Where to Stay in Chefchaouen: Splurge, Mid-Range and the Small Dars
TripAdvisor counts 324 places to stay in Chefchaouen and the booking sites show you most of them in the same order, which is not a decision. This page is short on purpose. Four places to splurge, four that most visitors actually book, and five small dars — converted medina family houses — that answer their own email. Three of those five publish a price table, two publish nothing, and all five take direct bookings.
One rule runs through everything below: every rate printed here is a rate the property itself publishes. Where a place publishes nothing we write "price not published" instead of copying a booking-site figure, because an OTA number is a quote for your dates, not the property's price. All of it was read on 9 November 2026, and the sources are listed at the foot of the page.
One fact shapes every booking in this town: cars cannot enter the medina. Whatever you choose, the last part of the journey is on foot, up steps, usually with your bag. Reviewers complain about that more than about any room, and it deserves more of your planning time than the thread count does.
🎯 Pick your tier in one minute
| Tier | What we could verify | What you get | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Splurge | Lina Ryad & Spa publishes from €165 a night. The other three publish no rate at all, so ask them for one. | A pool or a full spa, a restaurant on site, staff, and the view | A honeymoon, a treat night, travelling with parents |
| Mid-range | €65–€100 a night at Riad Dar Meziana, breakfast included. Casa Hassan, Hôtel Ziryab and La Petite Chefchaouen publish no rate. | 5–20 rooms, private bathroom, breakfast, a rooftop terrace | Most first visits — this is the value band |
| Small dars | MAD 200–935 a night across the five listed below; three of them publish a complete price table | 5–7 rooms and an owner who answers the phone | Travellers who want the house rather than the hotel |
For context on the whole market, a Chefchaouen tourism guide (chaouentours.com, read 2026-11-09) puts a plain or hostel bed at US$15–30, a private room in a small riad at MAD 250–450 (US$25–45), a boutique riad double at MAD 400–800 (US$40–80) and the high end at US$100–180, with a town seasonal average near US$90. Those are a guide's bands, not operator prices. The verified operator rates on this page sit inside them, at the upper end for the luxury tier and the middle for everything else.
💎 Splurge: the four worth the money
What separates these four from the rest of town is not the tiling. It is a pool or a working spa, a restaurant that serves dinner, and staff on duty — three things most medina houses cannot offer at 5–7 rooms. Only one of the four prints a rate.
Dar Jasmine — 17 rooms, a pool, and the whole blue city below
Seventeen rooms and suites, each named after a city (Jaipur, Tokyo, Venice, Havana and others), an overflow pool, a spa and hammam, a restaurant, and gardens, set on the slope above the medina. The property's own guest book is unusually honest about the trade-off: one guest calls the view "as captivating as the Spanish Mosque", and another guest says that "even though the stairs are a bit hard to climb, one can ignore it in front of the magnificent landscape".
Price: not published on its own site. Dar Jasmine sells through a direct booking engine linked from its home page, which quotes by date, so there is no rate to print.
Book: darjasmine.com; the "Réservez" button opens the direct engine. The site is French-first, with an English version under /en/.
Lina Ryad & Spa — the one splurge rate you can check before you book
Avenue Hassan I, Quartier Andalous, at the edge of the old medina. Indoor pool, full spa, and a TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice badge for 2025 that the property displays on its own home page. This is the only luxury address in town that prints a number where you can see it.
Price: from €165 a night, published on the property's home page (read 2026-11-09).
Book: linaryad.com.
TAJ Chefchaouen — more than 20 rooms, hammam, sauna, indoor pool
More than 20 rooms and suites with a hammam and spa, sauna, massage, indoor pool, gym and beauty salon; rooms face the mountains or the city. It is the most hotel-shaped of the four, and the choice if what you want from a splurge is facilities rather than a house.
Price: not published on its own site; it quotes by date.
Book: taj-chefchaouen.com.
Riad El Palacio & Spa — the medina riad with its own hammam
Rue Gharnati, Quartier Andalous, inside the old town, with a private spa and hammam and a panoramic terrace over the medina. It has no booking website of its own: the property runs on Facebook and Instagram, and the Instagram account was still posting in November 2026.
Price: not published by the property.
Book: +212 5399-86000 or [email protected], both as published on its Facebook page (read 2026-11-09).
🛏 Mid-range: what most people actually book
This is the band Chefchaouen does best: small houses with private bathrooms, breakfast, and a rooftop that earns its keep at dawn. Three of the four below publish no rate, so the figures here are what you will have to ask for — except at Dar Meziana, which publishes the lot.
