Rabat- The Royal Mansour in Marrakech has won the 2020-2021 Best Grand Hotel in the World Award.
Given by Prix Villegiature Awards, the prize gathers a voting jury composed of 22 international press correspondents and journalists from highly reputed media outlets – such as Forbes Magazine, Financial Times, and Vogue – to reward the best hotels in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle-East.
The Royal Mansour hotel comprises 53 individual riads, each with a courtyard, a living room, a bedroom, and a private rooftop terrace.
It also includes indoor and outdoor swimming pools, spas, and two restaurants: La Grande Table Marocaine and La Grande Table Française.
The hotel contains as well an underground tunnel system which the staff, dressed in “genie-like butlers” outfits, use to travel around the hotel unseen.
Royal Mansour has won many awards in recent years, cementing its status as one of the best hotels in Morocco, Africa, and worldwide.
Just last week, the “Haute Grandeur Global Awards” ranked the manager of the Marrakech-based hotel, Jean-Claude Messant, as the Best General Manager in Africa.
In 2019, Royal Mansour prominently featured in the ranking of the American luxury and lifestyle travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler. The Marrakech-based establishment was ranked as the best hotel in Africa and the 6th best in the world.
Two years prior, Conde Nast Traveler Readers Travel Award selected the Moroccan hotel as the best hotel spa in the world.
In a review about the hotel, Conde Nast Traveler described it as “a swoon-worthy showpiece of Moroccan decorative art.”
Royal Mansour is not the only Moroccan hotel to have garnered enthusiastic plaudits worldwide and won coveted international accolades.
La Mamounia, also in Marrakech, has received many awards recently, and is one of the go-to hotels among high-profile tourists who visit Morocco.
Marrakech is known as the capital of Morocco’s thriving tourism industry, with more than 2 million tourists visiting the city’s historic medina every year.
