The 56 Best Hotels in Morocco

A heavy carved wooden door on rue Sidi Mimoun opens into two early-20th-century residences built around a pair of courtyards, one with a long heated pool, the other with a fountain and scattered sofas. This Relais & Châteaux holds a Michelin Key. Rooms lean into ornate plasterwork and carved wood; suites claim private terraces over the courtyard. The rooftop plunge pool has the Atlas Mountains as a backdrop, which feels almost unfair.

A boutique hotel tucked into a natural park near the fishing port of Larache, about an hour from Tangier, La Fiermontina Ocean sits on a hillside above the Atlantic with the kind of remoteness that feels chosen rather than accidental. Stone buildings drift into a working village; guests sleep in vaulted, rug-warmed ancestral houses or in sleeker pool suites with floor-to-ceiling windows. A hammam, a beach club below, and a Michelin two-key distinction round it out.

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.

An eight-room boutique hotel a short walk from the Majorelle Gardens, Maison Brummell Majorelle rises behind terrazzo walls like a modernist sandcastle. Inside, smooth stone floors, tadelakt walls, and a staircase that looks carved from solid rock keep things sculptural and quiet. Rooms open onto either a private deck or a garden with an outdoor tub. The hammam has an indoor plunge pool, and nightcaps come from an honesty bar beside a fireplace. It holds a Michelin Key.

Seven interconnected riads behind an unmarked door in the medina, with 14 rooms that each read like a different artist's fever dream. Izza leans into the era when Marrakech was the world's most glamorous escape hatch, and the tilework, sculpted plaster, and art collection suggest no one has quite let go of that idea. There's a spa, a plunge pool, and a rooftop bar. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

Four suites in a traditional medina courtyard mansion, owned by Milanese who packed their taste and left the kitsch at home. Riad Due holds a Michelin Key, and the design earns the attention. The logic of a riad is that the city stays outside, reduced to the call to prayer and a rooftop glimpse, while everything within the walls stays quiet and stylish. The souk is a short walk; the kitchen will cook for you privately if you'd rather not leave.

A riad hotel in the Marrakech medina that looks, improbably, like a Copenhagen loft had a love affair with a Moroccan courtyard. The color palette runs to cool neutrals and warm wood, which makes the carved plasterwork pop rather than disappear into the usual sensory pile-up. Eight rooms, adults only, two pools, and dinners served family-style at a communal table with a menu that runs Nordic technique through Moroccan ingredients. Holds a Michelin Key.

A copper freestanding bathtub beside a bedside fireplace in the Master Suite tells you immediately that Riad Sakkan is not your typical medina guesthouse. Twelve rooms in a traditional inward-facing courtyard house, but the palette and the art are sharply contemporary, reflecting Mouassine's place as Marrakech's most fashionable quarter. The rooftop runs from breakfast through sunset cocktails. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

Victorian freestanding bathtubs in a medina courtyard mansion is the pitch, and Riad Tarabel delivers it without a single piece of brass camel kitsch in sight. This riad hotel earns a Michelin Key for a reason: Second Empire furniture, a courtyard pool, a spa, and dinner served wherever you happen to feel like sitting. It runs closer to a very grand private house than a conventional hotel, which is exactly the point.

A riad in one of the oldest quarters of the medina, Dar Al Dall translates to "House of Shadows," which turns out to be a design brief as much as a name. Five suites sit around a courtyard where hand-chiseled tilework and carved plaster archways do the decorating. There's a hammam, a rooftop, and an open kitchen where couscous gets made the slow way. The whole thing holds a Michelin Key and leans hard into the no-phone, be-present premise.

Seven suites in a former harem-palace, each opening onto a private terrace, is a decent argument for staying in the Andalous Quarter. This Michelin Key riad sits far enough from the medina's tourist drag that you can actually hear yourself think, which is easier when you're reclining among silk brocade and hand-painted calligraphy. The hammam, the French-Fassi restaurant, and a courtyard threaded with tiny water channels are all waiting when the room finally lets you go.

