Beldi Country Club

The experience

Thirty-five acres of olive grove, palm and rose garden at Km 6 on the Route du Barrage, built as a mud-walled Moroccan village of alleys, courtyards and little riads. Non-residents come for the day rather than the night: pools, sunbeds, a spa and hammam, and a long lunch under the trees. There are around 3,000 rose bushes, and several of the pools are heated in winter. It is roughly ten minutes from the airport and twenty from the medina.

The green, slow, un-Instagrammed alternative to an Agafay desert day, and close enough to do on a half day.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.