Appart Ayoub

Ayoub’s place is a fantastic choice for anyone visiting the area. The location is perfect—just a short 10-minute stroll from the Medina, making it easy to explore while still enjoying a peaceful stay. The riad itself is beautiful, comfortable, and impeccably clean. But the best part is Ayoub and his parents—they are incredibly welcoming and helpful, making you feel right at home. Their hospitality truly elevates the experience. Highly recommend 100%!

Well equipped, very clean, comfortable apartament close to the Medina. Our son had some health problems and the most important thing for us was being sure that we can count on our host help. Highly recommended.

Ayoub has some serious ratings on Booking and other sites and they are well deserved. Ayoub and his family have obviously spent good money on this apartment with a large, comfortably, bright and airy space designed from the outset with travellers and tourists in mind, and the result is all that it should be. From little touches (rose petals on check-in!) to nice decoration touches to much needed functionality the apartment is a delight. (This is the only place we found with a washing machine which was badly needed after a couple of weeks on the road - Ayoub supplied us with detergent and his mother even helped us peg the clothes out on their roof terrace!) Ayoub himself couldn't do more to help us, and was obviously upset that the workmen working on another building might have impacted our stay. (They didn't). Built in a fairly traditional riad configuration with a large open central shaft with the accommodation on balconies around the outside of the shaft (there are 3 floors - the apartment on one at the bottom and 2 family floors above it), it had 2 good sized bedrooms, a decent kitchen with appliances, a compact but modern bathroom (see if you can read the message in the tiles behind you whilst looking in the mirror!) with decent shower, electric shaving mirror, mood lighting and so on. At the eastern edge of town it is easy enough to find, and all for a very reasonable price. Thank you Ayoub!

The only thing that I found was a little strange was that when lying in bed I could see, through the glass panes at the top of the doorway, the fish tank on the balcony of the apartment above. This presumably means that anyone feeding the fish can look down and see me lying in bed. Whilst there is absolutely no suggestion that this happened, I did find it slightly disconcerting. Perhaps some frosting film over those panes?

Ayoub is the friendliest, most caring person you could wish to be your host. He is also worldly and artsy, which shows in his apartment design. He even brought us some homecooked food we wished we could eat after a restaurant visit, and the gesture was heartwarming. Apart from being beautifully designed, his place is meticulously clean and welcoming. We strongly suggest staying with Ayoub.

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A very clean and comfortable apartment in a typical modern Moroccan terrace. Very comfortable beds and a good dining area and excellent kitchen with cooker, fridge, washing machine and crockery / cutlery / pans. Everything you need to cook for yourself and live independently if you wish. Very secure with the building owned by one local family who live in site and are really friendly and helpful. Also a great roof terrace with views. Ten minutes walk to the beach or medina.

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This apartment in Essaouira was perfect for us. It's comfortable, clean, and central (just 10-15 minutes walk to all the sights). Ayoub, the owner, made us feel really welcome. The apartment has everything you need, and the parking space is a big bonus It looks just like the pictures, maybe even better. We'd definitely recommend staying here .

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Ayoub is an amazing host. He helped us with everything we needed and took care of all our needs. When we needed advise about Essaouira or surroundings he helped us out. He got us a table at a popular restaurant, through a friend of his who works there. He also checked for us if the roads we would take after visiting Essaouira were open, which was great help. The location for us was the best; it’s a quiet neighbourhood where you can sleep really nice, it has some little shops around, but is not in the busy medina. The beach is about 10ish minutes walking and the medina about 15-20 minutes. But you can also easily take a taxi close to the house, which will cost you only 8 dirham to get to the medina (less than 80 euro cents!), which we did in the evenings with our little child. We enjoyed a lot and hope to come back! Thanks a lot Ayoub for the warm welcome and the amazing stay!

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