Riad Mimouna
This stunning new hotel offers incredible value at the lower end of this price range...
A wide range of accommodation options is available in Morocco.
The rates quoted here are for high season (November to April) weekends and, unless otherwise mentioned, exclude breakfast. Reviews are ordered by preference, and price ranges are based on the cost of a double room:
Budget (€) Up to Dh400
Midrange (€€) Dh400 to Dh800
Top end (€€€) More than Dh800
Pricier towns and cities including Casablanca, Essaouira, Fez, Marrakesh, Rabat and Tangier are exceptions. For these places, price ranges are:
Budget (€) Up to Dh600
Midrange (€€) Dh600 to Dh1200
Top end (€€€) More than Dh1200
In the listings here, the official, government-assigned rates (including taxes) are quoted, although these are intended as a guide only.
Discounts Many hotels will offer ‘promotional discounts’ from their advertised rates, especially in large resorts like Agadir or during the low season (May to October). It is always worth asking when you book.
Reservations To make a reservation, many hotels require confirmation by email or fax plus a credit-card number.
Seasons Accommodation is often scarce during Easter week and August, popular times for Spanish and French tourists to visit Morocco. Another busy time in the south, particularly Marrakesh, is Christmas and New Year.
Solo travellers Outside the cities, the rates in many places are per person rather than per room, and single occupancy of rooms is rarely a problem. However, in riads, the limited accommodation means that discounts on single occupancy are fairly minimal.
This stunning new hotel offers incredible value at the lower end of this price range...
Although not as swish as it once was, and with rather erratic service, the Riad Salam is still the top spot along the waterfront...
Asylum-like doors provide a strange institutional ambience to the upper floors of this hotel, where plastic caramel baths don’t match the rooms – in marked contrast to the downstairs lobby, with its classic elevator and spiral staircase...
The pride of Abdellatif's collection of Marrakech riads is the fiendishly popular Riad el Jazira...
Just north of town by the beach, this three-star, 110-room resort is a big, brash place with everything from tennis courts to minigolf and disco on offer...
This international chain does what you'd expect, provide high-quality, comfortable and spacious rooms, with all mod cons. But for the great views over the bay, you could almost be anywhere in the world.
The Sofitel stands out from the large range of resort hotels. Built like a low-rise kasbah, it manages to seem smaller than its 240 rooms, all of which have had a recent upgrade...
This four-star hotel has a great location, stretched along a low ridge in a sinuous wave with amazing views across to Fès el-Bali, yet convenient to the centre...
The classiest five-star hotel in Tangier proper, and a local landmark, this beautifully maintained 1930’s period piece offers three excellent restaurants, three equally good bars, a fitness centre, a spa, pleasant gardens and even a babysitting serv...
This complex offers four-star comforts and unbeatable views of the medina and the Bay of Tangier - which goes a long way to making up for its unexciting décor...
This bright and cheerful three-star hotel is recommended. All rooms have clean bathrooms with modern fittings, free internet and a safe, and the hotel boasts a good restaurant and a lounge bar...
Comfort rather than charm is the selling point at this international-style, four-star hotel...
A decided hush falls as you walk through the doors of the Heure Bleue, Essaouira’s top hotel. This swish place has everything you could ever want, from a rooftop swimming pool to its own private cinema and billiard room...
The best and the most central of all the five-star hotels, the Hyatt is a favourite meeting place for Casablancais for a meal in one of the many restaurants, or a drink at the bar...
A reliable fall-back option, the Ibis has small, modern rooms with en suite bathroom and satellite TV. It's hardly loaded with character but offers consistent standards and friendly service.
A zellij lobby guides you into this modern and classy hotel that’s popular with tour groups. Rooms are bright and tidy, with satellite TV...
Set in one of Casa’s art-deco gems, this 1922 hotel, shaped like a boat, has buckets of neo-Moorish character...
You have to be careful not to get lost in this riad – it’s four houses knocked together and even extended across the street...
This gorgeous little place opens up from a stunning central courtyard with stone arches and tiled floors to 12 charming rooms bathed in light...
Like a kaftan-clad supermodel on a Vespa, the 72 defines jet-set chic...
This labyrinthine riad blends ancient and modern with impressive panache. The older section shows off the best of traditional decor, while the newer quarters wouldn’t look out of place in a Parisian boutique hotel yet remain unmistakably Moroccan...
The first guesthouse in Essaouira, Villa Maroc opened its doors in 1990...
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