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Marrakech over the holidays is warm, full and expensive. Daytime temperatures sit around 18–20 °C and nights drop to 5–8 °C. If you are coming from France, the school holidays run from Saturday 19 December 2026 to Monday 4 January 2027 — and unusually, those dates are the same for all three zones, so the whole country travels at once.
What is open
Morocco is a Muslim country and 25 December is a normal working day. Shops, souks, museums and transport all run as usual, which surprises most first-time visitors. Hotels and restaurants aimed at travellers put on Christmas menus and decorations, but it is not a public holiday. 1 January is, so banks and administrative offices close.
The Wi-Fi problem, specifically
This is the pattern we see every December. A family arrives, turns roaming off to avoid charges, and plans to rely on the riad’s Wi-Fi. Then on Christmas afternoon four people want to video-call home at the same time.
Riads are lovely and their Wi-Fi is structurally poor: thick walls, a central courtyard, one router, and every other guest doing exactly the same thing at exactly the same hour. A long video call is roughly 200–300 MB per hour on WhatsApp and more on FaceTime — the heaviest thing most travellers do all trip, landing on the most contended day of the year.
A pocket router is the straightforward fix: unlimited 4G with no daily cap and no throttling, up to 300 Mbps on Maroc Telecom, shared across up to 10 devices. A family of four with two tablets is exactly the shape of group it is built for.
What it costs
| Length of stay | Router total | Per person if 4 of you share it |
|---|---|---|
| 3 days | €14.70 | €3.68 |
| 5 days | €24.50 | €6.12 |
| 7 days | €34.30 | €8.58 |
| 10 days | €49.00 | €12.25 |
A holiday week is €34.30 for the router, whatever the group does with it. There is no per-person charge and no data metering, so nobody has to ration the Christmas call.
Booking notes
- Book accommodation by early October for New Year. Prices for 30 December to 2 January roughly double, and the good riads go first.
- Reserve the router early too. The last two weeks of December are our tightest stock of the year.
- Pack for the evening. Riads are built to stay cool, which in December means cold indoors. 20 °C at lunch and 6 °C on a rooftop at 22:00 is the whole story.
- Free delivery and collection, including at Marrakech Menara airport, with same-day delivery subject to availability. Nothing is shipped to you and nothing goes back in the post.
For a stay of three weeks or more, or three or more routers, email contact@pocketwifimorocco.com for an individual quote rather than multiplying the daily rate.
