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Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca at sunset above the Atlantic, Morocco
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Morocco: Fez, the Sahara and Marrakech

Spend two nights in the Sahara and wake to the Erg Chebbi dunes from your desert camp.

Suggested length

10 days

Price guide

From $8,840 per person, excl. flights, based on two sharing

Includes hotels, private guiding, experiences and transfers

When

March to April and late September to November

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Families in Khamlia, a village among the Sahara dunes, keep Gnawa music alive with the guembri lute, krakeb cymbals and call-and-response chant. This 10-day private tour of Morocco crosses the country from the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca to the medina of Fez and Roman Volubilis, over the Middle Atlas to the Sahara, then back through the Todra Gorge and Aït Benhaddou to Marrakech. You wake to the Erg Chebbi dunes from your desert camp, with a full day in the desert ahead. Lunch is medfouna, the stuffed bread of the southern oases nicknamed Berber pizza. A private driver and your own guides stay with you from the Atlantic to the sand. Your planner tailors each day to your pace.

Walk the medina of Fes el-Bali from the Bou Inania Madrasa to the Chouara Tannery, Fez.

Stand in the House of Orpheus among its Roman mosaic floors, Volubilis.

Wake to sunrise over the Erg Chebbi dunes after a night in a desert camp, near Merzouga.

Listen to Gnawa musicians in the village of Khamlia, in the Sahara.

Climb through the earthen lanes of the Ksar of Aït Benhaddou, outside Ouarzazate.

Taste warm khobz from a neighborhood wood-fired oven in the medina, Marrakech.

10-Day Private Morocco Tour: Fez, Two Nights in the Sahara and Marrakech

“We love to tailor-make trips you’ll talk about for years, built on our local relationships & story-worthy experiences.” – Magical’s American founder, in Europe since 1998, culinary enthusiast & world traveler.

10-Day Private Morocco Tour: Fez, Two Nights in the Sahara and Marrakech

A Journey Designed Just for You

Our resident experts wrote this itinerary as a starting point, and your planner shapes every day around your interests, pace and travel style.

What do our American travelers say?

“Our trip was very smooth, organized from start to finish, excellent guides, comfortable transfers, luxury hotels in good locations, well chosen experiences, and all the details handled.”

“We also really appreciated the suggestion and planning of a winery visit. We did not even know that was an option in Morocco, and it turned out to be a wonderful treat and one of the special surprises of the trip.”

Iuliia K., United States, on a 12-day private journey through Morocco. Read the review on Trustpilot

The 10-day Morocco itinerary at a glance

The route uses five bases and nine nights: one in Casablanca, three in Fez, two in a desert camp among the dunes of Erg Chebbi in the Sahara, one in the oasis of Skoura and two in Marrakech. The first four days stay in cities, with short drives and full days of sightseeing. Days five, seven and eight carry the long road days, and the full day in the desert sits between them, so you sleep two nights in the same camp before the road turns west.

Road days link every base, and your private driver stays with you from Casablanca to Marrakech. Casablanca to Fez runs about 3 hours, Fez to Merzouga across the Middle Atlas about 7 hours 15 minutes, Merzouga to Skoura about 5 hours, and Skoura over the High Atlas to Marrakech about 4 hours. Each time leaves out stops, and the road days carry plenty of them.

Spring and autumn suit the route best, since the shoulder months sit comfortably in the cities, the mountains and the desert alike. Summer and winter departures both work with a different daily rhythm, and our team plans the hours of each road day around the season you choose.

Licensed guides we work with on this route include Amine and Mehdi, who guide travelers across Morocco. Each is a highly educated local expert who cares about the people in their group. We request your guides by name, and your planner confirms who leads each day once your dates are set.

Why the route runs from Casablanca to Marrakech by way of Fez and the Sahara

Casablanca has Morocco’s busiest airport, so the trip opens on the Atlantic with a short transfer and an easy first day. Fez comes next, while you are fresh for its lanes, and three nights there leave a full day for the medina and a full day for Volubilis and Meknes. From Fez the road runs south to the dunes, and two nights at Erg Chebbi give you a whole day in the desert rather than a sunset and an early departure.

The return leg follows a different road, west along the southern flank of the High Atlas through the Todra Gorge, the Dades Valley, Skoura and Aït Benhaddou, so you see new country every day. Marrakech closes the trip with its own international airport. Along the way the route also follows a thread through Morocco’s Jewish heritage, from the museum in Casablanca to the mellahs of Fez and Marrakech, and a thread of food, from a family table in Fez to medfouna in the desert.

