How do I plan a multigenerational Morocco trip (logistics)?

Multigenerational trips — grandparents, parents and kids all on one holiday — are some of my favourite to design and also the ones most easily ruined by over-ambition. The golden rule is to pace the whole trip around your slowest or least mobile member, not your most energetic. If grandma cannot do a four-hour medina march in August heat, then nobody is doing a four-hour medina march; you do a focused ninety-minute guided highlight and let those who want more peel off afterwards. Get the pacing right and three generations genuinely travel happily together; get it wrong and the trip fractures along age lines by day two.

Accommodation choice does enormous heavy lifting here. A whole riad on exclusive use is ideal because it gives you a private, safe base where toddlers can nap and grandparents can rest in the courtyard while everyone else is out — but riads are old buildings, often with steep narrow stairs and rooms over multiple floors. I always secure a ground-floor or lowest-accessible room for anyone with mobility issues and confirm, room by room, what the stairs actually look like before booking. For a group that needs lifts and step-free everything, a modern hotel with a pool may serve the elders and the youngest better than a romantic but vertical medina riad.

A private driver-guide is non-negotiable on these trips, and not as a luxury — as the thing that removes the stress. With a baby's car seat fitted, a comfortable minivan, luggage handled and a driver who knows where the clean toilets and shaded rest stops are on the long desert roads, the transport that would otherwise exhaust a three-generation group simply dissolves. I plan shorter daily drives than I would for a group of twenty-somethings, with a midday break built in, so the youngest and oldest both come through the day in good shape rather than melting down in the back of a car.

Design each day as one shared anchor plus optional splits. The anchor is the memory everyone makes together — a camel ride at sunset, a family cooking class, a gentle camel-free dune walk, dinner under the stars at the desert camp. Around it, build flexibility: the teenagers go quad-biking while the toddlers nap and the grandparents take mint tea on the terrace, and you all reconvene for the anchor. That structure lets every generation travel at its own speed without anyone feeling held back or dragged along — which is the entire art of a multigenerational trip that actually works.