Riad Dar Meziana — seven rooms, breakfast included, a full direct price list
Seven rooms on Av. Zagdoud no. 7, Bab Souk, a few lanes inside the medina. Breakfast is included in every direct rate, the team confirms each direct booking personally, and dinner at the riad is €15 on request. Its own site carries the platform scores it is willing you to see — Booking.com 9.0 from 352 reviews and TripAdvisor 4.5 from 294 — with a note that they were checked on 29 August 2026.
| Room | Sleeps | Direct rate |
|---|---|---|
| Economy (1 room) | 2 | €65 a night |
| Standard (3 rooms) | 2 | €75 a night |
| Superior (2 rooms) | Up to 4 | €90 a night |
| King with view (1 room) | 2 | €100 a night |
Source: riadmeziana.com, room table and experiences page, read 2026-11-09. Breakfast is included in all four rates; a guided tour is €60, a cooking class €35 and a private traditional music concert €200, all booked through the riad.
Casa Hassan — the medina institution with a restaurant attached
Rue Targui, 22, inside the medina, and one of the 13 licensed maisons d'hôtes in Morocco's 2010 classified list for the province. Its own site carries a dedicated restaurant page, Tissemlal, that names dinner — worth knowing in a town where most small houses do not cook in the evening.
Price: not published. The site takes bookings through a date picker, an email address and a WhatsApp link.
Book: [email protected], or the WhatsApp booking link on casahassan.com (read 2026-11-09).
Hôtel Ziryab — the family hotel over the Ras el-Maa water
On Rue el matahine sebanine Ras el Maa, with a terrace over the spring at the edge of the medina, an indoor pool and an on-site restaurant. Arabic press profiled it in 2019 as the project of Sanaa Bensghir, who came back from Canada and runs it with her three sons; the coverage describes guests being welcomed "as if family" and staff and owners sharing the work.
Price: not published by the property.
Book: +212 5399-86488 or [email protected], both as published on its Facebook page (read 2026-11-09).
La Petite Chefchaouen — five rooms outside the medina walls
169 Avenue Hassan 1er, Rif Andalouss, outside the medina walls. Five rooms — four doubles and one single — with a rooftop terrace, air conditioning, a TV in each room, and staff who speak Arabic, French, English and Spanish. TripAdvisor scores it 4.8 from 112 reviews and ranks it in the top ten of the town's B&Bs and inns (read 2026-11-09).
Price: not published. It has no website of its own: it takes direct bookings and runs an Airbnb listing.
Book: message the property directly through its TripAdvisor page, or use the Airbnb listing linked from there.
🏠 The small dars you book direct
This is the layer Chefchaouen is actually made of: houses of 5–7 rooms, run by a named owner, where the phone number is the booking system. It is a deliberately short list. Three of the five publish their own price table, two publish nothing at all, and all five take direct bookings. Four of them are also listed on Booking.com; Dar Wadada is the only one without a Booking listing. Book whichever way suits you — the tables below are the owners' own prices, not a quote for your dates.
Dar Antonio — the cheapest verified room in the medina
36 calle Garnata: seven rooms around an interior garden, two terraces and a shared kitchen, run by Antonio himself. His arrival instructions are the most useful on this page: take a blue petit taxi from the bus station to the Parador hotel (10–15 dirhams), then call him, and he walks out to collect you.
| Room | Published rate |
|---|---|
| Single | From MAD 200 |
| Double | From MAD 321 |
| Triple | From MAD 432 |
| Suite, 4 people | From MAD 500 |
| Extra bed | MAD 220 (€20) |
The home page still headlines "from 150 Dh per night", which is lower than anything on the room pages. Treat MAD 200 as the real floor for a single and ask when you call. Book: +212 539 989 997, +212 652 278 569, or [email protected].
Dar Rass El Maa — five rooms in a scholar's house, with a 2026 price list
Rue Rass El Maa, at the edge of the medina beside the spring. Five rooms — two doubles, two junior suites and a senior suite — sleeping up to 14, with private bathrooms, air conditioning and Wi-Fi; public parking is 300 m away. The house was built by Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abu-Talib, and the property pitches itself at writing, yoga and academic groups, which is the sort of thing that only works at this size.
| Room or offer | Price | Sleeps |
|---|---|---|
| Chambre Supérieure | MAD 770 | 2 |
| Suite Junior | MAD 880 | 2, max 3 |
| Suite Senior | MAD 935 | 2, max 4 |
| Whole house (Dar Rass El Maa) | MAD 4,235 | 10, max 14 |
| Breakfast | MAD 70 | Per person |
From the property's own price list, dated "valid from 01.01.2026", with all prices including taxes and charges. Note that breakfast is not in the room rate here. Book: +212 539 98 80 80 or [email protected].
