Marrakech Guidebook
Bahia or El Badi: Which One If You Do One
Same price, same hours, same ministry. One is a furnished nineteenth-century house with painted ceilings; the other is a stripped sixteenth-century shell with storks on the walls.
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Six long-form guides that each settle one decision the rest of this Marrakech city guide only touches in passing: which of the two great palaces to give your morning to, whether the most photographed garden in Morocco repays the queue, how far ahead the monuments actually need booking, which day trip earns the drive, what four hours between flights can reach, and how one treaty in 1912 built the second city you walk through in Gueliz.
Essaouira or Ourika: Which Day Trip to Take
One has seven scheduled coaches a day and a UNESCO citation. The other has no scheduled coach at all and a five-station flood-warning system. They are not the same kind of decision.
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How Far Ahead to Book Marrakech: A Calendar
The unusual answer: no state monument in this city sells a timed slot, so the queue is a till queue. What actually needs booking is the road out of town.
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Is Majorelle Worth It? An Honest Verdict
A one-hectare garden with the highest admission in Marrakech, a museum inside the walls that is not included, and an arithmetic trap in the combination prices.
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Marrakech Layover: What 4 to 8 Hours Reaches
Five or six kilometres separate the runway from the square, and a closed currency separates you from being able to pay for any of it before you land.
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How 1912 Split Marrakech Into Two Cities
The decision not to build inside the ramparts is the reason the old city survived to be inscribed, and the reason a taxi cannot reach half the beds in it.
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