The courtyard fountain and citrus grove do the work that air conditioning tries and fails to do in the medina's sweltering alleys. This riad hotel in Fes el Bali holds thirteen rooms, each threaded with terra-cotta tile mosaics, keyhole doorways, and calligraphic plasterwork without ever tipping into fuss. An on-site hammam, a heated pool, and a rooftop with a full sweep of the ancient city round things out. It holds a Michelin Key.

A Moroccan architect owns this 26-room riad hotel in the Fes medina, and the interiors show it: the proportions feel considered rather than cobbled together by someone who fell in love with the country on holiday. The restaurant runs across three dining rooms, the hammam is on-site, and a shuttle runs to the Royal Golf Club. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

Five rooms, one massive marble bathtub in each, and a rooftop terrace looking out over medina minarets and the Atlantic beyond. Dar Maya is a riad in Essaouira's whitewashed medina, and where most riads drown you in silk and throw pillows, this one takes the opposite view: pared-down rooms, warm lighting, and the kind of unhurried hospitality that starts with pastries at check-in and doesn't really let up. It holds a Michelin Key.

A riad hotel in Essaouira's old medina, L'Heure Bleue Palais has a colonial bar, a billiards room, and a rooftop pool overlooking the ramparts, which tells you something about the pace of life here. Four suite styles run African to Portuguese to Oriental, each landing on king beds and oversized tubs. A Moroccan breakfast arrives in the flowering courtyard. Essaouira is the town Marrakech dreams of becoming when it finally gets some sleep. One Michelin Key.

The rooftop wraps a full circle around the building, so the Atlas mountains meet Marrakech's rooftops in every direction at once. This is a luxury hotel in the Hivernage district, 71 suites deep, with interiors that blend the Nobu brand's forward-leaning style into something warmer and more North African than you might expect. The Pearl spa sits underground, the Nobu restaurant anchors the ground floor, and the social spaces quietly outshine the rooms.

A 14-room riad in the medina's tangle of alleys near Bab Doukkala, with one of the higher rooftop terraces in the city and a full 360-degree sweep of rooftops and Atlas peaks. Breakfast arrives wherever you'd like to sit. Two restaurants draw their own crowd: La Table du Riad and Naama, a Mediterranean room. The Michelin Guide has it on their selected hotels list, which given the competition in Marrakech, says something.

Sofitel's sprawling five-floor complex sits in the Hivernage, the sensible middle ground between the medina's chaos and the far-flung Palmeraie resorts. Nearly 350 rooms means this is no riad, but the low-rise layout keeps it from feeling like a convention hotel, and the spa is genuinely large enough to make the city feel very far away. The Paris-meets-Morocco interiors do their job without apology.

Six rooms, three terraces, and a hammam tucked into the Bab Doukkala medina, this intimate riad sits inside a house that feels like it has always been here. The Italian owners renovated with a light touch, and the restraint shows: no maximalist riad theater, just cool tiles, good proportions, and a pool terrace that earns a long afternoon. The cooking stays Moroccan, the hammam stays traditional, and the quiet is conspicuous.

Five rooms, white on white, tucked down a medina alley in Marrakech: Dar Seven is a riad hotel stripped of the usual riot of color, its Italian owners apparently preferring calm to kaleidoscope. The open courtyard and carved arches are still very much Moroccan, but the palette reads more like a boutique hotel in Milan. The rooftop terrace handles breakfast and sunset drinks, and the staff will put together a Moroccan dinner if you ask early enough.

Six suites dressed in white, with enough ornate tilework and hand-carved detail to keep you staring at the ceiling well past checkout. L'Hôtel Marrakech is a riad hotel in the medina, redesigned by Jasper Conran with the kind of taste that looks effortless and costs the opposite. The courtyard, pool, and terrace arrange themselves so conveniently around doing nothing that the souks outside feel like a choice rather than an obligation.

