Palais Amani

The Hotel

Palais Amani sits in the Blida district of Fes el-Bali — the eastern medina district, structurally near the R'cif Square and the Tanneries. The property is the only structural Art-Deco-period restoration in the Fes medina — the original 1930s riad was built by a wealthy Fasi merchant family in the structural French-Protectorate-era Art Deco architectural register, and the property has held continuous family ownership across multiple generations until the current British-Moroccan ownership acquired the property in the 2010s for the structural Art-Deco-period restoration that opened the 14-suite luxury riad in 2014.

The 14 keys are spread across the restored 1930s riad's three-floor footprint plus the surrounding garden-and-courtyard configuration. Categories are individually-decorated — every suite is approximately 30-65 sqm with the property's signature 1930s-Art-Deco-and-Moroccan-fusion decorative register (restored Art Deco mouldings, hand-loomed Moroccan-Berber textile commissions, custom-made Moroccan-and-Art-Deco furniture inventory, the deliberate 1930s-period architectural-and-decorative integration), private outdoor verandah or rooftop access. The named Palais Amani Suite (the property's milestone unit at 80 sqm with private rooftop terrace overlooking the Andalusian garden and the Fes medina rooftops) is the largest configuration.

Operationally Palais Amani runs the medium-footprint Art-Deco-medina register. The Eden Restaurant — the property's contemporary-Moroccan fine-dining venue inside the Andalusian garden — runs the modern-Moroccan-and-Mediterranean register that the kitchen has built across the property's operation. The structural Palais Amani daily-routine assets are the structured Eden cooking-school programme (the in-house cooking school runs structured half-day Moroccan-cooking workshops with the property's chef-team), the structured Andalusian-garden-tour programme, and the property's traditional-hammam programme. The Andalusian garden — the largest single courtyard-garden of any Fes riad at approximately 800 sqm — gives the property a structural daily-routine asset that no other Fes medina riad can replicate.

What gives Palais Amani the considered Fes position is the Art-Deco-period register combined with the largest-Andalusian-garden distinction. Palais Amani is the only structural Art-Deco-period restoration in the Fes medina; the 1930s-architectural-fusion decorative register is structurally unique in the Fes contemporary luxury cluster; and the largest-Andalusian-garden-of-any-Fes-riad gives the property a structural distinction. For a Fes anniversary trip that values the Art-Deco-period register, a literary or culinary solo retreat that takes the Eden cooking-school as the structural anchor, or a multi-night Fes stay that prefers the largest-garden-riad register, Palais Amani is the most-considered choice.

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