Riad Chbanate

Day, Winter, Balcony/Terrace, On site, City view, City view, Street view, Street view

Patio, Night, Summer, Garden, Floor plan, On site

Patio, Day, Winter, Garden, Floor plan, On site

Patio, Night, Winter, Garden, Floor plan, On site

Restaurant/places to eat, Lounge or bar, Banquet/Function facilities, On site, Breakfast

4.8

Outstanding(678 Reviews)

Riad in Essaouira

Reasons to book

Guests love it hereGuests give this property a top rating

Free cancellationFull refund if you change your mind

Great for petsBring all your friends and family, even the furry ones

About this riad rental

Set on the city wall, this beautiful riad offers a rooftop terrace overlooking the old medina of Essaouira. Its spacious guest rooms are elegantly decorated with Moroccan design and a fireplace.

Amenities

Air conditioner

Pets allowed

Internet / Wifi

Fireplace

Smoking allowed

Parking

Laundry

Balcony or Patio

Hot tub or spa

Beachfront or waterfront

Family friendly

Map of Essaouira

Nearby attractions

Place du Marché aux Grains

0.3 mi

Available Rooms

1 King • 430 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 Queen • 269 ft²

Sleeps 3

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 Queen • 290 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

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Riad Chbanate

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4.8

Outstanding(678 Reviews)

Riad in Essaouira

Reasons to book

Guests love it hereGuests give this property a top rating

Free cancellationFull refund if you change your mind

Great for petsBring all your friends and family, even the furry ones

About this riad rental

Set on the city wall, this beautiful riad offers a rooftop terrace overlooking the old medina of Essaouira. Its spacious guest rooms are elegantly decorated with Moroccan design and a fireplace.

Amenities

Air conditioner

Pets allowed

Internet / Wifi

Fireplace

Smoking allowed

Parking

Laundry

Balcony or Patio

Hot tub or spa

Beachfront or waterfront

Family friendly

Map of Essaouira

Nearby attractions

Place du Marché aux Grains

0.3 mi

Available Rooms

1 King • 430 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 Queen • 269 ft²

Sleeps 3

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 Queen • 290 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

Reviews

4.8

Outstanding(678 Reviews)

100% verified reviews

5.0

Jul 2024

Incredible Stay - thank you Greg!

Greg & Samira made this already fantastic riad even better with their smiles, helpfulness & general wonderful hospitality! We stayed for two nights, they helped me find medicine for my ill husband & cooked the most delicious tagine that I’ve had so far in Morocco. The riad itself was absolutely beautiful! The bath tub was HUGE the bed comfy & spaces well decorated & kept! Stay here when visiting Essaouira & thank me later. We only hope that we make it onto the picture wall ☺️

Nothing, it’s perfect!

4.5

Jul 2024

Nice

Everything super cozy and amazing staff

The rooms should have a better sound insulation and better curtains to stop the sunlight

4.5

Apr 2024

Go there, it’s a dream!

2 nights in top floor apartment with balcony , glorious!

5.0

Mar 2024

Superbe

Petit déjeuner copieux et très bon. Personnel très attentionné, sympathique, positif. Riad très calme, apaisant. Le quartier n’est pas exceptionnel mais proche du centre auquel on accède par des ruelles typiques en 5 min. Nous avons été attendu à l’arrivée tardive par un tadjine délicieux.

4.0

May 2023

Very good

Very beautiful and clean Riad, the staff was very welcoming. Breakfast was reach and tasty. The location of the Riad is good, in the Medina but not in the most crowded area.

In the early morning construction works have started in the wall next to our room - it woke us up and was not a plesent experience. We got compensated with a discount.

5.0

May 2023

a beautiful and friendly Riad, great staff and very reasonable price for the high quality

beautiful Riad, super friendly staff and gorgeous room, good breakfast and lovely dinner.. they helped with an excursion and pointed out some lovely restaurants etc a really superb place

nothing to dislike it really is superb

5.0

May 2023

Highly recommended

Great location for visiting Essaouira. The Riad is beautiful and the staff couldn't be nicer and more helpful. Lovely restaurant - we had dinner as well as breakfast and enjoyed both

5.0

Apr 2023

a relaxed and luxurious stay, would highly recommend

there’s a lovely roof garden, the rooms are very luxurious and the staff were incredibly helpful and. I r

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4.5

Apr 2023

I would absolutely recommend this hotel. They were super helpful and the rooms were gorgeous.

The location was perfect. The breakfast was delicious and the decor was spectacular. I would absolutely go there again! Be sure to request a softer bed (ours was a little hard but I know they have room with softer beds)

5.0

Mar 2023

Exceptional

Amazing breakfast and great hospitality

All good

5.0

Mar 2023

The best Riad experience

It was the best Riad I have stayed so far. Exceptional facilities, delicious breakfast, relaxing ambience and very professional staff. A truly memorable stay, hopefully we will come back one day. Totally recommend it!

