Itineraries, practical tips, and neighborhood guides to plan your trip to Marrakech.
If you only have time for one garden, choose the Majorelle Garden for the photos, the blue and the Yves Sai...
Eid is Morocco's great family festival, and there are two of them each year: Eid al-Fitr, which ends Ramada...
Around Jemaa el-Fna square you can eat very well and very badly a few metres apart. The good places are oft...
Around the Ben Youssef Madrasa, you eat best in the alleys ten minutes' walk away, towards Mouassine, Bab D...
The Saadian Tombs lie in the Kasbah, a calm residential district where restaurants are scarcer than around ...
The Majorelle Garden is in Guéliz, the new town, not in the medina: around it, meals are taken in an ordina...
The Bahia Palace opens from 9am to 5pm: most visitors arrive in the morning and look for lunch right after....
Ouzoud, the Ourika and Essaouira appear on almost every list of day trips from Marrakech. All three can be ...
Moroccan pastries are eaten in small bites with a glass of mint tea, and they are almost always sold by wei...
Moroccan breakfast is one of the best meals of a trip: hot flatbreads served with honey, melted butter, oli...
To get from the medina to Guéliz, the Majorelle Garden or the station, three options almost always turn up:...
Can you fly a drone, share a hotel room without being married, bring your medication, criticise the king? H...
In the evening, Marrakech is lively: Jemaa el-Fna until late, restaurants and rooftops full, bars in Hivern...
Sleeping in a riad is one of the images of Marrakech, but it is not always the best choice. A riad is a tra...
On 14 February 2027, a Sunday, Marrakech has mild, sunny days (see our February guide for details). The cit...
