Dar Imlil

We stayed one night at Dar Imlil. On arrival Mouna was very helpful and friendly. Our room was clean. View from our window was scenic and wonderful. All the staff went above and beyond to make our stay comfortable. Chef Hassan is an excellent cook.He prepared dinner which was delicious. Our guide Yassine was very knowledgeable in detail of the area. A pleasant person who did not mind us asking any questions related to the area. We would highly recommend this place to stay.

This hotel was very good - staff were immediately very friendly upon arrival - offering us refreshment and our rooms were ready straight away. The rooms were comfortable and airy. There are plenty of places on the terrace / balcony outside the rooms to sit in the sun. The location is also good - there are brilliant views of the mountains from the terrace area. Only downside is that you often have to eat all your meals at the hotel - as there are few restaurants in the village and they mostly do expensive tourist food. The breakfast was good - a selection of cereals, hot drinks, bread, eggs, pancakes, crumpets - but you have a very limited dinner selection - often tagine or tangier and if you have dietary restrictions or are vegetarian there may not be much for you to eat. Apart from this an enjoyable experience and we would likely return.

We booked in to the Kasbah du Toubkal, because our children had stayed there, and absolutely loved it. Unfortunately this top hotel suffered some damage in the dreadful earthquake that struck the region, so had to close until December. Dar Imlil is owned by the brother of the manager of the Kasbah and we were offered the Imlil room. The hotel is really atmospheric and authentically Berber. Service was excellent and the food delicious. We had a 2 day hike to the Remote Trekking Lodge, organised by the Kasbah team. This was a tough rough Hike, but really well managed by our excellent and very knowledgable guide, Mohammed, assisted By Hassan and his lovely mule Jaqualina. There is some damage around still from the earthquake, and tourism has suffered. But the Berber people are lovely and very welcoming. The whole area is safe and every visitor makes an important contribution to the economy and reconstruction efforts.