Are there unusual or unique places to stay in Morocco?

Yes, and this is one of my favourite things to plan, because Morocco rewards travellers who want their accommodation to be an experience in itself. The country's geography and history have left an extraordinary range of buildings to sleep in, and a growing number of creative owners turning them into stays. If you tell me you want at least one 'I can't believe I slept here' night, I can build a whole itinerary around it, and those nights are almost always the ones people rave about afterward.

Start with the desert, which is the obvious showstopper: a luxury tented camp deep in the dunes of Erg Chebbi or Erg Chigaga, where you arrive by camel and fall asleep under a sky so thick with stars it looks fake. Some camps have gone further with transparent bubble-domes so you can watch the Milky Way from your bed, and there are similar starlit pods in the Agafay desert near Marrakech. In the south around Tafraoute and the Draa and Dades valleys you can sleep in restored kasbahs and ksour — fortified earthen castles — that feel like film sets, which is fitting given Ouarzazate is Morocco's Hollywood.

Beyond the desert it gets quirkier. There are troglodyte cave dwellings adapted into guest rooms in a few corners of the south and the Atlas. There are palm-oasis lodges where your room looks out over a sea of date palms, mountain ecolodges clinging to High Atlas slopes, and a famous converted lighthouse-style stay on the wild coast. Marrakech and Fes hide design-led riads that are basically living art galleries, and the wellness scene has produced yoga-and-hammam retreats in olive groves and argan farms that are destinations in their own right. The variety genuinely surprises first-timers.

My honest steer: build your trip around one or two of these rather than chasing them every night, because the most special stays are often remote, simpler on amenities, and a logistical commitment to reach — a starlit desert bubble is magic for a night but it's a long drive south, and a cave room is romantic but basic. Pair the unique nights with comfortable, well-located bases in between. Book the standouts early, since the genuinely unusual places are few and fill fast. Get that balance right and you come home with a string of stories instead of a string of hotel rooms.