Hotels, riads, and hostels in Laayoune

Laayoune (Arabic for "the eyes" or "the springs") is the most important city in Western Sahara. It is located on the Atlantic coast, 500 km south of Agadir and 400 km west of Tindouf, on the road to Dakhla . It has been controlled and administered by Morocco since 1975; it is the capital of Laayoune Province (one of the "Southern Provinces"), in the Laayoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra region.

The city is claimed as the capital by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. El Aaiún is also the name of one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria).