The catch at Royal Mansour Marrakech

The Superior is the way in: 140 m² on three floors, with a patio, a sitting room with an open fire, the bedroom above and a roof terrace with its own plunge pool. For a two-night stay from Tuesday 9 March 2027, for two with breakfast and the city tax, it was €2,300 a night on the advance purchase rate, paid in full at booking and non-refundable, or €2,468 on the flexible rate, which takes a 50% deposit and can be cancelled free until 21 days before arrival. A week later, from 16 to 18 March, no Superior was left, and the smallest riad on sale was the Premier at €2,778 a night.

The Superior and Premier riads put the patio and sitting rooms on the ground floor, the bedroom and bathroom on the first floor and the plunge pool and solarium on the roof terrace, so a day in the riad means stairs between all three. The two-bedroom Privilege riads, 430 m², are reached by a staircase too. Only the three-bedroom Prestige riads and the Grand Riad have a lift of their own, and they start at €7,220 a night, almost three times the price of a Premier.

The Superior and Premier riads each have one bedroom, and the booking calendar sells them for two guests. With a child added to the search, the Superior drops out; the larger Premier stays on offer, but a family of four needs the two-bedroom Privilege riad, which sleeps four, has a butler and a roof terrace facing the Koutoubia, and cost €3,988 a night from 9 March 2027 on the advance purchase rate. Children are well looked after once there: Le Jardin de Lila, the kids' club for ages 4 to 10, opens every day from 9.30am to 5.30pm, with workshops, beginners' Arabic and treasure hunts.

The hotel's gate is on Rue Abou El Abbas Sebti, inside the western ramparts, and a taxi stops right at it, so arriving with luggage is easy. The walk the other way is longer than the address suggests: the Koutoubia Mosque is about 10 minutes on foot, Jemaa el-Fna 16 and the restaurants around Dar el Bacha 15 or 16, and only a handful of good tables lie within 10 minutes. By car, almost everywhere in the Medina and Guéliz worth a dinner is 2 or 3 minutes away.

The hotel opens all year and runs a full festive programme from mid-December to early January. For a week from 27 December 2026 to 3 January 2027, no one-bedroom riad was left, and the Privilege riad was €8,207 a night on the flexible rate, against €4,381 in early March. Over 22 to 24 December the Superior had gone and the Premier was €2,865 a night. Easter week is dearer too: from 30 March to 1 April 2027 the Superior was €2,742 a night on the flexible rate, the only one sold. July and August cost least, about €1,400 a night for a Superior in mid-July, when afternoons average about 37°C.