Frommer's Marrakech Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day - Pocket) [Paperback]

I've just come back from a holiday in Marrakech. I took a couple of different guide books with me, but by the end of the first day the only one I was using was Frommers Marrakech day by day. The info is bang up to date, the recommendations are all excellent, it's well laid out and clear to read, the maps are fantastic(it's very easy to get lost in Marrakech and a good map is worth it's weight in gold!) and the photos are great too.

I cannot recommend it highly enough - Marrakech is an amazing city and this guide book will enable you to make the most of your time there. An essential purchase!

This wonderful guide fits perfectly into any handbag and is a bible for the discerning traveller to Marrakech.
There are quite a few guides this size on the market but this offers lots of insider tips and is so well and carefully thought out that it puts the others in the shade. From where to stay to where to have a great meal at various budget levels to where to relax after a frenetic day in the souks. It is a must have for a Marrakech visit and I am so glad that I chose this against all the others. All information is really reliable and up to date and the lodgings/accommodation descriptions are absolutely correct as this can be a chore choosing from one of the hundreds in Marrakech. My congratulations to the writer and photographer as they have managed to the crazy wonderful world that is Marrakech into a pocketsize book.

Well written, lovely photos without being cheesy and spot on information.
Don't go to Marrakech without it!

Apparently, the book, or series, won some travel guide award. I bought the Marrakech guide ahead of our first journey to this adventure of a city, and it was nothing but a brilliant companion. The book provides a splendid, practical introduction to some mundane, but extremely useful information, incl. how not to be taken for a ride on a mini taxi and the like. The overall concept, based on 17 walking trips through the city, is more than appropriate for Marrakech, with the tiny pathlike streets in its beautiful Medina, where you inevitably will walk. The trips usefully combine tourist attractions, shopping, food, with cross-references. Some sites or places therefore appear several times, but this also allows you to combine your own itinerary mixing and matching from the 17 proposed tours. The only, very minor, downside to the concept is that if you are standing in front of something, or look for something you came across, it's at times not too easy to find it immediately in the book (like, "I wish I would remember on which tour I read about this and that cafe, or shop, or so..." And, the book does its best to even include a map of the Souks, but inevitably we still got lost twice in this maze, but this seems inevitable! - Overall, the book was the one perfect companion, and one of the most useful guides I have ever used during a visit. Funnily enough, whenever we went into one of the featured eateries, some of which are a bit off the big tourist trails, some other people with the same guide book were there as well. But all of it was well worth it, there wasn't a single disappointment in the proposed restaurants, shops, and other things, and the owner of the riad we stayed in (the only thing missing from this guide, really! Fantastic Riad Dar One, see tripadvisor) came up with most of the same proposals for resturants and things one has to see or do. Really recommended, and proved well worth it's money for us first time visitors to this city which can be a bit daunting. It was the first Frommers Guide I ever used, so it may be the one exceptionally brilliant guide (and I read it along other, absolutely useless guide books to Marrakech, such as the rubbish Wallpaper guide), but I'll certainly try this series again in the future for other journeys.