All you need to know about Moroccan currency, exchange, value and some advice to experience the place like a local.

At your arrival, you’ll find in the airport some little stores providing SIM cards for free. If by any chance you weren’t able to get one of them, you can also get one for 20 MAD (2 EUR or 2,12 USD) in any phone store.

Morocco Travels Tour is provided with many vehicles, depending on the number of passengers and the sort of tour that you’re looking for. It’s up to you! We offer you 4×4, minibus, vans or coaches.

The vehicles we ride in our tours are always provided with a travel insurance. The tours include a Travel Basic insurance that you can extend of your own accord by different insurers for a better coverage.

Flights or ferries aren’t included in our tours.

After a certain standing, accommodations, hotels and riads usually supply towels but not always hairdryers are included. They should be requested at the lobby. On the other hand, lower range hotels don’t usually supply towels nor hairdryers.

You can travel during Ramadan but it’s necessary to keep in mind some details before traveling. If the trip begins in one of the Imperial Cities, check first if you can have a Full Board (breakfast, lunch and dinner provided) in your accommodation, because not all of them provide it. In the most popular cities, such as Fez or Marrakech, there are a lot of restaurants open for tourists, but in other cities it’s practically impossible to find where to eat (lunch) during Ramadan. On the other hand, there is a big variety and special offer for dinners after fasting at sunset.

If you want to travel to Morocco during Ramadan, Morocco Travels Tour suggest you to choose a desert tour since all the hotels and all the activities are running as at any other time of the year.

During your trip through Morocco, you’ll find Wi-Fi connection practically everywhere, but due to the average of people connected sometimes wireless access can be slower or even of a lower quality. But, will be Wi-Fi during the tour?

Morocco Travels Tour will provide you with Internet during all your trip. Our transports are equipped with Wi-Fi so you can chill and keep in touch from the road sharing your best lives everywhere!

In Morocco, as it happens in many other countries, one date or another may correspond better depending on the place where you want to go. As always, here we give you some advice for you.

If what you are thinking about is to get a trip on the desert, we can assure you that summer is not the best time, despite if you’re looking for “sand bath”, a famous tradition in desert regions.

If you want to enjoy the Atlantic coast, perhaps summer is the best time for you, since the refreshing ocean breeze leaves the perfect temperature for that. If you’re a surf lover we suggest to wait until September and you’ll enjoy the best waves in Essaouira and Sidi Kaouki.

If you’re thinking of coming to Morocco with children it’s important to know that in the Moroccan culture children and family have a very important role..

It’s very common for Moroccan families to have several children and to spend most of their time on the street without having any particular issues. So if you had some doubt, you can relax while traveling to Morocco because actually, it can be an unforgettable experience for the little ones as well.

It will be necessary to keep in mind some details so children don’t lack of anything since in some places in Morocco certain products or brands for babies won’t be found in any store.

Here we’ll leave you some advice if you are thinking of traveling with children:

If you need some specific brand products, try to bring them with you before traveling. In case you may need something at your arrival, you should go to bigger cities such as Casablanca, Marrakech or Ouarzazate to do your purchase. Supermarkets such as Marjane, Acima or Carrefour will please your needs.

While going on a tour to Morocco with children, the most important thing to keep in mind is when getting in a transport, sometimes schedules can be tough for them. Always try to choose a tour with many different ranges where distances are shorter and children can enjoy better of the different activities to do in each place.

The plain and the ferry are the mains of transport. The ferry is available for passengers going on foot and it’s compulsory for those who travel by car or coach.

Passport

You don’t need a Visa if you are a national citizen of any of the countries on the following list:

Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Ivory Coast, Croatia, Cyprus (except the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus), the Czech Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Estonia, Finland , France, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Hong Kong SAR, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mali, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand , Niger, Norway, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom United, United States.

If you are a citizen from one of these countries, to access to Morocco you only need get your passport up to date with a validity of at least six months. You can stay in the country as a tourist for a maximum of 90 days.

Therefore, Spanish citizens only need to show their the passports at the border control upon arrival at the airport. Those arriving by ferry from Algeciras or Tarifa will stamp their passport on the same ferry during the journey.

Visa

Citizens of countries that are not in the above list need a visa that they must apply for at the pertinent Moroccan Consulate, they should present a valid passport from at least six months from the day of entry into Morocco and a blank page.

You can stay in the country as a tourist up to 90 days.

The plane is the fastest and cheapest way to travel to Morocco from Spain, the rest of Europe, Africa, the East and America. Morocco has 15 airports but the most frequents on international flights are those from Marrakech, Agadir, Fez, Rabat and Tangier, although the one with largest number of passengers is the airport of Casablanca and Ouarzazate going to the deserts of Zagora and Merzouga.

Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is the national company running in dozens of countries around the world. But low-cost airline flights to and from Marrakech are very frequent.

Whether traveling by car or on foot, you can cross the Mediterranean from several Spanish coastal cities: Almería, Málaga, Algeciras and Tarifa with destination to the Spanish border cities Ceuta and Melilla or directly to the Moroccan Tangiers, Al Hoceima and Nador.

If you are traveling by car, you must bring with you the driving license, the international insurance green card and the driving license. The maximum residence time of the car is six months.

The most frequent routes and approximate times are:

• Motril – Tangier (8 hours).
• Málaga – Melilla (6 hours y 15 minutes).

