Room, people, food, location made us forget first day cold water and lack of internet in the rooms. Great value for the money. Would be come back? Absolutely YES
No hotel without free, fast internet access in rooms deserves 5 stars...

We spent 5 nights at Riad Monceau in mid April 2012 along with a couple of friends coming from London too. Our stay was booked on Expedia where this hotel had the best score of all Marrakech riads.

Riad Monceau is absolutely beautiful and ideally located just yards from the amazing Jemaa ElFna.

We got the friendliest welcome and service was truly excellent as was the atmosphere which was really nice. I think this is due to the extreme friendliness of all staff and also to the presence of the cosy restaurant that brings a very pleasant entertainment at night.

I noticed that some people had found that it brought noise but as far as we were concerned we just found it gave the place a fantastic atmosphere. I must say that over the last few years we had already stayed three times in other riads that were pleasant during the day but really depressing in the evening when staff had left and other guests were having dinner outside. Our only choice was then to have a night out too even though we were not in the mood for it…

So we found that the Monceau, with its charming intimate and romantic restaurant was the ideal compromise between the very small guest house quiet to the point of being boring, and bustling – but also impersonal - chain hotels.

Speaking of the restaurant we urge everyone to have dinner here at least once as it is in our opinion the best place to enjoy a fine Moroccan meal in all Marrakech.

Now in Paris for a while and then.. back to London.. and to work :(

It's really well located just 100m straight shot from the main sq. The staff were fairly friendly and the rooms were ok. We had a dimmer switch that couldn't turn the main light fully off meaning we had a night light in the room. The shower was a hand held stand in the bath job which wasn't great. There were real noise issues in the ground floor rooms as well but that may be the case in all Riads.

The food was fairly good although the one evening meal we gad did have a heavy reliance on sugar - to be fair Morrocco seems to love sugar in everything.

Lots of little annoyances: They twice put opened boxes of Pringles crisps in our mini bar, we got one bottle of water in the room and that was it for the rest of the stay and we ran out if loo paper every day.

It was okay and if you can't get anything in the top 50, go for it. I wouldnt go back but I can't say it was bad either.

You probably cant get closer to the centre of the city in such style. The staff were all very pleasent and really helped to make our trip. The main suite has the most beautiful bathroom I have ever stayed in, huge bath with all the trimmings, robes, soft towels, candles and rose petals. The quality of this room is rather out of synch with the rest of the hotel, but if you want to have a fantastic room to explore the city centre from, then it does not get much better. For all its talk about food I have to say that I was dissapointed. I am not really sure why Marrakesh concentrates on food so much as never found a great meal all week.