Best Luxury Hotels in Morocco
Five properties concentrated almost entirely around Marrakech: palace hotels commissioned by royalty, a Jacques Garcia-designed institution with a century of history, an art-filled riad in the medina, an equestrian estate outside the city, and a mountain kasbah in the Atlas foothills. Chosen against the same four criteria throughout, not ranked by price.
Morocco’s luxury hotel identity runs almost entirely through Marrakech, and this collection reflects that: four properties inside or just outside the city, and one genuine mountain escape a short drive into the Atlas foothills.
For the medina’s grand hotels
Royal Mansour, commissioned by King Mohammed VI and built as a village of private riads connected by underground tunnels, and La Mamounia, a nearly century-old institution with its own documented Churchill history, represent the top tier of Marrakech’s hotel scene. Both sit within or against the medina walls.
For art and independence
El Fenn, assembled from more than a dozen joined riads around a rotating contemporary art collection, is the collection’s smaller, more idiosyncratic choice, founded by Vanessa Branson and now under new ownership as of late 2025.
For horses and open ground
Selman Marrakech, built around its own Arabian horse stud and stables visible from many rooms, sits just outside the city on the Route d’Amizmiz, offering more space than a medina address allows.
For the mountains
Kasbah Tamadot, in the Asni Valley in the foothills of the High Atlas, is the collection’s clear choice for a change of altitude and pace after a few days in Marrakech itself.
The list
5 hotels in this collection
Marrakech medina, Morocco
Royal Mansour Marrakech
A king's private commission built by 1,200 Moroccan artisans, where every guest gets a multi-storey riad and its own rooftop rather than a room.
From $1,500 per night
Marrakech medina, Hivernage, Morocco
La Mamounia
The 1923 Marrakech palace built around an 18th-century royal garden, where Winston Churchill painted from the balconies and Jacques Garcia's 2009 restoration still sets the city's benchmark for Moorish-Art-Deco grandeur.
From $650 per night
Marrakech medina, Morocco
El Fenn
A private art collector's riad turned hotel, stitched together from more than a dozen houses behind the walls of the Marrakech medina.
From $480 per night
Route Amizmiz, near Marrakech, Morocco
Selman Marrakech
A Jacques Garcia palace at the foot of the Atlas Mountains where a private Arabian stud, a Jean-Francois Piege kitchen and one of only six Chenot spas on earth share a single walled garden.
From $580 per night
Asni Valley, Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Kasbah Tamadot
Richard Branson's former antiques-dealer's kasbah, rebuilt above the Asni Valley with Berber tents, three-bedroom riads and Mount Toubkal on the horizon.
From $700 per night