Karen Blixen

Double room Karen Blixen 
Intense and Passionate
Ground floor. Two beds. It has air conditioning, free Wi-Fi and bathroom with high cosmetic items.

Free Wi-Fi

For your moments of sharing photos.
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Airport Transfer

Do not worry about arriving at our Riad: 
- Transfer / way (1-3 p.): 25 € 
- Transfer / way (4-6 p.): 35 € 
- Transfer / way (7-10 p.): 55 €

High Quality Amenities

Les Sens de Marrakech 100% natural ingredients.

Air conditioned

Cold or hot.

Bar

Take something and enjoy.

Public Parking

At 200 meters in the Riad Laarouss Square.
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Splash Pool

Relax after a long day of sightseeing.

Room Prices

Riad Rental

Rent the entire Riad and enjoy privacy and exclusivity. Prices include breakfast and VAT. Does not include Local Taxes 2.50 € per person and night.

from 700 € / night TA: 800 € / night

Normal Rate

UP TO 15% DISCOUNT BOOKING ONLINE. 

Prices include breakfast and VAT. Does not include Local Taxes  2.50 € per person and night.

from 80 € / night

High season


Christmas
Holy Week
Long weekends / Holiday weekends

from 95 € / night

Extras

Cava

20€

Flowers

18€

Launch

18€/per person

Dinner

22€/per person

Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke, best known for her literary pseudonym Isak Dinesen, was born in Denmark on April 17th, 1885. 

She transformed herself from a Danish noble into a Kenyan farmer. She toured East Africa and translated these experiences into a narrative work. She left her well-off position to find her place in the world overcoming borders, prejudices and distances. 

In 1912, a woman could not walk the world without a man by her side, so Baroness Dinesen did not think twice. She prepared a marriage of convenience with her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, and embarked on the adventure of growing coffee in the English colonies of East Africa, exactly in Kenya, at the foot of the Ngong hills.
Karen was twenty-eight years old when she arrived in Africa and forty-six when she left it forever. She would have given anything to come back, but World War II truncated her plans. She only had her family's house in Denmark and her enormous literary vocation and memories that have moved millions of people around the world. “If you entrust a kikuyu to keep your horse while you are going to visit, he wrote, you can see in his expression that he expects you to take as long as possible. He does not try to spend time, but sits and lives. ” He loved Africa intensely and passionately, but the farm's adventure turned out to be much more difficult than she could have imagined. When the First Great War reached the African continent, the battles between the English and the Germans produced a dangerous shortage of workers and supplies for the plantation. In addition, East Africa experienced a terrible drought at that time, and if that wasn't enough, in 1917 the British banned the importation of coffee.
Nor was his personal life a path of roses. While she dreamed of starting a family and filling the farm with her children and her husband was dedicated to strengthening his reputation as a conqueror. It was in the middle of the shipwreck when the handsome Dennis Finch-Hatton, a British army officer turned into a safari guide, hunter and pilot, came into his life. The endless savannah of East Africa, splendid habitat of an ever-moving animal life, was the scene of his stormy love. Everything, from the words of the lovers to the beautiful landscapes and African skies, has been magnificently recreated by the cinema, but it is to its narrative sensitivity and talent to which we owe the touching and unforgettable "Memories".
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