Stayed in this hotel on a half board basis for a week in January. Overall a very good stay.Located in a side street about 1-1.5 miles from Djemma El Fna square, a good 25-30 minutes walk which is good for burning off the calories after breakfast every morning.
Booked a double room as a couple but given a twin room otherwise everything is ok. A/C or heating is individually controlled but on a timer system set by hotel.The room is of adequate size, bathroom with walk in shower, mini fridge, lcd tv with 1 english movie channel only thing missing is tea making facility.
As previously mentioned, booked on half board basis but regretted that decision. Dinner on first night was buffet style which was as expected but on 2nd and 3rd night, you get a menu with a choice of 2 starters and 2 main course and when they arrive its was like kids portion. We gave up and started dinning outside during our remaining stay. The breakfast was of continental style and its the same choices every morning( choices of pastries,cheese,cold meat,boiled eggs, moroccan pancakes, freshly squeezed orange juice,tea and coffee on tap).
Overall I've given 3 out of 5 rating cos of the food,if that was sorted I would definitely give it a 5 but I would still recommend this hotel as all you really want is a place to relax after a tiring day out.Another advantage is the free wifi throughout the hotel as everyone will have a gadget of some sort on social networking.

my boyfriend and i staid a couple of days in Marrakesh. We really enjoyed our stay in the Almas Hotel. The staff was friendly, the rooms were always clean and the breakfast was good (continental breakfast and some marocain specialities). Another adventage was the heater in the room. In winter the nights can be quite chilly, so some people who staid in Riads told us they were a little cold in the night.
The pool on the roof is very clean, but definitely to cold to swim during winter. But the view is great and we spent a couple of hours on the terrace just having a sun bath and relaxing.
The hotel is located in the new town. There are some cheap little restaurants around were you can have fresh fish or seafood. The famous Plaza el Fna isn't too far away. We always walked there, which was about 20 minutes by foot.
Our room was located to the side of the street. I have to admit that it was a little noisy in the night. It didn't bother us too much because we both sleep very deep and well almost everywhere :) but somebody who is a little more sensitive should maybe organize him/herself a room located to the other side, where it is much more quiet.

Spent 3 nights here in January which is long enough for Marrakech in my opinion.

Hotel is about 20 min walk from the main square and 10min from railway station. Turn left out of the hotel door and walk to the end of the street , then left again and you cannot miss the railway station. The bus station is 2min further along the road on left side of the railway station entrance.
The railway station entrance is a huge arch and is quite magnificent. There is a large open square in front and you cannot miss it.

We took the bus from Marrakech to Agadir by Suprabus which takes about 3 hours with a 15 min break at a service station halfway. You need to book the tickets at least the day before and you get an allocated seat. When you arrive for the journey you will also need to pay a small fee of 6dh for your case to go in the luggage hold for which you get a receipt to stick on your case. Smaller bags you can take on the bus.

Hotel Almas is a nice modern hotel with excellent clean rooms,mini bar(empty) fridge,good powerful showers and wifi throughout. Breakfast was a cold buffet with the usual fare. Boiled eggs were the only hot item but it set us up for the day.

We tried the fish restaurent, 2 doors down,turn left out of the hotel entrance, which had a wide selection of fish on display to choose from. Very good food and budget prices but do expect the same level of refinement which may be more prevalent in the UK.

There are plenty of other Morrocan eateries around this hotel but if you wish to give the local food a miss, Macdonalds is literally about 250 yds if you turn right on exit from the hotel.(there is also another McDs adjacent to the railway station.

All the upmarket shops are in the locality 2 mins away, again if you turn right and head towards Macdonalds you will come across Zara, Mango etc.

The main square is an an amazing place by day and night and you can eat there at the many open stalls. We used the open top touristique bus which is ok for one circuit around the city but buses are not frequent and this service is overpriced and poor value.

Best part of trip was relaxing in the afternoon at the rooftop pool at the hotel which is quite a suntrap!

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Have just got back from a really superb 5 days in Marrakech which was not only complemented by the Hotel Almas but was completely enhanced by a really fantastic hotel, to start with the location was just what we wanted slightly out from the centre but an easy 20 minute walk to the main square.
We had a suite on the 5th floor and it was very spacious and extremely clean and well kept. The staff were all very helpful and even when i had a small accident with the shower door there main concern was for myself and not the door and the whole incident was delt with very professionally and efficiently.
Prehaps if i was being very picky then they need to put some more information about Marrskech and areas of interest in the room, having said that you only needed to ask and the information was there.
On a final note I would like to mention the market a few hundred yards from the hotel, we found this to be an ideal place for shopping and less daunting and frenetic than the main square, and a little gem of a restraunt two streets away from the hotel called the Rotisserie de la Paix which served very good food at very reasonable prices and the service was excellent, if you wanted lunch it was served in their courtyard garden which completley shut the outside world out and left you feeling very relaxed