Need to know

Rooms

Nine, including seven suites.

Rates

Doubles, €180; Junior Suites, €280; Suites, €310–€420, including breakfast and tax. The hotel can provide airport transfers for €30 each way.

Check-out

Midday, but very flexible subject to availability.

Facilities

Two courtyards, pool, lounge bar, library, gym, hammam and treatment room, boutique, free WiFi, baby grand piano. In rooms, minibar, flatscreen TV/DVD player, AC, luxury toiletries, safe.

Poolside

The new second courtyard features a small swimming pool, flanked by sunloungers, banana trees and a cooling cascade of water.

Children

Families welcome; an extra bed can be added to rooms for €50 a night, and babysitting can be arranged – however, this is a place you’ll want to keep entirely to your adult selves.

Hotel closed

For two weeks in high summer for routine maintenance.

Also

Smith members can book the whole riad at the exclusive rate of €2,600 a night, with champagne, transfers and spa discount, (three-night minimum at weekend, two nights mid-week). This replaces the Smith membership card offer.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

Panther, Zebra and Cheetah – the new Royal Suites around the pool patio – are stay-forever fabulous, with private roof terraces or balconies, giant baths and enough room to swing a big cat in. Panther’s particularly decadent: as well as a separate study and dressing room, Indonesian wing chairs and a four-poster bed, its terrace has a Jacuzzi and double day bed so you can sleep under the stars on warmer nights. Above the first courtyard, we loved the Camel suite with its romantically draped bed, colonnaded tadelakt bath and comfy lounge area. The Elephant suite has a beaten silver-alloy bath for two, a carved cedarwood four-poster and balcony. The Junior Suites – red-hued Desert Fox and cosy Chameleon – are also good choices.

Packing tips

Swimwear, so you can make the most of the pool. Comfy shoes for exploring; pretty sandals or mules for evenings in. Owner Jill has thoughtfully provided palm-leaf baskets and sunhats in rooms for shopping trips in the souk or taking to the pool.

Also

Capable therapists use fine natural oils, traditional savon noir and Yon-Ka products for beauty treatments and facials. Book in for a couples’ hammam, or spoil yourself with a relaxing reflexology massage. If you’re in a suite, ask staff to draw and dress your bath; it’ll be surrounded by candles, scented with oils and strewn with rose petals. Open a bottle of champagne from the minibar and, hey presto, instant romance.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

Eating is a relaxed affair but food at Noir D’Ivoire is faultless: chef Mohammed takes traditional Marrakchi dishes and transforms them with European flair, creating delicately spiced tagines, silky soups and miniature pancakes for breakfast.

Dress code

Comfortable boho chic: silk kaftans, floaty layers, linen shirts.

Top table

A corner table in the dining area, or a table for two beside the banana palms in the courtyard. Enjoy breakfast in the sun on winter mornings on the roof terrace.

Last orders

Dinner is by arrangement and the bar closes around midnight, or when the last guest has gone to bed. Staff are on hand 24 hours a day – if you need anything, just ask.

Room service

You can dine privately in your suite or take your breakfast on your own terrace if you wish. Your minibar will take care of early-hours imbibing, and rooms have bowls of fruit and nuts to graze on; the chef is working on a 24-hour snack menu.

Hotel bar

The fireplace-focused lounge bar is perfect for aperitifs or nightcaps; join the Fechtmanns and their guests for a friendly gossip over a Casablanca beer or gin and tonic, or sink into one of the squishy sofas in the library with a bottle of wine.

Smith card offer A choice of any treatment in Noir D'Ivoire's spa (such as a massage, facial, manicure, pedicure or hammam)

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Noir D'Ivoire

31 Derb Jdid, Bab Doukkala, Medina, Marrakech