A great family offer from Mandarin Oriental, Marrakech

• One bedroom Mandarin Pool Villa with private courtyard, swimming pool and separate living room.
• Full family breakfast in Le Salon Berbère restaurant.
• Unlimited fun for kids from age four at Kids’ Kasbah.
• Round-trip transfers from Marrakech Menara Airport.
• Fast track through Marrakech Menara Airport.
• Guided family treasure hunt in Marrakech Medina.
• High-speed internet access in villa.

These days luxury resorts are as competitive about kids clubs as everything else: occasionally to the point where you wonder if they’re trying hardest to impress parents. No such confusion at Kids’ Kasbah, it’s all about the kids here, from a dedicated space at the heart of the resort’s organic farm to heaps of activities aimed at encouraging creativity and boosting confidence: it’s tricky to stay shy when there are cute animals to tend, veggies to pick and cooking to be done alongside the resort’s chefs.

You should also ready yourself for kids to teach you a thing or two about art after spending time in the beautifully designed Kasbah: definitely more traditional Moroccan grandeur than your average ‘clubhouse’ – although not to the point of being anything less than friendly and cosy. Hands on workshops are another inventive idea to involve kids in Morocco’s rich artistic heritage and little wannabe designers, artists and artisans have the chance to learn all sorts, from Berber carpet weaving to the basics of intricate Arabic calligraphy.

Kids Kasbah is ideal for kids from age four, and unlimited access to the club’s activities and experiences is all part of the Mandarin Oriental, Marrakech’s More for the Whole Family accommodation package.

The resort has 120 pools, which might seem like a hundred or so too many anywhere but Marrakech, where architectural tradition as good as demands: water, water, everywhere.

There are even fabulous pools incorporated into each and every luxury villa which is only natural considering they’re really more like palatial heritage riad than hotel rooms. If you imagine walled courtyards; opulent bathrooms; touches like antique tile patterns and heaps of cushions on lounge-around sofas; shady planting and original art; you get close to the mix of authentic Marrakech design and sheer luxe atMandarin Oriental, Marrakech.

If you can ever bear to leave your villa, you’ve 20 hectare grounds to explore as well. And they’re beautifully landscaped, dense with the scent of over 100,000 roses, and so ridiculously tranquil, you could easily forget you were right in the heart of one of the world’s most vivid cities.

Although any one ofMandarin Oriental, Marrakech’s four restaurants quickly reminds you where you are. Not least of all because heaps of the ingredients are fresh from the resort’s organic farm – sometimes even picked by your kids, if they’ve been helping out at the Kids’ Kasbah.

• Choose from one or two bedroom villas with private pools and courtyard gardens.
• Suites with terraces, plunge pools and views of the Atlas Mountains.
• Infinity Pool Suites have large private gardens and 18m long, heated infinity pools.
• Four hotel restaurants:
  • Mes’Lalla, a contemporary take on classic Moroccan cooking.
  • Ling Ling, London’s Hakkasan restaurant in Marrakech.
  • Salon Berbère, all-day family restaurant with brilliantly tempting kids’ menus.
  • The Pool Garden, laid-back poolside restaurant.
• Spa at Mandarin Oriental, Marrakech has an indoor pool and two hammam.

Marrakech is original to its 11th century foundations. It’s also a city of myriad influences: woven through with ancient traditions so complex and mysterious, they’re protected on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

Unsurprisingly kids love the colourful souks and eccentric characters in the Medina. They can’t get enough of late afternoon drama on legendary Jemaa el-Fna Square: the street food alone steals most young hearts. And if you’re travelling with teens, you want to head for Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech, then drop by Jardin Majorelle: Saint Laurent’s home, birthplace of the paint colour Majorelle Blue and an international design icon in its own right.

Happily, all these kid-perfect experiences are close neighbours toMandarin Oriental, Marrakech, and a guided family treasure hunt round the Medina is just one of the amazing experiences included in the resort’s More for the Whole Family accommodation package.