Lesser-known seaside city just 3 hours from the UK where it’s hot in winter and your money goes very far

JUST a fewer hours from the UK is simply a seaside edifice often overlooked by Brits - contempt its astonishing upwind and affordability.

El Jadida, successful Morocco, is often skipped successful favour of destinations specified arsenic Marrakech erstwhile visiting the country.

The fortified metropolis was built successful the 16th period by the Portuguese and named Mazagan.

However, it was fixed up by 1769 and became portion of Morocco, present named El Jadida.

It is adjacent a UNSECO World Heritage site, owed to its "outstanding illustration of the interchange of influences betwixt European and Moroccan cultures".

Now, the tiny metropolis is afloat of marketplace stalls wherever you tin find inexpensive wares and bargain food.

Common dishes see tagines, which travel with meat, murphy and vegetables, and outgo arsenic small arsenic £2.

Despite being a predominately Muslim country, you tin besides find bars and cafes serving alcohol on the seafront, costing betwixt £3 - £5 for beers.

Attractions see the Mazagan Fortress, shaped similar a prima with aged cannons inactive successful place.

There is besides the Portuguese Cisterns, featuring successful the Orson Welles’ film Othello, wherever you tin spot a mirrored representation erstwhile the prima shines straight over.

Otherwise the main formation is Deauville Plage, with a immense agelong of soil arsenic good arsenic sunloungers and umbrellas to rent.

One of the astir fashionable edifice hotel for the metropolis is the immense five-star Mazagan Beach & Golf Resort.

The Sun's Alice Fuller precocious visited - here's what she thought.

Rooms tin beryllium recovered for arsenic small arsenic £137 a night, making it an affordable five-star resort.

Not lone are flights 3 hours, but you tin expect temperatures up to 20C successful the colder winter months.

Non-stop flights tally from the UK to Casablanca, which is little than an hr away.

The 3hr15 flights tally from London Gatwick and Manchester with Royal Air Maroc.

Fancy a bundle holiday? You tin find seven-night stays with meal and instrumentality flights from the UK for arsenic small arsenic £719 with Loveholidays.

It's not the lone Moroccan destination you should sojourn this year.

Also overlooked is the metropolis of Essaouira, overmuch quieter than Marrakech too and often dubbed the "laid-back version" of it.

There is besides Fez, referred to by galore arsenic the “country’s taste capital”. 

And Ouarzazate has been dubbed the "Hollywood of Morocco" aft featuring successful a fig of immense blockbuster films.