A shared Ouzoud day trip from Marrakech is €40 per person; private is €62 each for two. Here is the full cost, including what the boat and lunch really run to.
What it costs
€40 per person on our shared Ouzoud day trip from Marrakech.
The private version is €62 per person for two, €46 at four and €35 at six.
Which one is cheaper depends on how many of you there are. Alone, the shared seat is €40 against €79 for a private car to yourself, and it stays the cheaper choice up to four people. From five, the private trip costs less per person (€39 at five, €35 at six), and the car, the guide and the timing are yours alone.
The costs on the ground
Nothing at Ouzoud is expensive, but the tour price does not cover all of it:
| Item | Typical cost | Included? |
|---|---|---|
| Entry to the falls | Free | - |
| Boat to the cascade base | 20-30 MAD | No, pay on site |
| Lunch above the falls | 70-120 MAD | No |
| Local guide down the path | 100-150 MAD per group | Optional |
| Parking (if self-driving) | ~20 MAD | - |
So budget roughly 100-150 MAD each in cash on top of the tour price for the boat and lunch. That is not a hidden extra - it is simply how the site works, and we would rather you knew than found out at the top of the path.
Doing it yourself
Ouzoud is genuinely easy to reach independently. It is 150 km of good road from Marrakech, there is a car park at the top, and the path down is obvious. A hire car for the day plus fuel will run to roughly 400-600 MAD, which for four people beats any tour.
What you are buying with a tour is the driving - five hours of it, on a day when you also want to walk a steep path in the heat.
What the day looks like
Leave Marrakech around 8am, arrive around 10:30. The walk down takes twenty minutes past the macaques, the boat runs across to the spray at the base, and lunch is on one of the terraces looking straight at the cascade. Back in Marrakech by early evening.
At 110 m over three tiers, Ouzoud is the tallest waterfall in North Africa and the water runs year round, though it is fullest from March to June after the winter rain.
If you want something quieter and closer, the Ourika Valley day hike is an hour from Marrakech rather than two and a half, and is a walk rather than a viewpoint.
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