The bathroom really needed a thorough cleaning.

Mustafah and Aziza are very friendly and welcoming hosts. They really want you to be comfortable. We had a leaky toilet that they attended to straight away. The location is in a quieter lane way close to the hustle of the medina. There's a rooftop terrace where guests can chill.

Stayed in April 2025

The breakfast could have been bigger. I think we only had one shower for the hostel so I wasn't able to use it

The location was good, the breakfast was delicious, the staff were super nice and helped me with everything I needed, and the room and bed were great

Stayed in April 2025

Bathroom is small. There was no socket at my bed, so I had to use the socket at another bed to charge my phone.

Location, nice common areas.

Stayed in January 2025

The shower is either a few drops of cold water or a 10bar stream of boiling water with no in between. I don't think it's a Riad, there's no garden.

I mean it was 7€ for 2 nights so you really can't complain. You get a shower and a bed and it's clean. I had a good night's sleep. There's even a rooftop for people to chill at.

Stayed in March 2025

The bathroom wasn't useful.

The staffs were very helpful and friendly.Good location, good price.

Stayed in January 2025

Yassir was the best host I’ve experienced in a long time!

Stayed in January 2025

I lost 🤣it’s super hard to find in this labirint, The rest for this price is fair enough, can’t complain

It’s in medina,close to Blue Gates! Good location! The staff was super loyal and friendly! Room was clean, and I had a private toilet!Charged all my devices! And slept well because matras and pillow was surprisly comfortable when in the most expensive hotels 😂

Stayed in January 2025

For this money, 3 euros per night, I didn't expect much, hot water, hard to find but the guy from the hostel gave us his location and was easily after that. I mean, you definitely can complain a lot but it's extremely cheap so if you look to crush somewhere, extra cheap and you just want a hot shower, that is the place, if you expect a bit more, book some more expensive hostels.

Stayed in January 2025

The showers were a little strange but it didn't detract from my stay. Hot water, so perfectly usable. And I got a towel which some other places haven't lent me

The staff were very helpful. He even came to collect me from another accommodation as I went to the wrong one. It's just off the main shopping street near the blue gate so easy to find once you know where it is No bunk beds in my room a very comfy bed. A good roof terrace and there's a kettle as well which I do need. Decor is lovely too.

Stayed in December 2024

Experienced occasional no power in the outlets

Near most attractions

Stayed in December 2024

in the heart of the medina

Stayed in October 2024

Nothing

Comfortable beds and met some nice people. It is in the medina making it easy to go around.

Stayed in May 2024

the door to the palce is a bit hard to find with GPS because of the very tight streets in medina, other than this, everything is good

the location is quite good, right in the middle of medina, it's also very clean with a good wifi, the staff is super friendly & helpful and talkative

Stayed in February 2024

No lockers. Although, I didn't have any problems finding the hostel, with 45 years of worldwide adventure backpacking experience, some travelers were hooked up with local guides that demanded money after bringing them to a hostel. Medina is a maze with many guest houses, so signs can be confusing

A nice roof top patio with a great view of Medina, plenty of common well decorated rooms. Single beds, not bunk beds, that were well spaced. Good bedding and with every day room service. The cleaning lady was very hard working, too hard working, and nice.

Stayed in February 2024

Not very nice shower

Cheap

Stayed in September 2023

It was so cosy

Stayed in September 2025

Clean riad and good reception. I highly recommend it thank you

Stayed in September 2025

Fantastic stay Thank you aziza and mustapha

Stayed in September 2025

Great stay at Ariad in Fes! Friendly staff, comfortable rooms, and a great location for exploring the city. Highly recommended!

Stayed in August 2025

Location, staff (Mustafa and Haziza are so kind and available), breakfast

Stayed in August 2025

the facilities were to the level of a 3euro hostel, i had everything i needed just not super pretty all spotless, but its part of the experience.

amazing experience, i was warmly welcomed by Aziza and Mustafa, they made this one night stay one of the most memorable of my life ! a Hostel to never forget, the facilities weren't the most luxurious but for what i paid it was so much more than what i expected. Thank you so much !

