La Sultana Hotel, Oualidia: Morocco's ideal hotel for a seaside escape

By Brian Johnston
Updated July 30 2016 - 2:28am, first published 12:15am
Dream genies: La Sultana Hotel, Oualidia, Morocco. Photo: Brian Johnston
Dream genies: La Sultana Hotel, Oualidia, Morocco. Photo: Brian Johnston

It isn't a drive that makes me believe heaven is around the corner. Casablanca's suburbs spew crumbling concrete, the stone-walled landscape is dust-dry, my first glimpse of coastline is framed by the smokestacks of El Jadida's potash factories. Then magic happens. Tidy farmland appears, then apricot blossoms and boys in striped djellabas riding donkeys. The countryside falls away to a purple patchwork of saltpans and the ocean beyond.

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