Ouzoud · Azilal Province · Morocco
Chambre d’hôtes Aya, Ouzoud10 Minutes from Ouzoud Falls. Home-Cooked Tagine Included. Book Direct.
We are a family, not a chain. Eight rooms, an outdoor pool looking down the valley, and a Moroccan breakfast that costs you nothing. Book with us directly and no commission comes out of your stay.
10-minute walk to the falls
Free Moroccan breakfast
Outdoor pool, mountain views
Family-run since day one
Direct booking
Why book with us instead of a booking site
The room is the same room either way. What changes is who you are talking to and how much of your money reaches the house.
You talk to the owner, not a call centre
Message our WhatsApp and the person who replies is the person who will hand you your key, cook your dinner and tell you which path down to the falls is quickest.
No commission is priced in
Booking sites take a cut, and that cut sits inside the nightly rate you see there. Our prices are the prices — 450 to 800 MAD a night depending on the room and how many of you there are.
You pay 30% now, the rest at the door
A 30% deposit by bank transfer confirms the room. The balance you settle when you arrive. Nothing goes through a card form on this website.
10-minute walk to the falls
The falls are a ten-minute walk downhill
Ouzoud is about 110 metres of water dropping in three stages — the tallest waterfall in North Africa. From our door it is roughly ten minutes on foot. That is close enough to walk down at sunrise before the tour buses arrive from Marrakech, come back for breakfast, and go again in the evening when the light turns the spray orange.
- Go at first light and you will have the lower pools nearly to yourself.
- Barbary macaques live in the trees along the path — wild, not fed by us.
- March to June is peak flow, when the falls are at their loudest.
Exceptional Breakfast
Breakfast is included, and it is not a croissant in plastic
Every morning we put out a full Moroccan spread, at no charge, for everyone staying. Google calls our breakfast “Exceptional”, which is their word, not ours.
- Freshly squeezed Atlas orange juice, organic mint tea, coffee
- Warm msemmen, baghrir and harcha, straight off the pan
- Local honey, artisanal amlou, homemade jams, olive oil, olives
- Fresh eggs — plain or in a mini tagine — local cheese and yogurt
Dinner, if you want it
Most guests eat with us at least one evening. It is 120 MAD a person for a starter, a main, a dessert and water — usually a tagine, cooked in the kitchen here rather than reheated. You tell us in your booking message and we shop for it.
Outdoor swimming pool
The pool looks down the valley
It is outdoors, it is uncovered, and it faces the gorge and the hills behind it. There are olive trees and a shaded pergola if you would rather sit than swim.
Eight rooms, eight doors
Rooms & Booking
Rooms 1 and 2 are the family rooms and sleep four. Everything else sleeps two. Every room has heating and an electric blanket — Ouzoud gets cold at night, and we would rather you knew that in advance.
From 450 MAD/night
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Travel Guide
Before you come
Three things worth reading if you are still planning the trip.
7 min read
The Ultimate Guide to Ouzoud Waterfalls: Height, Hiking Trails & the Barbary Macaques
How tall the falls actually are, which path to take down, when the water is at its loudest, and how to behave around the monkeys that live in the trees along the way.
6 min read
Marrakech Day Trip vs. Overnight Stay: Why 2 Days in Ouzoud Is Worth It
The coach tour gives you about ninety minutes at the falls, in the middle of the day, with everyone else. Here is what a second day buys you.
6 min read
Authentic Berber Gastronomy: What Makes a Real Moroccan Tajine
A tajine is a pot before it is a dish, and the pot is the whole point. What separates the one cooked in a home kitchen from the one served to a coach party.
FAQ
Questions people ask us
- About a ten-minute walk. It is downhill on the way there, which means it is uphill on the way back — worth knowing if you are carrying a small child.
- Yes, completely free. A full traditional Moroccan breakfast every morning: fresh orange juice, mint tea, warm msemmen and baghrir, honey, amlou, homemade jam, eggs, local cheese and yogurt.
- Yes. Free parking on site, no charge, and we never put it on the bill as an extra.
- Yes, and most guests do. A traditional Moroccan dinner cooked here in the house — the tagine is what people come back down for.
- Yes. 120 MAD per person for a starter, a main course, a dessert and water included. Tell us when you book so we can shop for it.
- Yes, an outdoor pool with mountain and valley views, with olive trees and a shaded pergola beside it.
- Yes, every room. Heating and electric blankets, confirmed across all eight rooms. Ouzoud is at altitude and the nights are genuinely cold for much of the year.
- Yes. Rooms 1 and 2 each sleep up to 4 guests, with a king bed, two twin beds and a sofa bed across 30 m².
- Through WhatsApp. Pick your room on this site, choose your dates and how many of you there are, and the total is calculated for you. Send it to us, we confirm availability and send our bank details, a 30% deposit confirms the room and you pay the balance on arrival.
- March to June, when the snowmelt puts the falls at peak flow. July and August are hot and much busier; the falls are still running but quieter in volume.
- Check-in from 3:00 PM (15:00) and check-out by 12:00 PM (noon). If your bus gets in late, message us and we will wait up.
- English and French, plus Moroccan Arabic and Tamazight.