Villa des Orangers

Marrakech, Morocco

Eating

Choose your preferred breakfast menu and time, and it arrives on the dot, with the toast still hot – a rarity in Morocco. There are 3 spreads and – rarer still – none of them is the ubiquitous apricot gunge (it was fig, strawberry or fragrant honey on the last visit). Order tea and a choice of four – in muslin bags, if you please – comes in an aromatic thuya-root box. Pancakes, eggs, yoghurt, cheese, muesli and fresh newspapers are also on offer.

All of which bodes well for dinnertime, when, if you feel like eating in and have booked it, you can take a seat by the fireside in one of the salons and have tangy tagines or spice-laden couscous brought to your petal-strewn, carved-cedar tabletop. Finish off with fresh oranges (appropriately enough) in cinnamon. And remember that tomorrow’s light lunch comes courtesy of the house.

If you prefer to dine in town, see our list of recommended restaurants.

How guests have rated the food:

Eating:
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Features include:

  • Breakfast
  • Walk to restaurants
  • Minibar
Save to favouritesPrintMailVilla des OrangersAs with most Marrakech hotels, the entrance to the 5-star Villa des Orangers is unassuming, to say the least. Who would guess that this inconspicuous corridor off a road swarming with carts, bicycles and repair stalls would lead to a haven of peace and luxurious style. But it does, and that is what makes Marrakech special. The 'city of two souls' combines earthy simplicity with a generous dose of sensual delights, and the Villa has more than its fair share of the latter. Two inner courts whose plumped up sofas and softly gurgling water fountains call, siren-like, for a post-shopping collapse. Lattices of such delicately wrought plasterwork that in a low blood sugar moment one fancies they are made of icing. A sensuous wooden egg which makes other key fobs seem vulgar. Algae soap to make your skin tingle, and fluffy bathrobes to soothe it afterwards. Soft leather slippers which actually fit. It seems they've thought of everything.

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