Hotel · Edge of town
Berbère Palace
The grande dame of Ouarzazate — palm gardens, pool, suites for the film crews that have passed through for fifty years.
A town of kasbahs and studios, at the foot of the Atlas. The Hollywood of the desert — and the door to the Drâa and the Erg.
Ouarzazate sits in the high plateau south of the Atlas — a point of convergence between the imperial cities and the great south. Every Sahara journey passes through here; the road from Marrakech climbs through the Tizi n'Tichka pass and descends into a different country.
The town itself is a function. What matters is what surrounds it: the Aït Benhaddou kasbah, the Ounila valley, the Drâa palm grove, and beyond them, the Erg Chigaga and Erg Chebbi.
We route Ouarzazate as a single night — or as a base of operations for Sahara expeditions lasting three to seven days.
The grande dame of Ouarzazate — palm gardens, pool, suites for the film crews that have passed through for fifty years.
Forty minutes east in the Skoura palm grove — a Relais & Châteaux set inside a restored kasbah, one of the Kingdom's great houses.
Above Ouarzazate on a ridge, a kasbah with a private pool villa and views of the Atlas southern face.
A family kasbah restored by the Maison, available for entire-property stays with private chef and hammam.
A private, after-hours visit to the UNESCO ksar of Aït Benhaddou — with a member of the last family still living inside the walls, and a lunch on a Berber roof.
A guided visit to Atlas Studios — the largest in the world by area — with a line producer who has worked on the major shoots of the last two decades.
A day in the Skoura oasis — bicycles, a lunch in a private kasbah garden, a siesta on a shaded divan.
A 4×4 descent into the Drâa valley — palms, Berber villages, a lunch with a family in Agdz — on the way south to the Erg Chigaga.
A short brief from the Maison on the season, the rhythm and the essentials. Bespoke advice upon enquiry.
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