Morocco Tour Package8 Day Morocco Tour From Casablanca to Marrakech
This 8 day Morocco tour runs a private route from Casablanca to Marrakech through Rabat, Chefchaouen, Fes, Ifrane, Merzouga, the Todra Gorges, the Dades Valley and Ait Ben Haddou. MOROCCOFIRSTGATE sells it on GetYourGuide at $1,231 per person, down from a struck-through $1,539, and the listing warns prices may vary. You get 7 nights in standard riads and hotels, one night in a luxury desert camp reached by camel, daily breakfast, 2 dinners and the camp dinner. lunches, museum entrances, drinks and the desert 4x4 or quad ride cost extra. This page walks the itinerary, lists every exclusion and compares it with other listings on this site about Morocco tour packages. Compare it with the other Morocco package tours.
About This Tour
MOROCCOFIRSTGATE runs this as a private departure with a driver and guide, starting at Casablanca airport and ending in Marrakech or at Casablanca airport on day 8. The route covers the Hassan II Mosque, Rabat, Chefchaouen, a full day in Fes, Ifrane, Midelt, Merzouga and the Erg Chebbi dunes, then returns west through the Todra Gorges, the Dades Valley, Ouarzazate and Ait Ben Haddou with an argan oil cooperative stop before the Marrakech city tour.
The price shown is the discounted $1,231 with $1,539 struck through, and the listing says prices may vary. The rating is 5.0 from 6 verified reviews, which is a small number of reviews, so treat it as a young listing rather than a proven one.
$1,231 per person, discounted from $1,539, and the listing says prices may vary.
8 days and 7 nights, with day 3 fully in Fes and day 7 in Marrakech.
Airport or hotel pickup in Casablanca with drop-off at the airport, the exact time shows when you check availability.
Private group with a driver and guide, run in English.
7 nights in standard riads and hotels, plus one night in a luxury desert camp, listed as Bivouac Azawad Berber Camp or similar, reached by camel.
Daily breakfast, 2 dinners and the desert camp dinner. Lunches, other dinners, drinks, museum entrance fees, tips and the 4x4 or quad desert tour are paid extra.
Free cancellation 24 hours before departure for a full refund, with reserve now pay later available.
Check Dates and Availability
Departure times are not fixed in the listing, so check availability to see starting times and the live price. Free cancellation applies 24 hours before departure.
Quick answer The short answer
This 8 day Morocco tour costs $1,231 per person, down from $1,539, and the listing says prices may vary. It is a private 8-day run from Casablanca to Marrakech with a luxury desert camp night at Erg Chebbi reached by camel. Daily breakfast, 2 dinners and the camp dinner are included. Lunches, museum entrances, drinks, tips and the desert 4x4 or quad are extra.
Key takeaways
- The full stop-by-stop itinerary covers Rabat, Chefchaouen, Fes, Merzouga, the Todra Gorges and Ait Ben Haddou in 8 days.
- Read what the price covers before booking, because meals and entrances sit outside the $1,231.
- Want the same length with more reviews? Compare the 8-Day Private Morocco Tour.
- Need fees included and a shorter trip? See the 7-Day Private Casablanca to Marrakech Tour.
What the Price Actually Covers
The $1,231 covers transport, 7 nights of standard accommodation, the camp night and a short list of meals. Everything below the line comes out of your pocket on the day.
Included
The listing includes airport pickup and drop-off, private transportation in a comfortable vehicle, the driver, fuel and local taxes. Accommodation is 7 nights in standard riads and hotels plus the luxury desert camp night, which comes with dinner and breakfast. Meals covered are daily breakfast, 2 dinners and the camp dinner.
Guiding covers the driver, city tours in Fes and Marrakech and a local guide at Ait Ben Haddou. The camel trek to camp and the early morning camel ride in the dunes are included, and stops are flexible.
