Need to know

Rooms

Four: two suites, a junior suite and a deluxe room.

Rates

Low season, €140–€220; high season, €165–€300, including Moroccan breakfast, afternoon tea, one-way transfer and taxes.

Check-out

Midday; check-in, 2pm.

Facilities

Roof terrace, hammam, in-room spa treatments, library, CD selection, free WiFi on the patio. In rooms: flowers, candles, incense, free bottled water, air-conditioning.

Poolside

There’s a lantern-lit deep-sea blue plunge pool in the courtyard – ideal for cooling off, if not for serious lane-swimmers.

Children

Free cots for babies; extra beds for older Smithlets are €30 a night. With a day’s notice, babysitting can be arranged with a local nanny (€5 an hour).

Also

Pets are welcome. Smoking allowed throughout. Parking nearby costs around €2 a night.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

Suite Zan is the queen of the quartet, with a huge free-standing copper bath tub, a sprawling chaise longue, and over-sized lanterns on either side of the colourful king-size bed. There’s an impressive bathroom, with double sinks lit by Moorish lanterns, hidden behind a sliding red panel. Suite Adbel on the ground floor is similarly spacious, with a lovely carved wooden ceiling and blue-black marble floor and, in the bathroom, a choice between a marble tub and a walk-in shower that’s open to the sky. The hand-carved toilet door has been salvaged from a house in Fez. In the riad’s Junior Suite, Samir, the bed features a headboard converted from an old door and, strikingly, has no legs, so it seems to float on top of an wooden panel. Deluxe Room Kamal is the smallest in Riad Due – very cosy, with a sculptured plaster ceiling.

Packing tips

Big, floppy hats will help keep the heat at bay when you’re snoozing on the roof terrace – Due provides Pananams. Don’t forget to note down the phone number of Marrakech’s premier personal shopper, Laetitia (+212 (0)74 217228); she’ll steer you towar

Also

Massages are available on the roof terrace when sunbathing becomes too strenuous, and the hammam and gommage treatments on offer will leave you suitably radiant for the Marrakech nightlife.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

The riad’s chef, Habiba, serves up dynamite tagine, pastilla, couscous and other Moroccan marvels, but is also confident with European cuisine. Meals are served under the sky in the courtyard.

Dress code

Cooling casuals.

Top table

Ask for a spot as close to the pool as possible so you can watch the lantern light play upon the water.

Last orders

Breakfast is available until midday, lunch until 4pm and dinner from 7pm to 9pm.

Hotel bar

A selection of drinks is available in the courtyard or on the roof terrace throughout the day.

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Riad Due

72 Arset Awsel, Bab Doukkala, Marrakech Medina