Marrakesh Sights

  1. Hammam Bab Doukkala

    A simple, lovely community hammam that dates from the 17th century. Pass through the cedar wood changing room and you'll reach the inner sanctum; here light filters through star-shaped holes in the dome, steam rises from the floor, and the mostly local patrons rest against stately columns while waiting for a gommage exfoliating treatment.

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  2. Hammam Dar El-Bacha

    The city's most historic public hammam has domed ceilings so high you'll wonder how the place ever steams up - and yet it has for over a century. A massage is very reasonably priced and gommage , or exfoliation, is a little extra. If the skin-sloughing ever approaches the blood-vessel-breaking point, just say, 'Shwiyya shwiyya' ('Easy does it'). Bring your public hammam kit, including dry undies.

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  3. Ksar Char-Bagh Hammam

    A trip to this spectacular subterranean red-marble hammam is almost eerily like rebirth. Re-entry to the world is eased with scented essential oils, liberal application of Anne Semonin products and a mood-lit lounge area. There's also a swimming pool. Treat yourself to a hammam, velvety skin scrub, rhassoul (mud scalp rub) and 90-minute perfumed-oil massage and emerge vowing to be a better person - or at least wear more sunscreen.

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  4. Les Palais Rhoul Hammam

    A classic Moroccan hammam, with separate chambers for varying levels of heat, zellij (mosaic) and tadelakt (polished plaster) walls, and sunbeams filtering through vaulted ceilings. It's oddly placed alongside a French baroque villa, amid fake Berber tents pitched in a formal garden - but don't let that deter you. The standard hammam treatment includes gommage, rhassoul with orange-flower water and massage with organic essential oils, and it really Rhouls. Treat yourself to cocktails afterwards at Abyssin and you may have to be scraped up and mailed home.

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  5. Les Secrets De Marrakesh

    This ultramodern hammam in an Art Deco villa is a real find. Follow the candlelit orange niches along the graphite tadelakt walls to the inner sanctum, the all-black hammam. House specialities include the Atlas cedar gommage scrub with ginger and woodsy essential oils, a desert sand and essential oil exfoliation, and the full treatment with hammam, massage, Essaouira salt scrub, and the ultimate carpet-shop detox: a mint tea wrap.

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  7. Maison Arabe

    Slip into something more comfortable, like this snug tadelakt (polished plaster) hammam with vaulted ceilings and baths deliciously scented with local herbs and minerals instead of cloying floral scents. The hammam comes with gommage (body scrub) and rhassoul (mud scalp rub) and hair removal is done here the time-honoured way, with thread and some very fast hands.

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  8. Sultana Spa

    Through the majestic archways lies this glistening marble spa, its glowing emerald pool flanked by private cabins for gentle gommage treatments with organic plant extracts and essential oils. Get the royal treatment with two- or four-handed amber-oil massages in a roof-terrace pavilion.

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