Our second stop today is the Hotel Marrakech, designed by the man who was once Princess Diana's favorite designer, Jasper Conran, but don't hold that against him. His Moroccan riad is a cathedral to good taste, a converted 19th-century palace containing five suites of four-posters swathed in a total of nearly a mile of white voile, set around a quadrangle of orange trees and a pretty tiled fountain.

The place radiates the sort of 1930s decadence once found in Tangiers, due in part to its private-house feel, but also the simple elegance, the pinks and greens, the oil paintings of maharajas, the period jazz emanating from a hidden radio.

A return to Marrakech and this fantastic and fantastical addition to the boutique hotel scene is high on our wanderlist for 2018.