Need to know

Rooms

Six, including one twin room and three suites.

Rates

€120–€235, including Morrocan breakfast; excludes city tax of €2.5 a person a night. You can rent the whole riad for €950–€1,150 a night (four-night minimum).

Check-out

11am, but this may be flexible depending on subsequent arrivals. Check-in: 1pm.

Facilities

In room beauty and massage treatments, library, CD selection. In rooms: free bottled water, Les Sens de Marrakech toiletries.

Poolside

Azzar’s palm-planted courtyard has a rich jade pool at its centre; ideal for cooling off in the sunshine or taking mint tea in the lantern-lit evening. If you’re more interested in warming up, there are loungers on the terrace to soak up the sun.

Children

Cots are free for babies, and there are extra beds available (€35 for under 12s; otherwise, €50). Babysitting is €5 an hour, with two days’ notice.

Also

Smoking is allowed only on the terrace and patio.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

Suite Zemmour is the riad’s most romantic, with deep purple soft furnishings and a traditional, alcove-set Morrocan bed. The black marble bathroom includes a free-standing roll-top tub. On the first floor, Suite Taznarth has an hand-carved cedar balcony fitted with a violet banquette, as well as a fireplace and a pristine tadelakt bathroom. Suite Zayan also has a functioning fireplace, together with ornate wood-pannelled walls and a wispily draped four-poster. The rooms on the ground floor, although without air-con, are still pleasantly cool.

Packing tips

Riad Azzar is a (blessedly) TV-free zone, but if you do require cinematic sustenance, a portable DVD player will help. Otherwise, all you need is suitable shoes for strolling the souks. The terrace loungers come complete with sun hats.

Also

The riad is closely involved with an educational initiative to provide secondary schooling for rural Moroccan girls, so make sure you’ve a few coins spare to help them with their cause. There’s a selection of in-room treatments available, including manicures pedicures, facials, waxing and massage.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

Fatima, the riad’s gifted cook, can produce excellent Moroccan dishes at all hours of the day. There’s a small area with cushioned banquettes off the courtyard that serves as a restaurant – but you can dine wherever you like.

Dress code

Cool and casual linens and sandals.

Top table

Take breakfast on the roof terrace and enjoying watching the medina morning.

Last orders

There are no set-in-stone opening times – you can get whatever you want, whenever you want it.

Room service

Drinks and snacks are available 24 hours a day.

Hotel bar

There’s no defined bar area; you can sip, sup and savour wherever you wish.

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Riad Azzar

94 Derb Moulay Abdelkader