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15 Jun 2021
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BTW don’t book your hotel on sites like booking.com before you go as you’ll be charged European rates.
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BTW don’t book your hotel on sites like booking.com before you go as you’ll be charged European rates.
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I have never pre booked a hotel in Morocco , You can always find one .
I always start looking about 4 o'clock ,
Always get parking sorted for bike first. then view room .. then barter ! Cheapest was 40 dr in atlas ..most 80/120 dr. most ever paid was 200 dr
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Worth noting that like all accommodation in Morocco, hotels and campsites vary in quality and price, expensive doesn't always result in good quality and vice versa.
A lot of campsites will have rooms to rent that can be exceptionally good for the price. The rooms at Camp Serdraa, for example, are better than hotels at 3x the price.
If you camping in a ground tent you'll find that most campsites are set up for the campervan brigade with hard standing pitches. You'll be best off with a self supporting tent and a good mattress if you use these regularly
Its getting harder to find good budget hotels at the lower end of the pricing range every year unless you have fairly low standards.
Cheapest I've paid was 30dH in Smara but in all honesty it was the worst hotel I've ever stayed in and the police cells we were offered looked much more comfortable
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Cheapest I've paid was 30dH in Smara but in all honesty it was the worst hotel I've ever stayed in and the police cells we were offered looked much more comfortable
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I tried that place. It was so bad they asked me to leave in shame ;-)
I've since heard there is a normal hotel on the road in.
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They wouldn't let us use the cells at the police station in Ain Benimathar near the Alg border, they were so shudderingly awful.
It was very late and very dark and they insisted we camp across the road in "le jungle". Woke up to find we were camping on a roundabout.
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