Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
8.30am-6.30pm Mon-Fri)
Bank with
ATM.
POST
DHL
(
0537 77 99 34; Ave de France, Agdal)
Main Post Office
(cnr Rue Soékarno & Ave Mohammed V;
8.30am-4.30pm Mon-Fri)
TOURIST INFORMATION
Office National Marocain du Tourisme
(ONMT; 0537 67 40 13; visitmorocco@onmt.org.ma; cnr
Rues Oued el-Makhazine & Zalaka, Agdal; 8.30am-6.30pm Mon-Fri)
Smiles and vacant faces
await at this bureaucratic office. A better bet is to pick up the useful tourist listing pamph-
let
Clips Rabat
, available at many hotels and upmarket restaurants.
Getting There & Away
AIR
Tiny Rabat-Salé Airport, 10km northeast of town, only has a clutch of international flights
to Paris and Madrid. A grand taxi to the airport will cost about Dh250. There are no buses.
BUS
Rabat has two bus stations - the main
gare routière
where most buses depart and arrive, and
the less chaotic CTM station, situated about 3km southwest of the city centre on the road
to Casablanca. The main station has a
left-luggage service
(per item per day Dh5; 6am-11pm)
.
To get to the town centre from either station, take bus 30 (Dh5), the tram or a petit taxi
(Dh30).
Arriving by bus from the north, you may pass through central Rabat, so it's worth ask-
ing if you can be dropped off in town. Otherwise, you could save some time by alighting
at Salé and taking the tram into central Rabat. Buses include:
Agadir
Dh220, 10 hours, three daily
Casablanca
Dh35, 1½ hours, every hour
Er-Rachidia
Dh155, 10 hours, one daily
Fez
Dh70, 3½ hours, nine daily
Laâyoune
Dh420, 22½ hours, one daily
Marrakesh
Dh130, five hours, 10 daily
