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I see where you can depart from either Marrakech or Casablanca. Any advice on which airport? How long a drive is it from Marrakech to Casablanca?
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I see where you can depart from either Marrakech or Casablanca. Any advice on which airport? How long a drive is it from Marrakech to Casablanca?
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Marrakech to Casablanca 1.5-2.15 hours light traffic- all freeway , no big deal. If you can , depending the connection ... I would depart from Marrakesh. New airport just min. from Four Seasons resort .
Thank you so much. The only problem leaving Marrakesh is that the layover in Amsterdam is only an hour! and if we miss that there are no other flights to ATL
We had a short connection in Amsterdam to begin with on the return flights from Blue Danube last year. Then our plane from Budapest arrived late. We took off through Schiphol at a dead run and barely made it- we were the last to board- the aircraft door was closed immediately behind us. Huffing an puffing we made it to our seats when the flight attendant put everything in perspective. He said, "You know, there are a lot worse things in life than having to spend a day in the Netherlands." Yup, a hotel room and meal courtesy of Delta and getting home a day later really wouldn't have been that bad once we thought about it.
Just wondering if you had to go through passport control and security again since we would be arriving from Morocco and transferring to the US..
that is transferring in Amsterdam.
This text has been __updated__ 7/23/2019
If your bags are checked through- no customs. You should not need passport control either, but you may need to go through some sort of final TSA required questioning- it has changed the last two times through AMS. **In 2018 ** I think they were in transition between special questioning areas. You could either go to the special area on your own to be questioned, or to D1- evidently everyone's boarding pass, regardless of flight (at least if flying Delta at that time) said D1. Evidently, at D1 people were asked questions or sent to the questioning area before being given their actual departure gate. We were so late (they were about to close the door!), we were immediately directed to the departure gate and luckily after some discussions, the security person relented, quickly asked us the questions, and allowed us to board.
My wife corrected my memory
this time, June 2019, on our return from B,SA,Z, things were very different. We arrived at AMS from Cape Town on KLM and were connecting to a Delta flight to Atlanta. At Amsterdam, we went directly to the departure gate where we were questioned. Random(?) passengerse (I was one 
) had their carry-on searched, body scanned, and hands and clothing swiped for explosive residue. There were two questioners, each with a small roll-around machine kinda like the pulse/temp/BP devices at hospitals and doctors' offices. Our passports were electronically read and we were asked the typical security questions- "Where did you come from?, Where are you going?, Did you pack your own bags?, Did you accept any packages, etc. etc. Once that was done we were cleared to board at the appropriate time. I believe everyone was surprised by the new procedures, we were. The process wasn't speedy, but we were already at the gate so we knew we wouldn't miss our flight though it was obvious there was the potential for the departure to be delayed. This process could change or may have already changed again in the two months since we transited AMS.
I made a major update to me previous post.
Thank you for all your help.