Dar Ayniwen Garden Hotel & Bird Zoo

This hotel is absolutely amazing. It's actually a large house (mansion) transformed into a guest house. It only has a few rooms but each one is unique. It has large front and backyards with a GORGEOUS dining area. Looks like a tent from the outside but the inside is breath taking. The food is delicious! For dinner we had moroccan salad, chicken with lemon & olive sauce, and couscous. Breakfast had so many choices. Fresh OJ, coffee, yogurt, toast, pancakes, moroccan crepes, choices of jam, etc. Everyone here is super attentive and ready to help you out. DEF RECOMMEND IT.

The hotel resembles a victorian orientalist country house set in a large garden filled with birds. Its well outside the Medina in a green area called Palmeraie. The staff are very helpful and keen to help you plan your day. Free transport into town is available all day until 23:15. Transport takes 15 mins. I was upgraded to an independent villa with a heated outdoor jacuzzi and a log fire. Certainly a type of paradise.

Fantastic hotel, very warm & friendly staff available to take you into city centre and pick you up again when we were ready to go back! Breakfast was lovely, personal service with nothing too much trouble! City centre was hot, dusty full of hustle and bustle and to come back to this hotel in the peace and quiet to have a swim and relax was just lovely. We had dinner at the hotel one evening and the quality of the food was excellent, very romantic table set by the pool! The hotel is full of collectables which made it very unusual and interesting! If you like a drink go to cafe de La Poste in the new town they serve beer and wine, food was very good too, or try some of the big hotels. hop on and off bus is a trip to do too, very good value! We also did a horse and carriage trip which was fun, they started off at asking for 200 dh and we accepted at 130 but the tyre came off the wheel so we gave him 150 in the end. We went to celebrate my boyfriends birthday having read the reviews and we were not disappointed fabulous trip!

DarAyniwen is a real find. Located about 20 mins from the hustle, bustle and madness of the souk ( but the tooing and froing is arranged for free by the hotels own drivers and cars), the house is situated in a quiet district in the newer Palmerie district. From arrival to be greeted by Aziz and the staff and a tour round the beautiful house and gardens with accompanying mint tea and moroccan petit fours, we were made to feel very special. The pool and garden are beautiful and Stefan the owner has done a fantastic job in creating a very personal place to stay with the amenities of a top class hotel. Our suite was stylishly furnished, clean as a new pin, and quiet. Food at breakfast was excellent and both the luch and dinner we had when we decided to stay and 'eat in' were wonderful. If we ate out, Aziz recommended lovely places and we were never diappointed. If you want something personal, of quality and where you will feel at home this is perfect. A great way to experience Marrakech in comfort and style and we would not look anywhere else if we return to the area again ( ..v. likely!)

The staff at Dar Ayniwen have one simple mission, 'to make sure their customers are 100% satisfied' and they really deliver! We have already recommended this gem of place to our friends who are considering a visit to Marrakech.

Absolute bliss! Good food, good service. The staff are friendly and nothing is too much trouble. The hotel provides a car for transfers and visits into Marrakech which is fab especially I was a female travelling alone. The rooms have dvd which was great to chill with when the sun was high or after dinner. The hotel gardens are stunning. I have never seen palms or cacti like it! Dinner is taken by the pool which is beutifully lit at around 9 or when the sun goes down. A lovely ambience. 1 or 2 tips - Morrocan breakfast is a carb fest and very sweet - pancakes, jam, honey, croissants. I ordered fruit or eggs which was a little extra but I haven't got a very sweet tooth! The other - I was troubled by ants in the room the first night but if the balcony/ terrace doors were kept closed then much fewer found their way in so it wasn't much of a problem really. Thanks Stephan for sharing your lovely home with us. I will definitely return.

A surpise for my husband and I couldn't have chosen a better hotel. The location just outside the centre of Marrakesh is an absolute haven of calm and relaxation. The hotel itself is beautiful and the gardens are amazing. The staff are attentive but not over the top, very friendly and willing to be of assistance. Meals should you wish are chosen and bought on a daily basis, prepared fresh and cooked at a time and served wherever within the hotel or grounds to suit. I would recommend this hotel to anyone and cannot wait to return.

I was intrigued about this hotel as I had never before come across a hotel with such consisent high marks - I now understand why! Every previous review is so true. Staying here is like being a house guest at a very elegant house, and the breakfast is such a delight. Having been a private house, the artefacts and decor have been selected with a very good eye for quality. Of course there are things that are different to an ordinary 5 star hotel but then again this is not a hotel in the usual meaning but a fabulous private house where you feel privileged to be a guest.

AMAZING, FANTASTIC, PERFECT!! do yourself a favour and book this hotel. We loved every second staying hear, the staff really go that extra mile for you. our son loved it too and really wants us to "go back next weekend" We were able to stay in our room until we left for the airport at 7pm at no extra charge! The spa treatments are fantastic too. We were also up-graded to a vila style house with hot-tub at no extra charge too. The free hotel car will take you into town and back at any time you want, and to the airport. Can not wait to go back!!!

Just returned from a very restful stay at Dar Ayniwen. The service was attentive but unobtrusive. The surroundings were very relaxing and quiet. Having access to a driver to take you into the centre and collect you again was helpful so we did not have to worry about transport. The hotel staff were happy to help with booking restaurants. Overall a very enjoyable and relaxing stay.