Marrakech
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- rubifuse
Anyone been? Any advice for what to check out or avoid when there?
- Llyod0
look out for the fat man
- alicetheblue0
go to Dubai its better
- moamoa0
if you are not blonde, you will not have much problems..
- Gucci0
uh oh ... my wife wants to go moamoa.
she's blonde.Are we going to get harassed all the time?
- YES! I look dark so they had a little respect(my girl is blonde) but the girl from my friend, alll the timemoamoa
- it sucks, especially on the markets. best thing you can do is: be arrogant.moamoa
- don't let her smoke in the street, get her to cover her shoulders. I've had female friends openly spat at for both those things in moroccokelpie
- those things in moroccokelpie
- and in Glasgow.Jnr_Madison
- nah, they get spat at for NOT smoking and NOT showing some (orange) skinkelpie
- elpaso0
dont wear shorts (its rude)
and avoid the waterbuy a million pounds of saffron for like £1
go to sweden sell it at retail price
profit (no doubt about it!):D
- elpaso0
im going to Taghazoute in a few weeks
its going to rock my silly little world
- Witt0
yeah, step down and look.
- Llyod0
fucking sand rats
- elpaso0
"oh no! look at me i'm lloyd! i'm well controversial.. i say idiotic thing just to try and stir up some shit.. oooooh. im so krazy .. yeah i spell krazy with a k.. ooooh i'm lloyd.. fucking sandrats... oooooooh.. krazy!"
- how'd that 'Palin's Daughter' thread work out for ya?PonyBoy
- :DPonyBoy
- it served its purposeLlyod
- not you, Lloyd... you butthole... i'm talking to elpasooo, A REAL MAN.PonyBoy
- :DPonyBoy
- I don't get youLlyod
- he started another 'Palin's Daughter' thread that disappeared while i was making the first postPonyBoy
- yeah wtf was up with that!
hahahahaahelpaso - so much for bullshit parody threads..elpaso
- I don't get youPonyBoy
- wheeeeeeeeeeeee...PonyBoy
- i don't get youelpaso
- kezza_20
I went there for 10 days last year...
It's a really cool place. Want to go to Essouara soon. Best advice from me is that its a half interesting place, but the real reason to go there are stunningly cool and laid back hotels and for late sunshine.
The hotels you stay in are the destinations.stayed in these 3 places:
http://www.mrandmrssmith.com/lux… (centre of town)
http://www.mrandmrssmith.com/lux… (just outside)http://www.mrandmrssmith.com/lux… (up in the mountains 2hrs outside Marakesh)
Marakesh you can do in a couple of days or stay out in the Palmerie and day trip in. Much nicer.
Lots of very cool hotels on mr and mrs smith.
If you've never been go, it's ineteresting. Great place to take a half dozen paper backs and do nothing but lye by a pool.
- MartinF0
Yeah I'd recommend the hotels on Mr and Mrs Smith. Stayed in a beautiful one in Marakesh and it made the trip so much nicer..
Also try heading over to Essouara too, much more relaxed coastal town.. very windy though.
- kezza_20
and dont believe the bullshit about blonde hair etc.
It's a laid back place, and we never had any shit at all. It's a pretty relaxed place. Can't get a drink in Marrakesh though that easily.
- I thought you were ginger? :DJnr_Madison
- You wont get any shit just lying by a pool reading paperbacks, I agree.SkyPoo
- Well they all wanted to touch me obviously.kezza_2
- joqui0
Very nice relaxed place, nothing really to worry about actually. You can get alcoholic drinks in hotel lobbies and the modern part of Marrakech
- MartinF0
Yeah I never had a problem with wearing shorts, either did my girlfriend. We didn't get any hassle at all apart from people trying to sell us stuff but thats to be expected.
- SkyPoo0
Blonds really do have a hard time there. I went there with a blond in 2001 and it was hell. Sheer hell.
If you're not used fending off street hawkers, which I wasn't, you will probably have a tumultuous time as you rapidly evolve the appropriate way to deal with them. In my first few days in Morrocco I went from smiling and thanking all the millions of people who approached me in the street to welcome me to their beautiful country, to losing it completely and shouting in rage, to transcending the madness and ignoring them (almost got me stabbed twice), to putting on a psycho face and out-psyching them before they even dared approach me.
They sell stuff. They all sell stuff. None stop bombardment, every single second of every single moment you are outside "HELLO MY FRIEND! WELCOME TO MORROCCO MY FRIEND! I AM MOHAMMED MY FRIEND WHAT IS YOUR NAME MY FRIEND? WHERE ARE YOU FROM MY FRIEND?"... Imagine every single person on Oxford Street on a Saturday afternoon approaching you with a smile and 'befriending' you like that. That's Morrocco.
They hate English people generally. They seem to really really like you until they realsie you are not going to buy whatever they're selling, then they drop the smiles and the bonhomie and threaten to kill you, or spit on you, or shout manically at you and flap their arms around violently, or call your companion a filthy whore for no apparent reason.
With a pretty blond at your side, its a million times more intense.
Also, if you think about getting a henna tattoo, agree the price and write it down on a piece of paper and hand it to them. Make sure they understand and agree that this is the price you will pay.
My companion wanted a henna tattoo, We agreed the price. I even showed them the agreed amount of money to be sure and held it in my hand throughout the process. Then she got the henna tattoo and the price was suddenly 100x higher. We got into a situation there and then and then tattoo making woman (a really hideous looking toothless old crone) started to stab us with her henna syringe. Not nice. We got chased out of Marrakesh by a crazy mob who just seemed to coagulate around us as the woman shreiked.
So have a great time!
Its visually incomprehensible and has to be seen, but I wont be going back there in a hurry.
- When I went to a shopping mall in Lombok (before anyone was going there) we had 50 people just following us...LOLJnr_Madison
- I thought we were going to get either stabbed or raped or both.Jnr_Madison
- nae luck though eh?
lolSkyPoo - Yeah, ruined the holiday. I wanted it up the bum.Jnr_Madison
- HAHAHAHA.SkyPoo
- Jnr_Madison0
I've never been but my gf and her blonde haired friend went and never had any problems and really enjoyed.
- Although my gf has traveled all over the world from childhood and is very used to being approached by over pushy sellers.Jnr_Madison
- men like me.Jnr_Madison
- joqui0
I went there for a photoshoot with 4 women (2 blonds) and really no trouble whatsoever
- SkyPoo0
Maybe my blond was just leagues ahead of your blonds.
; )
- lol, or you looked like a pussy :DJnr_Madison
- I think you may have something there. I am a magnet for hassle. I think I look gullible.SkyPoo
- I've had that same problem for years too. Last time I was in Brighton I nearly had 3 fights in the first night.Jnr_Madison
- ..and one was with a giant lesbo, I shit you not.Jnr_Madison
- pfft, scots are a well know proving ground for prospective english hard nuts. I learned this years agokelpie
- I can see that would be the case Kelps. Its such a strong stereotype. You poor little things. lolSkyPoo
- i'm talking models here...joqui
- I'm talking cock-popping sexual superbeing.SkyPoo
- Ok, you win!joqui