Meknes: Useful Information
- Tourist Offices and Guides
- Transportation
- Money, Banks
- Post Offices
- Health and Emergencies
- Warnings and Dangers
Tourist Offices and Guides
Délégation régionale de tourisme
Place Batha l'Istiqlal
035 52 44 26, fax: 035 51 60 46
Working hours: Open from 8.30am-12pm and 2.30pm-6.30pm on weekdays, from 8am-3pm during summer.
Note: You can arrange an official guide for you here, but Meknes is not that big and you can easily find your way around it by yourself. Also, a good choice is to have a horse carriage take you around the city (they are stationed near the Bab Mansour gate).
Transportation
Petit taxi
The azure petit taxis in Meknes are most useful when you have to go to medina from ville nouvelle and the other way around. Otherwise, everything is pretty much reachable by foot in Meknes.
Grand taxi
Grand taxis will come in handy when visiting Moulay Idriss and Volubilis. The main station and departure point for the two aforementioned destinations is located on Rue du Congo (in Meknes ville nouvelle).
Money, Banks
Most of the ATMs in Meknes are located in ville nouvelle, along the Avenue Mohammed V.
Post Offices
La Poste
Place Administrative, near the city hall — hotel de ville (Meknes ville nouvelle)
Rue Rouamazin (Meknes medina, near the entrance to the medina from the side of ville nouvelle)
Working hours: 8.30am-4pm on weekdays.
Health and Emergencies
Pharmacies
Pharmacie centrale
Avenue Mohammed V
035 52 11 81
Opening hours: 9.30am-12.30pm & 3pm-7.30pm
Hospitals
Polyclinique Cornette de Saint Cyr
22, Esplanade du Docteur Giguet
035 52 02 61
Warnings and Dangers
Meknes is a peaceful place — there almost no hustlers and faux guides here. You can walk around the ville nouvelle and medina with almost no annoyance at all. As in any other place in Morocco, wandering around at night is not recommended.
You will notice that Meknes is a little bit more conservative than cities like Rabat or Marrakech, for example. Wearing revealing clothes is not recommended here — you will be the target of unwanted attention. On a small sideline note, the moderate islamists have won the local elections here.