Morocco Tourist Traps

  Goats in trees near Essaouira Morocco
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  • Goats in trees near Essaouira Morocco
      Goats in trees near Essaouira Morocco
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  • Goats in trees near Essaouira Morocco
      Goats in trees near Essaouira Morocco
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  • Goats in trees near Essaouira Morocco
      Goats in trees near Essaouira Morocco
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  • Goats in trees near Essaouira Morocco
      Goats in trees near Essaouira Morocco
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  • Goats in trees near Essaouira Morocco
      Goats in trees near Essaouira Morocco
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General Warning   Marrakesh

General Warning, Marrakesh

 20 Reviews  Moroccan youths seems to make their living convincing you you're lost (even when you're not convinced you are) and then making sure you're on the right track. This routine is then followed by quite... 

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Old Medina   Casablanca

Old Medina, Casablanca

 5 Reviews  If you are a tourist, they will seek you out, follow you and try to be your guide or cut you a deal. I never knew I had so many friends! The medina is worth an afternoon of wandering if you can... 

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Water Sellers / Beggars / Intrusive People   Marrakesh

Water Sellers / Beggars / Intrusive People, Marrakesh

 20 Reviews  André's tips to Marrakesh: DON’T SHOW NERVOUSNESS- even if your knees are shaking. BE EASY GOING- Moroccans are outgoing people, and most of them well intentioned. Keep that in mind and you’ll see... 

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Places/ Buildings to avoid   Marrakesh

Places/ Buildings to avoid, Marrakesh

 7 Reviews   This was the restaurant in which I had my fall but that is not the reason I am suggesting that it is a tourist trap. Even if I had not been in pain during our meal here I would still have regarded it... 

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Do not get lost!   Marrakesh

Do not get lost!, Marrakesh

 5 Reviews  If you get lost in the souks trying to find that particular cafe or one of the many sights nestled within the narrow alleyways and a friendly face offers you directions they will expect to be paid for... 

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Local Traditions   Marrakesh

Local Traditions, Marrakesh

 5 Reviews  On a trip out of Marrakesh to Essaouria we went through an area which is home to goats that climb trees (allegedly). A goat may well have climbed an argan tree in the past in order to eat the fruit or... 

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Marrakech

by withoutatrace

Marrakech - I'll never go backMarrakech has changed since the Hippies carrying Europe on $5 a day books came to buy cheap hashish in the 70s. One thing is that there is not a whiff of hashish in Marrakech now, not in the air, or for sale. Hashish does not work for me so lack of it is not regretted anyway. Ever wonder what happened to Ali Babas forty thieves? They all came to Marrakech and each had ten kids. These kids all followed the trade of their fathers and rob and cheat tourists in the squares and alleys of Marrakech.This is what can be read on the internet: One highlight of Marrakech is the Jemaa l-Fna market square, a lively meeting place, where tarot card readers, snake charmers, tattooists, hash sellers; amateur boxers, story tellers, musicians and even the occasional mad dentist tout their wares. Surrounding in a colourful arc of honour are charismatic salesmen offering sweet,...

Guides, false guides

by xaver

Guides and above all false guides, they approach you saying that you need them to visit medinas, specially in Marrakech and Fes with the pourpouse to bring you to shop in the places where they take commissions.To tell the truth I did not meet many in Marrakech, but loads in the train to Fes, they enter, sit by you and start asking where you are from exc. untill they realise that you ned their help to find a good hotel, restaurants or just to visit the city.I visited medinas both in Fes and Marrakech alone and never felt in any danger. Just look at shops taking a certain distance otherwise, the shoopkeeper will stick on you untill you buy something.

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Restaurants in the Jemma el F'na

by jlynyc

Most of the restaurants surrounding the Jemma el F'na have 2nd floor terraces that are open to the square and are therefore quite popular with tourists. It's a great way to soak up the atmosphere from a distance without being in the thick of it all. You can also take some photos overlooking the action in the square. The best terrace is probably located at the Cafe Glacier Pizzaria - you are required to purchase something in order to access the terrace. I highly suggest that you either go to another restaurant in the square, or only purchase a beverage. We were left by a city tour guide in front of the restaurant and decided to have lunch. Awful experience! Service was incredibly slow (10 minutes for a drink) and we waited over one hour for our personal sized brick oven pizzas which were absolutely terrible. They tasted like wet cardboard and my pizza had a long piece of hair baked into...

