This 19th-century Kasbah in the middle of of the Moroccan desert is something out of a fairy tale. The creation of a Parisian party planner, Dar Ahlam (or ‘House of Dreams) is as luxurious as lodgings get. Traveling down a long, winding dusty road from the Atlas Mountains into the Sahara desert is a good way strike up an appetite, and before you know it suddenly there it appears – as if by magic – a meal for two, beneath a canopy of silk. You won’t see much of the staff, but the subtlety of their theater says it all.
Dar Ahlam
Douar Oulad Chikh Ali
Casbah El Madihi, Ouarzazate 45500
mrandmrssmith.com/luxury-hotels/dar-ahlam
$1,600 / night and up
