# Do Riads in Marrakech Have WiFi? What to Expect > Do riads in Marrakech have WiFi? Yes, but thick walls and one shared router weaken it in the rooms. How to test it, what to ask, and your own connection. Published: 2026-10-07 The short answer **Yes, riads in Marrakech have WiFi: almost every one advertises it free.** What varies is whether it reaches your room. A riad is a courtyard house with thick walls, usually served by one router near reception on a line shared by every guest, so the signal that is fine in the courtyard is often weak upstairs and slow in the evening. The mobile network around the medina, on the other hand, is strong. That is why a pocket WiFi router, your own private 4G connection for €4.90 a day, delivered to the riad, is the reliable way to be online in your room. This guide explains what to expect from riad WiFi in Marrakech, why the building itself is the problem, how to test the connection when you arrive, what to ask before you book, and how to have a connection that does not depend on the house. We deliver routers to riads in the medina, and the signal figures below are counted by us from open cell-tower data. **Free**WiFi is offered by almost every riad **1 line**usually shared by all the guests in the house **147**Maroc Telecom 4G cells recorded within 1 km of Jemaa el-Fna **€4.90**per day for your own unlimited connection, delivered to the riad ## Do riads in Marrakech have WiFi? They do. Free WiFi is offered by almost every riad, hotel and café in the city. For checking messages in the courtyard or on the roof terrace it does the job. The honest picture is in the detail. “Has WiFi” on a booking page means there is a router in the building. It does not tell you how far the signal travels, how many people share it, or how it behaves at nine in the evening when everyone is back from the souks. ## Why riad WiFi is weak in the rooms Three things, and none of them is the owner’s fault. ### The walls A riad is built to keep heat out: thick walls, rooms arranged around an inner courtyard, often over two or three floors, with a terrace on the roof. Thick masonry is exactly what a WiFi signal struggles with. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology tested brick, masonry block and concrete for this, measuring the loss of radio signal as a function of the thickness of the material and of the frequency (report NISTIR 6055). The faster 5 GHz WiFi band is blocked more easily than the slower 2.4 GHz band, so the first thing you lose in a thick-walled room is speed. ### One router for the whole house Typically there is a single router near reception and no repeaters upstairs. The usual complaint is not “there was no WiFi” but “it worked in the courtyard and not in my room”. ### One line for all the guests That router is fed by one fixed line, shared by every guest and by the house itself. In Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index for the fourth quarter of 2025, Morocco’s fixed broadband ranked around 105th in the world, with a median of 56 Mbps. Divide that between a dozen rooms in the evening and each guest’s share is small. It is not a Marrakech problem The mobile network is the good part. Morocco ranked 39th in the world and first in Africa for mobile speed in the same index. The weak link is the WiFi inside old buildings, not the internet outside them. ## The signal outside the walls is strong Mobile data does not depend on the box downstairs: it comes from masts outside. We counted the 4G cells recorded within one kilometre of four points in the old city, for each network. 4G cells recorded within 1 km of each point. Mozilla Location Service open export, measurements 2015–2024. Networks have added masts since, so read these as a floor, not a ceiling. | Part of the medina | Maroc Telecom | Orange | inwi | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **Jemaa el-Fna and the souks** | 147 | 133 | 59 | | **Bab Doukkala** | 148 | 55 | 56 | | **Kasbah and Saadian Tombs** | 128 | 75 | 48 | | **Bahia Palace and the Mellah** | 127 | 108 | 45 | The medina is among the densest areas in the city for mobile coverage. Our routers run on Maroc Telecom, which has the most recorded cells at all four points. ## How to test the WiFi when you arrive - **Test from your room, not from reception.** Sit where you will actually use it, door closed. - **Test in the evening.** The connection that is fine at 11:00 can be very different at 21:00. - **Try the thing you need.** If it is a video call, make a short one. Zoom lists 2.6 Mbps of upload for a 720p group call, and upload is what a shared line runs out of first. - **Walk to the courtyard and the terrace.** If it only works there, you know where your calls will happen. ## What riad WiFi is fine for, and what it is not #### Usually fine - Messages and email in the courtyard or on the terrace. - Looking up a restaurant, a route or an opening time before you go out. - Downloading maps and films in the morning, when the house is empty. #### Better on your own connection - Video calls from your room, especially in the evening. - Streaming for several people at once. - Work that cannot wait: uploads, company logins, banking. - Anything you need outside the front door: maps in the souks, a taxi, a message to the riad when you are lost. ### Getting the most from the riad’s WiFi - **Sit close to the router.** One wall less between you and it is worth more than any setting. - **If the house shows two network names**, try both. The 2.4 GHz one usually reaches further; the 5 GHz one is faster when you are close. - **Do the heavy things early.** Backups and downloads go through at breakfast; the evening is when the line is busiest. - **Tell the staff.