Riad Le Bijou de Zahra Marrakech Kasbah

Folded into a narrow derb of the Kasbah quarter, Riad Le Bijou de Zahra occupies a restored courtyard house 56 doors down from the street's main junction, its rooms arranged around a tiled patio rather than a corridor. The Kasbah mosque and Saadian Tombs both fall within a five-minute walk, making this a quiet base for travellers who want the old city without Jemaa el-Fna's evening crowds.

Meals are taken on the rooftop terrace, weather permitting, with tagines cooked to order in the ground-floor kitchen. Staff arrange taxis for the twenty-minute ride to Menara Airport, useful given the medina's car-free lanes.