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Journey at a glance

Length
10 days

From
$8,840 per person, double occupancy

Route
Casablanca, Fes, Sahara Desert, Marrakech

Your planner adjusts every day to your dates.

Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca at sunset above the Atlantic, Morocco

Day One

Arrival in Casablanca on the Atlantic

Your private driver meets you at Mohammed V airport, the busiest in Morocco, and brings you into Casablanca, a city of broad boulevards and sea light, shaped more by the 20th century than by the imperial dynasties. Between the wars, architects such as Marius Boyer filled the new town with Art Deco apartment buildings, and the buildings around Place Mohammed V mix Art Deco lines with Moorish arches and tilework. Since 1995 the association Casamémoire has worked to protect this heritage. The afternoon stays free to settle in, or, where it suits your party, your licensed guide leads a first walk through the Art Deco streets as the salt air comes in off the Atlantic. Logistics: Mohammed V airport to central Casablanca by road, about 30 minutes, private driver.

Blue-tiled Bab Bou Jeloud gate into the Fez medina

Day Two

The Hassan II Mosque and the Road to Fez

Your licensed guide starts the morning at the Hassan II Mosque, which stands on a promontory partly over the Atlantic and ranks among the few mosques in Morocco to welcome non-Muslim visitors, always on a guided visit. Michel Pinseau designed it under King Hassan II, builders completed it in 1993, and its minaret rises 210 meters. Inside, carved cedar from the Middle Atlas, marble from Agadir and zellige tilework surround a prayer hall for 25,000 worshippers. In the Oasis quarter, the Museum of Moroccan Judaism, the only museum devoted to Judaism in the Arab world, occupies a former Jewish orphanage from 1948 and shows Torah scrolls, reconstructed synagogue interiors and the tools of a silversmith's workshop. In the afternoon the road runs inland to Fez. Logistics: Casablanca to Fez by road, about 3 hours plus stops, private driver.

Traditional Moroccan dishes in Fes, served in ceramic dishes

Day Three

Fes el-Bali: The Medina, the Madrasa and the Mellah

The day opens at Borj Sud, the fort the Saadian sultan Ahmad al-Mansur built in 1582 on the hills south of the old city, where Fes el-Bali spreads below in roofs, domes and minarets. The Idrisid dynasty founded Fez between 789 and 808, and UNESCO inscribed the medina in 1981 as one of the most extensive and best conserved historic towns of the Arab-Muslim world. Your licensed guide leads you down through the souks to the Bou Inania Madrasa, which the Marinid sultan Abu Inan Faris built between 1350 and 1355 in carved cedar, stucco and zellige, and on to the Chouara Tannery, where round stone vats hold dyes of poppy red, indigo and henna. In the afternoon the guide crosses to the Mellah, the Jewish quarter of Fez el-Jdid, and the Ibn Danan Synagogue, which a merchant built in the late 17th century and which reopened after restoration in 1999. Where available, the evening ends at the table of a Fez family, with salads, tagine or couscous, mint tea and homemade pastries. Logistics: a walking day in the medina with your licensed guide, and your private driver for the transfers to Borj Sud, the Mellah and dinner.

Roman ruins of Volubilis with the Zerhoun hills behind

Day Four

Volubilis, Meknes and a Wine Estate in the Hills

Volubilis lies on a plain north of Meknes, and UNESCO inscribed the Roman town in 1997. Your licensed guide walks you past the basilica, finished in the early 3rd century, to the Arch of Caracalla, which the governor Marcus Aurelius Sebastenus raised in 217, and into the House of Orpheus, where Orpheus plays his harp to the animals on one mosaic floor and Amphitrite rides her chariot behind a seahorse on another. Olive oil made the town rich, and excavators have found 58 oil-pressing complexes. In Meknes, Moulay Ismail began Bab Mansour and his son Moulay Abdallah completed it in 1732, a gate of polychrome zellige whose bastions rest on ancient Roman marble columns. Moulay Ismail also built the Heri es-Souani granary, about 182 by 104 meters, with 22 rows of thick arches. The day ends at Château Roslane near El Hajeb, with its vines facing the Middle Atlas, for a tasting of a sparkling blanc de blancs and AOC red and white wines and a late lunch on the terrace. Logistics: a loop by road from Fez, about 1 hour 15 minutes to Volubilis and about 30 minutes on to Meknes, then the estate and the return to Fez, private driver and licensed guide.

