Hotel Sahrai

The Hotel

Hotel Sahrai opened in 2014 on Boulevard Allal el Fassi — the modern Fes commercial-and-residential district structurally adjacent to but distinct from the Fes el-Bali medina. The property is the only contemporary-design luxury hotel in Fes — the architectural-and-interior brief was given to Christophe Pillet (the Paris-based French designer who has handled higher-end international design-hotel commissions across the 2000s and 2010s) with the structural distinction of building a contemporary-design hotel that frames the Fes el-Bali medina as the backdrop. Sahrai's structural daily-routine asset is the medina sightline — every public space and most rooms hold direct sightlines across to the UNESCO Fes el-Bali medina rooftops with the Karaouine Mosque-and-Bou-Inania-Madrasa minarets visible in the silhouette.

The 50 keys are spread across the contemporary 5-storey property. Categories run from entry-tier Garden Rooms (38 sqm) through Medina View Rooms (45 sqm with direct medina sightline) to multi-bedroom Suites (75-150 sqm) and the named Sahrai Suite (200 sqm — the property's milestone unit, top-floor with private rooftop terrace and the most-photographed Fes-medina-sunset sightline in the city). The interior register is the Pillet-contemporary-Moroccan-fusion vocabulary applied throughout — pale-natural-wood furniture, hand-loomed Moroccan-Berber textile commissions, custom-made Moroccan-craft-and-contemporary fusion lighting, and the deliberate decision to integrate Moroccan-craft into a contemporary-design context.

Operationally Hotel Sahrai runs the contemporary-design Fes register at the medium-footprint scale. Restaurant Amaraz — the property's contemporary-Moroccan-and-Mediterranean fine-dining venue — runs the modern-Moroccan-and-international register; the Bar Sky on the rooftop is the property's signature evening venue and the most-considered Fes rooftop-cocktail-with-medina-sightline programme. The structural Hotel Sahrai distinction is the Givenchy Spa — the only Givenchy-brand spa in Morocco, with 12 treatment rooms, an indoor pool, and the structured Givenchy-treatment-programme that the Fes hotel runs alongside the standard Moroccan-hammam programme. The outdoor pool with direct medina sightline is the only luxury-hotel outdoor pool in Fes with the medina-rooftop-sunset-sightline.

What gives Hotel Sahrai the considered Fes position is the contemporary-design register at the medium-footprint scale combined with the Givenchy Spa distinction. Hotel Sahrai is the only contemporary-design luxury hotel in Fes; the Givenchy Spa is the only Givenchy-brand spa in Morocco; and the rate point sits substantially below the Riad Fès Relais & Châteaux. For a Fes anniversary that values the contemporary-design register over the riad-restoration alternatives, a wellness-retreat that takes the Givenchy Spa programme as the structural anchor, or a multi-night Fes stay that pairs Hotel Sahrai with a Riad Fès or Palais Amani medina-stay second leg, Hotel Sahrai is the most-considered choice.

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