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vehicles can only be in Morocco 180 days per calendar year
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Chris you've been able to leave vehicles anywhere without keys for some time now.

New procedure at Marrakech Airport, turn right enter g the terminal, ask for customs office, go through metal detector and find office marked customs. Takes about 5 minutes and they give you a bit of paper. Present bit of paper at passport control, fly home. Simples

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As per TheWarden above, we did this yesterday. Very simple. No need to leave your keys.
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Chris you've been able to leave vehicles anywhere without keys for some time now.

New procedure at Marrakech Airport, turn right enter g the terminal, ask for customs office, go through metal detector and find office marked customs. Takes about 5 minutes and they give you a bit of paper. Present bit of paper at passport control, fly home. Simples

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Is there a waypoint or an arrow on a map for this Douanes airport office to save staggering about in the heat with all my gear?

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Is there a waypoint or an arrow on a map for this Douanes airport office to save staggering about in the heat with all my gear?

Ta.
I've tried to find a floor plan online but no luck. I'll try to describe it.
If you enter the main terminal head to the right, follow the departure signs.
Go past the AirMoroc check-in desks and pass a pharmacy.
Continue to the entrances to the departure area (where you put your bags through the x-ray machines). Don't enter. Look to your right, there's a glass door with a "Services" sign above it.
Go through the door, there's an x-ray machine for your bags and yourself. Go through and turn right for maybe 30 metres.
You are now in the baggage reclaim area.
It feels like you're doing a u-turn back to the main terminal. The customs offices are just there, to your right.
Very helpful and easy:-)
They just need your passport, the credit card-sized white import document (TVIP) and vehicle registration.
Exit doors lead back int the main terminal.
You hand over the piece of paper to the Police when they stamp you out on the way through Departures
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Ah, got it. Inside the terminal building.
For some reason I took it to mean some outpost portacabin in the airport complex.

That will be easy then.

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Got a safe place to leave my moto but where are people leaving their cars?
Some others in the same fix may need suggestions.
Does one have to pay?
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Le Relais de Marrakech camping,
31.707179, -7.989949

airport carpark are 2 options.

I'll be out until May and happy to check in on vehicles stored when I'm in the vicinity
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Tony and Jan Johnson said a couple of days ago they were headed south for a while but they have been maintaining a base camp at Le Relais for the past several weeks whilst visiting other parts of the country.

Given the choice between zombie-free Morocco and the nightmare of Spain (which in any case they can't reach), they will likely be in Morocco for some weeks.

I spent a couple of nights in one of the bungalows at Le Relais, it's a lovely site. Just watch out for the peacock scat (polite word for shite).
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