Lovely countryside villa in Essaouira in a vast private garden, large swimming pool, view, villa staff and cook
DISCOUNT: -11% if you stay between 09/01/2026 and 13/02/2026 (valid from 17/12/2024 to 13/02/2026, Minimum stay: 3 nights)
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In summary
This lovely and typical stone villa in Essaouira is an attractive retreat for a holiday with family and friends.
The architecture of the house is much like a Moroccan kasbah but the interiors have been designed and decorated in a contemporary style.
Bedrooms
The villa features two very large double bedrooms (bedroom 1 and 2) with queen size beds and ensuite bathrooms. One or two additional beds can be arranged for children (on the existing sofas) in each room.
Bedroom 3 has a queen size bed and ensuite bathroom.
Bedroom 4 has three single beds and is preferably suitable for children. Ensuite bathroom.
Indoors
On the garden level, the villa comprises a lounge, a dining room, kitchen and three bedrooms. Each of these rooms are overlooking a large central and covered courtyard flooded with light. The fourth bedroom is accessible through a staircase leading to the roof terrace and is therefore relatively independent from the rest of the villa.
The villa's running water and electricity are supplied by solar panels and a generator. The house equipment is of excellent quality: flat screen TV, DVD player, fully equipped kitchen, sound system for MP3 player, lounge chairs by the pool.
Outdoors
The villa is situated in a one-hectare garden and boasts a beautiful swimming pool of 16m x 6m. A vast pool house lounge and terrace is facing the pool and also features a kitchen area and a shower / WC. Beautiful and unobstructed view of the countryside of Essaouira and Argan trees.
Staff and services
The staff consists of a couple living in a small separate house behind the vegetable garden.
Note: domestic staff must be paid locally in cash.
Location
The villa is only a few kilometres from the beach and the city centre of Essaouira.
- Car recommended - Children welcome - In this house, meals are prepared exclusively by the house staff. - No safety fence around the pool - Pets considered - Pool has no swimming guard - This property is self catering. In-house cooking can be arranged on request. - Language spoken by staff : French - Check-in : 16:00 h - Check out : 11:00 h - Amount of security deposit : 800.00 EUR - Security deposit must be paid in the form of : Credit card pre-authorization (amount is not debited from your card)
Reservation conditions
- Guarantee deposit charged by Villanovo upon reservation : 40 % - 2nd payment 45 Days to arrival day : 60 % of total amount of reservation is due to Villanovo. - The reservation price does not include optional incidentals or on-request items which will be added to your final bill.
Cancellation policy and cancellation fees
- Any booking modification or cancellation must be sent to us by email - Cancellation policy is applied according to villa local time - For all cancellations, the initial guarantee deposit is non-refundable. - Cancellation occurs less than 45 Days to arrival day : 100 % of total amount of reservation is due to Villanovo. - No show 100 % of total amount of reservation is due to Villanovo
Kasbah MamounaRecommended by 88% of our customers (8 reviews)
Average rating9.2/10
Comments
L'architecture et le jardin.
La cuisinière Myriam pour sa cuisine de très grande qualité et très variée.
Le couple de concierges Ahmad et Myriam très gentils et serviables.
L'équipe de Villanovo est constituée de personnes compétentes et au service de leurs clients.
Piscine froide.
Pas assez d eau chaude.
A beautiful villa with wonderful staff. Myriem was a brilliant cook and really lovely. We had such a great time we hope to come back very soon.
Nothing!
Myriam et Hamid toujours a votre service
Les deux cheminées (salon et salle a manger)
La piscine extraordinaire
Villanovo : Il faudrait aussi acces a des maisons plus petites (mais tout aussi charmantes) pour moins de personnes.
The pool, the comunal areas and the service personal.
two bedrooms without air conditioner.
The villa is very relaxing, and guarantees an enjoyable holiday.
Ahmed and Miriame are fantastic, they work round the clock and the food that Miriame prepares is always excellent
The location is good, its a very quiet area, the drive to town is about 15 minutes, definitely worth renting a car.
The grounds of the villa are very well kept
The wifi works well
The villa is a bit tired and could do with a number of repairs
A number of the bedrooms don't have any blinds, meaning the sun will wake you at about 5am, the upstairs en-suite doesn't have any blinds either and looks directly at Miriame and Ahmeds house, making the shower basically not usable
In a number of areas they are no lamp shades, just wires straight out the wall holding low energy bulbs.
The pool isn't heated as advertised, i have emailed the agent asking why it was advertised as heated, but they have ignored this question a number of times
The villa was very dirty when we arrived, but to be fair to the owner after we complained (about all the above) she did at least get the place properly cleaned.
The outside furniture is ridiculously bad, 5 years ago it would have been very smart, but over time has become very rusty, you wouldn't want to eat of it without a table cloth, sitting on the seats leaves rust on your clothes. When we mentioned this to the agent and the owner they denied that there were any problems with it, and said that we just had a problems with the style. I personally would not have outside furniture made of metal when its 30c most days, but this was not the complaint, the rust and the condition of it was, especially as the villa is advertised as having excellent equipment.
The villa has the potential to be excellent, but all the above is not good enough for what we paid for. Villanovo did respond to our complaints, but all they did was ring the owner, who then basically rang me and disagreed with everything i have said above, apart from the cleaning nothing else was done or even acknowledged. All contact to Villanovo regarding them taking some responsibility has been ignored. Shame really.
Great
Internet only worked very intermittently. Maybe 1 or two hours a day we could connect and very slow.
La cuisinière Myriam pour sa cuisine de très grande qualité et très variée.
Le couple de concierges Ahmad et Myriam très gentils et serviables.
L'équipe de Villanovo est constituée de personnes compétentes et au service de leurs clients.