10 Day Morocco Tour from Casablanca Via the Imperial Cities

Included in the $2,403

Nine nights of accommodation in riads and 4-star hotels, or riads plus a luxury desert camp tent if you pick that option. A professional driver and a comfortable vehicle with fuel are included, along with sandboarding, dinner, breakfast, Fes and Marrakech city tours, and camel rides at both sunset and sunrise with one camel each. That is the full list. Anything you expect beyond it, ask before booking.

The honest note: the listed price is not what you pay. Viator adds $302 in extra charges at checkout on top of the $2,403, so budget for the checkout figure and then for lunches, entrances and tips on the road.

What You May Pay on the Day

Lunch every day is yours to buy. Monument entrance fees are extra, and drinks start from 1 euro. Tips depend on you, and one tipping guide suggests 100 to 150 MAD for full-day guides and drivers and about 10 percent in restaurants.

The 4x4 desert tour around the dunes is an optional extra with no price stated, so agree it with the driver before you set off. If you want the luxury desert camp tent rather than the standard riad and hotel mix, that depends on the accommodation option you select at booking.

The Route in Outline

The tour starts and ends in Casablanca with hotel pickup included, and the departure time is not stated, so check availability for your date. The loop passes through Fes, the Sahara desert and Marrakech across 10 days and 9 nights. The listing sells the heritage of Fes and Marrakech, the medieval medina of Fes, the royal palaces and gardens, and the evening scene at Jemaa el-Fnaa square, where dozens of food stalls fill the square after dark. It finishes back in Casablanca, a city of about 3.2 million people where historic souks sit on modern streets.

For scale, the desert legs are long. Fes to Merzouga is roughly 457 to 463 km with around 7 hours of driving per route planners, and the return from the Merzouga area to Marrakech is put at 534 to 560 km with drive times quoted between 8 and 13 hours depending on the source. Stops, photo breaks and meals add to the wheel time. Expect long days on both sides of the dunes.

In the desert itself, a camel ride to a Merzouga camp typically takes about an hour and leaves one to two hours before sunset, which matches the listing's sunset and sunrise camel rides with one camel each. The dunes of Erg Chebbi rise up to 150 m above the surrounding plain, and sandboarding is included. Winter nights in the Merzouga dunes can drop below freezing, so pack warm layers even if the days are hot.

Shared Group of Up to 14

This is not a private tour. You share the vehicle and the ten days with up to 14 other travelers, which keeps the format fixed and the pace set by the group. If you want your own car and driver, the 7-Day Private Casablanca to Marrakech Tour runs a private group with options for 2 to 3 travelers, or the 11-Day Private Morocco Tour Package adds Chefchaouen, Meknes and Volubilis to a private Casablanca to Marrakech route.

Travelers Who Want the Price to Cover Everything

Lunch, monument entrance fees, drinks, tips and the 4x4 desert tour all cost extra, and Viator adds $302 in extra charges at checkout. If you want meals and fees closer to fully covered, the 10-Day Luxury Private Morocco Tour includes breakfast, lunch and dinner plus water and snacks, though it lists at $3,994 per person. The 10-Day Best of Morocco from Casablanca lists entrance fees as included in its accommodation tiers, but its tour-only tier leaves them out, and the listing does not say which tier its $1,269 price belongs to.

Long Drive Days

The route has two long desert legs, with Fes to Merzouga around 457 to 463 km and the way back toward Marrakech quoted at 534 to 560 km. If ten days of vehicle time is too much, the 3-Day Merzouga Sahara Desert Tour does the desert alone from Marrakech in a much shorter format, or the 8-Day Casablanca to Marrakech Tour trims two days off the full loop.

Fitness and Access

The listing says the tour suits all physical fitness levels, and infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller. No wheelchair access is stated, and Viator lists age bands from infant 0-6 through senior 61-100 for pricing only, not as limits. Camel rides at sunset and sunrise mean mounting and riding a camel twice, and desert nights can be cold, so bring layers.

Reaching Casablanca

Casablanca Mohammed V airport, code CMN, served about 10.4 million passengers in 2024. An Al Bidaoui train leaves roughly every hour from 04:00 to 23:00 into the city. Marrakesh Menara, code RAK, Fez-Saiss, code FEZ, Tangier Ibn Battouta, code TNG, and Rabat-Sale, code RBA, serve the rest of the country if you build your own routing.

The listing's own pickup is included, though it does not state whether the pickup point is the airport.

Adding Days Before or After

The route skips Chefchaouen, Rabat, Meknes and Volubilis, so if the blue town matters to you, check the 8-Day Private Morocco Tour which runs Casablanca, Chefchaouen, Fes, desert and Marrakech. Around Casablanca, the Hassan II Mosque has a minaret of about 210 m (one guide says 200 m), and a mosque tour fee is quoted at either 140 MAD on the official foundation page or 130 MAD in an older guide. From Marrakech, Essaouira is 176 km away by road, about 2 h 24 min of driving, or around 3 hours by bus.

The guides on Merzouga and the best time to visit Morocco cover the desert end and the seasons in more detail.