Hotel Les Deux Tours

Hotel Les Deux Tours

The vegetables served at dinner are grown in the hotel's own kitchen garden, one corner of the three hectares of Andalusian gardens, lily ponds and fountains that surround Hotel Les Deux Tours in Marrakesh's palm grove, six kilometres out from the souks and riads of the Medina. The 41 rooms sit across just two floors, with some suites opening onto their own heated pool rather than a shared one, and staff covering English, French, German, Italian and Spanish look after guests who came to slow down rather than tick off sights. Massages and hammam treatments use Nectarome products made from plants grown on the slopes of the Atlas mountains, and a barber sets up chairs in the garden's shade for a trim with a cocktail and a cigar on the side, a detail few five-star addresses in this city bother with. There is a heated pool and a separate outdoor one, a library, a billiards table, and a fitness room for anyone restless after a third tagine at La Pergola. Couples booking a shared room need a marriage certificate at check-in, a Moroccan requirement worth knowing before you arrive rather than after. Anyone wanting to walk out the door straight into the noise of Jemaa el-Fnaa will find the six-kilometre remove a nuisance; anyone happy to arrange a car and book a spa slot ahead will use the space well. Meals run thinner during Ramadan, worth noting before you book. What stays with you afterward is not the tajine or the zellige tilework so much as the quiet of a hundred-strong staff moving through three hectares built to make six kilometres from anywhere feel like the point. Hotel Les Deux Tours packs three hectares of gardens, pools and an organic kitchen garden into 41 rooms, six kilometres from the Medina. It suits travellers ready to arrange a car and slow down, not those craving Jemaa el-Fnaa on foot; couples need a marriage certificate to share a room.