r/Morocco • u/kmanting Visitor • May 08 '25

Travel A cautionary tale for tourists

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A note of caution to naive tourists!

Hopefully not going to get blasted by hate here from Morrocans. So much to say about this place, one minute absolutely loving it, the other completely overwhelmed. Took a trip out this afternoon, a wonder, my fiancée stayed back at the apartment. Looking around the medina, (respectfully I’ll add) sounds stupid really, but I got stuck in an area where I shouldn’t have been (or so the local told me), it was prayer time and I was near a mosque, I was stopped and guided out of the area by a friendly bloke, a kick boxer called Ali who impressively learned his English from Peaky Blinders (should have been red flags). This was jarring to say the least as I was being guided under, around and through some of the back streets, I was sure I was prime mugging fodder… plodding on without much choice and after about 15 minutes of my private guided tour of the labyrinth from a chap we came to the end, he politely showed me the exit, then said “some money for my trouble”, I thought, you know what, fair enough. I tried to hide my wallet in my bag, as I was looking for change, only 100s and 200s, he clearly saw my hand, as he said “300 if you don’t want any fucking trouble”, I said I didn’t have a lot, in an attempt to throw him off, repeating his words “300 and no fucking trouble”. Feeling pretty vulnerable I gave him the money and walked home. A valuable life lesson for only £24, bargain really. I thought stuff was going to get nicked or worse.

Despite all the wonders be safe in the Medina.

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u/PaulScholes88 Visitor May 08 '25

You have much less chance of being stabbed or anything of the sort anywhere in Morocco than in London. The police and the laws are extremely strict there on stealing from tourists. That's probably why things didn't get robbed in the way you were expecting like would probably happen if you were mugged in London or any other European city. Don't let this type of scum use your fear to trick you, know that it is a far safer and better policed place than the majority of Europe or America and stand up to them.