Marrakech, Morocco

This Time Tomorrow in Marrakech

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR296.72), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Riad-housed residences

Setting

Time-honoured Kaat Benahid

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By name, This Time Tomorrow in Marrakech might suggest looking to the future, but its five restful residences encourage you to live for the moment. Tech-free suites are dripping with ornate tilework and elegant archways to admire. An open kitchen, traditional hammam, and panoramic rooftop invite further contemplation, and the restored riad’s Arabic title, Dar Al Dall – or House of Shadows – hints at the palm-shaded, afternoon-whiling courtyard hidden within the medina.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Five suites.

Check–Out

11am, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

More details

Rates include a daily-changing set breakfast with made-to-order eggs, and a set four-course dinner on the evening of your choice. A three-night minimum stay is required.

Also

There are no specially adapted suites for wheelchair users, but the ground-floor residence has step-free access and is suitable for guests with limited mobility.

At the hotel

Charbagh courtyard, rooftop terrace, pantry, lounges, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: working fireplace, air-conditioning, underfloor heating, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and Nectarome bath products.

Our favourite rooms

As the only ground-floor residence, Mmuddu is closest to the culinary action as it’s just across the courtyard from the kitchen – early birds can catch the home-baked pastries just out of the oven, then take back to the private terrace for an intimate breakfast. Ornately tiled fireplaces, statement headboards, arched doorways and deep soaking tubs all feature in the four upstairs residences, but it’s just Iẓẓlmeḍ and Tagut which have their own balconies.

Spa

Robe-wrapped guests pad across Dar Al Dall’s courtyard to the marbled bathing rooms, which operate a private booking system (so that you never share this argan-scented space with anyone but your experienced therapist, or lucky plus one). There are homemade scrubs in the wet area and hammam, and plush loungers in the relaxation room facing the towering palms outside. Personal trainers and yoga instructors are also available on request.

Packing tips

If you forget your camera (or don’t have your own), you’ll be given a Leica on the hotel’s photography tour of the medina to print instant mini snaps along the way.

Also

Seek out the zellige-tiled alcove in a sun-dappled corner of the courtyard, and order mint tea and honey on repeat.

Children

Over-12s are welcome to stay, and will enjoy raiding the late night pantry (though are not specially catered to otherwise).

Food and Drink

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Top Table

The rooftop’s views over minarets and the Atlas Mountains are breathtaking, but the shaded courtyard tables are a welcome respite from the heat.

Dress Code

You’ll be dining amongst friends, so whatever’s most comfortable (especially if you plan on helping with the kitchen prep).

Hotel restaurant

Dining at Dar Al Dall can be as convivial or intimate as you like – the kitchen and well-stocked pantry (for homemade almond biscuits, say, or orange blossom cakes) are open for you to join head chef Zakia and her team, who particularly love to share the ancient art of preparing tangia. Delicate cuts of meat are spiced and slow cooked throughout the day in traditional clay pots over the hammam’s embers, then served on the hotel’s rooftop to the spirited tunes of local musicians. Every Friday, gather around the pomegranate-red tiled kitchen island and lend a hand with the gigantic couscous dish, which is later served feast-style on a communal table. Dinners follow a set four-course menu of North African and Mediterranean classics, which change daily and with the seasons. Zakia makes all the preserves, condiments and sauces in house, using spices and fresh produce sourced from the nearby souks. The restaurant is an intimate affair, so it's best to secure a spot a few hours in advance. 

Hotel bar

None, but endless cups of mint tea and Moroccan spiced coffee are available from the kitchen counter.

Last orders

Breakfast is from 8am to 11am, and dinner from 6pm to 10pm.

Room service

Help yourself to the round-the-clock pantry, or order in-residence between 8am and 11pm.

Location

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Address
This Time Tomorrow in Marrakech
93/97 Kàat Benahid Tichnbest
Marrakech
Morocco

Tucked amidst the souks and fondouks of Kaat Benahid, This Time Tomorrow in Marrakech lies within the oldest part of the medina, close to the Ben Youssef Madrasa.

Planes

Marrakech’s Menara is the closest airport, around 20 minutes’ drive from the hotel. Transfers are available on request.

Automobiles

The hotel is located in the car-free medina, and there’s very little need to get behind the wheel in Marrakech (honestly, camels are preferable).

Worth getting out of bed for

Resident curator Youssef has put together a whole host of activities to help you get under the skin of the Red City, including photography tours of the medina, spice experiences in the Mellah Quarter with local merchant Khalid, and atelier visits with metalworker and artist Abdessamia, who leads workshops in his studio before taking you to visit his woodcarving, pottery-throwing, tile-making friends around the artisanal neighbourhood of Kaat Benahid. Youssef also offers free guided walks around Marrakech’s buzzing centre, you just have to decide on when you’d like to set off (first thing in the morning is a more tranquil time to see the souk sellers setting up shop). The geometric beauty of Ben Youssef Madrasa and storied Berber archives of the Maison de la Photographie are just a short stroll from the hotel, and the Jardin Majorelle – home to over 300 plant species and the electric-blue Musée Berbère – is worth crossing the medina for.

Local restaurants

For an authentic souk dining experience, weave your way through the labyrinthine streets to Naïma, where generous bowls of homemade couscous are dished out from the open kitchen to just six tiny tables. In contemporary Gueliz, an art deco boules court has been made over as Petanque Social Club, a seriously stylish spot with a large walled garden dotted with block-printed parasols, and an all-day Mediterranean-Moroccan menu covering freshly-shucked oysters to frangipane tarts topped with poached pears and spice-infused cream. Closer to the hotel, Dar Yacout’s tables seemingly float around the lantern-lit pool – and the traditional lamb tagine is just as magical as the setting.

Local cafés

Take tea on the roof terrace of the Maison de la Photographie after working your way through the historic print collections. Look out for the blue striped awning belonging to Blue Ribbon, a family-run café and farm shop serving sweet and savoury treats like cinnamon-dusted banana bread, smoked salmon breakfast bagels, fruit juices and more.

Local bars

Sip saffron-infused vodka and ginger mules from the red-and-white styled rooftop at Smith stablemate, El Fenn. You’ll have a front row seat to watch the sunset over Marrakech’s Koutoubia Mosque, backed by the riad’s 30-foot marble bar which serves creative Marrakshi-inspired cocktails until late.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this artfully restored riad in Marrakech and unpacked their argan oil and spice jars, a full account of their medina-meandering break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside This Time Tomorrow in Marrakech in Morocco…

Not to be confused with a Kinks song or bestselling novel, This Time Tomorrow in Marrakech takes its name from a new curated stays brand (with another heart-of-the-city sister in Florence). This set of revamped residences, known locally as Dar Al Dall, asks travellers to ponder the time-old question, “where will you be?” in a day from now. Fortunately, resident curator Youssef can help fill in the gaps between your steam baths, fireside reading, and rooftop basking, with convivial couscous making, spice merchant meet-and-greets, and creative workshops in the medina’s tucked-away ateliers. Downtime can also be dedicated towards simply admiring the riad’s treasure trove of hand-chiselled zellige tiles, intricate plasterwork and colourful mosaics, which draw on the medina’s vibrant palette and textures. Feel free to lean into the power of suggestion – before you know it, you’ll be walking through Dar Al Dall’s carved wooden doors…

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