This is possibly the worst hotel, or worst value hotel I have ever stayed in.
The website implied it had a faded art deco charm about it and I thought it sounded quirky and quaint. This added to my disappointment.
It was truly awful.
There were no screens on the windows so we were tortured by mosquitos all night. It wasn't very clean or well maintained, e.g. worn carpet, broken fixtures and a light bulb had blown in our room.
We looked out the window and the view was over a vacant lot which was being used a rubbish dump, inhabited by stray cats.
The breakfast was basic - not the worst I've had, but in the dining room you have to listen to Edith Piaf 24/7 because she holed up there once with a lover (more than 50 yrs ago).
I guess I was expecting Casablanca and the hotel to have some atmosphere (I blame Hollywood) but I was sadly mistaken.
I had a wonderful time in Marrakesh and Fez and wish I hadn't bothered with Casablanca.
The Hassan II mosque was the only thing I enjoyed - its architecture, scale and location on the edge of the sea gave it a majestic grandeur. It didn't look like too many of the locals frequent the mosque for their regular prayers. Seems like more of a special-occasion type of mosque. You'll be impressed by the architecture but it is probably not an authentic insight into the local Muslim community going about their business.
But I digress. Back to the Transatlantique Hotel. Avoid it if you can.

I stayed three nights at the Hotel Transatlantique, located in the French-style new town, for an extremely good price - £31 per night, including breakfast, booked in advance via the Gala Hotel webiste. (They take full payment at the time you book, but it gets you a very good deal and saves any hassle when you check out).

The unique selling point of the Transatlantiqe is its quirky charm and character. The hotel was built in 1922 when Morocco was a French Protectorate and like its next-door neighbour, the Hotel Volubilis, is built in the art deco style, fused with traditional Moroccan internal features (tilework and stucco). You get an idea of its quirky style as soon as you enter the lobby with its pair of bronze lions and the accompanying statues of Nubian servants holding up lamps. The whole of the communal ground floor area is decorated with 1930 era telephones, art deco style lamps, old telephones and cash registers - a real museum of kitsch. Clearly someone has been spending a lot of time collecting from antiques shops to decorate the hotel's common parts. Also look out for the lift, which also has some interesting original decorative features.

The renovated bedrooms are large, as are the bathrooms, with nice big baths and plenty of hot water. The bedrooms have large wooden windows which you can open wide, with folding wooden shutters - mine attracted a little songbird who was a daily visitor (appropriate as Edith Piaf was a regular guest of the hotel !)

The staff were generally very helpful. Zagora, the barman, who covers the 3pm-11pm shift, speaks very good English and supplied a lot of useful and interesting information about the Hotel, Casablanca, and Moroccan life and culture in general. Yousef, the concierge, who always looked rather intense, speaks a bit of English, and proved extremely helpful in sorting out various problems and in getting taxis, helping to explain to the driver where I wanted to go. The duty managers were also helpful and attentive. It was only the young guy covering the cashier's desk ("caisse") who annoyed me when I checked out. Having passed over a 100dh (£8) tip to be distributed to all the staff, he indicated it wasn't enough and having not taken any interest in me previously, he suddenly became interested in helping me with my luggage and getting me a taxi, presumably sensing there was a tip in it for himself. I made sure the helpful concierge got the tip, instead.

Unfortunately, breakfast is nothing special - rather poor coffee and poor orange juice, but accompanied by decent pastries, bread and boiled eggs. However the restaurant itself is quite something, with its Moorish-style decoration and ornate red drapes. I had a meal in the restaurant one evening which proved to be perfectly acceptable.

Wifi only works in the sitting are adjoining the lobby.

review for young party people.

I was in rabat where I have friends but for my last night before going back home I wanted to go out in casablanca.. a taxidriver took me to this hotel. I found better quality and friendlier people in rabat ville for less money. (780 dirham )
I'm a young guy who likes to go out and doesn't need much sleep. this hotel is very big and it has many different rooms.. in the evening you can enjoy chicha and alchohol in any of the rooms.. in the places where there is singing, the singers come and sing infront of you and waving money.. some people next to me gave money.. 20 DHM, but the singer didn't find it enough.. I gave 100 dirham and that was fine for her, a coca cola was 100 dirham, (and that was not even in the night club as I was leaving there was one big guy telling me to give him a tip as he was the bouncer he said.. I gave 50 dirham.then the singer came to me and asked me to give some money to her "sister"...so far I had spent 250 dirham for stitting in a small smokey room, louzy music drinking one coca cola.
I went to the cabaret where there were girls.. only old/big/fat girls.. drinks 100 dirham.. they begged me to buy sigarets for them.. I had to do my best to get my change back from the waiter ( he tried to keep it of course ).
The staff is asking for tips for just about everything ! you will lose a lot of money there and get nothing in return !
as I wanted to leave to see some real nightlife, the bouncers and actually ALL staff in the place tried to convince me to stay there ( of course to spend more money ) but please.. if you want to have fun and go out.. take a cab to the beach side.. check out the clubs there.. free entrance.. young people, cute girls.. whatever you want ! I did it and I loved it !
take my advice, if you are family people.. you are in the wrong neighbourhood and for sure the wrong hotel, if you are party people, go somewhere else and don't even think about entering the nightclub or bar etc.... !

I would not recommend anyone to stay there..

The manager quoted me a fair rate on the phone and then nearly doubled it upon our arrival. He then spoke to me like I was a child when I corrected him. After a tense conversation, he insisted on a cash payment upon our checking in and then directed passive-aggressive threats toward me and my spouse. Had it not been so late at night, we would have stayed elsewhere. I hope readers don't make the same mistake we did.