Le Jardin Des Biehn

The Hotel is great. Extremely quiet, very cozy, with a distinct personality, shrouded in trees, bushes and intensely-smelling jasmines, our room had a large terrace overlooking the garden, excellent breakfast, a rare hotel to find these days, combining a strong character with a high degree of comfort.

For a relatively costly stay for Fes standards, the hotel has a few glitches, a few oversights here and there (e.g., lamps not working, air conditioning not properly working -- not that it really mattered given the very dry climate, room service slightly nonchalant, personnel sometimes a trifle on the rough side). However, what really infuriated us is that the hotel recommended a guide to us who instead of showing us around this wonderful town, tried the whole time to extract money (huge chunks of it) by forcing us to visit stores here and there, sometimes on the basis of narratives which with hindsight appear rather suspicious. The hotel denied responsibility telling us they are used to call the tourist office which proceeds to sending the guide of their choice. This may or may not be a good justification.