Finding Riad 144 is its own small adventure, through a warren of alleys north of the souk in the Sidi Ben Slimane district until you hit a heavy front door. Inside, the contrast with the medina's chaos is the whole point, and the design commits harder than most riads dare, running from dark and moody to bright and airy across eight rooms. The courtyard, the hammam, the rooftop at sunset, and the traditional Moroccan meals are all present and correct.

A six-room riad in the old medina where the courtyard does what Moroccan courtyards are supposed to do: blue zellige pool, orange tree overhead, daybeds arranged for serious idling. The owners are Moroccan and Australian, and the rooms mix arched cedar doors and tadelakt walls with Florence Broadhurst textiles, which sounds unlikely and looks good. Mint tea masterclasses and storytelling soirées are on offer, and the rooftop bar pours sunset mocktails with full commitment to the ritual.

Several restored houses stitched together by an architect who clearly had a long-standing obsession with Marrakech, Riad Dar Saad is a boutique riad hotel tucked into the Dar El Bacha district. Rooms and suites are arranged around courtyards with dipping pools and hand-cut tilework. The hammam, Les Bains de Ninon, runs traditional treatments with natural products. Curated local art turns up in alcoves where you least expect it.

Seven rooms in the Dar el Bacha quarter, steps from Ben Youssef Mosque, and quiet enough to feel like a private house someone forgot to tell you about. This riad hotel has a spa, in-house dining, and an elevator, which sounds minor until you've hauled luggage up a traditional Marrakech staircase. A driver meets you at the airport, so you never have to negotiate the medina's labyrinth on arrival. The Michelin Guide has selected it among its hotels.

Five rooms, all different, in a riad the owner actually lived in before opening it to guests, which explains why it feels less like a boutique hotel and more like borrowing a very stylish friend's house. The Italian heritage shows in the contemporary furnishings, but the Moroccan bones, the courtyard plunge pool, and the rooftop terrace with its medina views keep the whole thing grounded in exactly the kind of seclusion you came to Marrakech for.

Canopy beds dramatic enough to warrant their own sightlines anchor the suites at this classic Medina riad, where carved wood and patterned textiles do the decorating and a hammam does the recovering. The rooftop looks out over the old city toward the Atlas Mountains, which makes evening tea feel less like a ritual and more like a reasonable excuse to stay up. Selected by the Michelin Guide.

Eight rooms tucked inside a traditional riad in the Mouassine medina, with a rooftop that pulls double duty as spa and restaurant. The architecture leans into light and open space rather than the shadowy warren you might expect, which sounds like a small thing until you've spent a day in the souks. Part of a two-property Laz family; this one is the slightly larger sibling, though "larger" remains a relative term in a city where intimacy is the whole point.

Two interconnected houses tucked into one of the Medina's quieter corners, Ryad Dyor is a ten-room boutique riad you reach entirely on foot, which filters out exactly the right guests. The courtyard plunge pool, rooftop terrace, and small hammam do most of the persuading. Rooms mix Moroccan antiques with pieces from Europe and further east, landing somewhere between collector's den and guesthouse. Meals can be arranged in advance, so leaving is optional.

Heavy wooden doors open onto a courtyard tiled in ultramarine, with a reflecting pool and brass lanterns that glow at dusk. This intimate boutique hotel sits on a quiet medina street, its rooms each individually furnished, with original wood-beamed ceilings and ornamental mirrors. Mornings mean lavish Moroccan breakfasts poolside; afternoons bring mint tea. The rooftop terrace is where you watch the sunset turn the old city improbably pink.

The carved doors alone take a moment to get past, and that sets the tone for this riad in the medina. Suites lean hard into velvet and fine woodwork, the hammam is small and cozy, and the roof terrace has a plunge pool for surviving the afternoon heat. The cook runs both traditional meals and cooking lessons. Not for anyone who finds maximalism exhausting, but then those people probably shouldn't be in Marrakech.

A riad a few minutes' walk from Jemaa el-Fna, Dar Mo'Da keeps things intimate with five suites, two pools, and a rooftop that makes the whole medina look like a film set. The courtyard, carved arcades, and salon alcoves pile on the atmosphere without tipping into theme-park territory. A marble hammam and massage room round it out for anyone who needs an excuse to stay inside all day.

