Internet Cafes in Marrakech: Print, Wi-Fi and Day Desks

Marrakech runs on a phone. Mobile data covers the medina lanes, the taxi ranks and the roof terraces, which is why the old scramble for a desktop terminal has mostly faded. Internet cafes in Marrakech are still there, though, and most of them now work as print shops: a photocopier, a scanner, and someone behind the counter who can resize a passport photo. Short answer: yes, you can still find one, and you will probably need it for paper.

In this guide, we will break down who still prints and who just browses, which café terraces hold a signal, what a day desk costs in Gueliz, and how to plan a working morning around the medina.

Marrakech Cyber Cafés - What They Do Now

Mobile internet in Morocco is close to saturation, with roughly 92% of the population online and about 35 million 4G users, so a rented desktop stopped being how travellers get online. What survives is paperwork: a boarding pass, a visa form, a scanned passport, a CV.

For where to print in Marrakech, the map is lopsided. The shops sit in medina lanes and residential quarters such as Al Khradir and Massira, plus the airport approach. Gueliz has the cafés and the coworking spaces instead, and almost no rows of desktop PCs.

Three shops keep coming up in current listings and recent reviews:

• Cyber Café Amine: in the medina, around 5 MAD a page, closed on Fridays.
• Cyber Lumière: 100 Bab Lakhmiss, open daily from roughly 9am to 9pm, steady for boarding passes.
• Cyber D@houne: on the airport approach, open past midnight when your flight leaves before dawn.

Ask the price before the job starts, because visitor and local rates differ. Send the file ahead by email or WhatsApp so nobody is retyping your booking reference from a cracked screen.

Cafés With Wi-Fi in Marrakech - Where the Signal Holds

Café Wi-Fi handles email, maps and messages. It rarely holds a video call, and the better the view, the worse it usually gets. Riad rooftops are the slowest of the lot, and the terraces over Jemaa el-Fna are for looking at rather than uploading from.

The cafes with Wi-Fi in Marrakech where people genuinely open a laptop cluster in Gueliz and along Avenue al Wahda:

• Kuma Marrakech: 12 Rue Khalid Ben El Oualid, free Wi-Fi and sockets, opens at 10am and does not close in the afternoon.
• Café Kana: Avenue al Wahda, roomy enough for a laptop and open late.
• Atay: three floors and a rooftop view, with a signal regulars call weak.

If you settle in, order something and keep ordering roughly every two hours. Skip the lunch and dinner rush, take calls outside, and do not count on a socket at every table.

Coworking Spaces in Marrakech - Desks by the Day

For a full working day, coworking spaces in Marrakech win on the basics: fibre instead of shared café bandwidth, air conditioning, printing on site, and nobody to disturb on a call. Advertised lines run 100 to 200 Mbps.

• L’Blassa: in Gueliz, 30 MAD an hour or 100 MAD for the day with printing included, and a phone booth at 50 MAD an hour.
• Cowork in Marrakech: about 150 MAD a day on a 100 Mbps line.
• Goworking Marrakech: 80 MAD for a half day, 150 MAD for a full one.

Walk-ins usually work, but message the day before so a desk is waiting. Rates do move, so confirm at the door. Day-pass listings put the Marrakech median near 94 MAD, so anything much above 150 MAD deserves a question. A riad courtyard makes a quiet enough workspace for a morning, though the Wi-Fi there is a gamble and the shade shifts.

The Adapter, the Plug and the Backup Data

Morocco uses type C and E sockets at 220V, so a UK or US plug needs an adapter. Older riad rooms sometimes have two sockets for the whole room, one of them loose in the plaster, which is where a small multi-plug earns its place in the bag. A power bank covers the gap between a medina morning and an evening call.

Café Wi-Fi is fine for browsing and messages, coworking fibre is what you want for calls and uploads, and a phone hotspot bridges the two. Mobile data is the default for most visitors and holds up across Marrakech, medina lanes included; the detail on plans and coverage sits in our guide to SIM cards for tourists in Morocco.

Build the Working Day Around the City

Desk in the morning, medina in the afternoon, print the night before an early flight. Gueliz is a short taxi ride from the medina walls, so a 9am start at a coworking desk still leaves you the old city in the afternoon light. Keep the printing errand for the evening, when the queues thin out.

A three-day Sahara run fits between two work weeks, and our 3-Day Trip from Marrakech to Merzouga is where the phone goes quiet: the canyon and kasbah legs have little signal. If the calendar has more room, the 4-Day Morocco Desert Tour from Marrakech adds Ait Benhaddou and the Dades Valley on the way.

Our local team - Hassan on culture, Hamid on adventure, Andrea on coordination - plans these routes around your working hours, and 120 reviews at 4.9 suggest they get it right. We can customize a tour to match your needs - design your perfect itinerary