Marrakech Shopping Tour

Overview

The Marrakech shopping tour is a private guided walk through the souks of the medina with a local expert: finding the best routes and hidden shops, visiting artisan workshops, learning how to bargain in a friendly way and what genuine carpets, leather and lanterns are worth, with a traditional mint tea break.

This expert Marrakech Shopping tour will bring you into the heart of the well-known and crowded markets (souks) of the Medina. You will certainly start your journey by becoming familiar with the way the large marketplace operates and locating the best routes and concealed stores within a short time.

The tour goes on, and you are now no longer just a viewer and you are taken to hidden artisan workshops where you see the master craftsmen at work. You will also get to know how to negotiate justly and only purchase doctrinaire and genuine treasures such as carpets, leather, and jewelry. This is the well-calculated time spent in the city that comes highly suggested by luxury tours found in Marrakech.

Highlights

  • Masterfully manoeuvre through the congested wandering about souk.
  • Meet master artisans, in their secluded, secret domestic work studios.
  • Find out the actual price of genuine Moroccan carpets.
  • Learn how to negotiate and to bargain in a friendly manner.
  • Get a good, pretty leather bag and a soft pouf.
  • Find exclusive, accused jewelry and old school lanterns.
  • Shop safely and without any trouble with the help of a local guide.
  • Take some customary mint tea and talk about your marvelous purchases.

Activity Plan

Morning – Exploring the Bustling Souks of Your Marrakech Shopping Tour :

Your fantastic Marrakech Shopping tour begins at the moment your professional guide greets you, plunging into the very center of life of the Medina, which is vibrant and alive. The alleys are like a tangle of color, of hammering metal, of the delicious, spicy smell of herbs, all rushing upon you at once by the narrow alleys. Your expert guide thus soon carries you through the mazing sections showing you how to walk like a local.

You go through the major parts of the souk, passing spice sellers, then the parts dealing with beautiful and colorful wool and textiles. Your guide will assist you in negotiating with the most trusted shop owners of the country so that you can only visit the ones that have quality and original Moroccan products. Moreover, it is such an experience that makes the market, so overwhelming at times, exciting and entirely easy.

Afternoon – Discovering Hidden Artisan Workshops and Boutiques on Your Marrakech Shopping Tour:

The next destination in your Marrakech Shopping tour is into the afternoon: you are in search of the obscure, closed ateliers; those buried within the walls of the city. In this case, you get to observe the work of craftsmen, and you can see how they can make out of plain leather or clay beautiful end products. Therefore, when you see a craftsman cut with a delicate chisel a small metal lamp, you get to see the exact worth of what you are purchasing.

Then your guide will take you to exclusive shops where they have unique and modernized models of Moroccan designs that can be brought home as a style symbol of the Moroccan luxury travels. You get to hear about the sourcing of materials ethically and practicing fair trade directly out of the shop owners. Moreover, your special shopping trip is topped with a pleasant mint tea break and you will be able to enjoy your treasures.

Included / Excluded

  • Private expert guide
  • Souk bargaining assistance
  • Visit hidden workshops
  • Personalized routing
  • Traditional tea break
  • Local culture knowledge
  • Cost of your finds
  • Guide’s tip (optional)
  • Extra drinks
  • Personal expenses

Frequently Asked Questions

Your private guide leads you through the souks of the medina, takes you to hidden artisan workshops, helps you bargain and shares tips on the real value of carpets, leather goods, jewelry and lanterns. A traditional mint tea break is included.

Yes. Souk bargaining assistance is part of the tour, and your guide teaches you how to negotiate in a friendly, respectful way.

Yes. You have your own expert guide and the route is personalised to what you want to buy.

A private expert guide, bargaining assistance, visits to hidden workshops, personalised routing and a traditional tea break. The cost of your purchases, the guide’s tip, extra drinks and personal expenses are not included.

No. The tour is about discovering the souks and shopping with confidence; you only buy what you like.

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