Hotel Sahrai

Character and identity

Hotel Sahrai sits on a grassy hilltop above Fez's Ville Nouvelle, an urban resort in feel rather than a city hotel, looking down on the ancient medina below. The 50 rooms read as minimal designer lofts in creamy whites, with king beds, flat-screen TVs and glassed-in rain showers, while the public spaces turn sensuously Moroccan with carved limestone walls and tiled fountains. Two pools (including an infinity pool), a Givenchy spa, and two refined restaurants anchor the experience. The architectural register is contemporary and pared back; the cultural cues are local and tactile.

Who's it for

Bottom line

The pull here is the contrast: minimalist loft-like rooms and a proper spa-and-pool resort layout, paired with a hilltop view over one of Morocco's most intense old cities. Book it if you want a decompression chamber after the medina rather than immersion inside it, and angle for a room facing the medina view.