Our stay at the Villa Maroc was a perfect start of our recent trip to Morocco. We stayed for 2 nights which enabled us to explore Essaouira's highlights at leisure. The Villa consists of 4 riads that are connected to each other with stairs and corridors, and the place oozes with charm, as you have the feeling you are in a house, not in a hotel. Each room is different. Ours had a nice tadelakt bathroom, a bedroom, and a small sitting lounge, all with carefully selected furniture and decoration. Delicious and somptuous breakfast is served on the spacious terraces of the riads, with view over the medina at one side and the port and the coast at the other one. In the evening it is possible to have a lovely (you have to pre-order) dinner in one of the lovely decorated rooms or small stylish lounges of the riads. This means excellent and fine Moroccan cooking consisting of appetizers, salads and tajines, combined with a good selection of Moroccan wines.
The Villa is perfectly located near one of the southern gates (Babs) of Essaouira, and if you arrive by car, you can conveniently park your car at the guarded parking near tot the gate.

After many good and bad experiences in travelling we have now the opportunity to draw on unlimited resources in commenting our stay in Morocco, e.g. in ‚Les Jardins de Villa Maroc‘, dependance of the famous Hotel Villa Maroc in Essaouira.
We now can rename the words hospitality, comfort and love for details: ‚Les Jardins de Villa Maroc‘. Hicham, the gorgeous Manager oft he hotel did convince us with the tipical charming morrocan friendliness as well as with tasty and typicall moroccan food and tea. Breakfast was a not finishing offer of home made and tipical food and beverages. Dinner a delicious eye candy of Tagine and tipical moroccan salads. The rooms and hotel were very clean, furnished perfectly and with love in details. Les Jardins de Villa Maroc is located countrysides, not far from Essaouira. A perfect location to relax and to create distance to the daily routine.
Les Jardins de la Villa Maroc is a Resort of the famous Hotel Villa Maroc, which is managed by Cornelia Hendry and her husband Abderrahim Ezzaher. Special highlight: Madame Hendry did personally organize a sunset sailing trip arround Essaouira and an afternoon Quad trip through the dunes of Essaouira. Just splendid! One evening we spent in Villa Maroc and had a delicious dinner which was very authentic and tasty. The Villa is a place with neverending opportunities in discovering treasures of good taste and eyecatchers of moroccan accessoires.
A stay on superlatives! Many thanks to the Management of the Hotel Villa Maroc and the employees, we will be back soon!

We of cause read tripadvisor reviews, and had great expectations to our stay in Villa Maroc. We spent 3 days there and had a good time. The location is exellent, the room we had was one of the biggest I have ever had (about 8o sqm) including a bathroom with a cheselong(!) But the architecture is like a riad and when a couple with a small child (with a great voice) moved in in the floor beneath us we had a hard time falling asleep.
The breakfast was served (at your choice) indoors or on a spacious roof terrace. The food was quite ok, but not impressing. On the same terrace ( a very nice place) you could have a beer or a glass of wine in the evening but there was no service so you had to go down to the bar to order. It had been a great improvement to have service on the terrace.
The dinner was served at cosy small tables in niches and small rooms. A very good ambience, but the food was not more than ok.
Overall: 4 of 5 stars and worth the money.

This was the first hotel we stayed in when we first visited Essaouira, 15 years ago. We were so pleased with it that we chose it for this repeat visit. Essaouira has changed a lot in that time. The town has been spruced up with new paving and lighting, the beach has become quite glamorous, many trees have been planted, and there are many new restaurants and hotels. The only change we disliked is that the old medina used to be for pedestrians only. Unfortunately this policy has been changed and now there are noisy motor bikes zooming around all over the old town, which has changed the uniquely peaceful atmosphere of this charming Moroccan town for the worse. Fortunately the streets are too narrow to permit motor cars.

As for the Villa Maroc, it is as delightful as we remembered it. The location is perfect, a short walk from the main square, the port, and the beach. The hotel is not purpose built but rather consists of two old traditional riads that have been combined. The result is an authentic charm that you just cannot achieve in a modern hotel. Of course this means that every room is different, with different outlooks and different furniture to suit its size and shape -- so you might want to check your room first. We found our room to be very comfortable and appreciated its distinctiveness (a welcome change from the predictability of the big international chains). The staff are professional and helpful and contribute to the pleasant ambiance of the place. The food is excellent, and a welcome feature is that the dinner menu changes depending on what fresh foods are available in the local markets that day.