The shortest ones are in Algeciras and Tarifa:

• Algeciras – Ceuta (1 hour y 15 minutes).
• Algeciras – Tangier (1 hour y 15 minutes), Tangier Med port.
• Tarifa – Tangier (55 minutes), Tangier Ville port.
• Tangier Med is the most recent port and is located about 40km (24 mi) east of the city.
• Tangier Ville is a smaller port but located in the same city.
• There is also the possibility of traveling from Sète, in France, from Gibraltar, as well as from other ports in Europe such as Genoa, Saona, Livorno, in Italy.

The main ferries operating from Europe are the following:

• FRS: from Tarifa, Algeciras and Motril.
• Intershipping: from Tarifa and Algeciras.
• AML: Africa Morocco Link. It only has the Algeciras-Tangier Med route.
• Balearia: with the same route as AML.
• Grandi Navi Veloci: from Barcelona. Grimaldi Lines: from Barcelona.
• Naviera Armas: from Motril and Almería, to Al Hoceima and Melilla.
• Transmediterranea: from Algeciras, Málaga and Almería

When we travel to a country it’s essential to know the local currency and how it works. We will ask ourselves questions like: What currency do they manage? How much is the money exchange? Where can I do the money exchange?

That is why in Morocco Travels Tour we will sort out all the questions you may have about money exchange and we will give you some advice to comfortably get around Morocco.

The currency in Morocco is the Moroccan Dirham. Its ISO code is MAD (Moroccan Dirham). We can sometimes find in little grocery stores and restaurants prices written as (Dh).

Like other currencies, the Dirham is subdivided into 100 cents. The coins and bills that you can find here are:

• Bills: 20, 50, 100 y 200 MAD
• Coins: 1, 2, 5, 10 MAD and cents about 0,5, 0,25 and 0,05 MAD, although the last one you will rarely use it if you travel through Morocco.

Its usual change (1 USD = 9,45 MAD / 1 EUR = 11 MAD) may vary according to demand. You can check the market value through different websites such as XEcurrency or if you want more information, you can also check the official page of Office des Changes.

You can change money at airports, sea crossings and borders. Once in Morocco you can also go to any bank or exchange office that you will find in all the cities of the country.

There are also some riads and hotels that make currency exchanges, but you need to be aware of which one when traveling.

In Morocco, you can use your credit card to make payments as well as withdraw money from ATMs, which you find scattered throughout the cities.

You must be aware too that its use is not as widespread as in other countries, so we can find service stations, restaurants and grocery stores that won’t accept this payment method.

If you want to withdraw money from an ATM, you should keep in mind that the commissions imposed by banks are very different and sometimes very expensive, so we recommend you to be informed about the conditions of your bank abroad before carrying out any operation.

Although currency it’s mostly used, it can be employed differently depending on the country where we are. Below we will give you some tips and information on the use of currency in Morocco.

Bargains

If Morocco is known for something, that’s for its old tradition of “negotiating the price”. Surely you have heard of the Marrakech Souk and its Jemma El Fna square, where each merchant will try to make you negotiate with him to sell his product.

This practice has been reduced to the most tourist places, like Marrakech or Fez, and more and more merchants are starting to set the prices of their products.

Outside of tourist places, the act of negotiating does not consist in obtaining the lowest price but getting the product despite the shortage of this money.

Here is our advice: “If you want to learn to negotiate, don’t change your price too many times, set the price you consider fair and make the final offer, you will only have to wait for the merchant to accept or you just need to adjust it to the merchant’s.”

Tips

In Morocco you will see that tips are very common, from tour guides, restaurants, valets, cleaners located in the bathrooms to others.

Tips can vary between 2 and 5 MAD in services such as, bathrooms, valet for suitcases, refueling, etc. In restaurants it is common to leave between 10 or 20 MAD except in luxury restaurants where the tip is about a 10% approx. It may be the most appropriate. As for tourist guides and private drivers, tips usually range from MAD 50 for guides up to MAD 200 and thereafter for drivers.

But you must be careful as tips can be a source of scams.

Here we leave you some advice: “Don’t accept any local who offers you a visit tour because he’ll only wait for your tip and he’ll most likely want more than you gave him (even if that amount was already generous). Likewise, be careful with services that may be offered to you on the street, such as carrying your suitcases, indicating you and accompanying you to where the place you are looking for is, and many other small proposals that can be made. They will always ask for your money”.

To enter Morocco you must have a VALID vaccination certificate. This means that you must have the booster dose or if you have 1 dose of Janssen or 2 doses as long as it has not been more than 4 months since the last vaccination.

If the second dose was received more than 4 months ago, it is necessary either to prove that you have a booster dose or a negative PCR test less than 72 hours before departure to Morocco.

No, if you have the booster dose, a PCR test is not necessary.

No, only the negative RT-PCR test (NAAT) taken no more than 72 hours before departure to Morocco is valid.

A valid passport or national identity card (depending on the country) is not valid for travel to Morocco. A valid passport with a minimum validity of 6 months from the date of entry into the country is required.

Travellers must fill in a health form on arrival in Morocco. This form is available online but can also be found on arrival at the airport.

Depending on the country of origin, they may need a visa. You can consult the specific conditions in the following link: https://www.passportindex.org