Marrakech La Palmeraie Morocco

This was our first visit to a Club Med and we are already planning our next one. The concept clearly works, and this is a very, very good resort with so much to enjoy.
The resort is large and very well-designed with plenty to do and plenty of space to relax in. Someone has put great thought into the spacious design, with each space having a Moroccan feel to it. The place feels authentic, and yet is very clean, peaceful and luxurious. If you get involved in the activities, and eat well, it is also surprisingly good value.

We did go into Marrakech town a couple of times on the resort bus, but the resort itself is lovely to walk around. The gardening is amazing with plenty of olive trees getting their end of year prune, as well as the palms, grasses and even lines of strelitzia in flower by our interconnecting suites in the Kasbah area. It is kept really keen by the large number of staff, and we saw house buntings and bulbuls by our terrace. The (new) family oasis is fully planted too, with some thoughtful spacious seating areas as well as pool warm enough to enjoy in winter.

The whole place was really well-staffed for the time of year, with everyone no doubt getting ready for the French Christmas holiday rush. The Gentil Organisers are lovely and busy, our favourite being Kimo, who was thoroughly joyous throughout our stay. He made a special effort to make sure we were all enjoying ourselves after our language lesson with him, and he excelled on stage every evening. The activities are full of variety - Youssef’s instructive golf lessons were a highlight – the trapeze training and the yoga sessions looked to be very well run.

There is very high level of cuisine from a number of different cultures, as you might expect for a broadly French clientele. There is some great variety in the Palmeraie restaurant and we ate far too much as there were so many things we wanted to try including very high-quality grilled fish and meat. There are a number of areas to sit down to eat indoors and outdoors. We chose a blue/sapphire space most mornings and the lovely Atiq was our very kind area manager. The once-a-week afternoon outdoor garden party was a lovely idea, and we also really enjoyed our evening at the El Kebir restaurant, with possibly one of the tastiest tagines prepared in the local style but with much leaner lamb than in town. Birkan, Merve and Hassan really looked after us there and it was lovely to meet Mohamed, Omar, Abdelilah and the wonderful culinary team afterwards including a lovely lady who was at our morning cookery lesson too.

This resort is very child-friendly with one of the biggest and best resourced kids’ clubs I have seen. Yet it attracts people from all ages, including older couples, many of whom return year after year.

Came last year and decided to come back again this year the same week.

Lovely to get a break from cold English weather.

Big shout to kimo who was still here a year later so nice to see him again and nice to be remembered.

Also thanks to François for the 3 day private golf lesson I improved a lot.

Probably will come again as its convenient to get here and close to airport.

Thanks!

Great new addition of the oasis pool area ans the new apartments.

I rarely give top scores when reviewing, because there is always room for improvement; but this place definitely deserves it - the location and the stuff were incredible and the baby club gave us peace of mind and allowed us parents to relax and at the same time my daughter enjoyed herself a lot and made great connections with both other kids and the staff. Keep up the good work, you deserve all the best - we will be back. Thanks

Great location, excellent food and great Sports facilities and teachers (GO) . All services, room, reception, travel etc is optimum. Recommend to use club med for airport transfer as it is more efficient. Attention to details and service is really high .

Beautiful resort, amazing food and amazing staff. Coco in particular was a highlight helping me with a bike tour, incredibly energetic aqua gym and morning walks. Really recommend staying here for a holiday , winter Sun and friendly company from other guests and the staff. There is definitely something for everyone.