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Clothes Marrakesh
7 Reviews Morocco is a Muslim country, so for ladies: avoid sleeveless tops and overly revealing shorts. Just be conservative in general. Better safe than sorry (or stares)! Cap/visor/sunglasses are...
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General Marrakesh
10 Reviews Unlike some tips I'd read before-hand, you don't need to bring toilet paper, they have it here (although in small rolls), it's fine and the the toilets in the hotels are NOT holes in the ground, they...
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Climate Marrakesh
3 Reviews I take my travel mac with me everywhere I go usually, but, to be honest, Agadir was so hot and we reasoned that it was bound to be even warmer in land.... When we first arrived in Marrakech it was...
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The Steelers won the 2005 Superbowl and as a consequence there is a glut of Steelers t-shirts - I brought plenty of them for my friends and they wear them to events you wouldn't imagine them being worn to - including weddings. Patterned T-Shirts as Gifts to Men - a winner.
I just shipped UPS - these guys rocked. If I had needed the language interface, there were girls all over that office speaking English very well. I had a huge problem (involving my computers as well!) and they sorted everything out for me between their downtown Casa UPS branch (Zerktouni...near the Fed Ex in fact) and the airport UPS. (they were a great bunch, too)Jam's advice before you ship: Check to see how much you are going to be taxed in your target before you insure it.
On your SKYPE account you should have something called SKYPEOUT - where you then find out that you can buy SKYPE credit (on your credit card) and subsequently make calls from SKYPE to anywhere else in the world. The calls to the United States and the UK are the biggest savers registering at incredibly low rates (like €0.017 a minute) meaning you will not have used up anywhere near 10 dollars worth of credit during your tour of Morocco unless you make a lot of local calls with it or spend all of your time chatting online. Local calls will not be cheaper - this incredible tip only applies for when you call outside the country to ground phones.(Of course, the ultimate in savings is for your friend to have SKYPE themselves...)
The guidebook I found most useful for our trip was Lonely Planet's Morocco. Even though the last update was in 2003, the information it gave was still quite accurate. I'd strongly recommend "See Ouarzazate and Die" by Sylvia Kennedy, a book describing 3 trips the author made to Morocco in 1990. I only found out after our trip that this book was (and perhaps still is) banned in Morocco so hopefully I didn't cause any offence by reading it while there. My guess is the ban came from the negative comments made about Kings Mohammad V & Hassan 1 - criticism of the royals is a big no-no in Morocco.Another book I found useful was The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles though not all of it is set in Morocco. Morocco has also featured in many movies though often as a stand-in for other places such as in Gladiator or Lawrence of Arabia. A good film about Morocco is Hideous Kinky, a story about...
My number one of booking ahead - "FAX" - never had a problem with it. Book direct out the fax numbers provided in LP.no 2 - "phone" - just requires a follow up or two to make sure. no 3 - "e-mail." but that's a photo finish tie for no 4 "Hand my hotel reservation written on a Bazooka Joe wrapper to glue sniffing kid and ask him to deliver it"
Vodafone UK switches over to Meditel when you get here (or at least it works the other way around for me) - If all else fails you can pick inexpensive phone here just about anywhere... - the cards come in 20, 50, 100, 150 DH flavors but the best thing to do is to have them recharge your phone right there in the shop.
In case you get a bad case of the sh*ts...if you feel it coming on, there is no harm in starting your dose early.Remember to drink plenty of bottled water when this happens as you can get seriously dehydrated when you have been spraying crap all day. Take care.
Bring cash, pounds, etc. Change a nice wad of them at the airport, enough to fuel up if you are driving (350 DH+ a tank) - snacks, etc.There are ATMs in all the major cities and many of the smaller ones. Use them.Don't rely on your credit cards anywhere but the ATMs to make a withdrawl. Understand? Don't think because their is a sticker in the window, or even if the restaurant or hotel said they would take them. (Then you find the machine is not working; i.e, they want the cash) Don't rely on your traveller checks. Period. They approach the category of almost useless at times. CASH! And then ATMs as you need them. Don't take out too much more than you need before you leave since you technically can't leave with Moroccan money. Yeah. I'll get cute with this info another time - I want you take this one seriously.
The DeRRa - a head cover is all purpose for the ladies. It is a great quick headcover for mountain travel, entering a religious site, a new house or if you want a little inconspicuousness. You can also use it to cover your mouth and nose to filter to scum of Casablanca or Marrakesh's legendary traffic pollution. Take it off an improv a fan like the belles of the south. Hang it somewhere in your home if it's lovely enough...
I need to stress that for men and women coming from the west that you keep a roll of toilet paper or something to wipe yourself with at all times. Fes may be a major tourist destination but don't think that means the service resembles Club Med - you are in a city from the middle ages and everything will remind you of that - especially the hole in the floor toilets with the little faucets to wash with near the floor. You will feel more comfortable - don't forget your tissues...
Riad Kniza Marrakesh
2 Reviews and 563 Opinions Beautifully decorated room, cozy aura, clean bathroom, delicious food and warmhearted staff. I got...
Hyatt Regency Casablanca
5 Reviews and 137 Opinions I worked very hard during the day in a office witout air conditioned. You can understand how I was...
Villa Maroc Essaouira
4 Reviews and 152 Opinions Suites #27, #29,#30 are built around an open central light well. There is no way to insulate any of...
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