Domaine des Remparts Hotel & Spa
Marrakech, Morocco · 5-star Hotel
Domaine des Remparts Hotel & Spa in photographs
When to go
The cheapest month we have found is January, at around USD 247 a night - -10% against what this hotel usually asks.
Where to book
- Book direct with the hotel - Usually the best price, and the only route where a loyalty discount applies.
- Find it on Booking.com - We do not hold a direct listing for this one, so this is a name search.
- Hotel website - Photos, facilities and location.
Our notes
Domaine des Remparts Hotel & Spa
The Domaine des Remparts is a five-star hotel set in the Palmeraie of Marrakech, in a two-hectare park of gardens and palm trees. The hotel's own site describes it as a place for romantic stays, family holidays and weekend escapes, with suites, two swimming pools, two restaurants, a bar and a spa on the property.
The accommodation includes suites, pavilion rooms and lodges, shown on the hotel's site in warm earth tones with timber furniture and woven rugs. One of the two pools is heated all year, so swimming is possible in every season, and the spa combines a traditional hammam with modern wellness treatments, massages and rituals.
Because it lies in the Palmeraie rather than in the old city, the hotel suits guests who want quiet gardens and pool time between visits to the medina and the souks.
On Booking.com it scored 9.2 from 448 reviews when the page was read on 11 October 2026. Photographs: the hotel's own material on domainedesremparts.com.
The area
Marrakesh was founded around 1070 by the Almoravids, Berber nomads out of the Sahara, and it gave its name to the whole country - "Morocco" is the European ear's version of it. A century later the Almohads raised the Koutoubia Mosque, whose 77-metre minaret still sets the skyline and served as the model for the Giralda in Seville; the rule that no building in the medina stands taller than a palm tree keeps it in view from almost everywhere. The red pisé walls that give the "Red City" its name run for some 19 kilometres round a medina that has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.
The heart of it is Jemaa el-Fnaa, a square that changes character by the hour: orange-juice stalls and henna artists in the morning, snake charmers in the afternoon, and after dark a field of smoking food stalls, storytellers and Gnawa musicians - UNESCO lists the square itself as intangible heritage. North of it, the souks sort themselves by trade: dyers, leather, lanterns, spices, carpets. Go with time to spare, bargain with good humour, and treat getting lost as part of the plan.
The monuments repay an early start before the heat and the crowds. The Ben Youssef Madrasa, a 16th-century Koranic school, is the city's finest piece of carved cedar, stucco and zellige tile. The Saadian Tombs were sealed off for centuries and only rediscovered in 1917. The Bahia Palace shows how a 19th-century grand vizier lived, while the ruins of the El Badi Palace, stripped by a later sultan, are now home to storks. For quiet, Le Jardin Secret restores a medina garden to its old layout, and the Jardin Majorelle - the cobalt-blue garden painted by Jacques Majorelle and later saved by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé - sits beside the Musée Yves Saint Laurent in Gueliz. Dar el Bacha, a 1910s pasha's palace, is now a museum with a celebrated coffee house.
What else to do: a hammam scrub, in a traditional neighbourhood bath or a hotel spa; a sunset drink on a rooftop above the medina while the call to prayer moves from minaret to minaret; a cooking class that starts in the market; and a day out of town - the Ourika Valley and the High Atlas villages are about an hour away, the stony Agafay desert closer still. The best months are March to May and October to November. High summer is fiercely hot, and Christmas, New Year and Easter are peak season for prices.
The Atlas foothills south of the city took the worst of the September 2023 earthquake. The New York Times wrote a few months later that visiting is part of how the region recovers, and the medina is open as before.
Background: The New York Times, 36 Hours in Marrakesh by Seth Sherwood (February 2024).
What it costs through the year
| Cheapest we have seen | USD 247 ≈ €221 |
|---|---|
| What it usually costs | USD 274 ≈ €245 |
| Dearest we have seen | USD 300 ≈ €268 |
| Times we looked | 2 |
| Gap between the two | - |
| Last checked | 2026-10-29 |