www: Dar Nouba

Location: Marrakech, Morocco

What: Riad

Visited: April 2008

What cost: 56 euro/night

Where booked: Dar Nouba

Special: Authentic house

What to do: Médersa Ben-Youssef

Breakfast: Buffet

Facilities

Riad Dar Nouba is a nice family house with 4 rooms. The owners (a couple) are very friendly and help you to navigate the souk. The rooms are all decorated in traditional style and are located around a ‘gardened’ courtyard. Breakfast is good. There’s a nice common (reading) room and a terrace with solarium. The kids liked it also a lot (including the house cat). In the evening the owner let us smoke together from his shisha (waterpipe - i’ll not start a discussion on smoking here - it was fun). Médersa Ben-Youssef is just around the corner and a must see, as is the rest of the medina.