Highlights
- Four bedrooms, four bathrooms
- Plunge pool, four metres long
- Shaded gallery on two sides
- Ochre tadelakt throughout
- Roof terrace set for dinner
The plan
Four bedrooms sit around one courtyard, two at ground level and two above, each with its own bathroom. Walls are hand-polished ochre tadelakt, which is why the courtyard light turns warm rather than white as the afternoon goes on. Along two sides runs a gallery, deep enough to hold shade from mid-morning onwards, and it is where most people end up reading, eating and losing an hour.
The pool, described honestly
The plunge pool is roughly four metres by two and a half. It is for standing in, cooling down and getting out again, not for swimming lengths — inside the walls of the old town, where houses share their sides and every metre is accounted for, that is the realistic version. Between one and four in the afternoon it earns its place.
Above and behind
The roof terrace is laid out for eating rather than sunbathing, with a long table, a canopy of reed and a view over flat roofs to the mountains on a clear morning. Below, a small kitchen opens off the courtyard. A house of this size and type normally comes with a cook and a housekeeper who live out and arrive early, so breakfast is usually on the terrace before the day gets hot.
Amenities
- Plunge pool in the courtyard
- Roof terrace with dining table
- Second dining table in the courtyard
- Air conditioning in every bedroom
- Cook and housekeeper, usually daily
- Wi-Fi throughout
Ideal for
Available on request
- Airport transfers
- Chef for evening meals
- Guided Medina walks
- Hammam and massage, normally arranged nearby
- Day trips to the Atlas
Charged separately from the stay and confirmed case by case.
Gallery
The area
The Kasbah is the southern quarter, built around the old royal enclosure and the Saadian tombs. Cars reach the edge of it, which in the Medina is not a small thing: luggage travels metres rather than a quarter of an hour behind a handcart. Jemaa el-Fna is a walk of roughly a quarter of an hour. After dark the lanes here empty in a way the central souks never do.
What the photos won't tell you
Every listing in the world photographs the pool from its best corner, and no photograph answers the questions that decide a stay. So before you commit, we put the following in writing for your dates:
- How far the car gets, and how many metres and steps remain with the luggage.
- Who the neighbours are, and what you will hear at five in the morning.
- Whether the pool is heated, and in which months that decides whether you swim.
- What “staffed” covers — who is there, at what hours, and who cooks.
- Where the wifi actually reaches, not just where the router is.
- Which of the property’s own photographs were taken with a wide-angle lens, and what a room looks like from the doorway.
Common questions
How close can a car get to the door?
A vehicle can normally reach a point a short walk from the door — a few dozen metres of lane rather than the long handcart trek the central souks require. Transfers are usually arranged to meet guests at that point with the luggage.
Is the plunge pool heated?
Not by default. Pools of this size in the Medina are usually unheated, and in high summer that is the point. For winter and shoulder-season stays, heating can sometimes be arranged in advance, and it takes a day or two to bring the water up.
Can all eight guests eat together?
Yes. The roof terrace table seats eight comfortably and the courtyard holds a second table for cooler evenings and winter lunches, when the gallery is the warmer place to sit. Meals are normally cooked in the house rather than brought in.
How much of the house gets direct sun?
Less than people expect, which is the design working. The courtyard takes sun for a few hours around midday; the gallery stays shaded most of the day, and the roof is exposed from mid-morning until evening. In August the order of the day tends to reverse itself.
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