Hyatt Regency Casablanca

Set on landscaped grounds with gardens and palm trees, the Hyatt Regency is housed in a modern 11-story building with a porte cochere entrance. Guests enter a large marble-clad lobby with a circular center table and flower arrangement, soft seating, and reception desks. Contemporary interiors keep with the Hyatt Regency international brand standard, with lots of wood, marble, and high-quality furnishings and fabrics. There are splashes of rich Moroccan colors here and there, with traditional Moroccan carved wood in the Moroccan restaurant. Guests mingle in the restaurants and around the well-landscaped outdoor pool, which has a shallow children's end and sun deck set with umbrellas and lounge chairs. The hotel attracts a lot of business guests due to its large conference center, though tourists appreciate the city center location not far from the Old Medina entrance, and families and couples like the wide range of leisure facilities. 

The Hyatt Regency is in the Casablanca city center, on the Place des Nations Unies (United Nations Square) and across the Avenue des FAR thoroughfare from the southern end of the Old Medina medieval walled marketplace. The medina entrance is a five-minute taxi ride or 15-minute walk north of the hotel. The Hyatt is across from the Place des Nations Unies tramway station and an eight-minute walk southwest of the Casa Port Railway Station and Port of Casablanca. The N1 Road is a 10-minute drive south of the hotel. The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart and Abderrahman Slaoui Museum of Moroccan Art are both a 10-minute walk southwest. Built by the French in the 1930s, the quaint Quartier Habous medina is a 15-minute drive south, while the La Corniche beach area and the Atlantic Ocean are a 15-minute drive west. Billed as the largest mosque in Africa and featuring a 689-foot minaret, the Hassan II Mosque is a seven-minute drive northwest of the hotel, or 30 minutes on foot for the ambitious. The Hyatt Regency is a 45-minute drive north of Mohammed V International Airport. Self parking at the hotel is free, or there's a charge for valet parking. 

The Hyatt Regency has 255 contemporary rooms in Standard, View, Regency Club, and Suite categories. Rooms are clean and quiet and get good natural light. Even the smallest category is spacious, starting at 398 square feet (37 square meters) and going up to 657 square feet (61 square meters). Decor in the lower-end rooms is not terribly exciting, and rooms look under-decorated, with some bare white walls, beige carpet, a few framed art prints, and dark-wood furniture and paneling. Suites are more richly decorated, with full wood-paneled walls, colorful bed throws, better furniture and art, and separate seating areas. All rooms come with windows that open, desks, in-room safes with electric plugs for laptops, minibars, free Wi-Fi, air-conditioning, and flat-screen TVs with satellite channels. Comfy beds consist of Simmons mattresses, cotton linens, and down duvets. Some rooms have Old Medina or Hassan II Mosque and ocean views that are especially good from higher floors. The spacious, well-lit, and clean bathrooms are clad in marble, with premium bath products and ample counter space. They also feature deep soaking tubs, separate glass-walled rain showers, and bathrobes and slippers. Guests should note that bathroom doors are translucent (there's a private water closet) and some rooms have twin beds pushed together to create double beds. Regency Club Rooms include access to a private lounge with business center and free continental breakfast, but they cost more. 

The Hyatt Regency's excellent list of on-site amenities is topped by its 21-yard outdoor pool, long enough for a decent lap swim. Open year round, the pool includes a zero-entry end, shallower children's section, and large sun deck with umbrellas and lounge chairs. Guests can order drinks and light fare from the poolside bar and cafe. The hotel offers several top-notch restaurants, including an upscale French brasserie, gorgeous domed Bissat Moroccan restaurant, Dar Beida's Arab tent and belly dancers, and the Living Room that serves afternoon tea. Breakfast packages cost extra, except for Regency Club Room guests, and 24-hour room service is available. Bars include Black House Discotheque, a dance club decorated in black and gold, and a stylish contemporary cocktail lounge with a DJ. Other leisure facilities include a 24-hour fitness center, sauna, hammam steam room, squash courts, and beach volleyball courts. Guests can also enjoy a massage, for an additional fee. The hotel has a large conference center, business center, limo service (for a fee), boutique shops, car rental, bell service, and concierge service.