After three years of work that will cost 120 million euros, one of the most emblematic hotels of Africa opens its doors September 29, 2009, the famous Mamoumia Marrakesh in Morocco.
More than 1 500 people worked under the decorator Jacques Garcia to erase all traces of Art Deco design that characterized the hotel since its last renovation in 1986 and to restore its original style Arabo-Andalusian.
The work has been led by a leading French interior designers who wanted to show that the Moroccan art has nothing to do with leather and glitter.
The touch of Jacques Garcia, La Mamounia in love before the 1986 reform, felt in every room of the building without the establishment is a design hotel.
Everything has been seen, except the exterior architecture of this building built in the 1920s in a splendid garden of 8 acres surrounded by the walls of Marrakech.
The garden had been offered as a wedding gift by the Sultan Sidi Mohamed ben Abdallah to his son Prince Mamoun in the 18th century.
Inside the hotel cons, Jacques Garcia has retained nothing of the old Art Deco style. Everything has been liquidated in June last during an auction that has been delighting collectors and nostalgia that took everything to the last the last chair or small teaspoon.
In the old Mamounia remains only the Majorelle fresco on the roof of the gallery leading to the garden or bar Churchill still permeated with the smell of cigar smoking British prime minister during his long stay in winter in this beautiful hotel.
Entering the scene is first carried by a spellbinding fragrance dati and cedar in the darkness of this authentic Kasbah. The pieces are succeeding, never too large and with so much personality that the hotel would think of a large villa.
The furniture style of Garcia, sofas, carpets handmade who marry as a glove wooden roofs, the elegant stucco walls decorated with traditional Moroccan mosaics and designed with the same techniques of the 16th century are now fully Maounia .
To lead this prestigious luxury were brought former director of the Paris Ritz, the Four Seasons in Bangkok and The Pierre Hotel in New York, Didier Picquot.
Guests at La Mamounia can take their meals in a French restaurant and an Italian restaurant, both directed by Jean Pierre Vigato, Head of Apicius restaurant in Paris and Don Alfonso 1890 on the Amalfi Coast.
The hotel also has a buffet in the pavilion by the pool and a Moroccan restaurant with private rooms for more intimate dinners between palm and olive trees in this garden of 1001 nights.
Regarding housing, La Mamounia has 136 rooms (13 standard, 19 superior, 104 deluxe), 71 suites (including 7 exclusive suites) and 3 independent riads, each with private pool.
Guests at La Mamounia will have a transport service between the Jaguar limousine Marrakech airport and hotel.
Like most 5-star hotels of this class, La Mamounia has also a huge spa designed by Shiseido and consists of a labyrinth of small treatment rooms and two steam rooms.
Guests at La Mamounia can have coffee, tea or other beverage in the bar run by an Italian trio exceptional or the famous Churchill Bar where they can listen to jazz every night.
The hotel also has a tea room and a terrace in the gardens will be served delicious pastries.
To keep fit, the hotel invites you into his gym with her tutors yoga.
La Mamounia is no shortage of activities, more relaxing such as reading in his sumptuous library, like most cultural tours of Marrakesh or the pockets of the Atlas mountains, cooking classes Moroccan sessions of yoga or Tai Chi Chuan.
A stay at La Mamounia is certainly a lot of tourists an unforgettable experience in an enchanting setting, a palace from 1001 nights.
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