MAMA LOVA Essaouira - Boutique Hôtel, Riad, Restaurant & SPA

This is the greatest place in Essaouira. Good vibes and an amazing owner and staff. The food is wonderful and the company incredible. Love this place.

This perfectly beautiful, well-run hotel is one of the highlights of our trip. To be able to come back to the hotel and feel like you returned back to your own home is a unique feeling. Karima, Khalil, Saad, and the rest of the staff go above and beyond to make you happy and satisfied. Everything from restaurant recommendation to taxi service is perfect. Our room, with a small loft with an extra bed, was nicely decorated with some uniquely picked items like a record player and old suitcases. Mattresses are nice and firm and the pillows, oh the pillows! (For those of you who are fussy about pillows, you will not be disappointed!) The room is clean and made up every day. And finally we found a hotel that respected not to change the towels unless they are on the floor. Good for the environment and the overall workload for the staff. The breakfast really is difficult to describe with words, it needs to be experienced. Typical Moroccan dishes that varies a bit from day to day. Olives, dates, honey, nut-butter, pancakes, flatbread, oats/porrige, omelett, orange juice, coffee, cream cheese, hummus etc etc! Everything served at the table. They cater really well to celiac disease with lots of really good alternatives!! The location is great, in the old town with easy access from the main gate (but perhaps you want to get a luggage service because of the uneven streets). We would love to come back and recommend it to travellers to Essaouira. There were both friends and families at the hotel but mind that it might be some noise coming from the stairs and rooms as they all face the inside of the riad. A gem of a boutique hotel, the Mama Lova truly lovely.

everything is great

We had an amazing dinner! The staff as extremely welcoming , knowledgeable and friendly. The showstopper was the homemade bread. The rooftop view is stunning. Highly recommend!

We enjoyed delicious lunch in the beautiful restaurant and the view plus coffee on the spectacular rooftop. Everything was perfect and as a family we felt really welcomed. Thank you for the experience! PS: hotel rooms looked super cosy too. Wouldn’t hesitate to stay overnight. 👍

This is a review about the restaurant, not the hotel as we actually stayed next door, but after going up to the rooftop for our dinner we saw the rooms of Mama Lova and they looked beautiful. This was by far the best meal we had in Morocco in 2 weeks, the best service and it was fitting as well as it was Valentines day, so a win all around. The food was amazing. The appetizers where all very well made and tasty, speciually the chaklouka which was perfect. The trio of pastries was excellent as well, the cheese was my favourite one. The challa bread, the beef tagine, the desserts, french toast was wow and the Azafran Creme Brule was exquisitely done. The food was excellent and we were do happy to have found this place by "accident". Actually we noticed it on the way to our hotel and we liked the look of it and then decided to investigate further and we are so glad we did. The best of all was the sunset we managed to catch for our last night in Morocco and the tireless amazing waiter that went up and down those stairs several times to serve our table. Many thanks for making this our best meal in Morocco!

We had such a great time at Mama Lowa and would love to go back! The place is very conveniently located in the Medina, and the interiors are beautiful and very well maintained. The staff are extremely friendly and accommodating. We were very happy with the breakfast and the view from the roof top! Big thank you to all the staff for making our stay so pleasant.

I stumbled upon this Riad and regret that I didn't know of it before coming to Essaouira. The rooms are beautiful, the food was the best that I had in Morocco, all made fresh with local ingredients by a talented chef. Even the chapatti was the best that I had ever tasted. Furthermore, I was given a warm welcoming by the manager and the staff who went above and beyond each time. I loved Essaouira and I would choose Mama Lova again each time that I come back!