Experiences
The chef's table, the hammam and the days around Marrakech
Nothing here is ticketed and nothing is scheduled. At Palais Hassoun the days are drawn each morning around you: four pleasures within the walls, and a carnet of things to do beyond them, arranged by the house.
I
The table
The chef's table: Moroccan gastronomy, revisited
Moroccan gastronomy at its most quietly confident: the classics revisited, alongside Mediterranean plates and the freshness of Asia. Menus follow the market and the season. The table follows the light, from the arched dining room to the shade of the olive trees.
II
The rituals
The hammam, mint tea and the hour of nothing
Steam and black soap in the palace hammam. Mint tea poured high at the golden hour. A hammock between two palms and a book from the library. The estate's real luxury is permission to do nothing, and to do it well.
III
The atelier
A cooking class at the chef's side
An apron, a market basket, and the secrets of a Moroccan kitchen where spice is a language. You cook at the chef's side.
IV
The collection
A private visit to the palace-museum
Room by room, the house walks you through its first arts, its carvings and its canvases: where each piece came from, and why it stands where it stands.
The visit is given by the hand that placed every piece: Alain, collector, decorator and keeper of the house.
Beyond the walls
Things to do near Marrakech, arranged by the house
Marrakech and its countryside, kept at the right distance and brought closer on request. The carnet below is a beginning, not a boundary.
Nothing is ticketed and nothing is scheduled. Choose a line and it joins your enquiry, to be drawn into the day around you.
- 01Dawn by hot-air balloonThe skyLift off before first light and drift over the Palmeraie. Champagne breakfast on landing, and back before the pool warms.
- 02Golf beneath the AtlasThe landTee times on Marrakech's great courses, with clubs, caddies and the mountains on the skyline, arranged to your handicap.
- 03An evening in AgafayThe landCamels at sunset, dinner in a private desert camp, and the drive home under more stars than sky.
- 04The Palmeraie on horsebackThe landMorning rides among the palms, 10 km from the estate, for riders of every patience.
- 05Marrakech, privatelyThe cityThe souks with a personal shopper, the gardens and museums with a historian: doors that open because the house asked.
- 06A photo session around MarrakechThe cityThe medina's doorways, the Palmeraie at golden hour, Agafay at dusk. A photographer who knows where the city keeps its light, booked around your day.
Experiences
Choose your dates, then your days
Tell us how you like to spend a day, and the house will arrange the rest. Book a room or a garden villa for your dates, or write to us: a person answers within a day.