Camel ride in the dunes of Erg Chebbi in the Sahara Desert

Day Five

Across the Middle Atlas to the Erg Chebbi Dunes

Day five is a long road day, about 7 hours 15 minutes of driving, with stops along the way. The road climbs south from Fez into the Middle Atlas, a range of cedar forests and the home of the Barbary macaque, then drops toward the Tafilalt, the great oasis along the Ziz River, famous for its Medjool dates. Around Erfoud, workshops polish dark limestone full of straight-shelled nautiloids from Siluro-Devonian seas. Near Rissani the guide points out the ruins of Sijilmasa, the northern terminus of the western trans-Saharan caravan route and one of the great trading cities of the Maghreb until the 14th century. Erg Chebbi rises up to 150 meters above the stony desert and runs about 28 kilometers from north to south. A 4x4 takes you across the sand to a desert camp among the dunes, with real beds, a private bathroom and dinner under canvas, and where it suits your party a camel ride at sunset comes first. Where available, musicians play Gnawa rhythms by the fire after dinner. Logistics: Fez to Merzouga by road, about 7 hours 15 minutes plus stops, private driver and licensed guide, then a 4x4 transfer to the camp.

Gnawa musicians in Khamlia in the Moroccan desert

Day Six

A Day in the Desert: Khamlia, Gnawa Music and Medfouna

The day starts with sunrise over the dunes, then a 4x4 day across sand, desert tracks and the villages around Erg Chebbi with your licensed guide. In Khamlia, a village among the dunes near Merzouga, families of sub-Saharan descent keep up Gnawa music, a trance music of the guembri lute, krakeb cymbals and call-and-response chant, which UNESCO added to its intangible heritage list in 2019. Lunch brings medfouna, the stuffed bread of the southern oases nicknamed Berber pizza, two layers of dough around spiced minced meat, onions and herbs, which cooks in the Tafilalt under hot desert sand and arrives with mint tea. The afternoon stays open for the dunes on foot or a rest in camp before a second evening under the desert sky. Logistics: a day by 4x4 around Erg Chebbi, private driver and licensed guide, with a second night at the desert camp.

Todra Gorge in southern Morocco

Day Seven

The Todra Gorge, the Dades Valley and Skoura

You leave the dunes after breakfast and head west on the road of the kasbahs, along the southern flank of the High Atlas. Near Tinghir the Todra Gorge narrows to as little as 10 meters between walls up to 400 meters high, and the river runs over the stones beside the path. Further west the Dades River, which rises in the High Atlas, has cut gorges with walls of 200 to 500 meters, and rose fields, palm groves and almond trees line its southern reaches. By late afternoon you reach Skoura, an oasis where underground channels called khettaras and canals called seguias water the palm groves, and families take turns with the water. Kasbah Amridil, a ksar since the 17th century with a tall kasbah from the end of the 19th, stands among the palms, and your hotel sits in the oasis. Logistics: Merzouga to Skoura by road, about 5 hours on the direct road and longer with the Todra Gorge and the stops, private driver and licensed guide.

Ait Benhaddou in Morocco

Day Eight

Aït Benhaddou and the Tizi n'Tichka to Marrakech

The road runs west past Ouarzazate to the Ksar of Aït Benhaddou, which UNESCO inscribed in 1987, a village of earthen houses inside high walls with corner towers on a hill above the Ounila River. The ksar stood on the caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech, and its oldest buildings date from no earlier than the 17th century. Your licensed guide walks you up through the lanes to the view over the valley, past walls directors chose for Lawrence of Arabia, Gladiator and scenes of Game of Thrones. The French military built the road over the Tizi n'Tichka in 1936 along an old caravan trail, and National Route 9 crosses the High Atlas there at about 2,200 meters, with stops at viewpoints over terraced valleys as the air cools. By evening the mountains lie behind you and the lights of Marrakech come into view. Logistics: Skoura to Marrakech by road, about 4 hours on the direct road, plus the stop at Aït Benhaddou, about 40 minutes from Ouarzazate, private driver and licensed guide.

