Best hotels in Essaouira

In the running for 'The World's Most Creative Hotel', Salut Maroc is what happens when a passionate British designer falls head over heels for a crumbling 18th-century merchant's house. Helen Howat spent five painstaking years transforming this former Jewish trading post into a kaleidoscopic celebration of Moroccan craftsmanship. Perched directly on Essaouira's UNESCO-listed ramparts with the Atlantic crashing below, the riad's ten rooms each tell the story of a different Moroccan city through explosive zellije tilework, handcrafted copper bathtubs, and vintage finds. Between the rooftop restaurant's sunset dinners and the traditional hammam's restorative rituals, this is Morocco at its most wonderfully, unapologetically vibrant.

Madada Mogador is not a simple hotel, but above all it is a house in which you can live an Experience. Located at the entrance to my medina but also a few meters from the beach and the port, it's a special atmosphere.

Some will say that they feel between land and sea, others that they have a foot in the history of the old town and a foot on the warm sand of the beach. It is not only this situation that makes it such a special house but also the people who live there and who welcome you there.

Madada is a different way of living Essaouira: it is the comfort of a neat house, it is the liveliness of a dedicated team, it is the discretion of a place on a human scale and it is before everything else the opportunity to savor your moments in Essaouira.