Dar Dalia — licensed, priced in dirhams, run by Remi
A small house at the end of a lane, run by Remi, and licensed as a maison d'hôte in the 2010 classified list. TripAdvisor's French reviews describe it as small and warn that it is "a bit sporty to reach by car" — the standing trade for sleeping inside the medina.
| Room | Rate in English | Rate in French |
|---|---|---|
| Single | MAD 250 | MAD 350 |
| Double | MAD 400 | MAD 500 |
| Double with private terrace | MAD 450 | MAD 600 |
| Triple | not listed | MAD 650 |
| Quadruple | not listed | MAD 750 |
| Additional person | MAD 150 | not listed |
From dardalia-chefchaouen.com/tarifs, read 2026-11-09. The page prints one list in English and a higher one in French: /tarifs?lang=en against /tarifs, MAD 100–150 higher on each room the two lists share, with no extra-person rate at all in the French version. The French list prints one "taxes and breakfast included" note under the whole of it; the English page prints that note only against the additional-person line. Neither version says which list is current, so ask Remi which applies to your dates before you book.
Dar Baibou — three room tiers and a price you have to ask for
Three room types — Deluxe Suite, Comfort and Essential — around a patio with a fountain, plus a rooftop terrace and a continental breakfast. The house is licensed: it appears as "Dar Baybou" in the 2010 classified list of the province's 13 maisons d'hôtes, under the older spelling.
Price: not published. darbaibou.com takes reservation requests through a form on its /reservation page — arrival date, adults, children, room type, name, email, phone and message — which it emails to the house. A separate WhatsApp button sends the date, party size and your contact details to +212 648 523679. No price is quoted anywhere in it, so the rate comes back in the reply. The site reports 4.5 out of 5 from 100+ reviews; that figure is the property's own, not a platform's.
Dar Wadada — the rural one, 25 minutes out, with a host reviewers return for
Loubar Foukia, about 25 minutes from town: a quiet rural house with mountain views and meals, run by Rachid, whom Arabic-language TripAdvisor reviews single out. One calls it "a wonderful stay … an inspiring, open-minded host with a real gift for creativity and music"; another says the rooms were clean and comfortable and Rachid "very kind and welcoming". TripAdvisor's Arabic pages score it 4.9 from 41 reviews, 25th of 93 B&Bs (read 2026-11-09).
Price: not published. Book: +212 655 830 516; the house offers pick-up from the public parking. It is a different trip from the medina dars — a car and a night in the hills, not a base for dawn lanes.
⚠ What reviewers actually warn about
- Cars stop at the medina edge. Every house above is a walk from the nearest road, and some are steep walks. Dar Dalia's French reviewers use the phrase "a bit sporty to reach by car".
- Steps are the price of the view. Dar Jasmine's own guest book volunteers it: "the stairs are a bit hard to climb". The same is true of most rooftop houses here.
- Winter heating. A December reviewer of Dar Wadada reported heating that did not work, which is worth checking on before you book a mountain house between December and February.
- Your bag. Dar Antonio's answer is the local standard: taxi to the Parador, call, and the owner walks you in. Dar Rass El Maa has public parking 300 m away.
- Breakfast is not always included. Dar Dalia and Dar Meziana include it in the rate; Dar Rass El Maa charges MAD 70 for it; Dar Baibou serves a continental one, and you should confirm it is in the price.
📞 Book direct: what to ask
The small houses here run on phone, email and WhatsApp, and several of them treat a direct booking as the default rather than a favour. Three things are worth doing before you pay a deposit:
- Ask for the price list, not a quote. Dar Rass El Maa publishes a dated PDF, Dar Dalia a price page, Dar Meziana a room table. Use them as your benchmark for the rest.
- Ask what the rate includes. Taxes, breakfast, and whether the house cooks dinner — Dar Meziana does for €15, Casa Hassan advertises its own restaurant, Tissemlal, and most small dars do not feed you at night.
- Ask how to arrive. Name the gate or the parking, and ask whether someone will meet you. At the houses above that is a normal request, not an imposition.