Woman overlooking Jemaa el Fnaa in Marrakech

Day Nine

Marrakech: Jemaa el-Fna, the Palaces and the Mellah

The Almoravids founded Marrakech in 1070 to 1072, and UNESCO inscribed its medina in 1985. Your licensed guide starts at Jemaa el-Fna, which UNESCO proclaimed a masterpiece of oral and intangible heritage in 2001 for its storytellers, Berber musicians and Gnaoua dancers, and leads you into the souks by way of Rahba Kedima, the spice square, where shops sell saffron, cinnamon sticks and ras el hanout, a blend of up to 30 spices. The Saadian sultan Abdallah al-Ghalib completed the Ben Youssef Madrasa in 1564 and 1565, with 130 student rooms around a courtyard and its shallow pool. The grand vizier Si Musa began the Bahia Palace in the 1860s, his son Ba Ahmed expanded it, and Carrara marble paves its grand courtyard. Ahmad al-Mansur began El Badi Palace in 1578 around a courtyard of about 135 by 110 meters, and he lies nearby in the Chamber of the Twelve Columns at the Saadian Tombs. Along the way the guide stops at a ferran, a neighborhood oven where the baker tends a wood fire for the households around it, and you taste khobz warm with olive oil. The day closes in the Mellah, which Abdallah al-Ghalib created by decree in 1558. Logistics: a walking day in the medina with your licensed guide, and your private driver for transfers across the city.

Chauffeur opening the door of a private black sedan

Day Ten

Departure from Marrakech

The morning stays free for a last mint tea on a terrace or a final walk in the souks. Your private driver collects you from the hotel with time to spare for your flight from Marrakech Menara, a short drive from the medina, and our team arranges VIP airport assistance on request. The Menara gardens near the airport, whose water basin and pavilion appear in the UNESCO listing of the medina, make a calm last stop if your flight leaves in the afternoon. Bslama, the Moroccan goodbye, often comes with an invitation to return, and travelers who want more time add Essaouira, the High Atlas villages or a crossing to Spain on the same private basis. Logistics: hotel to Marrakech Menara airport by road, private driver, with VIP assistance by prior arrangement.

What is the best 10-day Morocco itinerary for a first trip?

For most first trips, the best 10-day Morocco itinerary links Fez, the Sahara and Marrakech in one loop, and this route does it from Casablanca. Day one stays in Casablanca, day two runs from the Hassan II Mosque to Fez, days three and four cover the medina of Fez, Volubilis, Meknes and a wine estate, days five and six belong to the Erg Chebbi dunes, day seven follows the Todra Gorge and the Dades Valley to Skoura, day eight crosses the High Atlas by Aït Benhaddou, and days nine and ten close in Marrakech. You see the great medieval medina, the desert, the kasbah valleys and the red city without doubling back on the same road.

How many nights in the Sahara on a 10-day Morocco trip?

Two nights in the Sahara suit a 10-day trip best, and this route spends both in the same desert camp among the Erg Chebbi dunes. Desert camps can be reserved for your party alone or shared with a few other guests, and your travel advisor helps you choose. The drive from Fez reaches the dunes in the late afternoon, so a single night gives you a sunset and a sunrise and little else. With a second night you gain a full day in the desert, with Khamlia and its Gnawa musicians, a lunch of medfouna and time on the dunes, and you leave for the Todra Gorge rested.

How long is the drive from Fez to the Sahara?

The drive from Fez to Merzouga runs about 7 hours 15 minutes before stops, and it carries the longest road day of the trip. Your private driver breaks it into shorter stretches, through the cedar forests of the Middle Atlas, down to the Ziz Valley and the Tafilalt oasis, with stops for lunch, the fossil workshops of Erfoud and the ruins of Sijilmasa near Rissani. The other road days run about 3 to 5 hours before stops, and day four stays close to Fez.

This 10-day route, or another Morocco journey?

Choose this route if you are new to Morocco and want Fez, the Sahara and Marrakech in ten days, with two nights in the desert and a different road out and back. The 10-day imperial cities journey shares the length but leaves out the desert. It adds Rabat and a second day in Fez, crosses the Middle Atlas straight to Marrakech and gives Marrakech three full days, so it suits travelers who prefer cities, gardens and shorter drives to long road days. The 12-day southern Morocco journey leaves Fez out and spends the time on the Anti-Atlas, the Draa Valley, the desert and Essaouira, and it suits returning visitors who have already seen Fez.

With two weeks, the 15-day Morocco journey adds Tangier, Chefchaouen, Essaouira and the High Atlas villages to the same core, and the 14-day Morocco journey adds Rabat, the Ourika Valley and Essaouira at a gentler pace. With a week, the 8-day journey from Marrakech stays close to the city with the Agafay desert, the High Atlas and the coast at Oualidia, and the 7-day northern Morocco journey keeps to Rabat, Tangier, Chefchaouen and Fez. Every route starts from our Morocco destination page, and our team adjusts any of them to your dates.

