Riad Tarabel
Style Unpretentious colonial elegance
Setting Serene Medina sidestreet
Named after the owner’s family castle in Toulouse, and filled with heirlooms snaffled from the same château, Riad Tarabel fills its French colonial-feel rooms with bamboo, cedar and rattan furniture, traditional tadelakt tiling and souk-sourced antiques.
Need to know
- Rooms Three, including one suite.
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Rates
Double rooms from $199.31 (€159), excluding tax at 19 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of €6.00 per person per night on checkout.
Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (€159), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
- More details Rates include breakfast and soft drinks. You can hire the whole riad for €900–€970 (up to €1,200 over Christmas and New Year).
- Facilities Hammam spa, DVD, CD and book library, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD/CD player and preloaded iPod, minibar, free bottled watered and Balzatex toiletries.
- Poolside The riad doesn’t have a pool of its own, but guests can use the pool next door free.
- Check-out 11am, but may be flexible, depending on availability. Check-in, 1pm.
- Children Kids of all ages are welcome if you book the whole riad, and extra beds or babysitting can be arranged.
- Hotel closed 1–30 August.
- Also Pets are welcome if you book Tarabel in its entirety. Smoking is allowed in outdoor areas. Airport transfers are included for stays of four nights or more.
Food and drink at Riad Tarabel
- Hotel restaurant There’s no restaurant at Riad Tarabel, but that doesn’t mean you’ll go hungry – there’s a chef on call throughout the day, who’s ever at the ready to prepare your choice of Moroccan or international dishes. You can dine wherever you like, in the dining room, on the patio, or in your room.
- Dress code Flowy and floaty beach dresses, romantic glints in the eye.
- Top table Nothing beats dining outside on the terrace overlooking the maze of Medina rooftops.
- Room service Sandwiches, salads, pastilles and cakes can be brought to your room at any time.
- Hotel bar There’s no bar, but if you fancy a drink, simply ask and you shall receive.
Riad Tarabel 8 Derb Sraghna, Dar El Bacha, Marrakech, 40000
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In the know
Our favourite rooms
Tarabel only has three – each one comprising beige tadelakt walls, wood-beamed ceilings and typically Moroccan furniture. Our top pick is the Palmeraie Suite, which can sleep up to four people and has grey patterned zellige tiles designed by the riad’s owner Rose-Marie and an inviting rattan day-bed. The most alluring feature, however, is the suite’s gargantuan bathroom, which sprawls over two levels with double sinks and mirrors in the upper section and a double walk-in shower and a bath tub (complete with fitted pillow) big enough for four on the level below. Of the other two rooms, L’Argane has a sumptuous four-poster, and Jasmine boasts a free-standing cast iron bath in a soothing bluey grey tone.
Packing tips
Tarabel staff provide guests with a mobile phone freshly juiced up with credit, so there’s never any need to worry about being incommunicado.
From the Guestbook…
Superb accommodation. Everything was beautifully furnished and decorated. I would definitely recommend dining at the Riad; the food was absolutely delicious, and served in the most...
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