Hotel Sud Bahia

( 3 stars , Agadir , Morocco )

My partner and I stayed in the Sud Bahia for a week at the end of July 2006. It is a self-proclaimed three star; I would realistically give it one. It is very old fashioned and the decoration is worse than my grannies! The door to our balcony was wooden and very stiff and had to be shoved to be closed, it had peeling paint on it and could have done with being renewed or repainted. The balconies were linked to the rooms next to us so we never left our door open unless we were there and not sleeping. The plug socket in the bedroom scared me, every time I used my hairdryer it sparked when I removed the plug, it did not seem very safe. The ventilation shaft in the bathroom (there was no window in the bathroom) was like a tunnel, I could hear the neighbours in their bathroom and hear everything they were doing, not what you need to be hearing! We found the food for the breakfast very unimaginative, it was a variety of white breads, two sorts of croissants, tomatoes, olives, sliced meat, preserves, with scrambled eggs everyday. No variety in the menu at all. The rooms were cleaned daily but I do not think the sheets were changed at all while we were there. We used one particular set of stairs daily (there were may different sets of stairs) as the lifts were broken more than they worked and being on the third floor made it a pain, I was just glad we didn’t have small children or disabled travellers as many other guests did. On these stairs was a dead cockroach on the same step, everyday for a week, so obviously other parts of the hotel were not cleaned in the same way as the guests rooms were. If we every stayed in Agadir again we would definitely not stay in this hotel.

Stayed here in June 2006, room clean and tidy and refreshed daily by the room service staff, whom were extremely friendly. Good tourist class hotel in a quiet street away from the main beach and close to the main square in the centre of Agadir, Hotel has a large swimming pool. Breakfast of fresh oranges breads, cold meats, scrambled eggs and preserves, plus tea and coffee. Cafe next door is really good for Te Anglais ( english tea).

This Hotel was the worst Hotel i have ever stayed in (Trust me i've been backpacking and had way better) The smell on arrival hits you straight away. Almost like raw sewage! You then embark on what only can be described as a hike to your room. The lift is at one end of the building and which ever route you take you still have a hike. The trip to your room will take you down dark and dingy corridors covered in worn carpet that looks like its been there for 40 years. In case you were wondering that smells too. When entering your room be prepared for a shock. On first glimpse your intial reaction will be "Basic". With a closer look you will see dirt everywhere. You will not manage to feel clean for the duration of your stay. During my stay my bedding was not changed once! The bedding already had blood stains on it. My friend found a dead bug in hers! Check out the head boards they harber a whole range of bodily fluids. Do not expect anything to work. We had to change rooms on our second night due to the sounds and banging from the room opposite. This was the MALE prostitutuion that kept me awake all night. We were moved one floor up. To a whiter but still dirty room. The shower was filthy to the point that i came back from holiday unwell, with suspected Legionnaires. This was due to the dirt incasing the shower head. It turns out i'd picked up a virus from the hotel. Probably the same one two waiters had. They asked me for paracetemol! If you use the toliet be prepared to face the very dirty bidet. There is literally 10 cm gap between toilet and bidet. The pool has green fur round all the vents and is missing tiles . Breakfast is stale and consits of warm processed meat (DO NOT EAT) slimey eggs complete with shell and 3 types of pastry which is eadible if you have a pair of bolt croppers for teeth! Hotel entertainment consits of local female hores and don't forget the male ones too. DO NOT TAKE YOUR CHILDREN HERE! This hotel does not deserve one star let alone 3.

Having read a few reviews I was loathe to book the hotel but it was somewhere cheap , cheerful and clean I was looking for - and took the gamble. I was very pleasantly taken aback by the warm welcome I received at reception. The hotel was very nice, clean and great staff who always had a smile and were always delighted to be of assistance. The hotel is ideally located within easy walking distance of promenade and sandy beach. I would have to agree the hotel lacked some atmosphere - but was made up for by the cheap rates, location, cleanliness and wonderful staff. I look forward to staying again at this hotel in Dec 2007 ..need I say any more!

