Riad les jardins Mabrouk

Eight-room riad on the palm-lined outskirts of Taroudant, Riad les Jardins Mabrouk sits among the Ouled Ghazal orchards a short drive from the ochre ramparts that ring the old town, suiting travellers after a quiet countryside base rather than a medina address.

Rooms open onto a shared garden courtyard with citrus and olive trees; a central pool replaces the plunge-pool format common to smaller riads. Breakfast is taken outdoors, weather permitting.

Taroudant's souks and 16th-century walls lie roughly ten minutes away by car, with Agadir's airport under an hour further west.