Cigar Lounges and Cigar Bars in Morocco: 2026 Guide

In Morocco, Law 15-91 does not ban cigars in bars, restaurants or hotels: the country’s cigar lounges are mostly palace hotel bars with a humidor at the counter. For buying, the network comes down to five official Habanos shops, and prices have nearly quadrupled since 2023: a Trinidad Coloniales costs 550 DH a stick. On the smoking side, however, the country offers some of the finest lounges to be had anywhere, provided you know where to go.

This guide covers the addresses whose cigar credentials are genuinely established (by the establishment itself, not by hearsay), city by city, with the legal framework and the reflexes that spare you unpleasant surprises.

What the law says, and what it doesn’t

The reference text is Law 15-91, promulgated by dahir in 1995. Its list of places where smoking is prohibited covers hospitals, government offices, public transport, performance venues and classrooms. Neither cafés, nor restaurants, nor bars, nor hotels appear on it. The reform voted by Parliament in 2008 to add them was never published in the Official Bulletin, so it never entered into force, and a more recent text, adopted by the House of Representatives, provides for modest fines (100 DH for the smoker, 500 DH for the manager of the premises) while expressly authorising ventilated, enclosed smoking areas.

In practice, the Moroccan press has observed for years that enforcement is close to nil. It would still be clumsy to conclude that anything goes anywhere: the aficionado’s rule comes down to three gestures. The terrace first: it is the courteous choice, and the climate obliges most of the year. Indoors only where the house owns the choice: a bar that displays a humidor has settled the question for you. And when in doubt, a word with the maître d’: in Morocco, the answer is almost always an ashtray brought over with a smile.

Buying locally: five official shops, collector prices

The official network is quickly summed up: five official Habanos counters — four Casa del Habano (two in Casablanca, one in Rabat, one in Marrakech) and one Habanos Especialist in Marrakech, none in Tangier — supplied by the exclusive distributor of Habanos in Morocco. There is no online sale of Havanas whatsoever: everything goes through the counter.

Prices, meanwhile, have belonged to another era since 2023: the tax overhaul took the Cohiba Behike from 640–740 DH to 2,000–2,800 DH (about $200–280), the Trinidad Coloniales from 105 to 550 DH, and the April 2026 wave puts a Montecristo Leyenda at 810 DH apiece. Hence two very concrete consequences. First: the duty-free allowance of 25 cigars, admitted without declaration or formality under the official facilities granted to travellers, has never been more worth using: it is exactly one box. Second: any cigar offered well below the administered price should raise suspicion, as the grey market accounts for a substantial share of national consumption, and counterfeiting thrives in it.

One local curiosity deserves a detour: the Casablanca manufacture that hand-rolls 100% Moroccan cigars, the first factory of its kind in Africa. Beware the near-namesake: this Moroccan operation has nothing to do with Havana’s Habanos S.A. For the curious aficionado, it is the chance to try a puro unlike any other.

Marrakech, the capital

Everything converges on the red city: two official shops, the most accomplished cigar lounges, and a concentration of palace hotels without equal. The city deserves a guide of its own to cigar shops and lounges in Marrakech, addresses and etiquette included.

The Cigar Bar at the Royal Mansour

The country’s only palace cigar lounge formally identified as such. On the first floor of the main building, the Royal Mansour houses a humidor of precious wood, glass and mother-of-pearl, stocked with great marques, mostly Cuban. The house welcomes your own cigar so long as you enjoy it at the bar. Opening hours unpublished: you book.

La Casa del Habano, Hivernage

An official shop opened in 2018, doubled with a genuine social hub: walk-in humidor, private members’ lockers, tasting lounge. This is the address where you buy and smoke under one roof, complete with the happy hours of a neighbourhood lounge. A second, more recent address keeps the counter at M Avenue under the name Habanos Especialist by Mehdi Bennani.

The Bar Churchill at La Mamounia

The old-school smoking room par excellence, a tribute to the house’s most famous guest; Cigar Aficionado has devoted its columns to it. A humidor at the bar, Havanas served with care, low light, leather and jazz, from 6 pm to 11 pm. Strict dress code: no beachwear after 6 pm.

A useful complement: the bars of the Selman and the Piano Bar at Es Saadi also list cigars on their menus, enough to vary your Hivernage evenings.

