Marrakech GuidebookAbout Marrakech Guidebook
An independent, unofficial guide to visiting Marrakech, Morocco: what to see, which ticket to buy for which monument, and how to spend one, two or three days without paying twice for the same thing. We are not the commune of Marrakech, the Moroccan National Tourist Office, the Direction du Patrimoine Culturel, the Fondation Jardin Majorelle, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech, a riad or a booking platform, and we sell nothing. The guide starts on the Marrakech city guide homepage, and every page prints the date its figures were read.
Why this site exists
Marrakech punishes a vague plan in one place, the money. Four of the monuments most visitors want (Bahia Palace, El Badi Palace, the Saadian Tombs and the Ben Youssef Madrasa) sit on one published Ministry of Culture tariff, while the Jardin Majorelle, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent and Le Jardin Secret each set and sell their own admission. No single "Marrakech ticket price" covers all seven. The medina and Jemaa el-Fna, both UNESCO inscriptions, cost nothing to enter, and every fare that is charged is set in dirhams, which older guides still convert at a rate that has moved.
So each price, opening time and closed day here is read off the official page of the body that sets it, stamped with the date it was read, and re-checked quarterly. Where an official source states no figure, the page says not stated.
Where the information comes from
Prices and hours for Bahia Palace, El Badi Palace, the Saadian Tombs and the Ben Youssef Madrasa come from the tariff pages of the Moroccan Ministry of Culture and its Direction du Patrimoine. The garden museums publish their own: jardinmajorelle.com, museeyslmarrakech.com, lejardinsecretmarrakech.com. Airport detail comes from ONDA, which operates Marrakech Menara, and the rail and coach figures behind the day trips from ONCF and Supratours.
The tourist tax on a riad bill and the petit-taxi tariff are the commune of Marrakech's published rates, both on the Marrakech costs page. UNESCO is the source for what is inscribed in the medina and at Jemaa el-Fna, the climate series comes from Open-Meteo's ERA5 archive, and the safety pages follow UK FCDO and US State Department advice. Tour prices and ratings are the platform's own published numbers, read on the date on the card.
Dollars, dirhams and what you actually pay
Prices are shown in US dollars first with the dirham in brackets, converted at the rate stated on the Marrakech costs page. The dirham is the official figure and the one you hand over at a ticket window or to a driver; the dollar makes a comparison quick, and your card issuer applies its own rate on the day.
What we do not claim
There is no invented author here, no character with a favourite table on a roof terrace, no claim that anyone from this site queued at a gate on a particular morning. We do not operate or personally conduct these tours, we inspect no riads and we audit no operator.
We hold no bookings either. Every Check Availability button hands you to the platform the tour is sold on, where the price and the cancellation window are theirs. Official ticket offices are linked plainly, with no tracking, whenever buying direct is the better move, as it is for several of the Marrakech tickets.
How the site pays for itself
Tour and ticket cards link to GetYourGuide, and the stay buttons on where to stay in Marrakech go through Stay22. Book through either and the platform pays a commission out of its own margin, at the price you would have paid anyway. That buys nothing else: not placement, not a rating, not the wording of a recommendation.
Where the official ticket window is cheaper, the page says so even though the link earns nothing. Full mechanics: the affiliate disclosure page.
Corrections
Monument hours shift with Ramadan and the season, and tariffs get revised. If a number here is out of date, write to us with what you found and when you were there. A corrected figure is worth more than a defended one.