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Fly Seville to Tangiers

Planning 11 days in Morroco in May. Has anyone flown Seville to Tangiers (roundtrip). It appears RyanAir looks inexpensive and good flights. Any comments.

Ken

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Don’t plan on it. Just landing in Tangiers and being picked up to head out to fez. Just curious if there is another option of travel from Seville to Morroco.

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I am in the crowd that says skip Tangiers, instead go straight to the good stuff.

If you really need to start your flight to Morocco from Sevilla*, there's certainly no need to go to Tangiers. There are nonstop flights from Sevilla to Marrakech (plus Casablanca, Rabat, and other places). Dirt cheap flights on low-cost airlines, which are perfectly fine for the relatively short flight.

*(Do you really need to start your flight to Morocco in Sevilla? If you do, OK, just be aware there are dozens of other optins from all around Spain and all over western Europe.) Morocco is a VERY popular tourist destination for Europeans. It's kind of their equivalent of Mexico (for Americans: a cheap, easy trip to warm sunshine, beaches, interesting food and culture...also the source of labor, imported culture and other things...the parallels are striking: Mexico is to the the USA as Morocco is to western Europe). Right down to the grotesque, crass "bordertown" experience (Tangier as Tijuana).

I've flown to/from Marrakech and Fes from Madrid and Paris several times. Easy, cheap, convenient, popular. There are cheap flights to all over Morocco from all over Europe. The only "trick" you need to know is that most of these flights do not go every day - maybe every 2 or 3 days on most routes. If you just search on a single day, things may appear limited. So don't just search on single day; search over a span of a few days. And there's no need to go to Tangiers. Fly straight to Marrakech, Fes or some other wonderful old city. You may have to switch up your departure city - for example, from Sevilla to Madrid or Barcelona or elsewhere. Look at skyscanner or another low-cost airline search engine, play around with days-of-the-week and departure/arrival points. When I last looked, Madrid had plentiful options.

To simplify things, start by asking where do you actually want to go? Marrakech would be a top choice - and there are probably over 100 options for cheap flights from Europe to there. Fes would also be a good choice, with dozens of flight options. Point being: You have oodles of options (literally hundreds), there's no reason to pick one that takes you somewhere you don't want to go.

Morocco is an amazing and wonderful destination. Have fun.