6 independent reviews for Kasbah du Toubkal in the Atlas Mountains
Reviews for Kasbah du Toubkal in the Atlas Mountains
Tessa O review 29 Apr 2025
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?
The peacefulness of the Kasbah, the warmth of the staff and the beauty of the surrounding landscape. The Kasbah itself was beautiful and peaceful and set in the most breathtaking backdrop. My favourite place was the roof terrace, where you could drink mint tea whilst reading your book or have lunch looking out onto the snow capped mountain tops - simply stunning. With only the sound of the river running below, bird song and the call to prayer that occurred several times a day. Oh and the occasional donkey.2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?
The Kasbah offers a complimentary walk everyday at 10am, which took us on a two hour walk to the foothills of Toubkal and to some beautiful waterfalls. It was the best way to start our stay there and we learnt a lot from our friendly guide Mohamed. April/may is the perfect time for spring flowers when Imlil Valley is full of apple, cherry and walnut blossom. Always have some cash on you as not everywhere takes cards. You'll want to stay longer...3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
100% - Everyone working in and around the Kasbah were locals. We ate all our meals at the Kasbah, all of which was locally sourced and vegetarian options were available. We walked everywhere once in the Imlil valley and our lovely mule, Alisha, carried our bags up from the main village to the Kasbah for us (it's about a 15 minute walk uphill to the Kasbah).4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?
5/5 We had a lovely time and would definitely go back. Our room was lovely and the whole Kasbah was beautiful and well maintained. Next time we'd like to try doing some longer treks!Maneesh Sinha review 22 Dec 2024
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?
The walks in the nearby hills through beautiful landscape.2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?
Expect rustic charm and authentic local feel, not a luxury experience. As long as you can embrace this, you will enjoy. Food at the Kasbah is excellent, don't need to go out.3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Yes4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?
Overall excellent, met our expectations.Malcolm Greenhalgh review 3 Apr 2024
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?
The Walking and the hospitality & friendliness of the Kasbah staff2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?
Be prepared by finding out as much as possible beforehand about the culture and landscape of this high mountain part of Morocco. Make sure that they buy the local currency in small dominations for tipping purposes, before travelling to the Kasbah3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Yes for sure.4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?
We loved the Kasbah and the walking but our Guide, was a little too pushy and insistent on telling us 'obliquely' to pay tips to muleeers etc when outside of the jurisdiction of the Kasbah. For instance, when we walked to the high mountain lodge, we were happy to walk with all of our gear in our daybags, but he insisted that we put it all in a bag for the mule to carry and therefore giving the muleer a tip. It all resulted in us having only a little money left over to tip the Kasbah staff. Were the tipping guidelines per person or per group? We were only a group of 2 sharing the high mountain lodge with another group of six and so the dsparity of numbers meant the other group's Guide received more tips and put us under presure to match them. This all left a bad taste as the Guide dictated too much and so we can't give the holiday 5 stars, only 4.Read the operator's response here:
Thank you for your feed back which is very useful to us to try and ensure we maintain a 5* service and we are sorry we only delivered a 4* one. We are very sorry to hear about your experience with your guide and this should not happen and from the feedback we get from other guests this looks like an isolated event that we apologise for. We will be looking into the matter and seeing what we can put in place to try and ensure this does not happen. Thank you again for the feedback.
Jo-Ann Hannah review 28 Apr 2023
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?
The friendliness of the hotel staff and guides.2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?
Bring an extra bag as there are so many beautiful crafts and you are supporting the local people by buying local.3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
I gave generously to the communal tip boxes and bought some lovely carpets in the Atlas mountains.4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?
Excellent. Amazing.Jane Currie review 27 Sep 2019
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?
Doing a trek up through the valley..2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?
Come prepared to walk as it is the most beautiful place.3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Glad that our visit supported education for local girls... this was something that was actively promoted as part of the company ethos.4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?
We just loved the initial walk in through the main gate to find ourselves in a mini paradise... what a setting with such fabulous views. All the staff were friendly and helpful and nothing was too much trouble, they even arranged a birthday cake for my daughter at short notice. We had a fabulous stay and would highly recommend it to everyone.Simon Lupini review 28 Jan 2018
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?
Experiencing outstanding natural beauty with welcoming proud local people. The freshly prepared local food was wonderful. Friendly like minded fellow travellers.2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?
Go to relax & experience.3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Definitely benefiting local communities in a positive manner. Hotel environmental initiatives were good although local villages litter issue is appalling blight on environment, more education required.4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?
Excellent. Highly recommended.Read the operator's response here:
Thank you Simon for taking the time to review your stay with us, we are delighted you had a lovely time.
Rubbish is a major issue in an area where there are no formal rubbish clearance systems in place. We have and continue to work tirelessly in this area and engage with the local government to improve this area.
We have instigated a rubbish clearance system and this website www.mountainpropre.org will give you an idea of all the work we have done in the area. The Kasbah has a no plastic bottle policy and we instigated this in 2006. We continue to try to help with education in this area see www.imlilvalley.com. The reality is that Imlil valley is much better (far from perfect) than many of the other valleys where no system is in place. We continue to try and work with the Toubkal National Park authorities and the local government to improve the situation. This is an area we devote a lot of time and resources to and is an area of great frustration to us but we continue to work to improve but the reality ultimately it is about education and an acceptable rubbish disposal system. Fortunately the Moroccan government has instigated a no plastic bag policy so hopefully improvements are taking place and we will continue to try and play our part.
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