We enjoyed our trip and the time with our dri...
Morocco | Jun 27 - Jul 4, 2022

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Peggy L.
Chino Hills, CA | Reviewed on Jul 06, 2022

We enjoyed our trip and the time with our driver and tour manager, Sallam, who is also apparently a Tik Tok celebrity in Morocco. He was knowledgeable and always willing to answer our questions or converse with us. Sallam did a great job coordinating with the local guides and getting us to our destinations in a timely manner. All parts of the itinerary were followed and the tour gave us a good overview of Morocco which is an amazing country with wonderful people. Sallam was always eager and informative to share his culture and teach us the history of his country and people. Sharon accommodated our request to have A/C in all accommodations, including the desert camp in Merzouga, which was amazing. We were impressed by the riads and hotels we stayed in as well. The local guides were all friendly and gave us a good overview of the cities we were in; we especially appreciated the tour with Muhammed in Marakesh. My suggestions to improve on this tour would be to provide more options for the lunch places our local guides lead us to... the restaurants were all very tourist oriented and the meals were very similar to one another. In the areas that have more options, allowing us to choose among recommended places to eat would have been great. We also felt that the cooperatives many of the local guides took us to ate up much of our tour time and the wares were overpriced. It was also difficult to tell if some of these cooperatives were actually sanctioned by the government. Other than those suggestions, we thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Morocco.

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Sharon Louthian
Local specialist in US and Morocco | Replied on Jul 19, 2022
Hi Peggy, We are so glad to hear that you had a great time with our Tik Tok celebrity, Sallam. He truly is one of the best and a great representative of Morocco and it's warm culture and people! Sorry to hear, though, about your experiences in some of the cooperatives. We truly only include visits to these places as they are important to the culture of the country and neither our local guides nor us receive monetary compensation from any of them and purchase is absolutely not obligatory. We... Read more

Hi Peggy,

We are so glad to hear that you had a great time with our Tik Tok celebrity, Sallam. He truly is one of the best and a great representative of Morocco and it's warm culture and people!

Sorry to hear, though, about your experiences in some of the cooperatives. We truly only include visits to these places as they are important to the culture of the country and neither our local guides nor us receive monetary compensation from any of them and purchase is absolutely not obligatory. We will definitely address this issue with our tour managers at our next training session so that our future guests are aware of the purpose of the visits. So, thank you for the feedback.

Thanks again for trusting us with your trip and we hope that you keep in touch!
Sharon, Sallam, and the Morocco Immersion Family