Riad Zaki

TLDR: this is a riad located by a busy road, your room quality can possibly be as of a prison cell, all rooms have super thin walls which can impact your sleep. the management won’t be helpful. I would not stay here if I come back to Marrakesh. I stayed in Riad Zaki for 3 nights. This Riad was booked by my tour guide and not my initial choice. After 7days of traveling around Morocco I was hoping to have a comfortable and relaxing accommodation in this Riad. Upon arrival, my friend and I received 2 separate rooms. My friend’s room was normal sized, nice decorations, windows toward the inside yard. However I received a really small room facing toward the busy street and door opening up to the main stairway of second floor, no windows toward the inside yard, the shower didn’t have a door so water spills in the washroom when you have a shower, super small room with one desk that was about to break. It just felt like a dark small storage room. I brought the noise complains to the management and they said all their rooms are booked and they can’t help me (meanwhile we were walking around and saw at least 2 empty clean rooms which were supposed to be filled later on that day, and I spent the same money to book my “storage box” as those bigger rooms). Management suggested to close the only window existed in that suite to reduce the noise. I ended up staying in a prison cell type of room with windows closed for 3 nights. Even with windows closed, you could hear people talking on the street, bikes using their tiny bells, cars horns which made sleeping here really difficult. For my last night of stay, the management offered to change my room but I declined since I was supposed to depart from Morocco in the morning and short on time to pack my bags. I didn’t have extra time for another packing and unpacking to change the rooms. To be fair I will mentioned the only benefits of this riad: 1- it is located in walking distance to Jemaa el-Fnaa square (similar to another 100 riads in that area) 2- there was a young gentleman who worked in the afternoons and night and prepared breakfast who was friendly and kind. Overall, I would not recommend staying in this Riad if you care about your sleep or basic standards of your room.

MAKE SURE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE RIAD IF YOU WILL ARRIVE LATE. We arrived at 1AM from the airport and the riad was CLOSED. Yes! Locked! Lights out! Everyone sound asleep. It took my tour guide and transfer driver a good 20 mins to call, knock, ring bell, talk irritated amongst themselves in Arabic, etc. Until a man opened up the door and said d everyone was asleep already. He finally let us in and took us to our room. The place itself is nice. We were only there for a night but I would definitely come back. Staff was very nice. Breakfast was simple but tasty. No fruits. Only coffee or tea, two kinds of bread slices, and a cake slice, with honey and strawberries jam and orange jam. Again, everything tasted great, but no variety. I would still recommend this riad.

Room was very lovely and the staff was very welcoming.

Easy to find Riad, friendly staff giving us advice about Marrakech, big room, clean. Very quiet place, perfect for a family

I have just spent 4 days there with 4 Friends and I can highly recommend this Rhiad.We have been wonderfully looked after by all the employees , especially Karim Who helped us in all he could and made us feel at home..Breakfast was good up in the roof top .I will definetely be going back!

Riad Zaki was a wonderful place to stay for my first time to Marrakech. It was within walking distance of most everything. The room was beautiful and the family running it could not have been more delightful, warm, and helpful!