- Airport pickup and drop-off and private transport with fuel and taxes
- 7 nights standard riads and hotels plus the luxury camp night
- Daily breakfast, 2 dinners and the desert camp dinner
- Camel trek to camp and morning camel ride
- Fes and Marrakech city tours and a local guide at Ait Ben Haddou
Not Included
The listing is explicit about what sits outside the price. Lunches and dinners other than the 2 stated dinners and the camp dinner are yours to buy. Drinks are never included.
Entrance fees for museums are not included, so budget for tickets at places like the Hassan II Mosque, where the official foundation page lists 140 MAD for foreign adults and an earlier guide figure said 130 MAD. Tips are not covered, and a full-day guide tip of 100 to 150 MAD is a common suggestion from travel writers. The 4x4 tour in the desert or quads cost extra, and personal expenses are on you.
- Lunches and most dinners, plus all drinks
- Museum entrance fees
- Tips
- The desert 4x4 tour or quads
- Personal expenses
The Line Items Side by Side
The table sets what the $1,231 covers against what you pay on the road, using only the listing and the fee figures in the research files. Check the live price on the booking card, because the listing itself says prices may vary.
| Line | In the price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Private vehicle, driver and fuel | Yes | Airport pickup and drop-off included |
| 7 nights standard riads and hotels | Yes | Standard tier, not upgraded rooms |
| Luxury desert camp night | Yes | Bivouac Azawad Berber Camp or similar, reached by camel |
| Meals | Partly | Daily breakfast, 2 dinners and camp dinner. Lunches and drinks extra |
| Museum entrance fees | No | Hassan II Mosque tour listed at 140 MAD by the foundation, 130 MAD in an earlier guide |
| Desert 4x4 or quads | No | Paid add-on in Merzouga |
| Tips | No | 100 to 150 MAD per full-day guide is a common writer suggestion |
Sources: Wikipedia: Morocco, Wikivoyage: Morocco
A stepped passage in the Kasbah of the Udayas above the Bouregreg river in Rabat. Photo: Khatib23, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What the Day Is Really Like
The listing gives the route and the highlights but no clock times, so the days below follow its stated order. Pickup is at the airport or hotel, with the time shown when you check availability.
Day 1, Casablanca to Chefchaouen
The tour picks you up at Casablanca airport or your hotel. Day 1 covers the Hassan II Mosque, whose minaret is among the tallest in the world, and the sights of Rabat, inscribed by UNESCO in 2012, before the drive on to Chefchaouen. Chefchaouen sits at 564 m in the Rif Mountains and was founded in 1471.
You sleep in standard accommodation here and for most nights.
Days 2 and 3, Fes
Day 2 moves south to Fes, a city of 1,256,172 residents founded in 789 CE, with the medina of Fes el-Bali inscribed by UNESCO in 1981. Day 3 is fully in Fes with a guided city tour. This is a full day without a long transfer before the desert leg, so use it for the medina and the Chouara Tannery, where hides soak for two to three days before dyeing.
Day 4, Ifrane and Midelt to Merzouga
The route climbs through Ifrane, a hill station founded in 1929 that stands at 1,665 m and holds the African record low of -23.9 C, then Midelt and the Ziz Valley down to Merzouga. Sources put the Fes to Merzouga leg at roughly 457 to 463 km and about 7 hours of driving, longer with stops. In Merzouga you ride a camel to the camp, and a Merzouga camel ride to camp usually takes about an hour and leaves one to two hours before sunset.
The night is in a luxury camp such as Bivouac Azawad Berber Camp or similar, with dinner and breakfast included. Erg Chebbi's dunes rise 150 m and stretch about 28 km north to south.
Day 5, Todra Gorges and the Dades Valley
An early morning camel trek takes you back across the dunes. The day drive runs through the Todra Gorges, about 24 km long, and the Dades Valley, where gorge walls range from 200 to 500 m. You overnight in standard accommodation.
