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Travel to Fes

Flying to Fes

Direct flights to Fès from the UK are provided by scheduled airline Royal Air Maroc, while cheap flights to Fes are available with low cost airline Ryanair. The most expensive time to fly to Fès is between February-May and September-October. If you want cheap flights to Fès, travel in the off-peak season between November-January.

Flight times: 

From London – 3 hours 20 mins.

Travel by road

Emergency breakdown service:

There is no general breakdown service - hire cars should have emergency breakdown details on board. For highway emergency services tel: 15. If you are involved in a road accident, wait for the police to arrive.

Coaches:

There are bus terminals in the Ville Nouvelle and by the various gates to the Medina, but arrivals from most destinations drop at the main bus station (gare routière), just north of Bab Mahrouk. CTM (tel: 0535 622041: www.ctm.ma) runs bus services between towns in Morocco and abroad and drops passengers at their office on the corner of rue Tetouan and avenue Mohammed V in the Ville Nouvelle.

Travel by rail

Services:

Fès’s striking new railway station, Ville Nouvelle, opened in 2009 and features a number of shops and modern facilities.

Operators:

You can travel to Fès by train. From London, take the Eurostar to Paris; catch the TGV to Algeciras, Spain, changing at Irun on the Spanish border. Although the train operator is SNCF, tickets may be purchased from European Rail Ltd (tel: (020) 7619 1083; www.europeanrail.com) and Rail Europe (tel: 0844 848 4064; www.raileurope.co.uk).

Office National des Chemins de Fer (ONCF) (tel: 0890 20 30 40; www.oncf.ma) is Morocco's national railway operator. Fast trains shuttles (TNR) and air-conditioned express trains connect the main cities in the north-western part of the country: Fès, Meknès, Tangier, Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech.

Journey times:

From Marrakech – 7 hours; Meknes – 1 hour; Tangier – 5 hours; Casablanca – 4 hours.

Travel over water

Summary:

Daily ferry services operate to Tangier and Ceuta (the Spanish enclave in Morocco) leave from Algeciras, Spain.

Ferry services:

Southern Ferries (tel: 0844 815 7785; www.southernferries.co.uk) has prices and timetables. The journey time to Tangier is 70 minutes and to Ceuta is 35 minutes.

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