The open parking lot in Batha is no longer. A wall has been constructed and a sign erected telling us that a 67-bed, 3-star hotel is to be constructed there. Across the road, the other 4-star hotel seems not to progress at all. It's looked like this (below) for some years. The View from Fez isn't sure what's going on here, but has heard that there's a dispute over who actually owns the land it's on.
And these aren't the only hotels going up in the city. There's to be at least one in the new shopping centre on Champs de Course, another next to the shopping centre on Avenue Al Fassi leading to the medina, another 5-star across from McDonalds and the Hotel Lamdaghri just off Boulevard Mohamed V is currently being upgraded. And all this is before we even start to consider the proposed tourist development on the hills south of the medina.
It's good to see such investment in Fez; obviously a lot more tourists are expected. Let's hope, though, that extra parking will be provided to make up for the loss in Batha and the presumable increase in traffic to the area.
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