A trip to Morocco in preparation?
Depending on the length of your stay, the Cherifian kingdom requires several documents.
So, between the passport, the visa, the identity card and the vaccination pass, what must you pack in your suitcase if you are heading to the Pays du Couchant?
What can you dispense with?
The full list below.
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What travel documents can you go to Morocco with?
If your stay in Morocco lasts less than three months, a visa is not necessary.
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For a stay in Morocco, you must have your passport – including for groups on an organized trip.
If presenting your identity card was enough to set foot on Moroccan soil until 2015, this is no longer the case today.
The visa, meanwhile, is only required for stays longer than three months.
Another document requested beyond the three months of stay on site: an extension of the authorization, which must be requested from the Moroccan immigration service.
This cannot exceed three months.
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What health measures are in place to deal with Covid?
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There are no longer any health restrictions linked to Covid-19 to enter Moroccan territory since September 30, 2022. However, a "passenger health card" (available here), duly completed, must be submitted on arrival in the one of the country's airports.
Before this lifting of restrictions, travelers had to present their vaccination pass or a negative PCR test of less than 72 hours in order to enter the kingdom.
What about wearing a mask?
This has not been mandatory for several months.
When contacted, the French Embassy in Morocco told us, however, that it may be required "
in public transport and buildings and certain shops
".
Include a few masks in your checklist, therefore.
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Which airlines fly to Morocco?
Many companies, including Royal Air Maroc, make the connection between France and the Pays du Couchant every day.
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Morocco is only about 2h30 from France by plane.
Flights departing from Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, Lille, Montpellier, Nice, Strasbourg, Toulouse and Lyon connect the two countries every day.
On the airline side, you can board planes from KLM, Air Arabia, Air France or Royal Air Maroc.
A wide range of low-cost flights also exists, with Ryanair, Vueling or EasyJet.
On arrival, you will be welcomed, at your choice, in Nador, Ouarzazate, Oujda, Marrakech, Fez, Essaouira, Agadir, Tangier, Rabat, Casablanca... There are many Moroccan airports!