The Best Places to Drink and Stay in Casablanca

The marble-columned entrance is the kind that makes you half-expect Bogart to materialize from the lobby shadows. This luxury hotel, the second outpost of the Royal Mansour brand, occupies a refurbished mid-century property downtown and leans into its old-Hollywood grandeur without getting stuck there. A well-stocked bar is rarer in Casablanca than the decor suggests, and the spa and global restaurants keep the international crowd moving. Forbes Four Star.

Floor-to-ceiling windows in the sea-facing rooms frame the Atlantic like the hotel commissioned it. This is a full Four Seasons property on the Corniche, so luxury is the baseline: 157 rooms stocked with everything you'd expect, a pool that reads as a genuine retreat, and a handful of restaurants covering upscale pan-Mediterranean and Moroccan-leaning Middle Eastern territory. The design channels Morocco through a contemporary lens rather than the riad playbook, which divides opinion neatly.

Rooms with views of the Hassan II mosque on one side and the Atlantic on the other make it hard to decide where to face your chair. This is a full-service luxury hotel sitting steps from the old medina and surrounded by colonial Art Deco, both of which quietly inform the interiors. The spa leans into traditional Moroccan tilework and craft, while the restaurants swing between French brasserie and Casablancan classics.

A modernist building by French architect Christophe Pillet, this luxury hotel on Ain Diab Beach blends Art Deco traces with North African classicism into something Casablanca genuinely needed. Inside, the minimalism stops at the front door: rooms run to rich color, marble, terracotta, plaster, and walls lined with artworks and art books. A Cinq Mondes spa, a rooftop Mediterranean restaurant, and an "urban trattoria" round out a property that makes no apologies for going all in.