A house bought in 2003, restored over the years, and open to guests since 2019. Run by a small team of four, each with their own part of the house to look after.
We bought the house in 2003. What followed was a long restoration of the original structure: the stucco ceilings, the zellige floors, the stained glass, the carved cedar. In 2019 the house opened as Riad Tasneem.
The restoration gave every room its own bathroom, four built in, four private but external. What it did not change is the way the house works: everything still turns around the patio, the way a riad should.
Riad Tasneem is run by a team of four, each responsible for their own area of the house. If you read our reviews, you will meet two of them by name again and again: Hisham and Islam, whom guests mention for taking care of every small thing.
That is the whole setup. No reception desk shifts, no departments. The people who welcome you are the people who run the house.
A riad has no lobby and no buffet. It has a patio, a rooftop, eight rooms and people who know your name by the second morning. Days start with breakfast on the terrace and end with tea when you come back from the souks.
If you are looking for anonymity, a hotel will serve you better. If you want to actually arrive in Marrakech, this is the kind of house that does it.
And someday, if things go well, we would love for this house to have a sibling: a second riad, one day. For now, all of our attention is here.
Eight rooms, each with its own character. Book direct and arrive as a guest, not a booking number.