Need to know

Rooms

Eight, spread over one two-bedroom and two three-bedroom villas.

Rates

€150, including Continental breakfast, evening canapés and tax. Rentals for a villa with three bedrooms is €360 a night (€260 for a two-roomed one).

Check-out

Midday, but can be flexible if availability allows.

Facilities

Gardens, beauty salon, clay tennis court, table tennis, boules, DVD library. In rooms: flatscreen satellite TV, DVD player, air-conditioning, pantry with a fully stocked fridge.

Poolside

Each villa has a tiny private plunge pool, and there’s a large unheated outdoor pool too.

Children

Under-twos stay free (cots are provided) and extra beds can be provided in the villas’ upstairs rooms for €45 a night. Babysitting can be arranged for 200 dirhams an evening (up to midnight), with 12 hours’ notice.

Also

Two-night minimum stay. Smoking is allowed throughout.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

We loved the turquoise-hued feature wall and pillows in Villa Sannor’s downstairs double, as well as the large recessed tadelakt bath separated from the rest of the bedroom by a cream curtain. Villa Taos – Fawakay’s other three-bed villa has an African theme running through its decor, with an assortment of artefacts and craftworks underlining its ‘back to nature’ feel, and a fantastic master suite upstairs that comes with a vast private terrace with loungers and a shady tented area. The smaller villa Laklak has a fireplace in both the double and the suite and is decorated throughout in bold, Smith-esque red and black tones.

Packing tips

You’ll doubtless be spending a lot of time poolside, so pack plenty of lotion, your most superstar shades, and that thousand-pager you’ve been putting off.

Also

As well as tennis, golf (there’s a driving net) and idling by the pool, you can arrange on-site cooking lessons with the hotel chef.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

Villas Fawakay’s resident chef, Rachida, can prepare European and/or Moroccan dishes to order using ingredients from the hotel’s vegetable garden – and serve them wherever you wish (meals are an additional €25 a day). There’s also a barbecue serving brochettes and grilled meats beside the pool bar some nights.

Dress code

Anything from kaftans to Karan.

Top table

Although you can eat anywhere, the tables beside the pool are ideal for lunch on lazy days.

Last orders

Breakfast is served until 11am, lunch at midday, and dinner between 7pm and 9pm. The bar is an informal affair, and open late. There is also a dedicated children's menu, lots of nibbles in the villa fridges and an all-day snack menu.

Hotel bar

Drinks can be served anywhere thirst strikes, but there’s a huge, fully stocked poolside bar more often than not manned by Francis, the villas’ congenial owner.

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Villas Fawakay

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