Casablanca handles the bulk of Morocco's long-haul traffic, and the Royal Air Maroc service from Johannesburg lands here rather than in Marrakech. It arrives in the morning after an overnight flight, so you clear immigration tired, with luggage, into a terminal 30 km from the city.
The city is Morocco at its most modern and least touristic - a working port, a financial district, wide boulevards and traffic that behaves like any large commercial capital rather than like Marrakech. It is also the toughest place in the country to drive comfortably. Lane markings are treated as suggestions on the main axes, the port and rail approaches are blocked up for most of the day, and downtown parking is scarce enough that hotels quietly steer guests away from a car.
For business travellers the sums are simpler still. A driver who waits between appointments, knows which way into Sidi Maarouf works at four o'clock and gets you back to CMN with margin is worth more than the vehicle he is driving. Every booking is private, the rate is fixed in advance, and fuel, tolls and the driver are included.
Why hire a driver here
- CMN sits 30 km out, making the transfer a real leg of the journey
- The business districts run from the Twin Center through Anfa to Sidi Maarouf
- Central parking is thin and mostly run by attendants
- Cruise ships berth at the port with limited hours ashore
- Many South African itineraries transfer straight out on arrival
Included in every booking
- Fuel, tolls and the driver's fee for the agreed route
- Airport, hotel, port or Casa-Voyageurs station pickup
- English-speaking drivers as standard on the South African site
- Waiting time between meetings at no extra hourly charge
- Bottled water, phone charging and Wi-Fi on request
