Family-Friendly Morocco Tour in One Week

We just returned from a 10 night trip to Morocco including Marrakech, the Atlas Mountains, the desert and Essaouira. Our trip was amazing! Hassan carefully planned everything and included so many sights along the way. All of our accommodations Hassan chose were perfect. They included Riads, Auberges, a tent and a Kasbah style hotel. The food was fantastic and we were able to eat everything, as all recommended restaurants and accommodations used mineral water to prepare food. Bottled water was available everywhere as well.

We had the pleasure of meeting Hassan on 2 occasions. He met us in Marrakech at our Riad and walked us to a restaurant and stayed for a bit talking with us. Then as a surprise we met up again in our tent and had dinner with him. He is very proud of his heritage and it shows in the trip he planned for us. 

We had a driver for the trip. He is such a nice person and was so knowledgeable and accommodating throughout our trip. To get out to the desert it takes 2 days of driving, but we stopped many times to see things along the way. We spent about 8-9 hours each day between getting there, lunch and bathroom breaks, and seeing sights you don’t want to miss. Some areas are very remote. He took great care of us the whole time. I read that you should bring Dramamine on the car trip through the mountains and didn’t believe it. 2 of the 4 of us got car sick, so I highly recommend taking something. The drive is very twisty turny in the mountains with a lot of  climbing and then or course, descending. The car was very roomy and the A/C was on. Our driver was great though and very patient!! We had such a great experience and highly recommend booking with Hassan. It is a beautiful country full of the most friendly people. We felt safe everywhere we went.  

Hassan, the owner of the travel agency, created a superlative dream vacation for our family in Morocco. We spoke over the phone and communicated via email to finalize the itinerary with his local knowledge and recommendations. He chose the most beautiful Riads for us to stay in, found in fabulous locations within each city.

We visited many locations within Morocco which included Rabat, Chefchaouen, Volubilis, Fez plus a day trip in the Atlas Mountains. We experienced Marrakech, enjoyed an overnight stay at a desert lodge in the Agafay desert and visited Essaouira, and Oualidia. The trip was completely stress-free, with our driver-guide managing all our travel between locations, and local guides in each city. 

We are usually independent travelers, but this experience with the travel agency has completely changed how we will travel going forward.

The Best of Morocco 

I have travelled all over the world and I have to say that this is one of the best trip I’ve ever had.

Ziccaso! Yes you surprise me every time I choose new place to explore by linking me to best companies that can accommodate everything I want to experience!! Thank you for choosing this travel company, which is the best of the best.

I have decided to go to Morocco last minute and Mr. Hassan has accommodated my requests in a short time with a very impressive trip in all means!

He contacted me and asked me about everything I am looking for in this trip and made it just right to what I like.

The trip was arranged in a very short time and despite that he was very helpful, honest and true with everything he suggested and arranged.

To be honest the trip was way beyond my expectations.

Morocco is a very beautiful country, the people are so kind and welcoming always with a smile. It is very colorful and the food is really delicious and cooked with love everywhere. The weather was just right in March everywhere. Hotels and transportations were exceptional in all means.

I started my tour with my tour guide who was carefully chosen by Mr Hassan to take care of me. I have to say that he made the trip perfect with his honesty, caring, calming attitude, patience, and kindness. Since he picked me up from the airport to the last day he dropped off without any trouble or complaint. I felt like a princess and didn’t worry about anything during my trip. He took care of everything including checking in, baggage handling, transportation, taking everywhere and some walking and guiding tours, literally everything! I was really lucky.

Mr. Hassan was checking on me with directly during the trip and making sure the his brilliant arrangements were going well with me. I can’t thank him enough for arranging this incredible unforgettable tour.

My tour was fast lane tour, you can choose that if you like to sleep in a new place every night. I don’t mind that so that I can see and experience more things in a short time and got to visit many places too. The lovely thing about this tour it was by driving which I got to pass through many cities and villages and explore the rich culture and meet new people.

Morocco is old, vintage and charming. It has a lovely vibe. Casablanca is beautiful and coastal in which I started my journey, then I visited Rabat which is the capital ( very net and nice ). After that we went to Meknes and Fes ( my favorite old city). Then we went to Sahara OMG it was so charming. After that I have to say I saw all types of mountains in this country and the journey was very comfortable and relaxing. I went then to Marrakech which is very alive city and to Essaouira for a day tour and was lovely.

At the last day I was really sad to leave .. I felt that I left a part of my heart in this country. I can’t wait to visit Morocco again and see the few remaining places that I haven’t been to.

I would like to share some pictures and I actually created albums in my instagrams to show people the hidden gems of this wonderful country.

Thank you again Mr Hassan and to my guide for making my dream trip unforgettable.

My family, including my husband and our 16- and 11-year-old daughters, booked a 3-day driving tour with the tour company, picking us up from Fes, taking us to the desert for a camel trek to sleep in the desert, and then delivering us to Marrakesh. They put together a well-designed trip for us with stops at historic sites along the way, including the UNESCO World Heritage site of Ait Ben-Haddou, the Togda and Dades gorges, and through the High Atlas mountains. The camel trek - about an hour long - was easy and unique and took us to the wonderfully-appointed luxury hotel in the Erg Chebbi sand dunes, which included luxurious tents with real toilets and showers in our private tents. The trip included 3 days of driving - covering 700 miles / 1100 kilometers - and all meals and lodging. One of the best parts was our driver Mustapha. He was such easy company, knowledgeable about all things Morocco, a safe driver, flexible, taught us Arabic and Berber words, and helped us bargain for excellent prices on local ceramics and carpets. We had a spacious Mercedes van with plenty of space for us to stretch out. We received a bespoke itinerary, a local cell phone, and a phone call from the tour company to check on us along the way. I would definitely recommend them. Note: There is MAJOR construction on Route 9 from Ouarzazate through the Atlas Mountains to Marrakech, adding an hour or so of driving time.

Our family of four went to Morocco for 10 days. We felt the trip consisted of too many days sitting around the hotels. The tours in the city were very short: we would meet the guides around 9:00 AM and be back in the hotels by 1:00 PM. The next day, we would drive a couple hours to the next city, arrive in the afternoon and stay in the hotel again the rest of the day. I talked to fellow travelers who were there through different travel agencies and they pretty much had the same schedule as us so I don't think it was all Zicasso's fault. We just really wish there were more sight seeing to do.

Also, the guides took us to their friends' stores who were very pushy about buying their merchandise even when we kept telling them we were not interested (The leather store in Fez and other little ones in the medinas). Considering the fact that the tours were so short, we felt the tip for the guides was very steep. ($15/person per day). Especially on the last day, the guide drove with us from one city to the next and there was no tour to be had, which we thought was pretty ridiculous. Why did he come with us to show us the hotel and walk around for 30 minutes?

I should add that the hotels we stayed in were very high quality and super clean. However, we did not pay all that money to stay in hotels for hours and hours. To make things worse, we went during Ramadan so all the stores and restaraunts were closed so we were really confined to the hotels, which is not the agency's fault. However, we were told that in these cities, shops and eateries would be open at night, which was not the case in Marrakesh or Essaouira. 

All in all, we were pretty disappointed and only giving this trip two stars for the amazing hotels. Shout out to our driver who was super friendly and became pretty close with my dad at the end of the tour. He really was a true professional.