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.

Ancient palms and citrus trees fill the courtyard of this boutique hotel in the Kasbah district, where hammocks are strung between trees and the mood is closer to a private villa than a riad on the tourist circuit. Adobe walls, carved woodwork, and shaded patios set the tone, while some rooms add solariums or fireplaces. The Saadian Tombs are practically next door, which is either very convenient or a reminder that history never really clocks out.

Seven suites behind a carved wooden door near the Bahia Palace make Riad Antara feel less like a hotel and more like borrowing a very well-connected friend's Marrakech house. Zellige tilework, Moroccan textiles, and a traditional hammam set the tone, while the rooftop trades the medina's noise for bougainvillea and birdsong. The owners press babouche slippers on arrival and serve breakfast up in the sun.

A riad tucked just off the lanes of Mouassine, with desert-toned walls, poured terrazzo, and sculpted brass that make the medina's chaos feel very far away. Each room is individually shaped, furnished with hand-finished pieces by Moroccan artisans and vintage rugs sourced from Bab El Khemis. The rooftop plunge pool comes edged with ochre daybeds. A leafy courtyard and an honesty bar keep the whole place mercifully low-key.

Two plunge pools and a rooftop hammam tucked into a residential medina lane say a lot about what Riad Camilia is trying to do. This small riad hotel runs just two rooms and four suites, each one mixing Moroccan and Parisian sensibilities in ways that feel considered rather than assembled. The courtyard has the hush of a private house, which is exactly the point. Evening dinner, tailored to whoever is staying, is the kind of thing you book around.

Five rooms in a renovated Medina mansion, each one furnished by Belgian artist Laurence Leenaert, whose lifestyle brand LRNCE supplies the bespoke homewares, hand-carved pieces, and custom terrazzo underfoot. This adults-only riad guesthouse near the Bahia Palace is the kind of place where the stained glass was chosen with genuine intention. A jacaranda tree anchors the courtyard, breakfast lands on the rooftop, and the hammam opens whenever you ask.

Storks nest in the palms at this La Palmeraie resort, fifteen minutes from the medina on two hectares of gardens where the city's noise simply fails to arrive. Suites run from rattan and teal-tiled rooms to botanical-mural suites with cream sofas and shaggy rugs. Two pools, a spa, a yoga shala, and two restaurants make it easy to treat Marrakech as a view rather than an obligation. Selected by the Michelin Guide.

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.

Peacocks roam freely among the olive groves and jasmine here, which sets the tone for this six-suite villa near Marrakech's old city walls. Charles Boccara designed the architecture, and Bill Willis furnished it, a pairing whose social world once included Yves Saint Laurent. Carved cedar, emerald zellige fireplaces, and a heated pool in the gardens keep things from feeling like a museum, though the black-and-white photo albums left on the tables do lean that way.

An eighteen-room riad hotel in a restored palace, Palais Amani is the quiet argument for choosing Fes over Marrakech. The renovation was near-archaeological in its care, and it shows in the carved woodwork, handmade tiles, and textiles that make each room different without being precious about it. The rooftop bar handles sundowners, a hammam handles everything else, and the medina is a short walk away when you're ready to disappear into it.

A riad-hotel scaled up to palace proportions, Palais Faraj sits on a hillside above the medina with 25 rooms that lean hard into Moroccan tilework, carved plaster, and the kind of courtyard geometry you'll spend an afternoon photographing. The Essencia Spa runs a proper hammam alongside more contemporary treatments, and the rooftop restaurant looks out over the old city. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

A riad hotel tucked deep in the ancient medina of Fes, where hand-cut tilework covers every surface and the ceilings climb high enough to make you forget the labyrinthine streets outside. Guest suites are dressed in warm, saturated color with sitting areas built for long afternoons and mint tea. A courtyard pool anchors the social life, a hammam and spa are on hand, and two in-house restaurants turn out slow-cooked tagines from glazed earthenware.