Beyond the permanent addresses, brands and venues run one-off tastings — beach clubs in Taghazout, a golf club house, a casino lounge. They are announced only days ahead and last an evening or a weekend: our cigar events in Morocco list them, with the poster and the date.

Casablanca, the discreet one

The economic capital keeps its cards close to its chest — our guide to cigars in Casablanca covers it in full. Le Bar at the Royal Mansour Casablanca (Avenue des FAR) is the only bar in the city that describes itself as a cigar bar: fifties elegance, rare whiskies, a Cuban selection praised by the regulars. In Bourgogne, La Casa del Habano has since 2019 played the part of de facto club for Casablanca’s aficionados: a “Fumoir d’Exception”, private lockers, more than 400 references in the catalogue, bespoke humidors and nationwide delivery; the historic Maârif address (Al Massira) rounds out the network on the retail side. For an after-dinner smoke at altitude, the 28th-floor rooftop of the Kenzi Tower runs an avowed smoking area with a view; and the legendary Rick’s Café tolerates cigars indoors, as the reviews from non-smokers attest, which says it all. For dinner, aficionado circles have their habits: the Taverne du Dauphin near the port, Villa Boga in Aïn Diab and, on the Bouskoura golf course, Casa José.

Rabat, Tangier and Agadir, in three registers

Rabat plays it with diplomatic discretion: an official shop in Souissi (the country’s first, opened in 2011), a VIP cigar lounge at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam (the Cigare House of the ClubHouse Robuchon), the Blind Tiger, speakeasy bar of The Ritz-Carlton Rabat where cigars are welcome, the Laila Lounge of the Four Seasons Kasr Al Bahr with its cigar selection facing the ocean, the Amber Bar of the Sofitel Jardin des Roses where aficionados have their habits, the cigar bar of Egiodola, a bistronomic restaurant in Hay Riad, the Le Deck rooftop of the Fairmont La Marina and its terrace facing the Bouregreg, and one address apart in Le Dhow, a dhow moored on the Bouregreg, which devotes its Sunday evenings to cigars and cognac.

Tangier is a matter of atmosphere more than humidors. Two venues officially announce cigars. The Origin Bar at the Fairmont Tazi Palace, built around an evening of cocktails, caviar and cigars; and the X.O. Cognac & Cigar Club at the Royal Tulip City Center, on the Malabata road, a cognac and cigar club in its own right, with Chesterfield armchairs, woodwork and soft lighting. No retail humidor is documented anywhere in the city: you arrive equipped, and save the storied cafés of the Kasbah for the atmosphere. Further along the coast, at Tamouda Bay, an hour’s drive towards Tétouan, Le EME at the Banyan Tree is the lounge for whisky and cigar lovers, facing the beach: a weekend escape rather than an evening address.

Agadir lives the cigar by the water, with no official shop and no documented retail humidor: you arrive equipped. For smoking, three resort addresses. At Taghazout Bay, NOLA at the Fairmont, a New Orleans jazz bar, low light, a whisky collection and aged Havanas; next door, the Lobby Lounge at the Hyatt Regency Taghazout serves cocktails and cigars facing the Atlantic. In Agadir itself, on the Bensergao golf course, the bar-lounge of the Tikida Golf Palace, a Relais & Châteaux, keeps a wine and cigar cellar with a piano: the most hushed address in the South.

The traveller’s reflexes

1. Call before you make the trip. Habanos stocks are erratic, even in an official shop: a humidor can be sumptuous one day and sparse the next.
2. Book the palace bars. The Royal Mansour and the Origin Bar publish no opening hours: a phone call spares you a closed door, and lets you ask about the dress code while you’re at it.
3. Travel with a case, not a pocket. Marrakech is a very dry city: what our guide to storing cigars in a dry climate describes over a year plays out there at speed. A rigid travel case and a travel-size humidity pack keep your 25 duty-free cigars in parade condition.
4. Choose the first cigar of the trip mild. Between the heat, the jet lag and a Moroccan dinner, a modest vitola serves the evening better than a trophy; our beginner’s guide holds for travellers too, and a mint tea goes with it better than any alcohol.

Morocco will not displace Havana on a collector’s itinerary. But for anyone who loves smoking somewhere, be it beneath a medina arch, facing the Atlantic or in the armchair of a bar where Churchill kept his habits, few countries offer so many settings worthy of a great cigar.