The house is best value in January and February and July and August, from approx. €880 a night. It is most expensive in March to June and September and October, up to approx. €1,100.
JanuaryBest value
Typically €880 a night
Around 20% less than in March
Lowest sample
€880 · Pavilion
from 4 dates
Climate13 °C by day, 1 °C at night · about 2 rainy days
Guide price per night for a double room for two. “–” means not known yet. Tap a month for details. As of October 2026, from sample dates in the hotel’s booking system. The hotel quotes the current rate. Climate: Copernicus ERA5-Land model values at the location, 2016–2025 average; rainy day = 3 mm or more.
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At Olinto, you sleep in the Jasmine, the Oleander or the Lavender.
Each of the nine pavilions takes its name from something growing on the estate. Jasmine, Allium, Acanthus, Oleander, Echium and Rosemary come with a garden of their own; Eucalyptus, Lavender and Lantana with a heated private pool. Around them lie three hectares of olive grove in the Ouirgane Valley, about an hour’s drive south of Marrakech.
Olinto was built to the vision of its owner, Fabrizio Ruspoli di Poggio Suasa, and takes its name from one of his ancestors, an early 18th-century patron of Handel known as Olinto. The hotel opened in 2022 and a year later won the Prix Versailles, an architecture and design award, in its hotels category.
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Sunrise or sunset
The pavilions stand on their own, each with its own outside door, two small patios and a roof terrace with a daybed. When you book, you choose not only the category but the orientation: sunrise or sunset. Garden pavilions measure 50 square metres; pool pavilions 78, with a separate living room.
In winter there is snow on the peaks. For those evenings every pavilion has a fireplace, and the minibar of wine, beer and soft drinks is restocked daily.
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Twenty-four species
In each pavilion there’s a small booklet, Birds of Olinto. The ornithologist Raphaël Musseau, who leads several bird research projects in Morocco, has listed the species that breed on the grounds: at least 24 of them. Reception lends out the 10x42 binoculars to go with it.
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Under coloured glass
The bar sits beneath carved and painted woodwork, lit through coloured glass modelled on Fez, with leather sofas and a fireplace. The bartender squeezes juices from whatever is ripening in the garden. Vodka is infused with saffron for the Olinto Mule; for the Marrakech Negroni, vermouth is steeped with rosemary, star anise, cloves and cinnamon.
Herbs and vegetables for the kitchen come from the garden too. The cooking is Moroccan and Mediterranean, served in the dining room by the fire or on the garden terrace.
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Pools and a hammam
Book one of the three pool pavilions and breakfast arrives on the water at no extra charge: pastries, fruit and mint tea on a floating tray in your own heated pool. There is also a shared pool among the olive trees, 240 square metres in size, and a smaller heated pool of 50 square metres that is reserved for hotel guests.
In the hammam, finished in tadelakt and zellige, the Beldi ritual uses henna, black soap, argan oil and seven-plant ghassoul clay.
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On foot to the next village
For the Moul Anraz hike, the guide collects you from the hotel. The four-hour route climbs to the Nag Shanti viewpoint, which looks out over all of Marigha, and continues to the village of Anraz, where the shrine of Haim Ben Diwane recalls the Jewish history of these mountains.
A shorter walk, two and a half hours, runs through the village of Laazib to the old salt mines. Sometimes it ends in a house where rugs are made.
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Researched from the hotel’s official information, editorially checked on 6 October 2026. We do not claim to have stayed here. Prices and availability directly from the hotel.
Richard Branson's kasbah above the Asni valley. Executive chef Yassine Khalal cooks Moroccan and international dishes with vegetables from the estate's own garden – sea bream ceviche with Asni apples by the pool at lunch, tagines in Kanoun with mountain views at dinner; Asayss, beside the Berber tents, also works for just a drink by the fire.
A stone house with garden and pool by the Ouirgane reservoir. Expect clay-pot tagines with vegetables from the garden, hand-rolled couscous and tafarnout bread from the earth oven, with Moroccan wine from Meknès or Boulaouane; tables are in the garden or on the big terrace.
