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Kasbah courtyard in Ouarzazate at golden hour

About us

A small team, designing private kasbah & desert trips.

Ouarzazate and Ait Ben Haddou Tours is operated by Serenity Morocco Tours. We design and run every trip ourselves — no marketplaces, no resellers. A small team and one phone number.

Private trips only · operated by usOperated by Serenity Morocco ToursOperator, not marketplaceQuietly responsible
The Aït Ben Haddou ksar near Ouarzazate at golden hour

Where we work

Ouarzazate and the kasbah road

Our story · in plain language

We started with one stubborn idea.

Operate the trip ourselves rather than resell other people's. Walk every property the night before you arrive, pay every supplier directly, hire drivers we know personally, write every itinerary by hand — then charge a transparent fee on top of the real cost.

We stay deliberately small. We take a limited number of private tours a year, many of them returning families and friends-of-friends. We are slow to scale and fast to answer the phone.

What we believe

Four convictions, in plain language.

These aren't marketing lines. They are the four arguments we have had repeatedly inside the team — and the answers we have settled on, from running these trips ourselves.

Operator, not marketplace

We book every guide, driver and host directly. If something goes wrong on your trip, there is no third party to call — it is us, on WhatsApp.

One team, start to finish

The same person who answers your first message writes your itinerary and answers the phone on the trip. You do not pass through a call centre at any point.

Quietly responsible

Local hosts, fair driver day-rates, low-impact desert routes.

Honest pricing

Real ground costs plus a transparent service fee, itemised in every quote. No hidden margins, no commissioned upsells, no dynamic pricing surprises.

How we work

A few principles, honestly told.

  1. 01

    We operate, we don't resell

    A simple idea: operate every trip ourselves rather than resell other people's group departures.

  2. 02

    Drivers we know

    We work with drivers we know rather than booking them per-trip through a broker.

  3. 03

    The kasbah road, in depth

    Our focus is Ouarzazate and the south — Aït Ben Haddou, the film studios, Skoura, the Dadès and Todra gorges and the Sahara gateway.

  4. 04

    Deliberately small

    We stay small on purpose. Slow to scale, fast to answer the phone.

The direct difference

Why book with us, not a platform?

Online marketplaces are useful for browsing. We are useful for travelling. Here is the difference, in plain terms — because you deserve to know before you book.

One number, always answered

One named contact — before, during and after

Ticket system, SLA measured in days

Local, on-the-ground knowledge

Riads and camps chosen for your route

Photos and guest reviews from 18 months ago

Real availability

We hold your slots directly with the property and driver

Booking confirmed; property confirms separately — or doesn't

Transparent pricing

Itemised quote, no hidden marketplace margin

Published rate plus platform fee plus supplier up-charge

Ready to see the difference? Start with a free, itemised quote

The people behind the trips

Small by design. Always.

Trip designers and drivers — and a network of guides, hosts and craftspeople we work with directly. The team deliberately doesn't grow past what we can hold in one WhatsApp thread.

Our drivers

Our drivers

Career chauffeurs we know personally.

Our craft circle

Our craft circle

Weavers, calligraphers and zellige masters we work with.

Our desert team

Our desert team

Camp crews we work with in Erg Chigaga and Merzouga.

Begin a conversation

The next journey starts with you.

A few lines about who you are, when you'd like to come, and what excites you — that is genuinely enough for us to write back with route options and a real, itemised quote within one working day.

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