Marrakech Free Walking Tours: Questions Answered

Joining costs nothing. Every walk here is free, pay what you want, and a place is reserved on the walk's own page, which means GuruWalk's page for most of them and freetour.com's own page for the rest, including the Marrakech Imperial Tour run by Marrakesh Imperial Tours. Where to stand is stated up front on each page, from the white dome at Koutoubia square to Cafe Argana on Jemaa el-Fnaa and Cafe Restaurant Le Samovar, so there is no guesswork before a walker commits.

A place is booked where the guide published the walk, and never on this site. GuruWalk carries most of the 13 free walking tours; freetour.com carries Free Tour Marrakech: Old City Secrets, the Marrakech Imperial Tour and Marrakech: Historical and Cultural Sightseeing Tour. Each one is free to reserve and free to walk: pay what you want means the guide receives whatever the walker chooses to give at the end, and nothing changes hands beforehand. This directory runs no tours of its own and holds no bookings. When a reader reserves through a link here, referral fees from GuruWalk or from freetour.com are its only revenue. Certain English walks note on their GuruWalk pages that extras such as entrance fees may cost money, among them Half Day Walking City Tour Of Marrakech's Medina and Guided Tours Of The City Of Marrakech By Jamal. Those walks still cost nothing to join. Any extras are paid separately on the spot.

Nothing is paid in advance on a pay-what-you-want walk, so a missed start costs nothing and there is no refund to arrange. Changing or dropping a place is done on the page where the walk was reserved, not through this directory. For the GuruWalk walks that means the walk's GuruWalk page; for the others it means freetour.com's own page.

No walk here charges to join. Every one is free, pay what you want: reserving a place costs nothing, turning up costs nothing, and the guide is paid only by what each walker hands over at the end. This site prints no price and no tip figure, and freetour.com says tip based; some guides mention a suggested contribution on their own GuruWalk page, and the amount is always the visitor's decision. A note of possible extra costs does apply to a few walks: GuruWalk's page for Half Day Walking City Tour Of Marrakech's Medina flags possible extra costs such as entrance fees, and the same note travels with three other walks, each still free to join. The full picture sits on each walk's GuruWalk page, or on freetour.com's own page for its walks.

Because the two platforms grade on different scales, and every score here is printed exactly as published, never converted and never mixed. GuruWalk rates out of 5, so Half Day Walking City Tour Of Marrakech's Medina, led by Mustapha, stands at 4.9 out of 5 across 987 GuruWalk reviews. freetour.com rates out of 10, where the Marrakech Imperial Tour shows 8.4 out of 10 across 474 freetour.com reviews. A number from one scale cannot be read against the other.

No. Pay what you want is how every walk here runs, so the sole payment is the sum a walker freely gives the guide once the walk is over. Questions about how a reservation works, or which forms of payment a guide accepts, belong on the walk's own page: GuruWalk's page for its walks, freetour.com's own page for those it carries. Nothing here is sold or operated by this directory. Independent local guides run the walks, and this site simply points readers to them.

Each score is built from reviews written on the walk's own page, on that platform's own scale, so it reflects the verdicts of walkers who actually went. GuruWalk grades out of 5 and freetour.com grades out of 10. Secrets of the Medina: Discover Marrakech by Night, guided by Abdellah, holds 4.88 out of 5 across 91 GuruWalk reviews. On freetour.com, Free Tour Marrakech: Old City Secrets holds 9.6 out of 10 across 938 reviews. Where no score exists yet, none is printed: Free Walking Tour Great Places Around Marrakesh has too few reviews for a score, so it carries no rating at all.

Start with the part of the medina you want to explore on foot. Walks grouped around the Koutoubia and the central medina gather at spots such as the white shrine near the Koutoubia, Koutoubia Mosque square, the foot of the Koutoubia minaret and the Kubba Fatima Zohra. The Jemaa El-Fnaa and souks walks begin on the square or close to it: at Cafe Argana, at Hotel Restaurant Cafe de France, at Cafe Restaurant Le Samovar, and at Hotel Ali on Rue Moulay Ismail. Language and duration then help narrow the choice, and both appear on each walk's own page, with durations running from 1 hour up to 4 hours.

Walks here last from 1 hour to 4 hours, with most between 2 and 3 hours. The shortest is Wanderlustboubker's Free Walking Tour Great Places Around Marrakesh on GuruWalk, 1 hour, in English and French. The longest is Jamal's Guided Tours Of The City Of Marrakech By Jamal at 4 hours, free to join though GuruWalk's page for this walk flags possible extra costs such as entrance fees. Mohamed amine's Unveiling the Secrets of Marrakech falls in between at 2 hours 15 minutes. The Marrakech Imperial Tour by Marrakesh Imperial Tours, listed on freetour.com, adds Italian and runs 3 hours. Language details sit on each walk's own page, so check there before reserving a place.

Pick between walks on the plain facts printed for each: the guide or operator, the meeting point, the neighbourhood, the language and the length. Mustapha starts Half day walking city tour of Marrakech's Medina at Koutoubia Mosque square, while Jamal's four-hour walk meets beside it at the Kubba Fatima Zohra. Walks leaving from the main square set off from Cafe Argana, Hotel Ali, Hotel Restaurant Cafe de France, Cafe Restaurant Le Samovar and Jemaa el-Fnaa itself. Fix the neighbourhood first, then the language, then the duration. All 13 free walking tours work the same way: free to join, pay what you want, reserved on GuruWalk's own page or, for its walks, on freetour.com's own page.