Hi

My family and I are off to Morocco later this month with our Landy Disco 2. This will be our first trip now that she's been kitted out.
We're battling to find insurance and a green card. Our insurance in the UK will cover us while driving through France and Spain but no-one seems to cover Morocco (or provides short term cover for Morocco).

Also, we've heard that the office in Ceuta is now closed and you can't get a green card/insurance there anymore.

Any suggestions from anyone who has managed to get this sorted recently i.e. getting UK company to provide green card or know of an office in Spain/Morocco that offers this?

Thanks.

are you crossing at Ceuta or Tangiers?

office at Ceuta was closed in Oct 08, it may have opened by now. check the HUBB and motorbike forums for more recent info. I got temp ins. from a little place in Tetuan (Sp?) less than 100 miles from Ceuta. Ask for the Cinema Espanol and the insurance office is opposite that. Cost me £90 for 4 weeks cover... if you can call it that. Its just a green bit of paper. no-one ever asked to see it and we didnt need it (luckily).

hope this helps. will look for the insurance now and report back anything usefull.

G

Thanks for the info.
First choice is to cross to Ceuta as it is cheaper and shorter.
Second choice Tangiers.

Hi-our first trip too...
if it helps we're with Royal & Sun Alliance, who have covered us in Europe & supplied us the green card already, before our trip in 2 weeks...Im glad now as we were unaware the office in Ceuta had shut!

Griff-do they let you through the border to Tetuan then to get the card there? We were previously told we couldnt leave the border until we had it..

Depends. We got there and said we had no insurance. They didnt care and said "get it at the next town" which i think we drove through on the way to a campsite. foolishly we crossed at about 5pm. 2 hours before dark! We drove into the nearest big(ish) city, Tet. and asked some bloke on the street, who turned out to be Spanish and living in Maroc, He had to do this for his own motor each year to He said, its opposite Cinema Espanol which we found, with help from some taxi drivers. We met people driving around with no insurance, depends how you feel about it really.

My opinion is, if you run someone over your in the **** no matter what insurance you have. Your unlikely to hit another vehicle, more likely to get hit. will they have insurance? doubt it. could you get a claim off yours in a foreign country? difficult and probably unlikely. Its almost not worth it.

Foss, does the green card, deff state Morocco? Just asking as some green cards are "europe" only. This does not include north Africa. I was told that NFU will issue green cards to, not sure how true this is.

G

yeah its got the Moroccan code left unchecked in the country list...

We have just returned & for all those going over soon, the insurance office is at the moment not @ the Ceuta border crossing. All on our trip with no insurance bought it in Tetouan, but none of us were even asked to provide it in the few weeks we were there...

Hi rollwithit,

Unable to give advice on insurance i am afraid, but here is a thought about the crossing.

My advice is to cross at tangeirs, not ceuta, and if it is your first time driving in a 3rd world country then you are well advised to organise yourselves so that you make the crossing (whichever one you choose) in the morning.

You do not want to be arriving in either Tangeir or having to do the drive out of Ceuta in the dark.

Streets and roads often have no lighting whatsoever, and you´ll be suprised what a difference it makes to your ability to see pedestrians and avoid accidents. We are so accustomed to lighting in Europe that you can´t imagine what a difference it makes.

You´ll quickly get accustomed to it, but it´s not somehting you want to be dealing with when you first arrive and you are bombared with all the other distractions as well.

All the best

JMPC

I think he has already gone JM, he might even be back by now

oops