Marrakech Attraction Tickets

Each authority runs its own shop, sets its own tariff structure and recognises none of the others' tickets. That is why a small domed room charges the same as an eight-hectare palace, why the Menara pavilion charges 40 MAD less than either, and why the cheapest ticket in the city is at a national museum nobody queues for.

What that means at the gate

A ticket bought on the Ministry platform opens one monument and nothing else, and it does not carry a time. The madrasa's ticket is not on that platform at all. The Fondation Jardin Majorelle will not sell you anything at the door.

And a private garden five minutes from a ministry monument can charge whatever it likes, which is how Le Jardin Secret ends up at the same 100 MAD as Bahia Palace while Dar Si Said sits at 30 MAD.

Nothing on sale in Marrakech covers more than one authority. The Ministry of Culture's platform sells single-monument tickets, and its own multi-site products, where they exist elsewhere in Morocco, do not extend across the Habous madrasa or the Majorelle foundation. The Fondation Jardin Majorelle prices combinations of its own three sites and nothing else.

No commune, ministry or tourist body publishes a Marrakech card, and any product marketed as one is a reseller bundling tickets it bought at the same gates you can. The nearest thing to a discount in this city is the foundation's own three-site fare, $35.20 (330 MAD) against $46.30 (435 MAD) bought separately.

What actually saves money here

Skipping the two weakest fares. The Almoravid Koubba charges 100 MAD for a single room and the Menara pavilion charges 60 MAD for an interior most people photograph from outside; dropping both saves $17.04 (160 MAD), which is more than any bundle would. After that, the savings are in the free list on things to do and in not paying a guide fee for a walk you can do with a map.

At Bahia, El Badi, the Saadian Tombs and the Almoravid Koubba a foreign adult pays 100 MAD where a Moroccan national or resident pays 30 MAD, and a foreign child of 7 to 13 pays 50 MAD against 10 MAD. At the Menara pavilion the split is 60 against 30. The Ministere des Habous applies the same shape at the madrasa, 50 MAD against 20 MAD.

The Fondation Jardin Majorelle goes further, with four bands: international, Moroccan or resident, national student, international student. Only Dar Si Said publishes a single rate that applies to everyone.

• Moroccan nationals enter the Ministry monuments free every Friday and on the first day of national and religious holidays. Visitors do not, and the monuments stay open at the full fare.
• Persons with reduced mobility enter the Ministry monuments free, and Le Jardin Secret extends that to a carer.
• The Fondation Jardin Majorelle's reduced rate covers Moroccan citizens AND foreign residents; Le Jardin Secret's 50 MAD rate is published for Moroccan citizens only and does not extend to residents.
• Proof is asked for: a Moroccan identity card, a residency card, or a student card for the student bands.

Which holidays, and when

Nobody can tell you in advance. Moroccan public holidays are fixed by decree and the religious dates follow the lunar calendar, announced by the Ministere des Habous et des Affaires Islamiques by moon sighting shortly before they fall; the government's own holiday list was not reachable in Q3 2026. ANIMA closes for Aid al Fitr and Aid al Adha with the dates stated as to be announced. Friday and holiday openings tracks what this does to a visit.

- Ministry of Culture monuments: the child rate covers 7 to 13 at 50 MAD; persons with reduced mobility enter free. No under-7 rate is published, which is not the same as free. - Ben Youssef Madrasa: children under 12 pay 10 MAD, the lowest child fare in the city. - Fondation Jardin Majorelle: children under 10 go free at all three sites, accompanied and with proof of age; from 10 they pay the international student band, 95 MAD for the garden and 75 MAD for either museum. ICOM members go free, and press by request 72 hours ahead. - Le Jardin Secret: free under 12, and free for people with reduced mobility and their carers; under-24s pay 80 MAD.

The tower is a separate 40 MAD. - Maison de la Photographie: free under 15, the most generous threshold on this page. - ANIMA: free for children 0 to 11, 60 MAD for 12 to 16. - Dar Si Said: 10 MAD for children over 12; no rate for under-12s is published on the Fondation Nationale des Musees page.

Jemaa el-Fna is a public square with no admission and no hours; UNESCO listed it for the practices that happen on it, not for a building. The souks are public streets. The Koutoubia sells no ticket at all, because its interior is closed to non-Muslims at every hour and the visit is the esplanade and gardens.

The Mellah, the Kasbah, Gueliz and the Palmeraie are quarters, not sites. And the Agafay desert has no gate: what is sold there is a camp, a dinner and the drive.

The one that looks ticketed and is not

The tanneries at Bab Debbagh are working workshops. No authority publishes an entry price, an opening hour or a guide fee for them, so any number quoted at the door is a private arrangement rather than a tariff. The FCDO's standing warning that people posing as official guides commonly approach visitors in the medina, and that a guide should carry an official badge and permission from the local authority, is the only authority-level statement that touches the subject.

- The Musee de Marrakech publishes no adult price anywhere. Its own domain, museedemarrakech.ma, was unreachable in Q3 2026 and neither the ministry nor the Fondation Omar Benjelloun carries the tariff. The commercial site that ranks for the museum's name identifies itself in its own footer as a travel agency, so it is not used here. (Fondation Omar Benjelloun) - No Moroccan body publishes a fee for the Menara GARDEN, or a statement that the garden is free.

The Ministry platform sells the pavilion at 60 MAD and stops there, so the universally repeated line that the garden is free is unsourced. (e-services.minculture.gov.ma) - No hours, price or guide fee exist for the tanneries. (No official source; the FCDO badge warning is the only authority-level statement) - The city's tourist tax rate is not published either. The commune levies it under loi 47-06 and its own decision fiscale locale carries the figure, but that document 404s and the quarterly declaration form leaves the rate blank; the statutory brackets put riads and maisons d'hotes at 15 to 30 MAD per person per night with children under twelve exempt, and loi 07-20 amended them in 2021 in a table we could not reach. (Loi 47-06; Commune de Marrakech) - Le Jardin Secret's own pages disagree about online sales. Its essential-information page says tickets are sold on site with online sales coming soon; its FAQ links a shop.

Both are official, and walk-up is the reliable route. (lejardinsecretmarrakech.com)

Buy at the gate as the default. The Ministry of Culture sells the same 100 MAD ticket online and at the window, with no timed slot and no advantage to booking, and the madrasa does the same at 50 MAD. On the platforms, a resold El Badi or Saadian Tombs entry was listed at $17.44 against a $10.65 gate in Q3 2026, which is a $6.79 fee for a queue that rarely exists.

The exceptions run the other way: the Bahia Palace guided visit at $8 undercuts the door it opens, because the operator is selling a guide's hour and absorbing the entry.

Cash. The Ministry monuments, the madrasa and most private venues take dirhams at the door, and the dirham is a closed currency: the FCDO states plainly that it cannot easily be exchanged outside Morocco, so you buy it on arrival. Travellers may carry no more than 2,000 MAD in or out, on the Office des Changes' own wording. What Marrakech costs day to day is on Marrakech costs.

• Wednesday. The Musee Yves Saint Laurent closes and the Jardin Majorelle next door does not, so a combined ticket bought for a Wednesday half wastes itself.
• Monday. Dar Si Said is the one closure in the southern medina, and it is not signposted anywhere else.
• Ramadan. Only two venues publish shortened hours, the madrasa to 16:30 and Le Jardin Secret to 16:30. Everyone else prints their normal times, so check the venue's own page in the week before a February or March visit.
• 17:00. All four Ministry monuments shut then, whatever the platform calendar suggests, and the last useful entry is well before it.