Day 6, Ouarzazate and Ait Ben Haddou
West through Ouarzazate, which sits at 1,151 m and had 79,218 residents in the 2024 census, then the ksar of Ait Ben Haddou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, with a local guide included. The day ends with an argan oil cooperative stop before another night in standard accommodation.
Days 7 and 8, Marrakech and the End
Day 7 is the Marrakech city tour, in a medina founded around 1070 and inscribed by UNESCO in 1985, with 18 souks employing over 40,000 people. Day 8 brings the tour to its end point, which the listing states as Casablanca or Marrakech airport, or a hotel in Casablanca. Confirm the drop-off direction with the operator when you book, because it changes your flight plan.
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Who This Tour Rules Out
This listing fits travellers happy with standard rooms, long drives and paying extras on the ground. If any line below is you, look at a different package.
Long Drive Days
The route involves long drives between Casablanca, Chefchaouen, Fes, Merzouga and Marrakech, and the listing says so itself. The Fes to Merzouga leg alone is roughly 457 to 463 km and about 7 hours of driving. Marrakech back over the mountains toward Ouarzazate is 198.3 km, about 3 h 24 min without stops per Rome2Rio and closer to 5 hours with stops, and the Atlas road is winding with many switchbacks.
If you want a slower pace, the 10-Day Morocco Tour with Desert Camp spreads the same corridor over 10 days.
Anyone Who Wants Fees and Meals Bundled
Lunches, most dinners, drinks, museum entrances and the desert 4x4 or quad are all excluded. If you would rather have entrances inside the price, the 7-Day Private Casablanca to Marrakech Tour lists an entrance fee as included in 7 days, though its meal coverage is unclear, so ask before booking.
Travellers Who Want a Proven Listing
The rating of 5.0 comes from 6 verified reviews, a small number. The 8-Day Private Morocco Tour carries 5.0 from 40 reviews at $1,300 for a similar Casablanca to Marrakech arc. For a large review base, the shared 10-day loop lists 4.9 from 356 reviews at $2,403, but Viator adds $302 in charges at checkout.
Cold-sensitive Desert Sleepers and Access Needs
Minimum age, wheelchair access and difficulty are not stated in the listing, so ask the operator directly if any of these matter. Winter nights in the Merzouga dunes drop below freezing, and the camp is reached by a camel ride of roughly an hour, which rules out travellers who cannot ride. The rooms are standard riads and hotels, so do not expect hotel upgrades at this price.
The mud-brick Taourirt Kasbah in Ouarzazate. Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Getting There and What to Add
The tour starts at Casablanca airport and ends at an airport or a Casablanca hotel, so your flights bookend the trip. A few days on your own can cover what the route skips.
Flying in
Casablanca Mohammed V airport carries the code CMN and served 10,449,372 passengers in 2024, with an hourly Al Bidaoui train running from 04:00 to 23:00. Marrakech Menara, code RAK, handled about 9.3 million passengers in 2024, and Fes-Saiss is FEZ. The listing includes airport pickup, so book flights into CMN for day 1 and plan the return from Marrakech RAK or back to Casablanca, since the stated end point is Casablanca or Marrakech airport or a Casablanca hotel.
Days to Add Before or After
The route skips Meknes and Volubilis, inscribed by UNESCO in 1996 and 1997, and does not enter Essaouira. Marrakech to Essaouira is 176 km and about 2 h 24 min by road per Rome2Rio, or about 3 hours by bus, which makes an easy coast add-on after the tour. Spring from March to April and autumn from October to November are the best windows for the imperial cities.
For a fuller frame around the tour, the Morocco itinerary guide and the best time to visit Morocco page both help, and you can compare every package in our table of Morocco tours.
Itinerary Day by Day
The listing states no clock times, so days are phase-labelled. Pickup time appears when you check availability.
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Day 1
Casablanca to Chefchaouen
Airport or hotel pickup in Casablanca, then the Hassan II Mosque and Rabat before the drive to Chefchaouen for the first of 7 nights in standard accommodation.