Stayed in April 2025

Cleaning,

Location.

Stayed in April 2025

Very dirty, I think they didn’t change the sheets since we found hair and stains in the bed. The room smelled like mold and cat urine, the carpets in the bedroom were very disgusting. On the wall, we found a chewed chewing gum, which was definitely not ours 😅 The bathrooms were dirty and very small, and just a very tiny amount of water was coming out of the sink, so we didn’t even try taking a shower. We left the hostel after the first night, it was too uncomfortable for us.

The terrace was nice, and also the position of the hostel is very strategic to explore the medina.

Stayed in April 2025

So I went up the second floor to use the bathroom/toilet there, quite small but at least cleaner and drier, although the water is pretty small from the handwash tap. Finally bedtime. Emm, the bedsheet had stains…I felt a bit sick and thought of leaving the next day. With 2 hours’ time difference with CET, I got up super early. I was a bit worried about what to do till the said breakfast time (9:30), so I went to the terrace to get some fresh air. Again wifi was not working and mobile data was running slowly and on-and-off. The hosts (Aziza and Mustafa) saw that I was already up and brought breakfast for me. Thank you very much! And some sweets after breakfast:p They were so lovely and I felt like family. So I gave up the idea of finding another accommodation and decided to stay another night as planned. Long story short, in the morning I left, Aziza took me to a taxi and helped me communicate with the driver, so everything went smoothly. On my way I was struggling what score I should leave in the review, because obviously the basic hygiene and facilities are missing but the hosts were so nice. However this is not the end of the story. I read other reviews for this hostel and the good reviews seem like to talk about something that I totally don’t know. For example, it was another host who managed the place during their stay… I started to doubt what really happened. Then, booking.com sent me a notification: thank you for your review. Wait, I have not written anything yet! THE REVIEW UNDER MY NAME WAS NOT WRITTEN BY ME!!! It was written in very casual Czech and rated THE hostel a score of 10. I guess it’s from some system automatically because my location is “the Czech republic”. Now I am not happy, either my account got hacked, or the hostel is using something illegal, right? I want to edit this fake review so I got a screenshot to show it below. I have made a complaint to booking.com and am now waiting for the reply.

I found this hostel on booking with a high score and good reviews. I booked it, but I couldn't find it on google maps- neither by name nor by address. I contacted the hostel for a precise location on google maps. I got a location which says " fes hostel home". I didn't think too much, from a trust of booking.com I guess. I arrived in Fes medina in the evening. As you could imagine, google maps led me in a wrong way. I asked someone for the correct direction, but a kid/teenager overheard our conversation and started to follow me and offered to lead me to the hostel, I walked my way, not saying yes nor no to him. After 1min walking in dark narrow alley, I was in front of the correct door, the kid/teenager asked me for money. Being quite tired and frankly speaking also a bit of nervous, I gave him 5 MAD and he was quite disappointed and said something I didn't understand. The owner of the hostel opened the door and the kid/teenager left. I was welcomed in the hostel. With the help of translator( since I don't speak French/Arabic, and the hosts don't speak English/Spanish) , I finished the checked-in. To be fair, I got a roll of toilet paper for free, which I never got from other hostels. I witnessed the hosts helped another guest book a taxi for the next early morning. I showed them my appreciation and they said (jokingly) : make yourself at home and give us a 10 points afterwards. I said sure. ( Remember this. ) Feeling so lucky, I went upstairs to my room. Then came the problems. In the common area of the first floor, wifi doesn't work. In the room, even my mobile data stops working ( I had an e-sim, so maybe a local sim would work better, I am not sure). There is a bathroom/toilet on the first floor, full of water on the floor and on the toilet seat, and on the floor there is something like someone spit…The water taps from the shower and the handwash are leaking all the time.

Stayed in April 2025