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no change in procedure.
Lots of people use Le Relais campsite or the airport parking
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18 Jan 2023
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Originally Posted by Brian Montague
Any advise as to where to park up my Landcruiser when I depart Marrakesh in a couple of weeks? I’d like to leave it for a few months so hopefully somewhere not too expensive and secure
I’m assuming no change to the advise on the previous thread, able to leave vehicle for up to 180 days and simply get release from customs, on presenting your TVIP?
Thanks all in advance
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Brian please let me know if you succeeded in leaving car in La Relais. I am going to Morocco in March and need to leave the car there for few months as well. I have a guy in Asni (30km south of Marrakesh), but I dont want to rely only on him.
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30 Jan 2023
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Update on leaving vehicle in Morocco
So I left my Landcruiser at Marrakesh Airport on Saturday morning before flying back to Ireland. Worth noting
- I choose airport rather than Le Relais as the cost difference is marginal and Le Relais is a half hour taxi ride (airport is 38 dhr p.d. And Relai is 30)
- I had emailed Relais and they confirmed they do still offer the service at the daily rate of 30 dhr (email - lerelaisedemarrakech @ hot mail.fr)
- customs process at the airport is pretty straight forward. Bring copy of passport, driving licence, vehicle registration and the temporary import slip). Customs office is in the arrivals section. I wasn’t asked for the customs approval letter when i went through departures so you may get away with it but frankly, as it only takes 10 mins, its worth the peace of mind
- Park in area F (long stay) of Parking 1
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Thank you Brian..
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Originally Posted by Brian Montague
So I left my Landcruiser at Marrakesh Airport on Saturday morning before flying back to Ireland. Worth noting
- I choose airport rather than Le Relais as the cost difference is marginal and Le Relais is a half hour taxi ride (airport is 38 dhr p.d. And Relai is 30)
- I had emailed Relais and they confirmed they do still offer the service at the daily rate of 30 dhr (email - lerelaisedemarrakech @ hot mail.fr)
- customs process at the airport is pretty straight forward. Bring copy of passport, driving licence, vehicle registration and the temporary import slip). Customs office is in the arrivals section. I wasn’t asked for the customs approval letter when i went through departures so you may get away with it but frankly, as it only takes 10 mins, its worth the peace of mind
- Park in area F (long stay) of Parking 1
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Left car in Morroco yesterday and as Brian mentioned, nobody at immigration asked for customs approval...
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Returned to my jeep at the airport on Monday which I’d left there in January. Got taxi to the CAT office and renewed my insurance on the spot. All done, back to the airport in 45 mins and on the road.
8 Av. Allan El Fessi
Imm A Operation Elboustane 2
Marralkesh
Very helpful staff
Can also be done be phone apparently 05 24292111. But it rang out when I tried before leaving Ireland
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UPDATED JAN 24 with actual location
Took a lot of finding online, this address
Version off their FB: Av. Allal El Fassi, Imm [building] A, app 8, operation El Boustane 2, MARRAKECH
Long story short: you will struggle to locate this address.
This is the actual location: 31.66181, -8.00743
Once there follow the signs, see pictures below.
Or call 05 24 29 21 11
and they will whatsapp you the location.
(another number worked whatsapping: 06 61 41 38 63, but did not respond on the day)
Email (untested): hiba.assurance @gmail. com
https://www.facebook.com/www.hibaassurance.ma/
Not sure anyone speaks English.
Once located, took 10 mins with V5, passport and maybe white TVIP card to get sorted.
Two months for my 300cc moto 1550dh. Started next day.
Two months later I needed another week; 10 days was minimum and cost me 660dh - not such a good deal.
Feb 2025 another month was 970dh - took 10 mins.
I was told office is open Mon-Fri 9 - 6.30
Saturdays 9.30 - 11
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Just to confirm the current procedure in Marrakech. December 2023.
I left my vehicles (van with bike in the back) at the hotel.
Go through to departures and the first desk/check that you come to is customs where people can declare stuff they are taking with them. Explain that you have a vehicle and need authorization to leave it. They take you to a side office to fill in a form - basically swearing that you are temporarily leaving the vehicle and will come back for it. He then gives you the authorisation (sheet of A4) which you hand in at passport control. And that's it !
This can only be done on the day of travel.
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Just done this - details
This is now a very straightforward procedure - no need to find service doors or anything else.
1. Check in as normal first (technically you DO need to print off a boarding pass , but EasyJet will print one out for you with no fuss. Can’t speak for other airlines). You do need to check in before customs. Head for departures.
2. When you get to the gates where you have to scan your boarding pass, do so and walk through. To your immediate right is the customs building, and you will be funnelled towards the end of the building where two customs people will be sitting. If they aren’t, knock on the door.
3. Show them your white vehicle TIP card. They will give you a pre-stamped authorisation form on which you write your name and passport number.
4. You are done. Smile at the nice people and continue to passport control.
5. If asked, you can show passport control your authorisation form.
That’s it!
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The procedure for Essaouira airport. Just now am leaving Morocco for a flying visit to Germany. Bike parked at the hotel I stayed at in town. Essaouira airport is very small.
1. In the entry hall as you enter, look left where the arrivals exit is and go there. Explain your situation to someone in uniform loitering there. There are lots of uninformed types everywhere.
I was escorted the wrong way through arrivals security to the customs office. I think I spoke to the main customs boss. All very friendly and professional. I again explained in dubious French what I was doing. He completed a form that I signed. He then gave me a different piece of paper for immigration. I was then escorted back thought arrivals security into the entry hall.
2. Got my boarding pass from the airline.
3. Passed through departures security
4. At immigration/ passport control, the officer stamped me out. I volunteered the document that the customs boss had given me. The immigration officer transcribed something from his screen (he still had my passport) onto that piece of paper. I asked if I could have it back, but he said he'd keep it. (I'd taken a picture of it in the interim).
Am now waiting for the flight. I wish German immigration/ customs/ security were as pleasant as their Moroccan brethren.
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TVIP over-stay
If, like me, you leave your vehicle in Mk for months at a time, make sure you check your white TVIP card expiry date on subsequent visits.
I didn’t when I arrived in late October,, assuming I’d be clear till April ’25 (6 months).
I omitted to factor in several months last winter with another bike, so the six-month/year rule was automatically applied to my ID, not vehicle and my November white card stated expiry Feb 10 2025.
Being 10 days overdue cost me an hour and 1043dh (80 quid) at Tan Med today.
Customs inspector was very agreeable and apologetic that the system was playing up and he had to go to another building to process it. Receipt looked like 1000dh fee (100/day?) plus a few taxes.
(Just realised it was my golden opportunity to ask the chief about bringing in vehicles with owners not present. Darn.)
You don’t even need to show your white card any more. Bloke with a tablet scans your reg and you drive on down to the scanner. Unless you’re over-stayed, like me.
Was resigned to missing my ‘1pm’ ferry, but luckily what I thought was the ferry pulling away at 13.20 was the ferry backing up to berth. Didn’t leave till 3pm, as is common. I should have known.
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