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The Privé Collection 2026 · A Private Experience

Kasbah Tamadot

A hilltop kasbah in the Atlas foothills, an hour above Marrakech, with snow on the peaks, Berber villages in the valley and the pool hanging over both.

The Atlas at arm’s length
Asni · High Atlas, Morocco 31° 13′ 19.6″ N  /  7° 58′ 16.0″ W
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The Kasbah

A kasbah bought on sight, and run by the valley around it.

The road out of Marrakech sheds the city fast, and inside an hour you are climbing through walnut groves to a kasbah on its own hill, courtyards, towers and terraces stacked against a backdrop of four-thousand-metre peaks.

Richard Branson’s family bought it on sight, and its character has been kept: most of the team come from the Berber villages below, the gardens tumble down the hillside, and tea arrives without being asked as the light drops on the mountains.

Overview Asni · High Atlas
Setting
A hilltop above the Asni valley, High Atlas, Morocco
Accommodation
Rooms in the kasbah and Berber tents on the ridge
Your rooms
Rooms and tents taken together, or the kasbah exclusively
Getting there
About an hour from Marrakech airport
The stay
Stay 3 nights or more, and we plan your whole experience
Satopia experience
Tailor-made for you: treks, souks and tables, arranged end to end
The kasbah & the Atlas · 4:5
Enquire

Every experience begins with a single click. Tell us when and with who and we'll design a world around you.

Guests From 2 to 20 guests
2
Nights Minimum 3 nights stay
3
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The Kasbah

Marrakech is an hour away and a world below; the kasbah keeps the mountain’s time.

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01 Accommodation

Kasbah rooms, and Berber tents with the long view.

Inside the kasbah, rooms wind off courtyards and stairways, carved cedar, tadelakt, fires for the mountain evenings. On the ridge, the Berber tents raise the game: canvas and stone suites with private terraces and the Atlas filling the horizon.

Held together they suit a family or party well; taken entirely, the kasbah becomes a hilltop of your own.

Rooms & tents
On confirmation
Sleeps
On confirmation
Outside
Two pools & the gardens
Use
Your rooms, or the kasbah
Rooms on the ridge · 4:5
02 Culinary

Moroccan tables, and the valley’s own kitchen.

The kitchen runs both registers: tagines, breads and mountain vegetables done properly at Kanoun, and lighter Mediterranean days by the pool. Much of it comes from the kitchen garden terraced into the hill.

Dinner moves with the weather, courtyard, rooftop, or beside the fire, and a private table can be laid on your own terrace at a word.

The tables
Kanoun & the pool terrace
From the hill
The kitchen garden
Dinner on the roof · 4:5
03 Experiences

Treks with mules and mint tea, then back to the pool.

The walking here is the point: village-to-village trails through walnut and cherry orchards, mules carrying the picnic, tea with families along the way. Toubkal, North Africa’s highest peak, organises the horizon.

Marrakech waits an hour downhill for souk days and museum afternoons, and quad bikes and hammams fill the gaps. Your designer paces it all to the group.

From the door
Atlas trails & villages
An hour down
Marrakech & its souks
Into the valley · 4:5
04 Wellness

A hammam done the Moroccan way, and pools facing the peaks.

The spa keeps to tradition: a proper hammam with black soap and steam, treatments with argan and mountain herbs, and therapists from the valley who take their time.

The infinity pool hangs over the drop toward the peaks; the indoor pool holds the cool spring days. Yoga happens on the roof at sunrise.

The spa
Hammam & treatment rooms
The pools
Infinity & indoor
The pool & the peaks · 4:5
05 Service

A valley’s hospitality, and one designer over the whole stay.

Most of the team grew up in the villages you can see from the terrace, and it shows: hospitality here is personal, unhurried and quietly proud of the mountain.

Behind them sits your Satopia travel designer, who holds your rooms, arranges the treks and the city days, and stays one call away throughout.

At the kasbah
A team from the valley
Behind it
One Satopia travel designer
Quiet hospitality · 4:5
06 Setting

The High Atlas: Morocco’s roof, an hour from the medina.

The Asni valley is orchard and terrace country, Berber villages, walnut harvests, snowmelt rivers, sitting under Toubkal’s four thousand metres. It works to older rhythms than the city below.

The kasbah gives you both: the medina’s heat and noise when you want it, and the mountain’s cold stars when you don’t.

Around you
Orchards, villages & peaks
On the skyline
Toubkal, 4,167 m
Under Toubkal · 4:5
Moments

The kasbah, in motion.

