Dar Nour has been the first guest house created in Tangier. Opened in 1999, it has taken place in an authentic beautiful house inside the Kasbah of Tangier, which is the most elevated part of the city, with its sinuous streets and secret places. Restored with a profound passion for beauty and simplicity, Dar Nour - « House of light » - worships its name by privileging and revealing the caressing light up on its bright chalked walls.
A house full of subtile refinesses ; one of the finest adresses in Tangier, as it is claimed by magazines and guide books like Geo, Le Point, Capital, L’Art de Voyager, Jalouse.... A main reference, such as told by Elle, Travel Leisure, Gente Viaje, le Goût de Tanger, Numéro... and this is but a mere excerpt of the list of publications that worshiped Dar Nour. Inside the city centre, Dar Nour is situated above the 14th century city walls of the Kasbah, looking over the city and the Street of Gibraltar.
Dominating the old medina, the different terraces of Dar Nour offer a tremendous point of vue over 360° on the lively tableau of the city, view that often has been shown on front pages of magazines and books about Tangier. Abdellatif, Aladin, Nadia and Souad are there to make your stay comfortable, and to offer you meals that have the reputation to be among the best in town. Though, Dar Nour does not ambition to be a grand hotel and remains a simple and familiar place which staff intends in the first place to make you feel at home.
The reputation of Dar Nour is due to its decoration too, gathered for the last fifteen years from all over the Arabic Muslim world, made of libraries plenty of books from all horizons, of carpets and suzani collections, old ceramics and objects witnesses of the city’s memories.
The rare elegance of Dar Nour proceeds from its simplicity and the history of the objects which make it lively.
Rooms:
- The Noor Suite: Measuring about 32m2, Nour is the most comfortable suite with its living room-library, its small videotheque and television. Very luminous, situated just below the main terrace of the house, it offers you a 180° view over the city of Tangier. It contains its own bathroom with shower and lavatories.
- The Hafa Suite: Measuring about 30m2, Hafa includes a small living room and a private terrace. With its smooth blue walls, accommodated with colourful so-called charouet carpets and photography’s, it also has its private access on the main terrace of Dar Nour situated on top. Hafa has been several times published in travel and decoration magazines. It encloses a small bathroom with shower and lavatories, and a small library and videotheque.
- The Fayza Suite: Measuring about 25m2, all luminous white, Fayza offers two direct accesses on the two main terraces of the house. It has its own small living room and a small bathroom with shower and lavatories. Fayza is outstanding for farniente from terrace to terrace...
- The Mohand Suite: Measuring about 25m2, accommodated with Berber traditional potteries from the Rif and Atlas mountains, this is the only suite with two separate single beds. A working space and small living space make it the perfect room for working and meditating. Is has its own bathroom with shower and lavatories.
- The Salam small Suite: This 25m2 suite with its ochre chalked walls and its huge purple suzani tapestry, its nineteenth century desk and Moroccan art works is a room with an outstanding character ; a room of « cocooning » and relaxing. It contains its bathroom with shower and lavatories.
- The Faris room: This room, 20m2, with its walls chalked in the traditional Marrakech red, is the most oriental, the most feminine and mysterious room of Dar Nour. With its arcades and windows made out of flavouring cedar wood, this room tends to some degree of sophistication though it remains faithful to the spirit of simplicity characteristic of Dar Nour. It has its own small bathroom including shower and lavatories.
- The Itaf room: The Itaf Room, 25m2, develops over two floors, with its bathroom on the ground floor and the room upstairs. Its walls are chalked in ochre yellow, enhanced by Pakistanis tapestries; the furniture is inspired from art deco; this is the ideal room for a relaxing stay.
Rates: Breakfast included.
- Suites: 120 €/night.
- Small suites: 85 €/night.
- Rooms: 65 €/night.
Local taxes: 1 €/night/person to be paid at the riad.
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