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With its jewel like courtyards, expansive glimmering resorts, Aladdin’s cave souks and almost perfect year-round weather, Marrakech is hard to beat with children, especially for shoulder season holidays (it may be best avoided in high summer).
A litmus test of our family holidays is how many times the stress-o-meter is activated. After travelling extensively for the last seven years with small children, Morocco was the first where there wasn’t a single anxiety-inducing moment – a miracle given numerous hotel changes, a husband glued to work and navigating the craziness of the medina with a tired clan in tow.