Riad Boustan

Excellent traditional Riad, that has all facilities as shown on the website. It was very quiet when I stayed so they upgraded me to one of the best rooms free of charge which was awesome. The staff is very friendly and the breakfast that is included also excellent. Like all old Riads it does have potential to be cold (but room had blankets and AC) and people should be aware of typical steep stairs to upper floors. I think the location was also very good, even though it is on the low side of the Médina (meaning you walk up hill to all the main city sights and is +20mins walk to the main tourist area of the Blue Gate), as you can actually get a taxi to/from Rcif Place, and totally avoid the Médina at night and easily connect to onward transport like train station and airport, etc.

The only downside to the location is if you walk through the Médina late at night (i.e. back down from the main tourist area). It is doable with some navigation (as I found some Souk ways have closed doors at night and the mobile phone GPS is very hit and miss in many locations), but unfortunately like a lot of experiences in the Fes Médina, it comes with a lot of harassment from many local youths that have decided it is a good source of income to deliberately confuse directions for tourists and then ask (and at times pressure) them for large payments for “guide services”. The 10MAD petit taxi from the Blue Gate is actually a lot easier! and why I think the location of this Riad is actually very good.

Staff was amazing! They were always very helpful, they were speaking great English and one person even German. We felt like at home! We got upgrade with the larger room.

Owner very personable and helpful

Water could have been hotter. Needs outside terrace seating.

Yesnoth

I enjoyed it all