In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- The Douiria Suite, aka Room 6, is a split-level rock-star retreat with its own 600-foot private terrace with little heated pool. Room 11 has deep-red walls, white marble fireplace, and private verandah. Room 10 is similar, but turquoise.
- Packing tips
- Sketchbook.
- Also
- The artworks on display are by Bridget Riley, Antony Gormley, Frances Upritchard, Fiona Rae and so on. No pets allowed – El Fenn has its own tortoises, chameleon and iguana.
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- Members staying three nights or more will receive a traditional hammam for two
Riad El Fenn
Marrakech, Morocco [view map]
- Style
- Traditional riad with an artist’s touch
- Setting
- On the cusp of medina and souk
The unassuming doorway of this labyrinthine, 18-roomed property, leads onto three inner courtyards: pass through the a sensually lit courtyard with marble fountain and a rose-petal-filled basin, past a screening room, through antique carved wooden doors, up a tiny flight of steps to a WiFi'd library. Run by husband-and-wife team Frederic Scholl and Viviana Gonzalez, it’s the place for creatives to stay.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 18 rooms, most of them lofty open-plan suites, six with fireplaces and all with six-foot-wide beds and Egyptian cotton bedlinen, giant custom-built baths, and powerful showers.
- Rates
- €270–€550 a night, including transfers, breakfast, mineral water, and an early-morning tray with tea, coffee and pastries.
- Check-out
- 13h, with free late check-out whenever possible.
- Facilities
- Hammam, heated marble swimming pool, treatment room, mini cinema, WiFi, massive roof terrace with dining area, hanging garden, sun deck and heated reading pools, library, painting kits (oils and watercolour), yoga mats.
- Also
- There's a minimum stay of three nights at weekends, four nights during bank holidays and five nights at Christmas.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Daily-changing Mod Med-Maroc menus based on what’s in season from El Fenn’s organic garden suppliers: country-style at lunch, €30, polished and inventive at supper, €45.
- Dress code
- As though you’re at home.
- Top table
- The little table facing the fireplace in the dining room, or the end table on the roof with a view of the Koutoubia.
- Last orders
- 16h at lunch; 22h30 at supper, unless pre-arranged otherwise. No time limits on breakfast. Can serve until midnight.
- Room service
- You can order up smoked salmon, foie gras, toasted sandwiches, desserts, and take meals in your room on request.
- Hotel bar
- The Krug bar opens in November 2006; until then, guests are served drinks anywhere they like in the riad.
Smith card offer
Members staying three nights or more will receive a traditional hammam for two
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Riad El Fenn
Bab El Ksour
Medina
Marrakech
Morocco
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