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Article: Like Hollywood in a fez - TRAVEL; Continuing our new series on what gives top hotels A-list pizzazz.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2002
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Byline: NICK REDMAN
HOTEL STARS
LA MAMOUNIA Opened: Marrakech, 1923 Rooms: 171; plus 57 suites, three villas Reputation. Reinforced by years of celeb check-ins (Edith Piaf, Elton John) and ecstatic reviews. "Morocco's most famous hotel" (The Guardian); a "world-beating property" (Business Life magazine); its garden is "nothing less than a paradise on earth" (Financial Times).
Is it deserved? I'd anticipated a grande dame with a patina of faded glamour as I neared the faux-Moorish entrance. Yet on closer inspection La Mamounia seems to inhabit some imaginary French-colonial North Africa - the kind seen in Hollywood movies shot entirely on lots ...
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