Palmeraie Golf Palace & Resort
Seven lakes thread through 77 hectares of fairways, and on a clear morning the Atlas Mountains rise snow-capped above the palms at the edge of the greens. This is the particular view that greets you at Palmeraie Golf Palace — a resort built around a Robert Trent Jones Sr. course that opened in 1993 and still anchors the property's identity.
Beyond golf, the scale tips toward the generous: 314 rooms, four pools, a spa larger than most Marrakech riads, riding stables, and eight places to eat. Storks occasionally settle in the palms between holes. The city is ten minutes away, but that fact is easy to forget.
💛 What travellers fall for
People who come back tend to time their rounds for early morning — the light is low, the course quieter, and the Atlas view sharpest before midday haze builds. The free shuttle downtown is genuinely useful; use it for evenings in the medina rather than driving. The Pavillon du Golf dining room rewards a slow dinner.
How Palmeraie Golf Palace & Resort came to be
Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed the original course, which opened in 1993 as a 27-hole championship layout — one of the earlier international-standard golf facilities in Morocco. In 2008, a nine-hole extension was added by Stéphane Talbot, a former club professional. The course won Africa's Leading Golf Resort at the World Travel Awards four consecutive years: 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
In 2020, new resort owners rebranded the golf operation as Golf Club Rotana and returned the layout to the original 18-hole Jones design, retiring holes 19 through 27. The property sits inside the protected Palmeraie palm grove, a landscape whose origin legend runs back to the 11th century and the Almoravid dynasty.
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When to go
March through May and September through November offer the most comfortable conditions — highs in the low-to-mid twenties Celsius, cool enough for a full round without strain. July and August regularly breach 40°C; if you visit then, early tee times are less a preference than a necessity.
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