Pursuits
King Mohammed’s Marrakech Hotel Offers Champagne Shoe Polish
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The King of Morocco is serving mint juleps in the bar of his new hotel in Marrakech.
How much King Mohammed VI’s crushed Evian ice and Maker’s Mark bourbon cocktail costs remains a mystery, along with the price of almost every opulent indulgence at his 1,500- to 35,000-euro ($1,840-$42,920)-a-night Royal Mansour paradise palace in the 11th-century Berber town on the old beatnik trail.