After a 30-minute drive south from Marrakech toward the Atlas Mountains, you will find the Berber Lodge. A few minutes before you arrive, when the road gets narrow and rocky, you might wonder if you’d made a bad decision. But as soon as you enter the walls of the welcoming hotel, you know you were right to make the trip.
The Berber Lodge is an enchanting set of low-lying adobe buildings, laid out with the confidence of a man who knows when enough is enough. That man is the owner, Swiss-French designer Romain Michel-Ménière, and he’s created a series of inviting spaces—courtyards, patios, lawns, porches—where enlightened details, such as local-bamboo doors and chairs you’ll want to smuggle home, set the tone for relaxing and taking in the desert and mountains.