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Image slot Snow on the peaks, breakfast in the sun.
Image slot Mules loaded for the morning trail.
Image slot The pool holding the last light.
Image slot Lanterns coming on in the courtyard.
Plan your Experience

What's the forecast?

Everything here is to help you picture it. Your travel designer handles the arranging: the flights, the cars, the guides, the tents held for you alone.

When to go
Best · April – June & September – October · clear trails and warm days; midsummer is hot below
16°
Jan
17°
Feb
20°
Mar
22°
Apr
26°
May
30°
Jun
34°
Jul
33°
Aug
29°
Sep
25°
Oct
20°
Nov
17°
Dec
Rainfall Driest July · wettest December
Trekking season · ideal High summer · hot below Rainfall trend
For families

A mountain playground.

Tents for the teenagers, mules and quad bikes by day, and a pool that ends every argument.

For two

High air, low lights.

A Berber tent, the hammam, dinner on the roof and the coldest, clearest stars in Morocco.

For a gathering

The kasbah, held whole.

Courtyards, towers and terraces taken as one, an hour from the airport and a world from anywhere.

For the mix

Mountain & medina.

Trails and tea in the valley, souks and galleries below: two Moroccos in one experience.

Plan your journey

How far is it from you?

Choose where you would set out from. We'll estimate the flight and how much the time change is likely to ask of you.

The Satopia Advantage™

You choose the place.
We'll do all the planning.

We hold the relationship with Kasbah Tamadot, so we can hold your rooms and tents together on your dates, or take the kasbah exclusively. From there a single travel designer composes every day around you. You simply arrive.

What we secure

The right rooms and tents, side by side on the hill, matched to your party and the season. The access a direct booking rarely reaches.

What we arrange

Every day composed by one travel designer: the treks and the mules, the city days and the cars, present when wanted, unseen when not.

People we bring to you, on request
Mountain guides & mules
Drivers, door to door
Hammam & spa therapists
Souk guides, in Marrakech
Childminders
Photographers
Satopia Insider

A few things worth knowing.

Drawn from recent guests.

Allow time to sit and do nothing

This is a place best enjoyed slowly, with meals and views given proper time rather than rushed between excursions. Minibar and some extras are often included, so ask what’s covered at check-in to make the most of it. Give yourself at least two or three nights in the Atlas Mountains to let the pace settle.

The tented restaurant experience

The large tented restaurant, Asayss, is the feature guests single out most often for its distinct atmosphere. It pairs mountain views with good food and attentive service, creating an environment quite unlike a standard hotel dining room. Arriving early gives you time to linger over the views before your meal begins.

Extend your stay

Want to stay a little longer?
We'll plan that too.

The kasbah pairs naturally with the city below and the country beyond. A few we would join to it, each arranged as one seamless experience.

Image slotMarrakech riads · 9:16
An hour down

Marrakech, properly

Two or three riad nights: the souks with a guide, the gardens, and dinner on a medina roof.

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Image slotThe Agafay · 9:16
The desert

A night in the Agafay

Marrakech’s stone desert: a private camp, camels at sunset and dinner by fire under the stars.

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Image slotEssaouira · 9:16
The coast

Essaouira’s sea air

The wind-cooled port town: blue boats, ramparts, grilled sardines and the Atlantic light.

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Enquire · The Privé Collection 2026

Every experience begins with a conversation.

Tell us who is coming and your dates. We will shape the rest around you. Nothing is booked yet, and we reply within a day.

01

When would you like to come?

Choose one or more months, or tell us you're flexible on dates.

Ideal season · April to June, September to October

02

What's the occasion?

Choose any that apply.

03

An indicative budget?

An estimate of your budget for the whole stay helps us plan your experience. Below is an estimated nightly rate, excluding experience budget, to help you plan.

04

Who shall we reply to?

Included in your experience
  • Your rooms and tents, taken together
  • Breakfast at the kasbah
  • The pools, gardens and tennis
  • Your Satopia travel designer, throughout
Arranged separately
  • Spa treatments
  • Airport transfers/VIP service arranged on request

Kasbah Tamadot is priced by the room and tent, by night and by season. The figures shown are indicative. Once we check live availability we confirm an exact, all-in quote for your dates, and nothing is booked and no payment taken until you approve it in writing. A deposit then secures your dates, with the balance due before arrival. The full booking terms, cancellation policy and any security deposit are set out in your confirmation.

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