Morocco's local directories are thin for this market. destination.ma lists several Chefchaouen dars as "not a partner yet — book direct", which tells you the channel exists without telling you the price; loco.ma returned nothing at all for a Chefchaouen maison d'hôte search when we tried it. The property's own site remains the only reliable price source.
❓ Frequently asked questions
Should I stay inside the medina or outside it?
Inside, for one or two nights: the lanes are at their best before nine in the morning, and you can only see that if you slept there. Outside — La Petite Chefchaouen at Rif Andalouss, or the rural dars — makes sense if you have a car, if you want a pool, or if steps and luggage are a real problem.
How much does a night in Chefchaouen cost?
From MAD 200 for a single at Dar Antonio to €165 and up at Lina Ryad & Spa, on operator-published rates read 9 November 2026. In between: MAD 250–750 at Dar Dalia, depending on which language version of its price page you read, €65–€100 at Dar Meziana with breakfast, MAD 770–935 at Dar Rass El Maa. The town's guide-banded average is around US$90 a night.
Is breakfast included?
At Dar Dalia and Dar Meziana, yes, in the rate. At Dar Rass El Maa it is MAD 70 extra. Dar Baibou serves a continental breakfast, and Dar Antonio, Casa Hassan and Hôtel Ziryab publish no rate, so ask. Breakfast is one of the things reviewers praise most in this town — when it is included, it is usually generous.
How do I get my luggage to a medina house?
You carry it, or the owner does. The pattern that works is the one Dar Antonio publishes: taxi from the bus station to the Parador hotel, then call, and someone walks out to meet you. Dar Rass El Maa has public parking 300 m from the door. Do not expect to drive to a medina address.
What is a dar, and how is it different from a riad?
A dar is a converted medina family house, typically 5–13 rooms, guesthouse-run, with a rooftop terrace and a named owner-host as the real product. That is the dominant form of small lodging in Chefchaouen, and it is why the houses on this page are run by Antonio, Remi, Rachid and Sanaa rather than by a front desk.
🔗 Related reading
- How many days in Chefchaouen — 1, 2 or 3 nights, and what each buys you
- Where to eat in Chefchaouen
- The traditional hammam — what a spa in town actually is
- Getting to Chefchaouen from Tangier, Fes and Tétouan
- Chefchaouen on a budget
- Akchour waterfalls and God's Bridge
- Hiking the Rif mountains
- When to visit Chefchaouen
📚 Sources
Property websites (each read 2026-11-09, prices as published by the property):
- Dar Jasmine — darjasmine.com (home page, rooms and suites, guest book)
- Lina Ryad & Spa — linaryad.com ("Starting at €165/night")
- TAJ Chefchaouen — taj-chefchaouen.com
- Riad El Palacio & Spa — Facebook page (phone, email, address) and Instagram @riad_elpalacio_spa (the hammam, and posts of 1 November 2026)
- Riad Dar Meziana — riadmeziana.com (room table, experiences, platform scores)
- Casa Hassan — casahassan.com
- Hôtel Ziryab — Facebook page (phone, email, address); aldar.ma feature, 2019
- La Petite Chefchaouen — TripAdvisor listing, Chefchaouen (ranking and review count)
- Dar Antonio — darantonio-chefchaouen.com (home page and room pages; its footer links to the house's Booking.com and TripAdvisor pages)
- Dar Rass El Maa — riad-chefchaouen.ma and the property's 2026 price list PDF
- Dar Dalia — dardalia-chefchaouen.com/tarifs
- Dar Baibou — darbaibou.com
- Dar Wadada — TripAdvisor Arabic listing (reviews, score); HotelsCombined listing (contact number, parking pick-up reported in review themes)
Registers and guides:
- Morocco's classified tourism-lodging list, 2010 vintage (the province's 13 licensed maisons d'hôtes, including Dar Dalia, Dar Baybou and Casa Hassan) — audentia-gestion.fr mirror of the official list. Dated 2010: it tells you a house was licensed, not that it still trades.
- chaouentours.com market guide — the price bands quoted above.
- TripAdvisor (French and Arabic pages) and the Booking.com pages for Dar Antonio, Dar Rass El Maa, Dar Dalia and Dar Baibou — read for listing presence, review commentary and facilities only. No booking-site price is quoted anywhere on this page.
How this page was checked: every rate printed is the property's own published price, read on 9 November 2026. Where a property publishes no rate, the page says so rather than substituting a booking-site figure. Room counts, addresses and facilities come from the property's own pages, or from the register where marked.