WATER SPORTSLANDMARKB&BHOTELHOTELHOTELDh250/200 per adult/child for 1½ hours.
Dream Surf Oualidia
( 0661 81 78 17; year-round) On the beach in town, this outfit also offers surfing and
kitesurfing lessons, as well as equipment rental, fishing trips and quad-bike hire. Scooters cost
Dh400 per half-day.
Maison de l’Ostréa II
( 0523 36 63 24; www.ilove-casablanca.com/ostrea) Oualidia is famous for its oyster beds,
which produce about 200 tonnes of oysters annually. You can visit oyster farm No 7 at Maison
de l’Ostréa II to see how it all works. Oysters (per dozen Dh180) and other seafood are
available at the excellent restaurant attached. If you can’t tear yourself away, there are double
rooms for Dh700. It’s at the entrance of Oualidia on the Casablanca road.
Sleeping & Eating
All hotels listed have their own restaurants. There are some slightly cheaper places lining the
road down to the beach, and other apartments and villas can be rented through numerous
agencies in town. For bargain meals there is a selection of cheap eateries on the main road up
in the village.
Hôtel-Restaurant L’Initiale €€
( 0523 36 62 46; [email protected]; r with breakfast Dh500) This little white
villa, with a warm orange interior and just six pleasant and comfortable rooms, is well equipped
with new fittings, spotless bathrooms and tiny balconies. The popular licensed restaurant
(mains from Dh80) is one of the best in town and serves a wide selection of fish dishes and
pizzas.
Motel A l’Araignée Gourmande €
( 0523 36 64 47; fax 0523 36 61 44; s/d Dh250/300; ) A friendly hotel with spacious,
comfortable rooms that could do with some modernising. The ones over the restaurant have
balconies overlooking the lagoon, while rooms in the new building next door don’t, and are not
quite as pleasant. The restaurant serves up a feast of well-prepared seafood (mains from
Dh80).
L’Hippocampe €€€
( 0523 36 61 08; d with demi pension Dh1600, low season Dh1200, ste with sea view
Dh3200, low season Dh2600) A friendly hotel with immaculate rooms off a magnificent garden
filled with flowers, looking over the lagoon. There’s an excellent fish restaurant (mains around
Dh120), and steps down to the beach. It’s family friendly.
La Sultana €€€
Offline map Google map ( 0524 38 80 08; www.lasultanaoualidia.com; Parc à Huîtres No3; r from Dh4100; ) Spectacularly luxurious, this gorgeous hotel has just 11 rooms with