https://grrrltraveler.com/mendhi-guide-fez/ A Female Solo Travel Blog | It's not a vacation until you survive it! Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:35:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://grrrltraveler.com/mendhi-guide-fez/comment-page-1/#comment-1480 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:35:49 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=15888#comment-1480 My and my boyfriend booked a guide at our Riad in Marrakech. The riad had good comments on booking.com so we thought we can trust them. So next day, we meet our guide that barely speaks English and who did a tour of two sights and the rest were shops. At the end we ended up spending 80 euros for things that were worth way less. We were furious. I red before about this scams but I thought since its a guide we got from hotel and we could trust him. Since it was our second day there we were clueless and thought we were safe with the guide from riad that had good comments on booking.com after all. The guide cost 50 euros after all. We went to the hotel and complained next day they gave us another guide and tour to make up for the things that happened on the first tour but 80 euros that we over payed we never saw again. In riad also each time we asked for the food they tried to send us to some Italian restaurant or some more expensive place. We always had to ask we re searching something local or cheaper. As a woman travelling with my boyfriend there I didnt feel so secure there. All the time someone would try to catch your attention saying that the road was closed, trying to show your way, trying to pretend being nice and friendly while trying to overcharge you. Marrakech and Morocco are really beautiful and worth exploring but as a tourist people try to overcharge you all the time and at the end you never pay local prices. I was trying to find prices of lamps, carpets, oil on the internet just to know how to bargain but it was impossible to find. Also medina is hard to navigate and it is difficult to find recommended destinations.

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