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We spent a few days at this stunning location with our 3 children. Everything was perfect - the house, the garden with its flowers, birds and tortoises as well as the small local village. The gardener Hakim was lovely and makes the best Tajin you can imagine. Hakim made our holiday really special! Thank you for a wonderful week. Next time we stay much longer!!!

Wow what a beautiful place to stay. The huge house is situated in the countryside, 30 minutes from Marrakech centre. Situated in acres of beautiful flourishing gardens which are well kept, a crystal clear inviting pool and sun lounge area. The gated property is secure and not overlooked by anyone. There are bikes you can borrow (we just cycled within the gardens), a pool table and football table. The house comes with pets (they don’t live in the house but within the gardens). There is a dog, a puppy, cat, tortoise, turkey and chickens. All kind, very gentle and extremely well behaved (they don’t step foot inside). We played ball with the dogs but if you are not an animal person they will mind their own business and just lie down or roam the gardens. We spent a week here but wished we had booked longer. At the airport we were greeted by our guardian Hakim. We hired a car and he came with us back to the house to make sure we arrived safely and at the right house. Hakim is a wonderful, kind man. He doesn’t live on-site. Instead he comes to the house in the morning and the afternoon to check if you need anything. He was also our guide so he took us on excursions – some that he suggested and others we did. Hakim will also cook for you (I would strongly recommend that you take him up on this as his dishes are delicious). At the end of your holiday he will present you will a bill for the ingredients he brought for your meals. It is customary to tip him at the end of the holiday. For meals cooked you would pay 5-10 euros / 50-100 dirhams per meal and then for everything else you would also tip him between 5-10 euros / 50-100 dirhams. What you decide to tip is really how involved he is as your guide. We will definitely return!

The house is great, it's large and well equipped en it was a delight to be welcomed and assisted by the local caretaker who helped us with the initial requirements such as shopping and the introduction to the city but also cooked authentic food and took care of the fantastic pool facilities. He speaks no english and a little french but we were mostly able to easily communicate with him using a combination of different languages and handsignals. He was a true delight to have around for a relatively inexpensive cost. There were a few downsides to the stay: - the neighbours dogs were barking through the night so make sure to bring earplugs. - The villa is also built to keep the summer heat out and there is no centralised heating so the bedrooms and bathrooms were quite cold in the mornings with no way of heating them. There are however two fireplaces in the livingroom and kitchen that are good at keeping you warm in the evenings in the winter months where the temperature drops at night to under 10degrees. - Also not all the lighting throughout the house is connected which is a minor hassle as the house is otherwise a delight and comfortably equipped with a lot of modern comforts such as a dishwasher, microwave, waterboiler, coffeemaker, juicer, toaster etc etc etc. All in all a big thank you to Nicole, although the cost in the winter I would suggest to lower as better value for money. We recommend and would gladly stay here again during a warmer period.