Who this journey suits

First-time visitors who want the three names on every Morocco list, Fez, the Sahara and Marrakech, in a single trip. Couples who want a night among the dunes, and then a second one. Families with teenage or adult children, who share a driver and guide, set their own hours and tend to remember the dunes, the tannery and the evening in Jemaa el-Fna. Travelers with an interest in Morocco’s Jewish heritage, since the route passes the museum in Casablanca, the Ibn Danan Synagogue in Fez and the Mellah of Marrakech. Food and wine travelers, who find a family dinner in Fez, a wine estate near Meknes, medfouna in the desert and bread from a medina oven. Your guide is glad to advise on suitability before booking for anyone who prefers shorter road days.

What the 10-day journey costs and what it includes

The 10-day route starts from $8,840 per person, double occupancy. The from-price covers nine nights: seven in deluxe four-star properties selected for comfort, location and service, and two in a desert camp among the dunes of Erg Chebbi. Five-star luxury properties are available by request. The from-price includes a private driver for airport transfers and every road day, and licensed guides for the visits described.

Four things move the price: the season, the hotel category, the size of your private party, and added experiences such as a cooking class or a hammam in Marrakech, a day in Essaouira or an extra night in Fez. Magical Private Travel maintains excellent ratings on Trustpilot and Google’s independent review platforms.

To shape this route around your dates and your party, speak with our team about your 10 days in Morocco.

Frequently asked questions about the 10-day Morocco itinerary

How much does a private 10-day Morocco tour cost?

This 10-day route starts from $8,840 per person, based on two people sharing a room. The from-price covers the route as written: nine nights, including two nights in a desert camp at Erg Chebbi, a private driver for every road day and transfer, and licensed guides for the visits described, with the full list of inclusions set out in your written quote. Four things move the price. The season matters most, since hotel and camp rates rise and fall through the year. Five-star hotels raise it. Party size changes it, because the driver and guides serve the whole party, so larger private parties pay less per person. Added experiences, such as a cooking class or a hammam in Marrakech, a day in Essaouira or an extra night in Fez, add to it. Our team sends a written quote for your dates and party before you commit.

When is the best time for this route?

March, April and late September to November suit this route best, since it spends time in the cities, in the mountains and in the desert, and the shoulder months sit comfortably across all three. Summer departures work well with early starts on the road days, a long lunch indoors in the heat of the afternoon and the evenings in the desert. Winter brings clear, cool days and colder desert nights, and our team plans the camp and the road hours around them. If your dates fall during Ramadan, our note on travel in Morocco during Ramadan explains how the days change. Our team plans each day around the season you choose.

Are the driver and the guide the same person?

In Morocco they are two different people. A private driver handles the vehicle and the road, and a licensed guide leads the visits. On this route your private driver stays with you from the airport in Casablanca to the airport in Marrakech, so you keep the same vehicle and the same face across the country. Licensed guides lead the visits in Casablanca, Fez, Volubilis and Meknes, the desert and the kasbah valleys, and Marrakech. This split lets your driver focus on the road and your guide focus on the place, its history and its people. Both work for your own party only, and they set the pace around you, whether the day calls for an early start for the dunes or a long lunch at the wine estate near Meknes.

What are the two nights in the desert like?

Both nights run in the same desert camp among the dunes of Erg Chebbi, so you unpack once. Your tent has real beds and a private bathroom, dinner comes under canvas, and the stars fill the sky over the sand once the lamps go out. Erg Chebbi rises up to 150 meters above the surrounding desert and runs about 28 kilometers from north to south, so the camp sits among real sand dunes rather than stony desert. A 4×4 brings you to the camp on day five, and where it suits your party a camel ride at sunset comes first. Day six stays in the desert, with Khamlia, lunch and time on the dunes. Our note on the Agafay or the Sahara compares a night in the Agafay desert near Marrakech with a night at Erg Chebbi, if you weigh the two.

Which airports should we fly into and out of?

Fly into Casablanca’s Mohammed V airport and home from Marrakech Menara. Mohammed V is the busiest airport in Morocco, and Marrakech Menara serves the city at the end of the route, so an open-jaw ticket of this kind avoids a return drive to Casablanca on the last day. Your private driver meets you at arrivals in Casablanca, about 30 minutes from the city, and takes you to Menara on day ten. Our team arranges VIP airport assistance at both ends on request, covering meet-and-greet and help through the terminal, and aligns the itinerary with your flight times once you book them.

