Maison MK
Style Curvacious teched-up riad
Setting Quiet Ksour sidestreet
The owner of Maison MK is a former fashion photographer, and he’s certainly brought his eye for design to bear on this delightfully curvy Medina riad, fusing traditional Maroc materials and motifs to create a warming modern minimalism, with printed silk artwork, swathes of colourful hanging fabric, and a striking teardrop plunge pool.
Need to know
- Rooms Six suites: five doubles and a twin.
-
Rates
Double rooms from $313.39 (€250), excluding tax at 10 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of €2.00 per person per night on checkout.
Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (€250), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
- More details Rates include breakfast, afternoon tea and, for stays of three nights or more, airport transfers. Five-night minimum stay in high season.
- Facilities Spa, hammam, private screening room, Xbox 360, small library of books and DVDs, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: hand-made beds with Maison de Blanc bed linen, sound system with preloaded iPod, Ex-Voto toiletries. All rooms include a mobile phone, with credit.
- Poolside The curvy indoor plunge pool spreads like a teardrop from the wide fireplace in the courtyard. (The resident rubber duck seems to like it too).
- Check-out 11am, but flexible. Check-in, 2pm.
- Children Unless you book the whole riad, it’s over-12s only. An extra beds can be added to rooms 1, 3 or 6 for €50 a night. There’s a selection of board games suitable for youngsters, and a children’s menu is available.
- Also There's a fireplace-fitted smoking room smoking room if you need to light up. Full riad hire: €2,200/€1,580 a night for six/five rooms. It’s another €1,000 a night to guarantee exclusivity, with dinner, four spa treatmens and a cookery class for two.
Food and drink at Maison MK
-
Hotel restaurant
Five-course Moroccan/European fusion meals are served in the warm, lounge-like dining room. The terracotta walls are inscribed with ornate Arabic calligraphy, chairs are upholstered in white leather, and colourful banquettes line the walls.
- Dress code Laid-back loungewear – your newly purchased djellaba would be perfect.
- Top table Couples in search of an intimate soirée should book the private dining table at the far end of the restaurant – it’s curtained off from the rest of the room, beneath a shining golden ceiling.
- Last orders The restaurant normally closes at 9pm, but lighter snacks are available after hours.
- Room service Meals and snacks can be brought to your room – or to the roof terrace – 24 hours a day.
-
Hotel bar
You can drink anywhere in the riad, whether it’s a freshly ground coffee, a bottle of Château Lafite or a 30-year-old single malt. We love the three-tier roof terrace, for its amazing views, bar, fire pit, and the sunken lounge beside the fireplace.
Maison MK 14 Derb Lafkih Sbaai, Quartier Ksour, Marrakech Medina, Marrakech, 40000
Join us – it's free!
Sign up now for exclusive hotel offers, money back on every booking, and Smith extras (like the one below) whenever you book with us. more
Smith extra at Maison MK
An Arabic language lesson and a bottle of Moroccan wine
In the know
Our favourite rooms
Thanks to the incredible mattresses (the same type that the king himself likes to slumber on), and the super-luxurious 600-thread count Egyptian cotton sheets, you’re guaranteed a good night’s sleep whichever suite you nest in. If you want a bit more space, Room 1, the master suite, is twice as big as the other five, with high ceilings, hanging silks and chandeliers and a gorgeous tadelakt bathroom. Room 5 is a twin, and Room 6 is the quirkiest, with exposed beams, hanging silks in orange and crimson, and windows looking out onto the street.
Packing tips
Purge your luggage of gadgetry – each of the riad’s rooms comes with a preloaded iPod and a mobile phone – with credit and useful numbers included.
Also
You can tailor-make your minibar to taste – just let the riad know your preferences before you arrive and staff will ensure it’s stocked with your favourite goodies. Otherwise, you’ll find such luxuries as Veuve Clicquot, Voss mineral water and Kshocolat. There are regular rooftop yoga retreats, where workouts are followed by spa treatments and lots of food and drink.
From the Guestbook…
Fabulous week celebrating Mr Smith's 50th birthday. Nothing was too much trouble for the staff and the food, ambience and entire riad were faultless. Can't wait to go back.
more
