As titled anyone been to Morocco Agadir for a holiday? Is suitable for young kids 6 and under? My wife has found a great deal for a holiday there, 5* hotel what i can’t believe is in our price range. I have never considered look there as the wife a few years ago rule out going to Egypt due to all the local unrest etc, so i have kind of ignored all of North Africa.
Anyone been to Morocco?
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yes, went there with my family in Spring last year. had a great time, good beach, great food, felt safe (although this means seeing armed police and army types around). was good to see the locals also enjoying the beach and fab promenade, some places feel a bit too sterile and touristy for my liking.
yup been to agadir same experience as slam, had a mooch around a nearby town taroudant and had a drive through the atlas mountains
go for it imo
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If its anything like egypt, avoid like the plague unless you like taking a holiday on an army base.
Theres a reason holidays in that part of the world are cheap!
Theres a reason holidays in that part of the world are cheap!
Totally different experience in the two times I've been to Morocco. Once for a short time in Casablanca (not worth a visit for holiday) and once for a trip to the Atlas Mountains via Marrakech. It's a nice place, although I haven't been to the place the OP has mentioned.
Egypt has a lot more tourism protection due to the various troubles recently and past (talking 90s) incidents against tourists. If you're spending a week in Hurghada then you're unlikely to see many anyway, only if you're going to Luxor or Cairo IME.
When will this be? With young kids, I'd be worried about the fairly high temps if you go eg. later this month (like I am).
End of August
I did a cycling holiday around Morocco and had a fantastic time and felt pretty safe and the people seemed pretty friendly. Cycled through Agadir and spent a night there but don't really have idea what it's like to spend a week there. Food was pretty good but breakfasts got very boring as they seem to only eat 3 or 4 different types of bread with jam, they seem to be obsessed with bread, perhaps it's the French influence.
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Yes, it's because of the cheap cost of living
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I went once and was hounded by gangs of small children trying to sell you crap. Everyone there is trying to get money off you or sell you a rug. I guess it is pretty poor there. It rained the day I went.
Where did you go? If you're in Marrakech then yes, that happens. Otherwise it's largely great
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No its because the tourist industry is on its last legs due to the increased likelihood of being beheadded/shot on the beach/blown up.
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I can't remember, it was about 25 years ago with my ex wife. It was a day trip via Spain on a Hydrofoil.
Rubbish, that sensationalist nonsense. You are more likely to be killed in Paris due to terrorism than Morocco yet Paris doesn't get treated like some of these countries. By your rationale, Paris should be dirt cheap to go to as well?
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Spent a week in Marrakech a few years back, had a great time. Went in June, it was a bit too hot though. Temps 42°C+. Sister-in-law and family (inc < 1 year old) went couple of months back and said it wasn't too hot. I'd worry temperature in August. Research required.
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might jet of to egypt to get away form all this terror over here lolz
sod going to london nowadays too
might jet of to egypt to get away form all this terror over here lolz
I went to Morocco on my own for a New Year's break many years ago, flew into Casablanca, stayed one day and night, it could have been okay, but being on my own, I was constantly plagued by groups of young teenaged boys, asking if I wanted to buy a girl.
I think women are the greatest thing since sliced bread, but the idea of paying for one has never appealed.
I took a train to Marrakech, (Marrakech Express?), for, another day and one night, that could have been a whole lot better than Casablanca, but in late December it was freezing, so it was off to Agadir, had to fly that leg, no train lines through the Atlas Mountains at that time, don't know about now.
Agadir was a whole lot better, reasonably balmy for December, but not sunbathing weather.
Here I got the Casablanca treatment in reverse, I was plagued by guys wanting to know if I was in the market for a boy!
Can't win I thought, but at a hotel New Year's Eve party, I managed to snag an attractive young girl from Windsor.
Nothing came of it, but I took her to dinner on my return to U.K., would have liked to see more of her, but with her living in the boonies, and me in civilisation, the thought of traipsing back and forth along the M4 didn't appeal.
Some years later, I had a week in Tangier with the girl who is now my wife, we enjoyed it for the most part, but she contracted mild food poisoning a couple of days before we flew home, fortunately it passed quickly, but the hotel doctor, who had no English, and conversed with me in French, was insistent that she may be pregnant, he was wrong, but this made my blood run cold, and put a mild damper on my enjoyment of Morocco.
In closing, maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't remotely consider ANY Muslim country for a visit while all this ISIS stuff is going on, maybe it IS just as likely to happen in Paris, but I'll take my chances there, I love the city, and I'm okay in French.
I think women are the greatest thing since sliced bread, but the idea of paying for one has never appealed.
I took a train to Marrakech, (Marrakech Express?), for, another day and one night, that could have been a whole lot better than Casablanca, but in late December it was freezing, so it was off to Agadir, had to fly that leg, no train lines through the Atlas Mountains at that time, don't know about now.
Agadir was a whole lot better, reasonably balmy for December, but not sunbathing weather.
Here I got the Casablanca treatment in reverse, I was plagued by guys wanting to know if I was in the market for a boy!
Can't win I thought, but at a hotel New Year's Eve party, I managed to snag an attractive young girl from Windsor.
Nothing came of it, but I took her to dinner on my return to U.K., would have liked to see more of her, but with her living in the boonies, and me in civilisation, the thought of traipsing back and forth along the M4 didn't appeal.
Some years later, I had a week in Tangier with the girl who is now my wife, we enjoyed it for the most part, but she contracted mild food poisoning a couple of days before we flew home, fortunately it passed quickly, but the hotel doctor, who had no English, and conversed with me in French, was insistent that she may be pregnant, he was wrong, but this made my blood run cold, and put a mild damper on my enjoyment of Morocco.
In closing, maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't remotely consider ANY Muslim country for a visit while all this ISIS stuff is going on, maybe it IS just as likely to happen in Paris, but I'll take my chances there, I love the city, and I'm okay in French.
Not done the holiday resort type trip but have. Beento marakech, fez and imlil in the Atlas Mountains. It is a lovely country, the food and scenery are fantastic and the locals pretty decent too. Egypt I thought was a dump by comparison and the locals far less pleasant.