Three days in Marrakech in November 2025, straight after the Green March Tournament with Team USA (that week is its own post). I got there with sore legs, sun-cracked lips and a backpack that smelled like a different country entirely. What came after was three days built around resting, wandering and saying yes to things I’d normally overthink. These are field notes, not a guide: where I actually was, in the order it happened.
Marrakech: 6–9 November
6 November: Al Bahja family
We checked in on Thursday 6 November at Al Bahja family, a small family-run guesthouse on Avenue Ba Ahmad in the medina. It was exactly the reset I needed: a warm welcome, a rooftop, and a kind of quiet you don’t expect a few streets from the busiest square in the city.
7 November: dinner at Le Douar
On the 7th we had dinner at Le Douar, on the Meydene rooftop at M Avenue in Hivernage. It was one of my favourite meals of the whole trip.
8 November: a balloon over the Atlas foothills
The one early alarm of the stay. On the 8th we did the Atlas Mountains hot air balloon ride from Marrakech, with a Berber breakfast and a camel ride after landing. I’ve done plenty of sunrise activities that oversell the magic and undersell the 4 a.m. wake-up call. This one earned it: floating over the foothills as the light came up, then landing to mint tea and camels, was the one bucket-list morning of the whole Morocco trip.
Getting home: 9 November
We checked out on Sunday the 9th and flew home from Casablanca to Miami that afternoon.
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