Are there internet cafés / coworking spaces in Morocco?

The classic internet café — rows of desktop PCs, signed "Cyber" — is a fading sight, but you will still find them tucked into city neighbourhoods, often doubling as print and photocopy shops. They are useful for one specific thing: printing a boarding pass, a visa document or a hotel voucher when your own device cannot. For actually getting online, though, almost nobody uses them anymore because a cheap local data SIM puts the internet in your pocket.

If you are travelling and working — and I plan a lot of trips now for remote workers — Morocco has grown a genuine coworking scene. Marrakech leads it, with several professional spaces offering fast fibre, meeting rooms, day passes and a community of freelancers and founders. The surf town of Taghazout, just up the coast from Agadir, has become a real digital-nomad hub: coworking spots with ocean views, coliving setups and a relaxed rhythm of work-then-surf. Essaouira and Casablanca have options too.

For lighter working sessions you rarely need a dedicated space at all. Modern cafés in Gueliz (the new town of Marrakech), in Casablanca and in tourist-facing parts of most cities are perfectly laptop-friendly, with wifi and power sockets — buy a coffee, settle in, nobody rushes you. I tell guests to look for the newer, brighter cafés rather than the traditional men-only street cafés, where lingering with a laptop feels out of place.

My honest advice: do not rely on any single venue's wifi for anything important. Buy a Maroc Telecom, Orange or inwi SIM at the airport or any phone shop, top it with a data bundle, and you can hotspot your laptop anywhere — riad rooftop, train, café, even much of the desert road. That redundancy has saved more than one guest's deadline, and it means your "office" can be a riad courtyard one day and a beach café the next.