5.0

Mar 2023

Exceptional

Everything was perfect and we enjoy the whole hotel and the especially nice, kindly and helpful service !! Thanks for that experience.

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4.5

Mar 2023

Superb

We really liked the place, service was outstanding and friendly. A bit more expensive than other places but well worth it. The rooms are beautiful and spacious. The location in the Medina is optimal and easy to access.

I have to admit nothing, this is quite rare. Could not stress this more in a time over many overrated places. Definitely a place we will go back would pass by again.

5.0

Mar 2023

Exceptional

Stayed 1 night and wished we could have stayed longer. Staff was very welcoming and welcomed us with piping hot mint tea and snacks while we we waited for the room to be ready. 5-10 minute walk from the bus station. Room was very clean with huge mirrors and full length mirror (which my partner loved). Bed was comfortable and there was even a fireplace in our room. Some of the windows were facing the inner courtyard but we really didn't hear much noise as the place was mainly quiet. The only odd thing about our specific room's set up was that the entrance door came into the bathroom area and the only thing separating the bathtub and toilet area from the rest of the room was a curtain but it didn't bother us. One of the best riad breakfasts I've had during my entire trip in Morocco. Riad is within walking distance to everything in Essaouira. They even held our luggage after check out so that we could see the city while we waited for our late afternoon bus. Excellent value for the price; would strongly recommend staying here.

Nothing.

5.0

Feb 2023

Exceptional

Beautiful interiors, spacious rooms and bathtubs as well as excellent service. I really recommend this Riad to every traveller!

5.0

Feb 2023

Beautiful Riad in the heart of Essaouira.

A lovely traditional Riad within the medina. Excellent staff, who were genuinely friendly and keen to do anything to help make your stay as enjoyable as possible. Good recommendation to eat in a great restaurant, we simply would not have found without their suggestion. We also ate at the Riad, as we arrived in the evening. The meal was very good and served in their simple dining room with an open fire. Would highly recommend.

2.5

Feb 2023

Bathroom has no door and no hand-held shower; photographs are misleading; overpriced

I endorse this review by another guest: “nice place, but unreasonable price. The most expensive riad of our stay, but not the most beautiful or the best equipped. It should cost 30% less considering what it offers”. Yes, I agree: taking all factors into account, this property should be priced at least 30% less. It is definitely overpriced. This hotel failed to prepare a thorough advert on booking-com website. Instead of describing each of their rooms individually (they only have 7 rooms), they congregate them into two types — “Superior double room” and “Comfort double room”. As a result, you do not know which room out of the seven you are booking until you arrive. The hotel manager should create seven “room types” on their booking-com page and accurately describe each room by giving its name and correct photographs of THAT PARTICULAR ROOM, not just a collection of photographs of all rooms. Customers deserve to know what exactly they will get, if this hotel charges €200, €150 or €130 per night. Another consequence of the hotel’s failure to advertise each room individually is that when photographs of five rooms are pooled together into one room type, prospective customers are misled. Indeed, I was misled. I was shown beautiful photographs with a hammock in the middle of a room, which creates a cosy impression, which enticed me to reserve it. And I was given a plain room without a hammock. They have a hammock only in one room; yet they dishonestly show it in the advert for all five rooms. I dislike that. Their other marketing photographs are also misleading. If we look at marketing photographs of “superior double room”, we see that they show rooms with burning logs of wood in a fireplace, a thick bouquet of live flowers in a bedroom, a vase with many flowers beside a bath. None of that was in my bedroom when I arrived.

If the hotel shows a burning wood fire in their marketing photos, and charges €150 per night, I expect to see a burning fire in my bedroom on a cold winter evening (the fire could have been started by a staff member when they take the guest to the room). But no, there was no possibility for me to lit a fire during a cold evening. There was no vase with flowers at the side of a bath. The thick bouquet of live flowers shown in their marketing photos in a bedroom was not there in reality. Their photos show jacuzzi with heated water on the second floor. But it was covered by a piece of material and closed to the guests. Yet, that jacuzzi features in so many marketing photographs, and dupes prospective customers into making at reservation at this expensive hotel. I did not like the bathroom in two respects. In the bathrooms you get only a fixed-arm shower head above you. They do not have a hand-held shower head with a flexible hose, with which you can direct water flow wherever you want. This was very uncomfortable: every single hotel in which I stayed in Morocco has always had a hand-held shower with a flexible hose. Considering their very high prices, I see no reason why the hotel cannot install both shower types — a fixed-arm shower head above, and a hand-held shower head with a flexible hose at chest or waist level. I endorse what other people have written: “No door, just a curtain between the bathroom and bedroom, as a result the bathroom has little privacy”. I too disliked this lack of privacy. I was in an uncomfortable situation where I had to ask my travel companion to go out of the room into a communal area, so that I can use the bathroom and toilet in privacy. Also, because there is no proper barrier between the bathroom and bedroom, after you have had a bath, all steam or vapor goes into the bedroom. I had a bath before going to sleep, and it had filled the whole bedroom with vapor for the whole night — not what we want in hotel that charges €150 per night.

