Morocco Tour PackageTangier to Marrakech Tour: 7 Days from Tangier
This tangier to marrakech tour runs 7 days with Destino Marruecos - Day Tours, priced from $1,537 per person, and it is the only listing on this site that starts in Tangier rather than Casablanca or Marrakech. You travel as a private group in an air-conditioned vehicle with an English and Spanish speaking driver and guide, sleeping one night in a luxury desert tent near Erg Chebbi. Chefchaouen, Fes and Marrakech come with guided sightseeing, and sandboarding is part of the desert stop. The trade-offs are real: most lunches and city dinners are extra, entrance fees are optional, and the listing's own pickup text refers to Marrakech rather than Tangier, so confirm the start point before you pay. This page breaks down what the price covers, how the week runs and who should book a different Morocco tour package.
About This Tour
Destino Marruecos - Day Tours runs this as a private 7-day journey from Tangier through Chefchaouen, Fes and the Sahara to Marrakech. The driver and guide speak English and Spanish, and transport is a private air-conditioned vehicle. The desert leg includes a camel ride, with a 4x4 transfer to and from the camp as the alternative, plus sandboarding in the dunes and one night in a luxury tent.
Meals are half-board: breakfast and dinner are included, but lunches and dinners in Chefchaouen, Fes and Marrakech are not. Drinks cost extra, entrances are optional and tips are optional. Free cancellation applies up to 24 hours before departure for a full refund. The listing sits at 4.9 from 275 reviews on Viator and Tripadvisor.
$1,537 per person, private group, listed on Viator
7 days, Tangier to Marrakech
The title starts in Tangier, but the listing's pickup text refers to hotels and riads across Marrakech, with the nearest accessible point for medina riads. Confirm the start point with the operator before booking
Private group. Driver and guide speak English and Spanish
One night in a luxury tent in the desert. Accommodation for the other nights is not stated beyond that, so ask the operator
Breakfast and dinner included. Lunches and dinners in Chefchaouen, Fes and Marrakech, plus drinks, are not included
Entrances are optional, tips are optional, drinks and the city lunches and dinners come out of your pocket
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure for a full refund. Reserve now pay later is not offered
Check Dates and Availability
Departure times are not stated on the listing, so open the date picker to see the starting times for your dates. The price shown there is the operator's own.
You'll confirm the exact date and time on the secure booking page.
Quick answer The short version
This 7-day private tangier to marrakech tour costs from $1,537 per person and carries a 4.9 rating from 275 reviews. Breakfast and dinner are included, one night is in a luxury desert tent with sandboarding and a camel ride or 4x4 transfer, and a driver and guide speaking English and Spanish travel with you. Lunches, drinks, entrance fees and tips are extra.
Key takeaways
- It is the only start-in-Tangier option in the Morocco package tours
- Prefer Casablanca? The 7-Day Private Casablanca to Marrakech Tour covers the same southbound loop
- See exactly what the $1,537 covers in what the price actually covers
What the Price Actually Covers
The from-price buys a private vehicle, a guide, most breakfasts and dinners and the desert night. It does not buy lunches, city dinners, drinks, tickets or tips.
In the Price
The listing states these inclusions: guided sightseeing tours of Fes and Marrakech, private air-conditioned transportation, one night in a luxury tent in the desert, a camel ride, a 4x4 transfer from and to the camp as the alternative to camels, sandboarding in the dunes, breakfast and dinner, and an experienced English and Spanish speaking driver and guide. Hotel pickup is offered, though the pickup text refers to hotels and riads across Marrakech, so confirm where pickup happens at the Tangier end when you book.
Nothing else is promised. Accommodation for the six non-desert nights is not described, no airport transfer is stated and flights are not included. The line below is drawn straight from the listing's own inclusions and exclusions.
| Line | In the price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Private air-conditioned vehicle and driver | Yes | Private group, English and Spanish |
| Guided sightseeing, Fes and Marrakech | Yes | No local guides are promised in Chefchaouen |
| Desert night | Yes | One night in a luxury tent |
| Camel ride or 4x4 to camp | Yes | 4x4 transfer from and to the camp is the alternative |
| Sandboarding | Yes | In the dunes |
| Breakfast and dinner | Yes | Lunches and dinners in Chefchaouen, Fes and Marrakech are not |
| Drinks | No | Not included |
| Entrance fees | No | Listed as optional |
| Tips | No | Listed as optional |
What You Pay on the Day
Budget for lunch every day and for dinner in Chefchaouen, Fes and Marrakech. Entrances are optional, which means any monument, museum or kasbah you want to enter comes out of your pocket. Tips are optional too, and for context one tipping guide suggests 100 to 150 MAD for a full-day guide or driver and about 10 percent in restaurants, while another suggests 100 to 200 dh per day for tour drivers.
