“Et voila!” Announces our taxi driver, with justification, as we pull into the magnificent Kasbah d’Eau. A beach castle perched high above Morocco’s Atlantic coastline booked for our winter escape by Fleewinter.

Fleewinter has put together our personalised programme of flight, transfer and hotel. Recommending an itinerary that will show us an authentic Morocco, far from madding crowds, infuriating rug sellers and belching mopeds. 

Created from local sandstone, cooling in summer, warming in winter, Kasbah d’Eau, is a boutique hotel of just 17 rooms and suites, with art house design. A calm double-height central atrium pulls in the light, illuminating vivid contemporary abstract art that contrasts with solidly traditional dark furniture.

Surf schools outnumber shops in a village with a population of around 5,000. Here Africa disappears in mists and mirages into Atlantic rollers.

Fleewinter’s Morocco experts know this land well, recommending unique experiences: horse-riding on the beach, taking a camel ride to an argan-oil farm, a hamman, having lunch with a Berber family, a Moroccan cookery lesson and yoga.

The welcome

If ever there is a boutique airport it is Essaouira Mogador where we’ve passed through immigration, collected our luggage and picked up some Moroccan Dirham in less than 20 minutes.

Fleewinter has arranged for a driver to meet us. Within 40 minutes of landing, we’re sipping mint-tea and nibbling cake at the sumptuous Kasbah. In our Seaview Suite, luggage already delivered, a sultan-size bed and…

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