Is Marrakesh Safe for Solo Female Travelers?

Couple travel

Surprised me by how safe I felt. I was only bothered a few times while in the medina, which is to be expected as people will try to scam you, but if I wasn’t interested in buying anything, I’d ignore them and they’d leave me alone pretty quickly. Stayed in and airbnb in Gueliz and absolutely loved the area. Felt less busy than the main centre, but still had lots of shops and restaurants around. Lots of options for food for vegetarians! Traveled around Morocco to other cities and used “In Drive” more so than taxi’s. In Drive technically isn’t illegal in the country, but most of the drivers aren’t registered taxis, so taxis do report them to the police to try and get them fined. That’s why if you use In Drive, your driver will probably park a bit away from you and any other taxi’s. I found the app to be much better than taxi’s as you offer a price on the app for where you want to go, and drivers can accept that price, or offer to do it for a different price. Once you confirm, the driver’s always stuck to the agreed on price for us, however official taxi’s can often try to charge you more than the trio is worth. If you’re thinking about doing any activities, you should definitely do quad biking and take a trip up to the Atlas Mountains. I booked my experiences through Airbnb and both were amazing!

Group travel

It was a nice sunny city with little alleys everywhere just a tad bit overpriced for the average moroccan salary tbh, also make sure to always negotiate and if you want to buy pottery souvenirs try going to Oulja in Salé instead, a whole lot cheaper!!!!!!! Almost half the price

Couple travel

I definitely didn't feel safe, there are too many men cat calling you, following you etc. If you're traveling with your boyfriend or a man in general, you'll feel so much safer but I traveled with my female friend and we had bad experiences. Markets are too expensive, food is cheap but questionable quality. We stayed in an all girls hostel so we felt safer. Using public transport is easier than I thought even tho it's a complete mess (buses are not on time, so many people on skuters braing every existing rule on the roads). Taxis will take so much money from you-you have to negotiate the price and don't do anything before you agree on the price.

Couple travel

It was my first time in Morroco. I’m in love in this country. I’ve been only in one city-Marrakech. I felt almost safe because I travel with my boyfriend but at the night was scary because of lack of light. Very cheap and affordable city. We lived in 4 star hotel for 400€ and breakfast included. Food is cheap,for instance soup 3€ and tajine 6€. I feel very bad because we were only in the city and not outside of the city so if you have time you must booked trip to desert. To summarise,it’s worth to visit and explore.

Solo travel

I loved visiting Marrakesh solo this past weekend. I generally felt safe, but I did have an eye out for danger at all times just because of everyone saying that I should. I met another solo lady from this app and we did a free walking tour at the beginning of the weekend so we ended up meeting 2 more solo ladies that joined us for lunch and other activities. My favourite place to visit was the Medrasa Ben Youssef which was a Quran school with students accommodation. Also the Bahia palace was fascinating. I did a tour to the Agafay desert and cuddled some camels. I got a traditional black soap bath and argan oil massage which I loved and I also took a tagine cooking class!!! I loved all of it!

Solo travel

It’s a great experience and will continue traveling to this location. The hospitality of the locals is amazing and was able to learn so much. The food is delicious and I mostly enjoyed the msemen bread.

I would not go here as a female solo traveler. There was one time that I was with my three children, and without my husband. I was a bit lost and a man approached me to give me directions and started to lead me down a street that did not feel safe. My antenna went up and so we hightailed it out of there. My gut told me there was something was off. In general, the men are pushy, and you have to watch for pickpockets. I had to worry about those things with my husband there.

For foreigners Marrakech is very safe at daylight and at night especially in the center of the city All my friends who came from abroad told me that they feel so safe in Marrakech because whenever you’re you can find police and people are so nice