Morocco Travel Guide

PALACE  HOTEL

GUESTHOUSE

GUESTHOUSE

GUESTHOUSE

GUESTHOUSE

Offline map Google map ( 0535 63 89 39; www.riaddarbensouda.com; 14 Zqaq Labghal,
Qettanine; r Dh850-1700; ) A converted palace, Dar Bensouda is the most impressive
medina restoration project we’ve seen in a while. Enter into a large column-flanked courtyard
and admire the attention to detail here and in the immaculate rooms. The scale here is grand
without being overwhelming, and the service excellent. Make sure you check out the photo
album and history of the building to get a full insight into the rebuilding project.

Palais Amani €€€

Offline map Google  map (    0535   63  32  09; www.palaisamani.com;    12  Derb    el  Miter,  Oued

Zerhoune; r from Dh2000, ste from Dh3000; ) On the eastern edge of the medina, this
gorgeously converted palace is barely a century old, but has been turned into a truly luxurious
retreat. Pad around the chic rooms in your complimentary Moroccan slippers and robe, have a
drink in the terrace bar or dine in a courtyard garden big enough to host a small forest of trees.

Dar Fes Medina €€

Offline map Google  map (    0535   63  83  92; www.darfesmedina.com;   Derb    Mokri,  Ziat;   s/d/tr

Dh550/660/880; ) There’s a very clever trick being played here: walk through the doors and
you think you’re finding yourself in a restored medina townhouse, but this dar is a brand new
build. You get the best of both worlds – slightly more spacious and modern rooms, but the
whole thing is brushed with a pleasingly traditional veneer. It’s location near Bab Ziat gives
another medina rarity: taxis can drop you right outside the front door.

Dar El Hana €€

Offline map Google  map (    0535   63  58  54; www.moroccangetaway.com;    22  Rue Ferrance

Couicha, Chrabliyine; r from Dh800; ) If there’s a cosier and more intimate guesthouse in
Fez than this dar, we’d like to know about it. There are just three rooms (sleeping a maximum
of eight altogether), all charmingly finished and presented: we fell for the ‘secret’ windows
allowing you to spy on the street, and the open-air shower on the terrace. This is a real home
from home, and it’s possible to rent out the entire house so you can fully indulge your own
fantasies of medina life.

Riad Lune et Soleil €€

Offline map Google  map (    0535   63  45  23; www.riadluneetsoleil.com;   3   Derb    Skalia, Batha;  r

Dh800-1200; ) Hospitality is all at this riad, where you’ll be swept past the lemon trees in
the courtyard and made to feel impossibly at home. Each room is a cornucopia, filled with the
evidence of a lifetime of collecting everything from old postcards and embroidery to carvings
and metalwork – and each item with a story behind it. It’s not a museum though; there’s plenty
of comfort too, and some rooms have their own Jacuzzi. You might just make it downstairs for
dinner – from one of the best kitchens in the medina.

Dar Seffarine €€

Offline map Google  map (    0671   11  35  28; www.darseffarine.com;   14  Derb    Sbaalouyat, R’cif;  r

from Dh780; ) If you check into Dar Seffarine, ask to see the photo album of its