5.0

Feb 2023

Exceptional

Open fire in the room

5.0

Jan 2023

Exceptional

Centrally located, pretty and well looked after traditional Riad. Nice attention to detail. The staff were very friendly and happy to provide recommendations for things to do. Good breakfast - coffee, tea, orange juice, various bread and pastries with jam, honey etc, fresh fruit and eggs made to order.

5.0

Jan 2023

Exceptional

Great welcoming. Very beautiful place. Staff sooo nice!! Great stay!

5.0

Jan 2023

quite simply spectacular in every way - book this without hesitation.

This is one of the best places we have ever stayed. Sameera and Hicham could not have been more helpful. Hicham gave us great recommendations and made our reservations. Sameera presented the most wonderful breakfast and freshly baked cake on our arrival. The room was amazing with the most beautiful bathroom we had ever seen. We had a fire in our room that was lit on request. Our room was tidied to perfection during breakfast. There is even a resident tortoise. We could not recommend this Riad enough and we cannot wait to come back!

4.5

Jan 2023

Highly recommended

The location of the riad is pefect, inside the medina but very close to one of the entries which makes it easy to find the hotel. Our room was very confortable and clean. The breakfast is one of the best we had in Morocco. The staff was also very helpful. If we go to Essaouira again, we'll definitely repeat in Riad Chbanate.

5.0

Dec 2022

wonderfully beautiful riad, stunning rooms and bath, lovely breakfast and dinner

everything

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5.0

Dec 2022

A breath of fresh air

Located in a quiet part of the Medina but an easy stroll to all the highlights. A beautiful place with amazingly helpful and friendly staff.

5.0

Dec 2022

A perfect beautiful stay.

Where to start ! The peaceful, beautiful rooms, all the staff - especially Ergragui- who was so kind, warm and helpful. The delicious breakfasts, the central location and last but by no means least- Chbanate the turtle - who was always there to welcome us home. You really can’t ask for a better place to stay. We will be back !

5.0

Dec 2022

a wonderful respite

beautiful condition, great food, friendly staff

4.5

Oct 2022

Don’t hesitate booking here! Book far in advance. The hype is real!

Beautiful, serene building.

The location was not inviting. Once inside the Riad, it was an oasis! Much more than inviting!!

5.0

Oct 2022

Awesome one night stay. Wish we'd stayed longer!

Perfect stay. Grigi (hopefully spelt that right) was a superb host, as were the cooks! Located in a perfect location within the medina. Room was awesome!

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4.5

Oct 2022

Beautiful riad!

We loved the colourful and ample room we got, in this beautiful Riad in central Essaouira. The classic architecture of the Riad was really interesting, with lots of wood decorations and small details. The courtyard is a beautiful place to hang out for a mint tea, offered by the gentle staff!

I guess the whirlpool on the terrace wasn’t working, but the weather was also surprisingly cool, so we didn’t really need it!

5.0

Oct 2022

Exceptional

Riad Chbanate was by far our favourite stay in all of Morocco. We were warmly welcomed by Greg and treated incredibly well - he helped with restaurant recommendations and reservations and started a fire in our room's fireplace each night. All the staff were equally welcoming. Couldn't recommend staying here more!

5.0

Oct 2022

Excellent place to stay.

Breakfast was great. The room was amazing. The staff were incredibly helpful.

5.0

Oct 2022

Exceptional

The staff was very accommodating and the room was decorated nicely for our honeymoon.

5.0

Oct 2022

‏beautiful room ‏the staff was very very kindb

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5.0

Sep 2022

The staff were very accomodating and the riad itself was beautiful. Very romantic!!

Breakfast was delicious. We also had a light dinner in the riad when we arrived and it was also delicious!!

The noise from the street outside the riad was a little loud at times but I would still HIGHLY recommend this riad.

FAQs

How much does this riad cost compared to others in Essaouira?

The average price for a rental in Essaouira is $89 per night. This rental is $2 above the average.

Is parking included with this riad?

Yes, parking is listed as an amenity at Riad Chbanate. For more information, we encourage you to contact the property about where to park.

Is there a pool at this riad?

We didn’t find pool listed as an amenity for this riad. It may be worth double checking if a pool is important for your stay.

Is Riad Chbanate pet friendly?

Yes! This riad is pet-friendly. For more information, we recommend contacting the booking provider about animal policies.

What amenities are available at Riad Chbanate?

We found 12 amenities for this rental. This includes air conditioner, pets allowed, internet / wifi, fireplace, and smoking allowed.

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Reasons to book

About this riad rental

Amenities

Map of Essaouira

Nearby attractions

Available Rooms

Reviews

FAQs

How much does this riad cost compared to others in Essaouira?

Is parking included with this riad?

Is there a pool at this riad?

Is Riad Chbanate pet friendly?

What amenities are available at Riad Chbanate?

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