Tangier Day Trip: Explore City Highlights from Tarifa

Embark on a one-day trip from Tarifa to Tangier and explore the city’s highlights with a local guide. Visit the Souk, Medina, and more, and enjoy free time for shopping and lunch.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Port of Tarifa - You will meet your FRS guide at the port of Tarifa to board the ferry. You will travel by fast ferry to Tangier Ville. The crossing lasts approximately 1 hour. Once in Tangier, you will disembark at the Port of Tangier Ville.
  • Tangier - Panoramic tour of the modern city of Tangier. On this bus tour you will see the entire…
What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • Ferry Tarifa-Tangier Ville
Additional Information

Enjoy a day trip to Tangier, starting from Tarifa, for a comfortable exploration of the city.
You’ll embark on a panoramic tour with a local guide from the port, passing through Avenue Mohamed V and Boulevard Pasteur, until you reach Plaza de los Cañones where you’ll have some free time.
From this square, you can easily walk to the Souk and the Medina…

Location
Port of Tarifa
Redeem your boarding pass at the ticket office before the tour begins. You can find the ticket office inside the Port Maritime Station. You must try to arrive at the port of Tarifa at least 45 minutes before departure
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Higiwarez
Dec 29, 2024
Highly recommended. - Very nice excursion, well organized, very good guide (Ali), highly recommended. He took us very well through all the remarkable sites, accompanied us in the free time to show us the Continental Hotel in detail. Very good impression.
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Dougth7061nu
Nov 27, 2024
If you only have a “moment” to see Morocco… - Ali provided a wonderful tour of the city - our group felt that the tour exceeded our expectations and was a huge value to us. (The food was an unexpected pleasant surprise.) We would recommend this tour to anyone who has a limited schedule, concerns about safety abroad, and enjoys new experiences.
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Joynells2024
Nov 27, 2024
Great intro to Tangier - Great intro tour to the city. Value for money. Loved the lunch for 15 euros. Felt safe and guided the whole time. Tour took he whole time while in Morocco.
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Paul_corol
Oct 27, 2024
The essential 1 day trip was a great experience - It was a great day out to Morocco. When we bought the tickets it says "essential trip" but it was more like a full excursion day with superb guides Stephanie and Aziz. 5* lovely people, always smiling and happy to help. The Morocco itself is a nice country to visit. I can fully recommend to buy this trip with FRS DFDS. Big fat thanks from " the family" 😄
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202connyg
Oct 27, 2024
Recommended - Very nice team, also took great care of our children, so they also kept up with the tour. Booked without a big tour, but were still taken a little by the guide and could see super much within a day.
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G8629bjdiegov
Oct 19, 2024
Excellent visit to neighbouring country - The visit is very well planned in the times. The Estefania Guide is a Pro and was very attentive to the needs of the group. Local Guide Baba explained everything in very attentive detail and was explaining it in Spanish and English.
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Didikaki
Mar 15, 2025
A trip that worth it's cost - The ship the crew and the staff in the office very friendly and helpful but the local guide was not a dream. Really to take care in the stores that he proposes...
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Christina
Oct 19, 2024
Morocco is worth it, the guide is not - Ferry trip alright but the guides were not really present. We booked the Cultural but got the Essential trip. Ended up with a guide that dragged us around Tangier without asking what or where we wanted to go. Would have loved time with the camels, the large spice market etc. But he planted and left us with ‘the best deals’ for him…wanted us to buy from them. We never got a real order confirmation from DFDS just an email from FSR with merged (wrong) data in French :-)
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Gregory_g
Apr 22, 2025
Disappointing: Approach this tour with caution - We were very disappointed with this day-long tour of Tangier we took on Monday April 14, 2025. The experience did not match the description or the information we received in advance. Please be cautious when considering this tour. To be fair, there were a couple of positives — most notably our FRS guide, who met us in Tarifa at the ferry and was incredibly helpful, especially when navigating passport control and helping us get around. Her assistance was invaluable. However, the overall experience fell far short of expectations. We were told this would be a private tour for just the two of us. In reality, three other travelers joined the group. While they were lovely people, it was not what we had been promised repeatedly (I contacted the Viator twice to inquire and was assured there would be no others joining the tour). We were also told we’d have four hours of free time to explore and enjoy lunch at our own pace. That never happened. Instead, we were guided around for hours by our guide, Ali, who seemed to take us only to select shops — likely ones where he receives commissions. We had no opportunity to browse or shop freely. When one of us tried to make a purchase at a shop not suggested by Ali, he actively discouraged it. Lunch was another letdown. We were led upstairs at a restaurant and simply told this was where we’d be eating — no discussion, no options. According to the tour description: "After visiting the Plaza de los Cañones you will have free time (four hours). From this square, you can quickly walk to the Souk and the Medina if you want to shop and have lunch." That free time never materialized. While the price was reasonable, the experience did not deliver what was promised. In the end, we left feeling misled and disappointed. Approach this tour with caution.
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909juanmanuelv
Nov 24, 2024
Better for free if you want to enjoy free time, a scam to buy the guide by commission - First if the boat is delayed by inclement weather does not mean that the visit will be prolonged, very little information and a lot of uncontrollability by the guides do not inform you of anything simply catch you pass ready you get on the boat and get off and put you on a bus with a local guide. The experience with the horrible local guide running around without explaining almost anything relevant, I was explaining more to my group than the guide. The only thing he was interested in was taking us to the points where he has the friends who give him commission if we buy something was not until he wanted to make us go in through the nose to the restaurant that we said no that we wanted to go for free that he did not let us and he did not explain where to meet (big central cafe the small square below nothing) of the four hours that he says we have free time only had 2 and because we were a small group and we already told him that enough if not stays in less, do not fool you better go for free.
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