Is Morocco good for a large family or big group?

Big groups — extended families of eight to fifteen, reunions, multi-family trips — are a Serenity speciality, and Morocco is unusually well-suited to them. The cultural reason matters: Moroccans travel and live as extended families, so a large mixed-age group isn't an inconvenience to be tolerated, it's the normal way to move. Restaurants happily push tables together, riads cook for the whole house, and nobody blinks at a noisy table of kids and grandparents.

The single best decision for a large group is to take over an entire property. A private riad in Marrakech or Fes, or a villa in the Palmeraie or Atlas foothills, gives you 5–8 bedrooms, a pool, a cook, and a courtyard or garden that becomes base camp. Per person, booking the whole house usually beats a block of hotel rooms — and it keeps the group together, which is the whole point. I match the property to the group: villas for families with small kids who need pool-and-space, medina riads for groups who want to be in the thick of it.

For moving the group, a private minibus or coach with a driver (and for the bigger groups, two vehicles) replaces the chaos of multiple taxis and trains. It also means the day flexes to the slowest member rather than a timetable — crucial when you've got toddlers napping and grandparents who want a slower morning. I build big-group itineraries with a fixed base and day-trip spokes rather than a one-night-here, one-night-there hop, because packing and re-packing fifteen people daily is how a trip falls apart.

Two practical notes. Restaurants and desert camps need advance notice for groups over six — we always pre-arrange set menus and private camp blocks so nobody's left waiting an hour for food or short a tent. And split the day: not everyone wants the same thing, so I design parallel options (the energetic ones quad-bike or hike, the relaxed ones do a hammam or pool day) that reconverge for dinner. Done that way, Morocco is one of the easiest places in the world to bring a big, multi-generational tribe.