What are the luggage limits on Moroccan trains and buses?

Travellers often worry about strict airline-style luggage limits, and the reassuring news is that Moroccan trains barely have any. ONCF doesn't weigh your bags or enforce a tight size cap — there's no check-in and no charge. In practice the only real 'limit' is what you can personally carry and lift onto the train and stow on the overhead racks or in the luggage spaces at the ends of the carriages. I've travelled with a big suitcase plenty of times; the honest constraint is your own arms and the fact that you'll be hauling it up steps and onto racks yourself, so pack what you can manage.

Because the trains are so relaxed, the practical advice is about handling rather than allowances: a case with good wheels, packed light enough to lift overhead, makes train travel a pleasure, while an overstuffed trunk turns every boarding into a workout. Keep it near you — in first class it sits right in your compartment or carriage — and remember there's no porter system, so you're your own baggage handler from platform to rack and back.

Coaches are where actual allowances appear, though they're still generous and loosely applied. CTM and Supratours operate a hold-luggage system: large bags go underneath, you pay a small per-bag fee (typically just a few dirhams) and get a numbered tag to reclaim them. There's a notional weight allowance in the region of twenty to thirty kilos per passenger, and while staff rarely produce scales for a normal suitcase, a clearly oversized or very heavy piece — or a second big bag — can attract a modest extra charge. Anything you carry into the cabin as hand luggage, like a daypack or laptop, travels free.

A few honest extras. Hold onto that coach luggage tag — it's how you get your bag back at the other end. On the informal local buses, bags go below or on the roof with no tags and no real limit, which is one more reason I push visitors to CTM and Supratours. And for grand taxis, a big suitcase eats into the cramped space and may cost you an extra seat's worth. But for the trains and the good coaches, the bottom line is happily generous: trains have essentially no limit beyond what you can lift, and coaches charge a few dirhams to put a normal-sized case safely in the hold.