A 19th-century palace in the old medina, reworked by an owner whose loyalties are split between Morocco and Mayfair, which explains the Arabic-Moorish archways coexisting peacefully with Art Deco flourishes. A black marble pool anchors the courtyard, and the spa goes deep: hammam, Jacuzzi, facials, massages. There's also a library, a kids' room, cooking classes, and a team happy to arrange tours of Fez when the riad's pull eventually loosens.

Perched on a hill between the medina and Fes's modern quarter, Hotel Sahrai is a boutique hotel built on a simple premise: go see the ancient city, then come back to an infinity pool and a rooftop bar where the view of the medina at sunset does most of the talking. Fifty rooms run to minimalist pale brick and floor-to-ceiling windows, with a Givenchy Spa, two restaurants, and just enough hand-painted pottery to remind you which country you're in.

Low adobe buildings dissolve into the palm oasis at the edge of the Sahara, where M'Hamid has sheltered desert travelers for centuries. This luxury desert hotel runs from rooms styled after Berber tents, spare and cool, up to palatial suites with Zellige mosaics and custom Moroccan craftsmanship. A pool and a hammam handle the afternoons. The Michelin Guide has it in their selected hotels list.

Keyhole archways and artisan glass lanterns thread Moorish craft through what is otherwise a contemporary Fairmont-scale hotel on the Bouregreg River, part of a marina complex just outside the old medina. The rooftop pool and panoramic sunset bar stay open late, the spa is among the city's more serious ones, and the black-and-white guest rooms keep things crisp, with many balconies facing the water.

A boutique hotel inside a converted Catholic church, right against the ramparts of El Jadida's old Portuguese city. Fourteen rooms split between the original convent and a former American consulate annex, each furnished with antiques sourced from markets across Morocco. Blue and white tile and chandeliers meet carved lattices and stucco in a way that somehow doesn't feel forced. Mint tea in the old nave, ocean views at the café downstairs.

The roof deck, with Atlantic water stretching out past Essaouira's ramparts, is where the day tends to dissolve. This boutique hotel in the medina skips the traditional courtyard in favor of a more cosmopolitan layout: tadelakt walls and hand-cut tile alongside clean, minimal lines that feel more Milan than Morocco. The After Five bistro handles dinner downstairs, and cooking workshops are on offer for guests who can be pulled away from the view.

The orange grove and driving range are clues that this is not a standard capital-city business hotel. The Sofitel Jardin des Roses is a full luxury resort sitting in the heart of Rabat's historic district, close to the Royal Palace, with an Andalusian garden and a pool to go with the carved headboards and mashrabiya screens. Sofitel's Parisian-inflected style keeps things contemporary underneath the North African ornament, for visitors who've noticed Morocco has a capital.

Tucked into Rabat's quiet embassy quarter, where the neighbors are ambassadors and the streets are conspicuously pothole-free, this luxury boutique hotel trades the riad template for a compound-style layout that feels closer to a private resort. Rooms go contemporary-classic, suites add terraces, and the Emiri Villa brings its own hammam and pool. A Moroccan restaurant, cocktail bar, spa, and main pool fill out the rest.

A boutique hotel inside Essaouira's old medina walls, yards from the Atlantic, decorated like a colonial fever dream: antiques collected from across several continents, bespoke finishes, and linen that probably has its own provenance. The young French owner has made the riad hotels of Marrakech look restrained by comparison. A small spa handles hammam and massage, and the staff know where to eat. Essaouira handles the rest.

There is no WiFi and no electric lighting at Villa Laba, which is either a dealbreaker or the whole point. This small riad-style retreat sits in a coastal Berber village outside Essaouira, where days run on sunlight and nights on candlelight, with screens discouraged across the board. Rooms are rustic and handsome, dressed in local artisan work. A wood-heated hammam, an outdoor pool, and Moroccan-Mediterranean dinners round out what turns out to be a fairly convincing argument for unplugging.