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Day 2
Chefchaouen to Fes
Leave the Rif Mountains and drive south to Fes. Overnight in a standard riad or hotel.
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Day 3
Full day in Fes
A full guided city tour of Fes with no transfer. Breakfast included, lunch on your own.
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Day 4
Ifrane, Midelt and the Ziz Valley to Merzouga
The longest day, roughly 457 to 463 km from Fes to Merzouga. Ride a camel about an hour to the luxury desert camp, with dinner and breakfast included.
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Day 5
Sunrise dunes, Todra Gorges and Dades Valley
An early morning camel trek back over the dunes, then the Todra Gorges and the Dades Valley with a standard-accommodation night.
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Day 6
Ouarzazate and Ait Ben Haddou
West through Ouarzazate to Ait Ben Haddou with a local guide, then an argan oil cooperative stop and a night in standard accommodation.
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Days 7 and 8
Marrakech tour and departure
Day 7 is the guided Marrakech city tour. Day 8 ends the tour at Casablanca or Marrakech airport, or a hotel in Casablanca.
Pros and Cons
An honest read of the listing, its price and its exclusions.
What we genuinely like
- Private vehicle with a driver and guide in English, so no shared group
- Luxury desert camp night at Erg Chebbi with dinner and breakfast, reached by camel
- Airport pickup and drop-off included at both ends
- Free cancellation 24 hours before departure and reserve now pay later
- Fes and Marrakech city tours plus a local guide at Ait Ben Haddou are in the price
The honest downsides
- Lunches, most dinners, drinks, museum entrances, tips and the desert 4x4 or quad all cost extra on top of $1,231
- The 5.0 rating rests on 6 reviews, a small sample
- Long drive days, with Fes to Merzouga at roughly 457 to 463 km and about 7 hours of driving
- Accommodation is standard tier, and the listing says prices may vary above the $1,231 shown
- The end point splits between Casablanca and Marrakech, so confirm drop-off before booking flights
Who it's NOT for: Not for travellers who want meals, entrance fees and hotel upgrades bundled into one price, or who cannot sit through 7-hour drive days.
Questions About This Tour
How much does this 8 day Morocco tour cost?
$1,231 per person, discounted from a struck-through $1,539, and the listing says prices may vary. The booking card on this page shows the live price, and the Morocco package tours lists every listing side by side.
What meals are included over the 8 days?
Daily breakfast, 2 dinners and the desert camp dinner, with dinner and breakfast both included at the camp. All lunches, other dinners and drinks cost extra, which is why the What the Price Actually Covers section lists every exclusion before you book.
Is the desert camp really luxury?
The listing names Bivouac Azawad Berber Camp or similar and calls it a luxury camp reached by camel. A Merzouga camel ride to camp usually takes about an hour and leaves one to two hours before sunset. For context on camp classes, read the guide to a luxury desert camp in Merzouga.
How does it compare with other 8-day tours?
The closest rival is the 8-Day Private Morocco Tour at $1,300 with 5.0 from 40 reviews, against 6 reviews here. See the full write-up on the 8-Day Private Morocco Tour page for what its thin inclusions list means.
Can I cancel or change the booking?
Free cancellation applies 24 hours before departure for a full refund, and reserve now pay later is available. That matches the 24-hour terms on most listings in our table of Morocco tours.
Where does the tour start and end?
It starts with airport or hotel pickup in Casablanca and ends at Casablanca or Marrakech airport, or a hotel in Casablanca on day 8. The Merzouga guide explains the desert leg, and the route itself runs 12 named stops from Casablanca to Marrakech.
Is the 5.0 rating reliable?
It comes from 6 verified GetYourGuide bookings, which is a small number compared with the 108 reviews on the 7-Day Private Casablanca to Marrakech Tour at $1,511. Read the 7-Day Private Casablanca to Marrakech Tour page if a larger review base matters to you.
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