Hammam ritual, sauna and jacuzzi at a kasbah style hotel spa in Ouarzazate
5 minutes from the airport
Hammam, sauna and jacuzzi
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Le Berbere Palace is a kasbah styled hotel on Rue Al-Mansour Ad-Dahbi in Ouarzazate, about five minutes from the airport and from Kasbah Taourirt. Its spa runs a full Moroccan hammam ritual, from steam and black soap through exfoliation and a ghassoul clay wrap to a finish of argan oil applied by local therapists. A sauna, a jacuzzi and a fitness room sit alongside, and the hotel pool is a few steps away in a palm garden.
Why book
Le Berbere Palace in Ouarzazate is a kasbah styled hotel whose spa runs a full Moroccan hammam ritual, with a sauna, a jacuzzi and the hotel pool alongside it.
The ritual moves through steam, black soap, exfoliation, a ghassoul clay wrap and a finish of argan oil, applied by local therapists.
The hammam room is candlelit, with a band of green and black zellige running around ochre tadelakt walls and copper buckets set on marble benches.
The pool sits in a palm garden in front of the ochre facade, with loungers, parasols and a canopied daybed around the edge.
Treatments
Traditional hammam ritual: steam, black soap, exfoliation, a ghassoul clay wrap and argan oil.
Sauna, panelled in wood with towel laid benches.
Jacuzzi.
The hotel pool, a few steps from the spa.
Fitness room.
Best time
Late afternoon, after a day out at Ait Ben Haddou or the film studios.
Summer, when the pool and the shade of the palm garden are the point.
Winter, when the sauna and the hammam make more sense than the open pool.
How to combine
Kasbah Taourirt, the Glaoui kasbah, is about five minutes away, as is Ouarzazate Airport.
Ait Ben Haddou, the UNESCO listed earthen ksar, is about 30 km north west.
The hotel bills itself as the base for international film crews in Ouarzazate, from Ridley Scott's Gladiator films to Game of Thrones, and the studios are on the edge of town.
Le Berbere Palace is on Rue Al-Mansour Ad-Dahbi, 45000 Ouarzazate, about five minutes from Ouarzazate Airport and from the Kasbah of Taourirt.
The hammam ritual at Le Berbere Palace in Ouarzazate moves through steam, black soap, exfoliation, a ghassoul clay wrap and a finish of argan oil, applied by local therapists.
The spa at Le Berbere Palace in Ouarzazate has a hammam, a sauna and a jacuzzi, with the hotel pool a few steps away and a fitness room on site. Treatment prices and opening hours are not published online.
Yes. Le Berbere Palace in Ouarzazate has a large outdoor pool set in a palm garden in front of the ochre kasbah style facade, with loungers, parasols and a canopied daybed around it. The poolside bar is called Isli.
Le Berbere Palace in Ouarzazate has four restaurants and two bars: L'Oasis for buffet and French cooking, La Maison Arabe for Moroccan, La Trattoria for Italian and The Red Lounge for Asian, plus The Fair Wind cocktail bar and the poolside bar Isli.