:thumbup1: Good, hope to be there end of next week. Safe travels.

I’m here for a while if you want to meet up for a beer


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Sounds good. My rough plan is down to Moulay Bous on the 11th ish, 12th Casa and Marrakech 13th-16th for a few days, with maybe a day in Essaouira.
Not sure if any of that fits in with you.
Cheers, Markbeer

_€180 open return from Carlos, 1per, campervan. Plus cake and vino. Cheers to all and safe travels.

Tarifa > Tanger Ville (FRS)

1 motorcycle,
2 persons,
open return,


175€

Just a heads up, the agent in Tangier Med for FRS says the the prices are going to rise after Ramadan for the summer.
It'll be interesting to see what FRS and others charge.

Safe travels.

I purchased a round trip ticket, open in both directions, from Algeciras to Tanger Med for €80 from Carlos last week. One motorcycle and one person.

I was very pleasantly surprised by the low price. The ticket itself had a price of €112 printed on it, but Carlos' employee only charged me €80.

Be aware that Carlos only takes cash - but, there is an ATM across the street from his agency.

Michael

Arriving in Tan Med port: procedures
 

We passed through Tangier Med on Saturday with few problems. If on a bike keep passport handy it will be checked as you disembark. Make sure you get it stamped on the boat. Quite a long ride through the port to reach customs. We were in the queue, with two bikes, after a few minutes an official waved us past the other vehicles and we filtered to the front! Customs official took passports and bike papers and returned with everything done. Keep the import paperwork handy for a final check at customs exit. Cash machine and insurance office shortly after on the left. Took us about 15 minutes in all to clear customs and another 15 for cash and insurance. After that drive to the roundabout and turn right for Tangier or left for Tetouan.

Thanks for making that very informative and helpful post.

Your experience was pretty much identical to mine when I entered at Tanger Med port on my motorcycle during the last week of January this year.

For the benefit of others reading this thread who have not been to Morocco before: Immigration processing (as opposed to customs processing) is done on the ferry, on the way over to Morocco. There is always an immigration officer on the boat. You fill out your form, he stamps your passport and you are assigned a "police number" that is valid for the duration of that passport.

Everyone on the boat has to get processed by this officer before they get off the boat. So, unless you enjoy standing in line behind 200 people, waiting to get your immigration paperwork done, I suggest the following:

1) Filter up to the front of the lineup in Spain, so your moto gets loaded first. This is an accepted procedure, you will not be considered rude or pushy if you do this.

2) Make sure you have your passport and a pen in your jacket pocket.

3) Once you get on the boat, tie the thing down as fast as you can, make sure you have your passport and a pen, head to the upper deck (purser's office or similar), grab the little Moroccan government form you need to fill out, fill it out, and go line up in front of the immigration officer.

Sometimes, you can get hold of a blank copy of a Moroccan immigration form before you even get on the boat - for example, where you buy your ferry ticket. If you can do this, fill the form out before you get on the boat.

4) With luck, you will be one of the first people processed, before the immigration guy gets tired and pissed off, and you will then be able to go and sit down and relax for the rest of the ferry trip... instead of still standing in line behind dozens of other people after the ship docks in Morocco.

Michael

HI
I'm preparing my first trip to Morocco.
The form to fill you're talking about is the one for the vehicule? The D16 ter?

Trying to get one on the web, I found a notice from the maroccan Customs Site saying that since the beginning of 2019 you don't need to fill a form for vehicules.

Administration des Douanes et Imp�ts Indirects

Sorry it's in French, here's the translation

"As of January 1, 2019, persons having their habitual residence abroad and coming to stay temporarily in Morocco are exempted from the subscription of the written declarations according to the models D 16bis and D 16ter for the motor vehicles and D 716 for the boats of pleasure craft and other watercraft.
Thus, the temporary admission (AT) of these means of transport will be handled directly on the BADR computer system by the customs services at the ports of entry, on the basis of the documents presented by the traveler (valid passport, certificate of registration of the means of transport, power of attorney in the event of importation by a third person, rental agreement ...)."

Two threads down ;)
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...r-in-use-96937

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I was so proud of my catch!

Tangier MED
 

Came through TAN MED today its was fairly simple to do.

We bought tickets the night before at the ferry port in Spain Algeciras, ingone all persons trying to stop you on the roads in the port leading uptown the tickets offices, just ride past them other wise you will waste a hot 20 mins as we did getting rid of them.

Motorcycle parking at the ticket office is free and a separate area for bike parking is provided.

Roll up in the morning follow the signs for the ferry, present ticket at booth, have passports checked.

Go onto ferry, ride to front of que its expected, go onboard.

Our bikes were strapped down for us.

Go upto the information desk, fill in immigration card ( takes a couple of mins), don't forget the address where you are staying the first night.

Join the que at the immigration desk on the ship get passport stamped, sit and have a brew afterwards.

Get to Tan med, off the ship and you will be ushered off the ship , following exit signs, you will question about the import for your bike but customs is quite a way from the ship.

Stop at the booths, give customs officer v5 ( bike doc and passport), he wanders off and comes back about 20 mins later with a little a4 card, you show that to a final check at the port and off you go.

There is a line of breaau de change after the last check, rates not bad and out into the wilds you go.

Compared to Western Europe the driving is a little crazier but not too bad.

Do not loose the A4 card.

This is the first border we have crossed and the first time out of mainland Europe and if we can do it anyone can, just remember a little patience.

Tan Med towards Spain
 

Just a quick one for people returning to Spain.

The procedures for return are almost the same as going out.

Turn up and buy ticket for ferry, your friendly fixers will try and help.

Ride to gate, go and get passport checked, you will need a yellow leaving Morocco card filled in when you present your passport, after your tickets have been checked, ensure that you have a pen.

Get passport stamped as exiting.

Go to customs, present white A4 card, given on arrival, answer lots of questions from official, get card stamped twice, entered on computer and entered in a ledger by hand.

Move on to next check.

Have bikes scanned on x ray scanner along with cars and camper vans.

Ride down to dock figure out which dock your sailing from, present tickets to ferry employees and ride on.

Don't leave it last min as we did, we just about made the sailing, times seem to be flexible, a 1500 sailing set off at 1535, this is not unusual.

we made it through all the checks in 40 mins, which we were informed was super quick and most officials being at there most helpful, I would give yourselves an hour just to be sure.

It was a simple stress free process as was changing the money back, I got a decent rate and though we only stayed 3 days because of outside events and being new to this traveling, we exchanged 350 euros and got 150 back, that includes hotels food and fuel.

Beer really is the great expense.

A wonderful experience.

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170 euro quote from Carlos today for 1 person and 4x4