Which Jewish heritage sites does the route visit?

Three, one in each of the route’s main cities. On day two the Museum of Moroccan Judaism in Casablanca, the only museum devoted to Judaism in the Arab world, shows Torah scrolls, reconstructed synagogue interiors and Jewish Berber costume and jewelry in a former orphanage from 1948. On day three your licensed guide walks you through the Mellah of Fez to the Ibn Danan Synagogue, which a merchant built in the late 17th century and which reopened after restoration in 1999. On day nine the day in Marrakech ends in the Mellah, which Sultan Abdallah al-Ghalib created in 1558. American travelers who want more time with this heritage often add Essaouira, whose old mellah holds synagogues such as Slat Lkahal and Chaim Pinto, and your planner adds the day to the route.

How do we add Essaouira, Chefchaouen or more time in Marrakech?

Essaouira works as a day from Marrakech, about 2 hours 30 minutes each way by road, or as a night on the Atlantic before the flight home. Chefchaouen fits best before Fez, with a day or two added at the start of the trip, and our 15-day Morocco journey shows one way to join the north to this route. A third night in Marrakech gives room for the Majorelle Garden, a cooking class or a hammam, and a night in the High Atlas villages slows the end of the trip. Each addition changes the road plan, so your planner reworks the whole route and price rather than adding days at the end. Travelers who want Spain as well often start in Andalusia, and our Spain and Morocco private journey and multi-country journeys show how the two countries fit together.

How flexible is the 10-day route?

The route works as a starting point, and your planner shapes it around your party. Common changes include swapping the wine estate for an afternoon with a Fez artisan, sleeping in Ouarzazate instead of Skoura, or trading the second desert night for a night in the Dades Valley if you prefer a shorter stay among the dunes. The direction also reverses well, starting in Marrakech and ending in Casablanca, if your flights fit it better. Your planner keeps the logic of the route, with the long drives in the middle and calm days at each end, and confirms timings, guides and hotel nights once you settle the shape of the trip. You receive a revised day-by-day plan and price before you commit.

Does this journey suit families or travelers who prefer less walking?

Families travel this route often, because a private driver and guide set the pace around the youngest and the oldest in the party. Teenagers tend to respond to the dunes, the tannery in Fez, the film sets of Aït Benhaddou and the evening in Jemaa el-Fna. The walking itself stays moderate. The medinas of Fez and Marrakech run on foot along narrow, sloping lanes, Volubilis spreads across an open hillside, and Aït Benhaddou climbs a hillside of uneven steps. The long road days ask for patience more than stamina, and your driver stops wherever the party needs a break. Your guide is glad to advise on suitability before booking, and our page on accessible travel sets out how our team plans for travelers who need step-free routes or extra support.

We keep a list of vetted four- and five-star hotels, well located and enjoyed by our past travelers and by our own team.

Examples for each overnight stop on this route. Choose a deluxe boutique hotel or a five-star stay, and your travel advisor matches each night to your wishes, the season and availability.

Casablanca

Boutique: Hôtel Particulier Le Doge, Relais & Châteaux. A 16-room Art Deco private mansion in central Casablanca, with a spa and hammam.

Five-star: Royal Mansour Casablanca. A rebuilt and raised 1950s landmark in the Art Deco city center, near the port.

Fez

Boutique: Dar Bensouda. A traditional riad in the Fes medina, with a spa, pool and roof terrace.

Five-star: Riad Fès, Relais & Châteaux. A restored medina palace with tiled patios, a contemporary 14-meter pool and a bar.

The Sahara, Erg Chebbi

You sleep in a desert camp among the dunes, in a tent with real beds and a private bathroom. Camps can be reserved for your party alone or shared with a few other guests, and your travel advisor helps you choose.

Skoura

Boutique: L’Ma Lodge. A small garden lodge in the Skoura palm grove, with a heated pool and Atlas views.

Luxury: Dar Ahlam. A kasbah guesthouse opened in 2002, where each meal is staged in a different spot.

Marrakech

Boutique: El Fenn. A color-filled medina hotel near Bab Ksour, with a large rooftop terrace and bar facing the Atlas.

Five-star: Royal Mansour Marrakech. A walled estate of 53 private riads by the medina ramparts, each with a rooftop terrace.

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