La Mamounia is a five-star hotel in Marrakech, Morocco, opposite the Kutubiyya Mosque. It is one of The Leading Hotels of the World. For several years, Condé Nast Traveler has named La Mamounia as the best hotel in the world. “Mamunia” means “safe haven” in the Arabic language.
The legendary hotel was opened in 1923 with 209 rooms 71 suites and 3 riads. It was voted as the World’s Best Hotel at the Conde Nast Awards in 2021, 2019 and 2018. 99.99% of 800,000 readers voted it as the best hotel in the world in 2021 and 99.77% of 429,000 readers voted it as the best hotel in the world in 2018.
Notable guests have included politicians such as Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, Ronald Reagan, and Helmut Kohl, entertainment industry stars such as Kirk Douglas, Paul McCartney, Charlie Chaplin, and Omar Sharif, and athletes such as Zinedine Zidane.
In 1935, UK’s then Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a letter to his wife, wrote about the hotel; “This is a wonderful place, and the hotel one of the best I have ever used”. One of the bars at the hotel is now named after Churchill.
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