Marrakech Experience

Mesmering Marrakech

Advantages: Stunning scenery!
Disadvantages: food, a bit of a culture shock

Marrakech has always been high up on my list of places to visit, so earlier this year I packed my bags and set off with a friend to explore the city. We flew with easyjet from London Gatwick to Marrakech Menara airport, convinently located around 15 minutes taxi ride from central Marrakech. Morrocco has a closed currency system meaning that Morrocan Dirhams cannot be brought into the country or taken out. There are Bureau de Changes located throughout ...
...A word of warning - Marrakech is a city where you have to haggle and haggle hard. Never accept the first price and be prepared to walk away! Prices quoted are usually 2-3 times as much as the actual price! This haggling starts at the airport - a typical taxi journey should cost around 80 dirhams although the drivers will try to convince you otherwise! Coming from the UK I found this a little awkward at first but soon got the hang of it. It is best ...

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Review of Marrakech (Morocco)

In Need Of Modernisation

Advantages: organised queues, staff speak english
Disadvantages: noticeboards and shops

...across is the airport. In Marrakech the airport was not too far from the city itself so you could see the orange architecture upon arrival. It is just a wide open space the airport with not a lot of other aircraft as cities like this are obviously not quite like Heathrow. Once arriving you could see the other passengers waiting to get on as we got off. The airport was nice and cool, very air conditioned which was good but before doing anything the ...
...is very basic but in Marrakech I didn’t expect it to be luxurious. It has a few cafe’s to eat at and one or two restaurants and it is clean enough its just very dull overall and not the most exciting place to wait and there are a lot of annoying flies here as well. This airport works with a few airlines such as easy Jet, Ryanair, Royal Air Moroc and flies to many destinations such as Spain, Switzerland, France, the UK and internally to Agadir and ...

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Review of Marrakech Menara Airport (RAK), Marrakech

The New Moroccan Role

Advantages: "Colored cottons hang in the air…"
Disadvantages: "…Charming cobras in the square." (Crosby, Stills and Nash)

...only sight worth seeing, though; Marrakech is full of them. It needs to be. These days, tourism is Marrakech’s main industry. For a city set in flat countryside a hundred miles from the sea, this means that it lives on its past – the architecture, art and ambience accumulated over a thousand years of history. Location and history Rather fortuitously, Morocco as a whole derives its name from Marrakech, which in turn derives its name from a ...
...To be strictly geographical, Marrakech is located in the middle of Morocco, but not much happens inland further south or east. Fifty miles away in either direction one reaches the daunting High Atlas mountains, beyond which lies the desert. So in effect it is the main city of the south. Marrakech had its heyday in the 11th-13th centuries as the intermittent capital of a domain that stretched from northern Spain to Senegal in the south and as far ...

torr 06.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Marrakech (Morocco)

Marrakech - it's like marmite you love or hate it.

Advantages: The mix of the city and the lovely riads
Disadvantages: The polution from petrol

...to spend four days in Marrakech in October. It was to me an amazing experience. We had a very early morning flight with Easy Jet, which meant we had most of the rest of the day to spend in Marrakech. From emails that I had been exchanging with the mamagers of The Riad Zolah in whch we were staying I knew we were being met at the airport, and taken as close to the Riad as a taxi can get. We were the last people out of the airport as I had left some ...
...Very nice little touch. Marrakech is amazing. We ventured out that sunny afternoon, and found our way to Djemma EL Fna Square, walking through the souks and alley ways again. It was an easy 10 minute walk, but extremely interesting. It is a mix of the poor and wealthy, but you mostly see the poor. Women sitting on the pavements with several young babies and children begging, little brown eyed boys begging you to buy their tissues from them. Cats ...

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Review of Marrakech (Morocco)

Watch out for the snake-poo

Advantages: Very different to anything in Europe, but very close to the UK
Disadvantages: You have to haggle over everything

Marrakech is an interesting city, so close to Europe and yet so different in many ways. The contrast is particularly evident in the Medina, the old walled city, where motorbikes, donkeys and carts and cars jostle for right of way on the narrow dirty streets. I have just returned from a few days staying in the Medina. Getting There We flew with Atlas Blue, from London Gatwick for a mid-afternoon arrival, although Easy jet also has a flight early ...
...different types of accommodation in Marrakech from simple bed and breakfast places to grand hotels, but the most traditional type is the Riyad or Riad, which is a word now generally assumed to mean guesthouse, but in fact refers to the traditional architecture, arranged around a central courtyard with four flowerbeds. We stayed at the Riad Altair, a four star guesthouse costing £363.00 for one Double room for 4 nights Bed and breakfast. Hotel Riad ...

AndrewPo 24.09.2008 · Read full review
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