We stayed at the Marrakech for 8 nights. I had been reluctant to book initially due to the number of negative reviews and was pleasantly surprised when I arrived. Overall, it's clean, comfortable, within a stone's throw of the subway and the staff are helpful and friendly, making it excellent value in my opinion. The hotel does play loud music in the lobby in the evening, which wasn't to my personal taste, but we weren't disturbed by this in our room (on the 4th) but were glad we weren't on the 2nd floor where the lobby is. Our room was comfortable and clean. My partner is 6ft2 and found the bed perfectly long enough for him. The room wasn't massive (double bed, bedside tables on each side and a bit of extra space) but we had enough hanging space (one of those metal framed clothes storage units with some fabric covering it) and space to move around. We had new sheets and towels each day. We could, however, hear the shower of the adjoining bedroom and some noise did come through the walls from our neighbours when they were being a little rowdy, but nothing terrible at all and no more than would be experienced anywhere, really. Yes, there are some stairs from the street into the hotel (I didn't find these particularly steep and was able to carry my heavy suitcase up and down & I'm no body builder) and there's no lift, so for people with mobility issues this might not be the best choice. We didn't have any view from our window, but this didn't matter to us at all.
Location:
The hotel is a 10 min walk away from central park, which was wonderful. Some posters have commented that to get there you have to walk through a 'project'. There are plenty of routes to get to the park, one of which you walk through some high rised housing, but this didn't bother us at all, we hardly noticed, hardly saw any people least of all those dealing drugs, the part we walked through actually had a children's play area on one side and definitely wasn't intimidating at all. There wasn't even any rubbish around. There would be no reason to feel intimidated, in my opinion. We walked around the area lots at night and always felt very safe. There's a cute & inexpensive diner called the Metro near the hotel which is a good, straight forward place to eat with a large menu.
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