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This week's travel diary: A year-old advertising account director spends a magical night in the Moroccan desert. For questions, feedback, or if you're interested in tracking your travel expenses during an upcoming trip email us at traveldiary refinery Transportation Cost: Due to scheduling needs, we have to book our flights through two different airlines. Miscellaneous pre-vacation spending As Morocco is a Muslim country, it is recommend to keep your shoulders and knees covered.
Found a sale at Old Navy and get three pairs of pants. We also pre-booked our tour in Marrakech through Viator. Day One. Traffic ends up being terrible though so probably should have taken the subway. She graciously got my boarding pass for me since I was late and we head through security. I checked the seat map a week before we left and saw the back of the plane was pretty open so we took a chance on seats in the back. I put on my eye mask and attempt to sleep off my hangover.
Day Two. As we have about a hour layover, we plan to kill time in downtown Paris, living our best Mary Kate and Ashley Passport to Paris dreams. We breeze through security and customs. After a brief moment of being unable to find the signs for the train we almost break and take a taxi but we finally see directions to the Orlyval. We buy roundtrip tickets and head to the train which will transfer us to the subway into downtown Paris.
We decided to use a service called NannyBag which allows you to store bags at hotels, restaurants etc. The hotel we selected is just a few blocks from the subway and we drop off our bag.
