and the staff is very friendly. The club lounge is a nice space with an outdoor terrace.
Why book? The first luxury resort to debut in the windswept former fishing village of Taghazout, this soignée beachfront property-studded with gnarled olive trees and backed by the Atlas Mountains’ moss-green foothills-deftly melds the storied brand’s stalwart service and amenities galore with a distinctly laid-back vibe and Morocco’s ineffable exoticism.
Set the scene Presiding (as Fairmonts tend to do) over 45 artfully landscaped acres along the country’s sun-baked Atlantic coastline ten miles north of Agadir, the sprawling resort cuts a striking figure in this unassuming enclave, for decades recognized as Morocco’s surfing capital.
The rooms All 146 modern, sun-drenched rooms face the sparkling sea. Natural-hued, organic furnishings-light wood and leather, nubby wool rugs bedecked with graphic Berber patterns-nod to the local landscape, fostering an airy and inviting (if somewhat cookie-cutter) feel. Splurge on a stay in the buildings closest to the beach; they’re worth it.
Food and drink Kaleidoscopic sushi platters and dishes like beef tataki with lemon-soy vinaigrette and lobster sushi-rice risotto win raves at Morimoto Taghazout Bay, Masaharu Morimoto’s first outpost in Africa.
The spa Hand-glazed zellige tile and glossy tadelakt plaster showcase age-old Moroccan artisanal traditions at the 15,000-square-foot spa-billed as the continent’s largest-where gobsmacking ocean vistas and transportive treatments rejuvenate guests.
The neighborhood/area In Taghazout’s town center-a pleasant 30-minute stroll away along the beachfront promenade-pastel-painted murals rise high above narrow lanes lined with modest surf shops, and chatty vendors hawking handwoven textiles and jewel-toned ceramics at big discounts to Marrakech prices.
The service A Fairmont hallmark, service is pin-sharp but unfailingly friendly and casual.
For families At Le Hangout, teens can play pool, basketball, and soccer, or catch a movie in the mini-theater, while the Fun4Kidz Club and an impressive playground keeps younger guests entertained.
Eco effort Sustainability efforts include software that turns the lights off as soon as guests leave their rooms, a solar-powered pool-heating system, and greywater recycling for property irrigation.
Accessibility There are four mobility accessible rooms.
Hilton Taghazout Bay
The Hilton sits in the middle of the luxury hotel strip. At the southern end, about a 30 minute walk away on a new paved and lit beach boardwalk, a collection of restaurant shacks catering for surfers, that looked like they were about to be bulldozed for new development. At the north end of the strip, again about a 30 minute walk away, is the village of Taghazout itself, which provides budget surfer accommodation and restaurants and facilities ranging from 20 dirham ($2) tagine to 100 dhiram pizza restaurants. There's a new development of cafes and (hopefully soon) a supermarket about a 5 minute walk up the boardwalk. The hotel is arranged in a U shape on three floors, around the four unheated outdoor pools. There's also a heated indoor pool in the spa. Rooms were modern and smart, all with balconies (depending on which way your room faces will determine whether that is in the shade or sun), and a quality bathroom with a separate toilet cubicle and large walk-in shower with rainfall head. Toiletries were Crabtree & Evelyn. As Gold I was upgraded from the standard redemption room to a "partial ocean view", which almost all of the rooms have anyway, I guess it's just how close you are to the beach. The welcome was friendly, recognising my Gold status with a welcome letter offering a number of benefits: free buffet breakfast, free access to spa (basically the indoor pool), and a welcome drink (the voucher said no alcoholic drinks, the welcome letter said alcohol was included, as it was we got two tasty cocktails from the excellent barman). There was a welcome platter of local pastries and fruit in the room. Our stay was during very low season, with less than 10% of rooms occupied, couples or the occasional couple with a very young child, which resulted in a very quiet and relaxed stay, which we loved. Towards the end of our stay it got busier, especially with families with kids, and as we try and occupy a child-free zone that made it a good time for us to leave.