An old kasbah rebuilt in earth plaster and cedar at the foot of the High Atlas. The Ourika runs below the garden; the nearest road is a walk away. Three nights is the shortest stay we offer.
Dar Assif was a ruin on the riverbank when Leila and Tom Haddou bought it in 2014. It took six years and a village of craftsmen to rebuild: tadelakt walls polished by hand, cedar ceilings carved in Fez, zellige cut one tile at a time. Nine rooms share one courtyard and two hectares of olive and walnut.
Rates are per night for two, with breakfast and the hammam. Stays of five nights or more take the sixth night off.
Five rooms, 38 m², opening straight onto the orange trees. A bath carved from one block of tadelakt.
Three suites, 64 m², a salon behind the original cedar doors and a roof terrace facing the Atlas.
One pavilion, 120 m², its own tiled pool and two bedrooms. For families, or two couples travelling together.
Dates, who is travelling, what you hope for. Leila or Tom replies within a day — not a booking engine.
A short letter with the room we would give you, the dinner nights, and one day worth spending in the mountains.
Collected at Marrakech airport. The last four hundred metres are on foot across the river, with a mule for the bags.
Breakfast when you wake. A guide, a driver or a cook's lesson whenever you ask, and never before.
One long table under the cedar roof, or your own terrace. Five courses built around the garden and the Tuesday souk in Tnine Ourika — a tagine cooked since noon, bread from the clay oven, oranges with orange-blossom water.
“We planned a day in Marrakech. We never went. The river was louder than any reason to leave.”
“Leila remembered I do not eat lamb from one line in a letter I sent in February.”
“The children crossed the river on the mule every morning and asked to do it again at night.”
Two warm rooms of polished tadelakt under a star-pierced dome. Khadija, who has worked the hammam since the house opened, decides the scrub and the oils when she has met you. The first ritual of every stay is ours.
Fly to Marrakech Menara. Our driver meets every arrival; the drive is 45 minutes and is included. The last stretch is a short walk over the footbridge, and a mule brings the bags.
Three nights. Over Christmas, New Year and Easter, five. We close in July and August, when the valley is too hot to enjoy.
Yes, in the Pool Pavilion and two of the Courtyard Rooms. The Cedar Suites are kept for guests over twelve, because of the roof terraces.
Breakfast at any hour, the airport transfers, the first hammam ritual, the guided walk to the falls, and mint tea whenever you sit down. Dinner and the cellar are charged as taken.
Up to 22 guests, for three nights or more, from €7,800 a night with all meals. Write with a season and we will send a letter with what is possible.
Tell us your dates and who is travelling. You will hear back within a day, with the room we would suggest and a price.
Dar Assif