Morocco: The LCCs
and Royal Air Maroc — October 2025

For certain travellers, of a certain age, Morocco evokes images of, say, a gin joint in “Casablanca” where Sam plays, just once, “As Time Goes By”; of Captain Renault being “shocked, shocked” as he pockets his bribe; of Rick telling Ilsa that they would “always have Paris” before she leaves on the plane with Laszlo. Then there is Crosby, Stills and Nash promising eternal sunlit freedom for the hippies boarding the “Marrakesh Express”. Or even a dissipated William S Burroughs furiously typing in his hotel room in Tangier, a city of intrigue that became Interzone in his surreal novel “Naked Lunch”.

Today Morocco has become a major tourist destination, and travellers are less likely to be hopeless romantics. Rather, they are attracted by the spectacular beaches and resorts of Agadir and Taghazout on the Atlantic coast or Tamuda on the Mediterranean. Marrakesh remains the main tourist destination but now has plenty of luxury and boutique hotels as well as souks. The slightly more intrepid can explore the labyrinthine medinas of Fez and Rabat. There are ski resorts in the Atlas mountains.