Drinks are not included anywhere, including at dinner. No mandatory extras are stated and no single supplement figure appears on the listing, so solo travelers should ask the operator directly about the solo price before booking.
Sources: Wikipedia: Morocco, Wikivoyage: Morocco
A blue-doored entrance into the Tangier medina. Photo: Alexey Komarov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What the Week Is Really Like
The listing gives the route and the inclusions but publishes no day-by-day timings, so the shape below follows the stated route cities and what each stop includes.
Tangier to Chefchaouen
The week opens in Tangier, Morocco's second largest city with 1,275,428 residents in 2024. From there the route climbs into the Rif Mountains to Chefchaouen, the blue town founded in 1471 that sits at 564 m. The listing promises no guided tour here, so the blue streets are yours to wander.
Your dinner in Chefchaouen is not included, which means an evening out in the medina at your own cost.
Chefchaouen to Fes
The drive continues south to Fes, founded in 789 CE and home to 1,256,172 people in 2024. A guided sightseeing tour of the city is in the price, and Fes el-Bali, the old medina, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Lunch is extra, so plan a midday stop inside the medina.
Expect one of the week's longer transfer days here, since the Chefchaouen to Fes leg is roughly 194 km and about 3 h 28 min of driving by road, before stops.
Fes to the Sahara
The route then crosses toward Merzouga and the Erg Chebbi dunes, which rise to 150 m above the surrounding plain and stretch about 28 km north to south. Rome2Rio puts the Fes to Merzouga leg at 457 km and 7 h 14 min of driving, and KimKim gives 463 km and about 7 hours, so this is the longest drive of the tour. At the dunes you ride a camel to camp or take the 4x4 instead.
A Merzouga camel ride to camp takes about an hour and typically leaves one to two hours before sunset. Sandboarding, dinner and breakfast at the luxury tent are all in the price.
The Desert to Marrakech
After the desert night the tour crosses the High Atlas toward Marrakech, whose medina was founded around 1070 and inscribed by UNESCO in 1985. The approach usually runs through the Tizi n'Tichka pass, the highest major mountain pass in North Africa at 2,205 m by a 2022 GPS measurement, though the sign at the top still reads 2,260 m. A guided sightseeing tour of Marrakech is included, with Jemaa el-Fnaa, proclaimed a UNESCO masterpiece of intangible heritage in 2001, at its heart.
Lunch and your final dinner in the city are extra. The listing states no return point or end time, so ask the operator where the tour formally finishes.
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Who This Tour Rules Out
The listing is broad on fitness but specific on a few limits. Check them against your group before you book.
Physical Demands and Access
The listing says the tour is suitable for all physical fitness levels but is not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries, which matters given the camel ride. No wheelchair access is stated. Infants must sit on an adult's lap, specialized infant seats are available, and strollers and service animals are allowed.
The age bands on the listing, infants 0 to 4, children 5 to 9, adults 10 to 89, are pricing bands on Viator, not hard limits.
Drivers, Budgets and Sleepers
Long days are the real filter. The Fes to Merzouga leg alone runs about 457 to 463 km, so if multi-hour transfer days do not suit your group, look at the 3-Day Merzouga Sahara Desert Tour instead, which starts and ends in Marrakech. Desert nights get cold outside summer, and the listing gives no weather note, so pack layers.
If you want every meal covered rather than paying for lunches on the road, the 10-Day Luxury Private Morocco Tour includes breakfast, lunch and dinner plus water and snacks. If you want a shared group, the 10-Day Morocco Desert Tour via Imperial Cities runs with up to 14 travelers from Casablanca. The full set of options is on the Morocco tours homepage.
Blue-washed lanes of Chefchaouen. Photo: Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Getting There and What to Add
Tangier is easy to reach by air and by high-speed rail, and both ends of the route leave room for extra days.
Reaching the Start
Tangier Ibn Battouta airport carries the code TNG and serves the city directly. If you arrive through Casablanca instead, the Al Boraq high-speed train covers Tangier to Casablanca in 2 h 10 min at up to 320 km/h on the Tangier to Kenitra section, though Rome2Rio quotes 2 h 17 min for the same leg. ONCF runs about 2,200 km of standard gauge track overall.
Because the listing's pickup text refers to Marrakech rather than Tangier, confirm in writing where the tour collects you, at the port, the airport or your hotel, before you book flights.
Adding Days at Either End
Tangier rewards a day of its own, and the Tanger-Med port 40 km from the city opened in 2007. At the Marrakech end, fly home from Marrakesh Menara airport, code RAK, which served about 9.3 million passengers in 2024. Essaouira makes a simple add-on, 176 km and 2 h 24 min by road from Marrakech per Rome2Rio, though the bus takes around 3 hours.
The tour skips Rabat, Casablanca and Meknes, and it does not enter Volubilis, whose Roman ruins were inscribed by UNESCO in 1997 and lie roughly 20 to 28 km from Meknes. For a route that includes those stops, see the 7-Day Private Casablanca to Marrakech Tour or read the guide to the best time to visit Morocco before fixing dates.
