Hotel Central

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The Guide Routard (2008 edition) said the whites and blue of Hotel Central make it luminous and cool. While the mattresses were OK, the bedding was old and not very comfortable. The bloggers were less kind in their observations:

Globetrekker commented:

I checked into the adequate Hotel Central near the CTM bus station, but the price is now 130 Dh/night with a wash basin in the room. It is quite airy and bright, and I only had to deal with two cockroaches scurrying along the floor!…My shower was another experience as it is on the ground floor, outside in the courtyard, behind a wooden door stall. The water was hot though, and when I turned the water on, the bugs began scrambling out of the drain. I sent them back from whence they came before feeling comfortable enough to continue!

Ephemerratic commented:

We settle, somewhat reluctantly, on the Hotel Central. Todd and I only later realize this is the same hotel that Jeff Greenwald adored in his book,The Size of the World, a copy of which Jeff gifted to us just before our departure from San Francisco.

During his circumnavigation of the earth by land in 1994, Jeff said that his room at the Hotel Central “reminded me so nostalgically of Paris that I found myself suffused with an unrequited appetite for romance.”…Regrettably, instead of allegorical fresh-squeezed mimosas, the Hotel Central is now slinging cocktails of Tang and bathtub gin. In the intervening fourteen years since Jeff’s stay, the hotel has been on a path of abysmal decay: damp holes in the ceiling, ice-cold water showers, electrical outlets ripped from walls, towels tinged a greenish-grey (though they smell clean), and none of the toilets have seats.

Stars: 1 Star

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