La Maison Arabe Hotel, Spa & Cooking Workshops

Six connected riad houses form La Maison Arabe in the Bab Doukkala quarter of Marrakech's medina, where cedar-beamed ceilings and zellige-tiled courtyards date to the 1940s, when the hotel opened as one of the city's first foreign-run guesthouses.

Rooms circle three separate courtyards, each with its own pool; the spa occupies a converted hammam wing. The cooking school runs from an outdoor kitchen facing an orange-tree courtyard, with classes built around the morning Bab Doukkala market run.

Jemaa el-Fna square is a fifteen-minute walk through the souks, making this a base suited to travellers wanting medina immersion without street noise at night.