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Taxis

by blint

There are two types of taxi: petit city taxi's or taxi's that take you to other towns.As a foreigner you will be over charged. Don't always take the first one that comes, ask a couple to compare prices first and always ask the estimated price or settle on a price before getting in. To go from the bus station to the port in Tanger is should cost around 8-10 drm. One guy tried to charge us 20 which as you can see is well above the average.The main problem with the inter town taxi's is that you will probably end up sharing your taxi with 5 others plus the driver. This is the norm, with 4 in the back and two on the front seat plus the driver and I'm not talking about a van but a very old Mercedes. As they are sold as seats, if you don't fancy this you could always buy up all the seats for you, though this is the expensive option especially as taxis aren't much safer, newer or more...

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Ait Ben Haddou.

by pfsmalo

The usual way across the river bed to the ksar is a real trap with touts, hawkers, postcard sellers and even just pests. If you are in your own car, drive another 200 metres past the main parking square and park up there, walk down to the bed and walk across to the entrance that way. Also note where you come out on the bank to find the way back. Avoids all the hassle both ways.

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Taxis in Morocco - Grand vs. Petite

by Ognid

There are two types of taxis in Morocco. The "grand" and "petite." Grand taxis can take up to 5 people at one time, but you must negotiate for your fair. The petite taxis can only take 3 people but use a meter and end up being much much cheaper. Even if you have to take two petite taxis because you are traveling with more than 3 people, it is often cheaper than taking one grand taxi. But make sure that you insist on using the meter before getting in the petite taxi or they will rip you off. we learned the hard way on this. From the train station to the Hassan II mosque in Casablanca we paid a petite taxi 50 D to take us there (no meter). It costs us 18 D to come back from the mosque to the train station using the meter.

moroccan tour guides

by dianneswain

Watch out for high strung salespeople who seem to be working in conjunction with tour guides.. I experienced the same in Egypt and I have heard that this practice goes on in other countries also. I hate haggling and I hate getting ripped off. One may say "it is your own fault", but i beg to differ. One does not go to another country thinking everthing you're being shown or told is a sham. The school of young orphaned carpet weavers almost brought tears to my eyes, not to mentioned the displaced homemakers embroidering tablecloths while we watched. The tablecloths that we were shown for purchase was actually embroidered by a machine and the price reflected a handstitched tablecloth The owner probably thought we knew nothing about embroidery.

How to minimise hassle in Morocco

by Conspirator

Despite following commonsense advice like wearing long clothes and not having bum bags, huge cameras and other "American/German tourist" parphenalia hanging all over you, you will invariably suffer a mind shattering amount of hassle in Morocco from people trying to sell you something (or just get money without selling you anything).The almost universal opening line for touts from Morocco (and just about any other country in the world) is "where are you from? England? America? Australia? France? ..." etc. In Egypt, I used to say "Finland", which at least gave me a little breathing room while my assailant digested this unexpected answer. In Morocco, however, I discovered a trick that will shoo off at least one in every two touts with one line.This only works, I should say, if you are a male with dark hair and coloring. Make friends with one of the guys at your hotel / riad on the first...

The Carpet Scam

by JamalMorelli

Nothing on "the carpet scam"- however, maybe this will help!1) Prostitution scam! Tourists come to a medina hoping to score with pre-teens at a really invitingly low cost, sometimes even in exchange for drugs. Well, the tourist generously gives about 10 USD and then - POOF - the underage trick disappears. There's something to warn the tourist about!2) Drug scam! Tourists trying to get a great deal on drugs from street urchins here find that what they bought wasn't quite the quality they were expecting. 3) Pottery scam! Tourist buys a barf-colored ceramic bowl against his better judgement when told that it is authentic, real Moroccan. The tourist returns home from Morocco, and that obnoxious polychromatic bowl created in Safi offends every eye it meets and, finally, a Moroccan neighbor says he would never use a bowl like that.For scams like these: I think that your program will help......

Beware of "Official Guides"

by Kadalap

We had a travel agent plan our trip to Morocco with local guides waiting for us in each city we visited. They were all offically licensed, multilingua guides. Although they did show and explain some of the historical sights, their main objective was to get us into stores to buy stuff. It is their job and they will lose it if they do not take tourists to specific shops, so it does little good to insist on "no shopping". Shop-keepers record the entry of each guide, whether or not the tourist buys anything and this information is passed on to the government. If the guides do not take the tourist to the shops, they can loose their license which they pay a lot of money to obtain. They also get a commission from the sales as do the tour companies and the government. It is a sanctioned system to empty the pockets of tourists. The best way to deal with the problem is to set the ground rules...

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