Travelling??? How about Morocco

The second question you would ask.

How much does a vacation in Morocco cost?

If you came to me and asked how were the prices in Morocco I’d need to answer „It depends”. I wouldn’t be lying and I wouldn’t be avoiding your question, because it really does depend on a lot of factors. When in other just a bit more civilized countries there are usually just more expensive towns and less expensive towns, more expensive restaurants and less expensive restaurants then in Morocco there are more variables. If you’re from United States you can expect to pay a lot more for the simple reason that the locals think you are the easiest to rip off and so they do.

1. Hotels:

It applies to pretty much any country but in Morocco you can find dirt-cheap hotels as well as very expensive ones. You can find hotels for 50 Dirhams a person if you’d really look for that price – the quality of those hotels comes with the price – these hotels might not be clean (meaning, instead of using their sheets you’d probably prefer your sleeping bag), they might not have a bathroom or have a crappy bathroom in the corridor. You can also find hotels for $1000 if you really want to.

2. Food:

Tajin/Tagine – Dh 20-50
Sandwich – Dh 5-20
Fish plate – Dh 17 – 50
Spaghetti Bolognese – Dh 30-100
Pizza – Dh 30-100
Three-course Menu – Dh 25-65
Breakfast – Dh 15-40
Note that in case of any prices you can always find more expensive places, if you want to.

3. Drinks

Coffee – Dh 4-20 (usually you shouldn’t pay more than Dh 10)
Mint Tea – Dh 4-10
Fresh Orange juice – Dh 6-15
Small beer from shop (0.2l) – Dh 6+
Average (local) beer from a bar (0.3) – Dh 10-25
Average foreign beer from a bar – Dh 20-70

1. Cigarettes

The local brand Marquees is the cheapest one – 17.5 Dh, Fortuna 20 Dh and Marlboro Lights 32 Dh.

2. Transportation

All in one, transportation doesn’t cost too much in Morocco. Then again, considering the other prices it might be just a bit higher. For example a bus from Marrakech to Agadir cost about Dh 90 + about Dh 5 for baggage. Or if you take the wrong bus you might pay 90 for the bus, 20 for the guy insisting he’d show you the ticket office and bus location, 20 for baggage.

Bus from Agadir to Laayoune, Western Sahara – Dh 170-210 plus baggage (5 Dh).

In Morocco there are two types of taxis – small taxis (Petit taxi) and big taxis (Grand taxi ). If you need to travel within the city limits, always use the small taxi which accommodates about 3 people. You should always ask the driver to put the taxi meter running (usually though, they might not even do it if you ask them to) and if they do, it costs just about 1.5 Dirhams for a km. If you can’t get them to start the meter, make sure you know the amount before you start the trip. And if the offered price is too high, try to negotiate or find another taxi.

Grand taxis are old Mercedes cars. Due to the laws, in most of the world you wouldn’t put more than 4 passengers there. However, in Morocco they usually don’t start the trip before they have 6 people in the car, in addition to the driver that is. Four in the back seat and 2 in the front passenger seat. For smaller distances like 10-40 km you usually shouldn’t pay more than 5-10 Dirhams a face and this is usually a fixed fee.

You can also use Grand taxis to travel between towns but this tends to cost more per person than bus. And again, there will need to be 6 people in the car. If there’s not enough you could pay for the missing people too but this case it would get too expensive.