Our tour group stayed in Sud Bahia for one night. Room was clean and comfortable. Walls were quite thin. Our door shook every time our neighbors closed their door. Our room had a ventilation shaft located in the bathroom. Around 2:00 AM, a strange cigarette odor starting coming from the ventilation shaft. We would have liked to have opened our balcony door to air out the room but our balcony was linked to the other balconies on our floor. Currency exchange is located at the front desk. Postage stamps and miscellaneous toiletries can be purchased at the convenience store next to the hotel. An ATM was located at the end of the block. Hotel restaurant offered a set menu for our tour group. Breakfast buffet consisted of breads with assorted spreads, meat, olives and miscellanous vegetables. Coffee and tea were served by hotel staff. Not a bad hotel. If we returned to Agadir, we would consider staying at other hotels located closer to the beach.

Had read bad reviews regarding male prostitution ouside hotel, dirty rooms etc - saw none of that at all! Hotel was clean, room was cleaned every day. Pool area was immaculate! Staff were so friendly and spoke fantastic english. Hotel was around 10 mins walk from main restaurants and 10 mins from the amazing beach. Had such a great holiday and i would definately stay there again! I loved it! One thing though, don't expect a big flash hotel, it's basic but great value, and if your like me, you won't spend time stuck in the hotel anyway! Agadir is such a big place and has so much to explore.

Im rating this hotel okay only beacuse of money value that is really nice. Still the hotel itself is shabby and dissapointing. Rooms and premises seem to be never renovated since 1980's, pool was dirty and the food in restaurant rather poor. You can hardly find a sun mattress for the day, so bring a couple of towels with you. as for the staff it was friendly and room cleaning was okay. Still the hotel is definetely not 3 stars

The Sud Bahia doesn't claim to be anything other than what it is - a below 2* tourist hotel. The rooms are incredibly basic and old fashioned (1st and 4th floors have been 'refurbished'), like somehting straight out of the 50's. The long corridors are lined with dirty thinning carpet, and the first thing to strike you when you enter is the smell of dirty water/sewage. There is no air conditioning, in fact the rooms are equipped with heaters ! The pool area is fine, not much room for sunbeds. Food is basic too - increaingly stale bread rolls, olives etc. The evening meals are OK, and the service pretty good (staff made us laugh the way they just threw the cutlery on the table!). Most worrying is the location - whilst a perfect distance from beaches, town etc, the hotel is in the middle of the red-light district - male prostitutes offered themselves on several occaisions. The whole area is run down, but there are lots of intersting shops etc in the area. All in all, avoid this hotel if you are used to the Western idea of 2*.

Within 24 hours of checking into this hotel, my daughter and I moved to another hotel - at a cost. On entering it was uninviting - there was chipped/broken tiles outside and the nets in reception were filthy. The hallways were dingy with threadbare carpets. Our room was also dingy and dark. The only light and air was the door onto a communal terrace which we didnt feel safe to leave open. The shower was a drip . The towels were grey and well worn and the bed linen heavy.The furniture and decoration was shabby with peeling paintwork. The aircon/heater (we were unsure what it was) was not safe to use. Along with the rest of the hotel the pool and gardens looked as though they had seen better days. My daughter refused to swim in the pool as it looked very cloudy - it did look as though it needed emptying with a good scrub. The breakfast was also unwelcoming - in that it did not look fresh, and a man near to us was not allowed to take his cup of coffee outside to drink. More to the point this hotel had a smell from when we entered to when we left which was not nice. This hotel looked like it was a brilliant place once but due to years of neglect it does not warrant 3 stars but in fact would be hard placed to earn 1 star. On checking out other 3 star hotels in Agadir the Sud Bahia is a severe disappointment.

As a base for a week in Morocco this hotel was perfect for us. The staff were friendly and helpful and the rooms were clean. The breakfast was a standard continental as you'd expect. (Plenty of pain au chocolat and croissants with coffee to set us up for the day). This hotel won't be any good for people who like to go on holiday to spend a lot of time in their hotel, as the decoration is tired and a bit shabby, but for those who like a clean base for a bed and breakfast and maybe a couple of days by the pool it is fine - for the price you pay the value for money was spot on. I'd say this hotel should probably be classed as a 2 star. The staff helped us out by arranging car hire and showed us good routes to take for days out. There is also a currency exchange at the reception (which is good as it was impossible to find anywhere else that would exchange travellers cheques). We never ate an evening meal in the hotel as it is right in the centre of agadir with plenty of restaurants, shops and the beach front a short walk away.