Day by Day on the Road
The listing publishes no clock times, so the steps below follow the route cities and inclusions it does state.
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Start
Pickup and the drive to Chefchaouen
The tour begins in Tangier. Pickup is offered, but the listing's pickup text refers to Marrakech hotels, so confirm the exact Tangier meeting point with the operator. The day ends in Chefchaouen, founded in 1471, with dinner on your own.
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Day 2
Chefchaouen to Fes
Morning in the blue lanes of the Rif town, then the transfer south, roughly 194 km and about 3 h 28 min of driving before stops. Overnight in Fes. Breakfast is included, lunch and dinner are not.
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Day 3
Guided Fes
A guided sightseeing tour of Fes is in the price, covering the medina inscribed by UNESCO in 1981. Lunch is extra.
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Day 4
Fes to the Sahara dunes
The longest drive, about 457 to 463 km to Merzouga. At the Erg Chebbi dunes, which rise 150 m, you take the camel ride or the 4x4 transfer to camp, with sandboarding in the dunes. Dinner and the night in the luxury tent are included.
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Day 5
Desert sunrise and the road west
Breakfast at camp, then the transfer back from camp and the drive toward the High Atlas and Marrakech, crossing the Tizi n'Tichka pass.
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Day 6
Guided Marrakech
A guided sightseeing tour of Marrakech is in the price, including the medina inscribed by UNESCO in 1985. Lunch and dinner in the city are extra.
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Day 7
Marrakech and the end
The tour finishes in Marrakech. The listing states no return point or end time, so ask the operator where you are dropped off.
Pros and Cons
A straight reading of the listing, with the drawbacks stated plainly.
What we genuinely like
- The only start in Tangier among the listings compared here, at $1,537 per person for 7 private days
- One night in a luxury desert tent with sandboarding, a camel ride and a 4x4 alternative all in the price
- Guided sightseeing in both Fes and Marrakech, with a driver and guide speaking English and Spanish
- 4.9 from 275 reviews on Viator and Tripadvisor
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure
The honest downsides
- Lunches and dinners in Chefchaouen, Fes and Marrakech are all extra, so food costs stack up over a week
- Entrance fees are optional rather than included, so monument tickets come out of your pocket
- The Fes to Merzouga leg is about 457 to 463 km, one of the longest single drives on any route here
- The pickup text refers to Marrakech while the title starts in Tangier, so the start point needs written confirmation
- Accommodation for the six nights outside the desert tent is not described anywhere on the listing
Who it's NOT for: Not for travelers who want every meal, ticket and hotel tier spelled out before they pay, since this listing leaves all of that open.
Questions About This Tour
Does the tour really start in Tangier?
The title and route start in Tangier, but the listing's own pickup text refers to hotels and riads across Marrakech, so confirm the start point with the operator in writing before booking. If a southern start suits you better, compare the 7-Day Luxury Morocco Tour, which begins in Marrakech.
How much does the tangier to marrakech tour cost?
The listing prices it from $1,537 per person for a private group, with lunches, city dinners, drinks, entrances and tips extra on top. To see how that sits against the other routes, open the Morocco package tours.
What is the desert night like?
You sleep one night in a luxury tent in the desert, reached by camel or by the 4x4 transfer that is included as the alternative, with sandboarding, dinner and breakfast at camp. For more on what camps near Merzouga offer, read the guide to a luxury desert camp Merzouga.
Can I cancel if my plans change?
Yes, the listing offers free cancellation up to 24 hours before the scheduled departure time for a full refund, and reserve now pay later is not offered. Cancellation windows vary across listings, so check the terms on the 10-Day Best of Morocco from Casablanca page too, which cancels free up to 3 days out.
Is the tour suitable for children?
The listing requires infants to sit on an adult's lap and lists pricing bands of infants 0 to 4, children 5 to 9 and adults 10 to 89, with specialized infant seats available, and strollers and service animals are allowed. The camel ride and the long drives are the practical limits, so read the page on Merzouga before deciding on the desert leg.
How do I get to the start in Tangier?
Fly into Tangier Ibn Battouta airport, code TNG, or take the Al Boraq high-speed train, which covers Tangier to Casablanca in about 2 h 10 min to 2 h 17 min, depending on the source. Confirm the meeting point with the operator first, then browse other Morocco tour packages if the logistics do not fit.
What will I pay beyond the listed price?
Drinks, lunches and dinners in Chefchaouen, Fes and Marrakech, optional entrance fees and optional tips all come out of your pocket, and one tipping guide suggests 100 to 150 MAD for a full-day guide or driver. No mandatory checkout extras are stated, unlike the shared 10-day desert tour, where $302 in extra charges are added at checkout.
Prices, availability and terms are set by the operator and confirmed at checkout.
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