Best quiet hotels in Marrakech

Dar Kandi has six suites, which is about as small as a hotel gets. It stands on Derb Arset Aouzal, a lane in Bab Doukkala, a residential quarter, five minutes' walk inside the gate, and cars stop at a guarded car park nearby rather than at the door. The suites open onto a patio planted with trees around a fountain, and the house stays quiet behind its door.

The evening here is the house's own. Lunch and dinner are cooked for residents alone and served wherever you like, the dining room, the patio or the roof, so there are no outside diners. Above the suites are three roof terraces, one with the pool. Le Jardin Secret is 9 minutes on foot and Jemaa el-Fna 17, close enough to walk back to the calm.

Royal Mansour Marrakech is a formal, quiet palace. Its 53 riads stand on a walled estate inside the Medina's western ramparts, each a private house behind its own carved door, and they face inwards, onto their own patios and roof terraces. Staff move through underground galleries, not the guests' lanes, so the paths between the houses stay calm.

The evening can stay inside the riad. Every riad has its own patio and a roof terrace with a plunge pool over the Medina rooftops, and the Premier riads add a dining room and a bar around the patio, so dinner can be served at home. A taxi stops at the hotel's own gate on Rue Abou El Abbas Sebti, and the gardens cover a little more than 2.5 hectares.

La Villa des Orangers is a calm house made for adults. Its 33 rooms and suites are set around courtyards and patios in a 1930s riad between the Koutoubia and the Royal Palace, with a fountain and orange trees in the main courtyard and a 16-metre pool among citrus trees in a second. There is no kids' club, and most rooms are sized for two.

The rooftop bar faces the Koutoubia from 18:00 to 21:00, so the roof is quiet by late evening; the cocktail bar, in an almost hidden patio of its own, pours until midnight, and until 02:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. Breakfast is served from 06:30 by the pool or in the courtyards. Outside, a taxi stops at the door on Rue Sidi Mimoun, and the Koutoubia is 8 minutes on foot and Jemaa el-Fna 11.