Need to know

Rooms

Four suites and two apartments (one of which can be divided into two separate doubles).

Rates

Low season, €161–€252; high season, €245–€432, including breakfast and private return airport transfers. Whole riad, on request (excludes Christmas/New Year), including dinner on first night, breakfast and transfers. Rates exclude local tax.

Check-out

By arrangement, depending on subsequent bookings.

Facilities

Courtyard, roof terrace with plunge pool, hammam, massages, library, WiFi in rooms. Suites have showers and large baths, TVs and DVD players.

Poolside

There's is a little tadelakt plunge pool on the roof terrace, where there are recliners and daybeds for sunbathing, and distant mountain views.

Children

Welcome (€30 a day for under-14s; €50 for older kids), but large internal windows, an unsupervised courtyard pool and lots of antiques mean it’s not ideal for little ones. Babysitting can be arranged with a few hours’ notice; cots can be provided.

Hotel closed

The hotel is closed between 17–29 July 2009.

Also

Minimum stays of four nights over Christmas/New Year and over the Easter and May Bank Holiday weekends apply.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

The first-floor Red Apartment is the largest and quietest suite, and the one the owner chooses to stay in when he’s visiting; it’s more like an antique-strewn private flat. As well as 18th-century period details such as original doors, hand-painted ceilings and carved plasterwork, it has two generously sized double bedrooms and bathrooms, both with twin sinks, showers and big baths. The Blue Apartment’s cupola-lit, fire-warmed dining and sitting room is flanked by two double rooms, one featuring a four-poster in a wood-panelled recess and a red-walled bathroom; the other (also with a four-poster) has a huge round bath. The smaller, split-level Orange Suite has a handsome black and white sitting room with stairs leading up to an orange and gold-themed bedroom with ensuite bathroom.

Packing tips

Sketchbook, camera or travel journal, depending on your creative bent. Some good books or DVDs. A long kaftan or djellabah for lounging around in.

Also

The riad has its own hammam; give staff a few hours’ warning if you’d like a treatment, so it can be brought to the correct temperature. Staff are very accommodating, so if you’d like to be serenaded at dinner or massaged on the terrace, just ask.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

Dar Darma’s housekeeper Maria is also a talented cook, creating French and Moroccan dishes for lunch or dinner, from tagines to tarte tatin. You may be joined by gnaoua musicians in the dining room.

Dress code

Entirely up to you, but interesting vintage pieces and chunky tribal jewellery will feel just right.

Top table

Choose your own adventure: if you don’t fancy the decadent dining room, staff can set up private tables in the courtyard, on the roof, in the mirrored ground-floor salon or in your rooms.

Last orders

You’ll have to give a few hours’ notice if you want dinner, but otherwise there are no rules, within reason.

Room service

24 hours.

Hotel bar

Drinks can be brought to you anywhere in the riad.

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Dar Darma

11/12, Trik Sidi Bohuarba, Medina, Marrakech