Where do I do laundry while travelling in Morocco?

Honestly, the simplest answer is: hand it to your riad. On nearly every trip I plan, guests are surprised that there is no need to hunt down a laundromat — the riad just takes a small bag of clothes in the morning and returns everything folded or on hangers, often pressed, by that evening or the next morning. Pricing is per item rather than per load, so a quick mental note: socks and underwear are cheap, but a stack of shirts adds up. Ask for the price list first so there are no surprises at checkout.

If you would rather not pay riad rates, every Moroccan city has neighbourhood shops signed "Pressing" or "Blanchisserie" — these are walk-in laundry-and-press services run by locals. You drop a bag, agree a collection time, and pick it up clean. I send a lot of guests staying near the Marrakech medina to these; they are a fraction of hotel pricing and the turnaround is genuinely fast. A few words of French or pointing at your phone translator is all you need.

Self-service coin laundromats — the kind backpackers expect — are genuinely uncommon in Morocco. Marrakech has a handful catering to long-stay travellers and digital nomads, but in Fes, Chefchaouen or the smaller desert towns you will not reliably find one. If you are on a longer trip and want to wash things yourself, plan to do it by hand in your room: most riads provide a basin, and a travel clothesline plus a little detergent goes a long way in the dry climate.

My practical tip for desert legs of the trip: do a laundry drop the day before you leave for the dunes, because once you are out at a camp near Merzouga there is no laundry service at all, and sand gets into everything. Pack quick-dry layers, hand-rinse the essentials in your tent, and save the proper wash for your next city riad. Plan around the rhythm of cities-then-desert and you will rarely run out of clean clothes.