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

1pm, 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.

Children

Consult the hotel: El Fenn is not ideal for kids, though they love the pool, the pets and the cinema. Cots/extra bed available at no extra charge to under-12s. Babysitting available, €40 an evening. Rooms 10, 11 and the Douiria Suite are recommended.

Also

There's a minimum stay of three nights at weekends, four nights during bank holidays and five nights at Christmas.

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.

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

4pm at lunch; 10.30pm 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

As well as in the stylish Krug bar, guests are served drinks anywhere they like in the riad.

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Riad El Fenn

Bab El Ksour, Medina, Marrakech, Morocco