Rabat is where Hong Kong visitors on business spend their time, and where leisure travellers consistently underestimate how much they will enjoy the city. The ministries and most of the diplomatic corps are here, and Rabat carries a measured, orderly feel a long way from Marrakech.
It also rewards a proper look. The Chellah, on the city edge, was a Roman town called Sala Colonia before becoming a Merinid necropolis, and is now half garden and half ruin with storks nesting on the old minaret. The Kasbah of the Udayas is a blue-and-white quarter above the river mouth, and the Hassan Tower is the unfinished minaret of what would have been the largest mosque in the world.
Driving here is easy by Moroccan standards, but the embassy quarter, the government district and the medina all sit apart, and parking near the kasbah is tight. A driver removes the friction. Every booking is private and the rate is fixed in advance.
Why hire a driver here
- Government offices and missions run right across the city, not one district
- Below the kasbah walls the parking is informal and generally already full
- Almost every international arrival comes through Casablanca, an hour away
- The tram was built for commuters and reaches neither the Chellah nor the Udayas
- The fast train has Casablanca forty minutes down the line
Included in every booking
- Fuel, tolls and the driver's fee for the agreed route
- Airport, hotel, embassy or Rabat-Ville station pickup
- English-speaking drivers as standard on the Hong Kong site
- Waiting time between appointments at no extra hourly charge
- Bottled water and phone charging in the vehicle
