Riad Alya

Stayed 2 nights, at Casablanca suite. There are 5 suites and 3 rooms in the riad and it’s almost always booked out. This is a top notch place to stay in Fes, from decor and room size to service, breakfast, etc. Decor is on par or better than historical palaces/houses you have to pay to enter in Fes or Marrakesh. Lucky was able to book it at very reasonable price of a 4-star hotel. Fantastic breakfast and service. We didn’t dine in, but they even had live Moroccan music the night we arrived. Would definitely stay here again.

Booking a Ryad in Maroc can be a tricky thing: fake reviews, no bills or receipts, no POS, unexpected extra charges.. I had this kind of bad experience too and I also met tourists with similar complaints. Riad Alya Fez is a different story, because they really behave professionally , and they behave professionally because this is a strategy they assumed like that. They really have procedures!! Like writing to you, offering you solutions, answering you very fast, and above all being earnest. The Ryad has a good position (at the entrance in the Medina) is clean (your room will be cleaned every day), quite, they cook you good food for reasonable prices. I simply felt safe and well received.

I forgot my sneakers at the room and the riad staff made it to send them back to me. They made sure that I recovered them. So thankful for that! The staff is always welcoming and available for you, we arrived late to our Hammam session due to some problems on our way to Fez, they were very understanding, still offered us a tea and waited while we went for dinner. They gave us the best advices to move around Fez, they prepared a tea for us in the rooftop terrace at 00.30am. Hammam is a must if you stay in this riad, is an amazing ritual really worth it to experience, we wanted to do it in couple and they adapted to our requests. If you hire it in advance, bathrobes and slippers will be waiting for you in your room. I highly recommend to also get the 45min massage, you will leave the spa area completely refreshed and relaxed. The feeling going back to your room on your bathrobe after the whole treatment + massage was the the icing on the cake of our holidays. Afterwords, We enjoyed the jacuzzi in the room, the suite Casablanca was amazing! Breakfast is incredible, on another occasion I visited Fez, I had dinner at the riad restaurant and the food was also delicious!

We stayed at Ryad Alya for week. We were sad to leave. It was a comfortable and relaxing place. Beautiful building, good food roomy suites and beautiful rooftop terrace. WiFi is a bit spotty. They need to add more routers. Kind helpful staff. We loved Fes and Ryad Alya was a big part of that. Thank you to everyone there. Definitely recommend Ryad Alya.