I reallllly don't want to rain on your parade or dissuade you from going, but I'm a pretty experienced traveler and spent 3 weeks with my girlfriend in Morocco in August and September 2021. It was the worst place I've ever been to and I can't say a redeeming thing about the country. The food was generally terrible and the food that tasted the best made us sick. I was super excited about the trip and the experience, but I won't ever go back; there's too many other countries to see, not to mention the ones I've already visited and want to see more of. We went to Tangiers, Casablanca, Chefchaouen, Fes, Marrakech, Rabat, and Essaouira. Don't trust anybody and guard where you're staying and when you're going anywhere. We had a taxi drop us off at a hotel in Chefchaouen and his taxi driver friend was knocking on our door in the morning (he was demanding to drive us to another city, WTF?), as the hotel staff had so graciously given him our room number. Had plenty of others try to discern where we were staying at other points in the trip.
Everywhere I go I meet local people and end up eating and bonding with them, but Morocco quickly jaded me. EVERYONE there is trying to rip you off. Even random elders who one would think would generally be trusted in pretty much every other place in the world are scheming to rip you off in Morocco. If anyone ever tells you to follow them or tries to start a conversation with you offhand, just sternly tell them "shukran," thanks in Arabic, and keep on walking. Also, don't even think about letting a western girl go anywhere without you. My girlfriend dresses super conservatively no matter where she goes and she had guys scowling at her across the entire country. Not staring, as many people do to foreigners out of curiosity, like straight up in a hateful trance that could barely be broken by me waving at them trying to gain their attention from my girlfriend and letting the cavemen know I'll smash their faces in if they get too close. She's a mix of ethnicities and many people thought she's Moroccan, which is maybe why they had such hate for her being with a foreigner, but I've also heard similar stories from many other female acquaintances who have traveled to Morocco.
I've always wanted to visit Morocco and this region in general, but the only decent thing about the whole country is Moroccan mint tea. One of three countries to have shores on the Mediterranean and Atlantic, but all they can do is grow olives, oregano, and argan oil (which is fake almost everywhere in Morocco; go to the French supermarket Carrefour if you want guaranteed real.) A real tragedy of a country.
If you're an expert driver, I'd recommend renting cars wherever you go. Buses are not safe. Drivers pass trucks on curves with zero visibility and swerve out of oncoming traffic.
Volubulis (thanks Rome!) was one of our favorite sites of the whole trip. Obviously the
King Hassan II mosque is also a must see. Rabat was mostly fine as it's the financial capital, but the best food we ate there was at a Palestinian restaurant and it hardly made up for the rest of the trip. Outside of the train from Casablanca to Tangiers, a short taxi ride from Tangiers to Chefchaouen, and a bus from Chefchaouen to Fes, I drove everywhere the rest of the trip.
I really thought it would be a unique blend of Northern Africa with European influence, but instead a lot of places looked more like Iraq. But yeah, inshallah you'll have fun! Seriously, I hope you do.
