Dar Beida

Essaouira, Morocco

Facilities

  • Very cool retro furniture and 60s-style touches - pretend you're on an early James Bond movie set!

  • Four double bedrooms make it a perfect house to share with friends who appreciate unusual designer decor

  • Modern showers (1) and bathooms (2) have been built into the house, including a large crescent-shaped tub for two!

  • Spacious kitchen so no-one's cramped when making the couscous - a cook can be brought in when enthusiasm for self-catering flags

Social Responsibility

Dar Beida supports Education for all Morocco. Their intention is to give girls the chance of a college education in Morocco, mainly focusing on girls in rural communities. The organisation is in the process of building a boarding school in Asni which will initially be designed to accommodate 24 girls - 8 from each of the 3 years covered by the College curriculum.

When to go?

Spring is a magical time to be here: from March onwards you are guaranteed good weather and the coastal wild flowers are spectacular. There's a music festival in June (book well ahead) but avoid August when the town struggles to cope with the huge influx of visitors from home and abroad. Winter can also be a very great time to be in Essaouira: days are often sunny and mild and the light at this time of year has a unique quality. Also bear in mind the dates of Ramadan, the month-long Muslim day-fast.

Features include:

  • Walk to restaurants (offsite)
  • In house cook
  • Meal delivery service
  • Daily maid service
  • Laundry service
  • Internet access
  • Airport Transfers
Save to favouritesPrintMailDar BeidaImagine a cross between Barbarella’s boudoir and a swinging 60s love pad and you’ve got a picture of Dar Beida – one of the funkiest spaces we’ve come across in Morocco. The four-[r:MC057:bedroom] house is like a curvy white spaceship with a mix of mod plastic furniture and animal skins and skulls… a pre-historic pop-art cave. An incredibly clean and bright cave, mind you. Owners Emma and Graham deliberately avoided dusty, moody Moorish overtones but hung onto their expertise in retro interior design – the house is filled with groovy 60s finds like mushroom lamps and a Mulberry beanbag chair. Essaouira is an established set for the swords-and-sandals epics that are so popular post-Gladiator so the house is often booked by film folks. Ridley Scott’s DP stayed here when filming 'Kingdom of Heaven', with the town filling in for 12th century Jerusalem. But Dar Beida’s idiosyncratic style is not stiff and formal – it's fine for families and groups of friends. Think the Jetsons á la Maroc and you've got a sense of the fab fusion this house exudes.

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