** Restarting the router is a two-minute job that often helps. ## What to ask the riad before you book - Is there a WiFi repeater on each floor, or one router for the house? - Does the signal reach the room you are booking? - Do guests work from the riad, and where do they sit? - Can a courier deliver a small parcel for you at reception? That is how a router reaches you. ## Your own connection in the riad If being online in your room matters, the dependable answer is a connection that does not go through the house at all. A pocket WiFi router is the best way to have one. #### It works in your room - The router sits with you and takes its signal from the masts outside, not from the box at reception. - Put it near the window or the door to the courtyard for the best signal. #### Nobody shares it - A private, password-protected network for your devices only. - The other guests’ streaming does not touch it. #### Unlimited, with no throttling - No daily allowance and no total cap at any point in the rental. - Calls home, films in the evening and photo backups without counting. #### Everyone in the room is online - Up to 10 devices on one router: phones, tablets and laptops. - One price for the family, not one plan each. #### It leaves the riad with you - The same connection in the souks, in a taxi and on a day trip. - Maps and messages keep working where the riad WiFi stops, at the front door. #### Delivered to the door - Brought to your riad charged and connected, and collected at the end. - About one in six of our deliveries goes to a riad. Keep the riad’s WiFi as a spare. Two independent connections mean a bad evening on one of them does not matter. ## How delivery to a riad works - **Book online** with your dates and the name and address of your riad. The minimum is two days. - **We deliver it charged**, any day from 08:00 to 20:00 (09:00–15:30 during Ramadan). The courier calls or messages you on WhatsApp before arriving, which matters when an address inside the medina is easier to describe than to find. - **Join the WiFi** with the password printed on the card that comes with the router. - **We collect it** at the end, at the riad or at Menara airport, and the €50 deposit is released. Rental details are on [pocket WiFi rental in Marrakech](https://pocketwifimorocco.com/pocket-wifi-marrakech/). For the city as a whole, see [internet in Marrakech](https://pocketwifimorocco.com/internet-in-marrakech/), and if you will be working from the riad, [remote work in Marrakech](https://pocketwifimorocco.com/remote-work-marrakech-internet/). ## Frequently asked questions Do riads in Marrakech have WiFi? Yes. Almost every riad offers free WiFi. It usually works well in the courtyard and near reception, and less well in the rooms, because of the thick walls and a single shared router. Do riads in Morocco have WiFi? Yes. Riads across Morocco generally advertise free WiFi. The same limits apply everywhere: thick walls, one router and one line shared by all the guests. Is the WiFi good in Marrakech? Mobile internet is good: Morocco ranked 39th in the world for mobile speed in Ookla’s index for the fourth quarter of 2025. WiFi inside buildings is less reliable, especially in riads and older houses in the medina. Why is the WiFi weak in my riad room? Because the signal has to cross thick masonry walls from a router that is usually near reception, and the line behind it is shared by every guest. It is strongest in the courtyard and weakest in the rooms furthest from the router. Can I work or make video calls from a riad? Sometimes, on the riad’s WiFi, usually from the courtyard. For calls from your room, bring your own connection: a pocket WiFi router gives you a private 4G line that does not depend on the house. Is there mobile signal inside the medina? Yes. In open cell-tower data, 147 Maroc Telecom, 133 Orange and 59 inwi 4G cells have been recorded within one kilometre of Jemaa el-Fna. Inside a thick-walled room, place the router near a window or the courtyard door. Can a pocket WiFi be delivered to a riad? Yes. We deliver to riads in Marrakech every day from 08:00 to 20:00, free, and collect at the end. The courier calls or messages you before arriving. Is riad WiFi safe for banking? It is a network shared with the other guests. For banking and work logins, your own password-protected connection is the safer choice. How much does it cost to have my own WiFi in a riad? €4.90 per day for a router with unlimited data and up to 10 devices: €24.50 for 5 days and €34.30 for a week, with free delivery and collection in Marrakech and a €50 deposit that is pre-authorised and released at the end. ### Your own WiFi in your riad €4.90 per day · unlimited data · up to 10 devices · free delivery and collection at your riad or Menara airport [Check dates and book](https://pocketwifimorocco.com/booking/) Questions before you book? WhatsApp +212 6 23 11 25 18 or email [contact@pocketwifimorocco.com](mailto:contact@pocketwifimorocco.com). Sources. Building materials: US National Institute of Standards and Technology, “Electromagnetic Signal Attenuation in Construction Materials” (NISTIR 6055, 1997). Speed ranks: Ookla Speedtest Global Index, fourth quarter of 2025. Call requirements: Zoom’s support site, read on 7 October 2026. 4G cell counts: Mozilla Location Service final cell export (public domain, measurements 2015–2024), 4G cells of Maroc Telecom, Orange and inwi counted by us within 1 km of each point; coordinates from OpenStreetMap. Delivery share: our own paid rentals, February to September 2026. Our prices are our published rates on 7 October 2026; see the [pricing page](https://pocketwifimorocco.com/pricing/) for the current rate. --- Source: https://pocketwifimorocco.com/riad-wifi-marrakech/ Full reference: https://pocketwifimorocco.com/llms-full.txt