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Travel Insurance for Morocco

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:38:40 +0000

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Leave a positive footprint

When you travel to far out places you often receive generous and gracious hospitality from local people, even when they don’t have much themselves.

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Best of Morocco Blogs 2012

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:38:27 +0000

The Best of Morocco Blog Awards for 2012 will be held in January-February of 2012.

We’ve been getting a lot of recommendations and nominations for the awards and more than a few questions. If you’d like to find out about sponsoring, participating, or other information about the 2012 Bombies – drop us an email using the contact form on the site.

Holiday Extras Customer Awards Showcase the Best in International Travel

admin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:36:55 +0000

It’s great when customers’ opinions and feedback matters. That’s why the Holiday Extras Customers Awards have proved to be so popular with the users of the travel website, as it means that customers are given the rare change to voice their opinion about the companies that they think offer the best value for money and service in the travel industry today.

Holiday Extras are a travel service website that allows their customers to choose the best
deals on services such as an airport hotel to finding the best value airport parking for when they are planning their trip away.

It is this expert industry knowledge that makes Holiday Extras the perfect hosts for the Holiday Extras Customer Awards 2011 and it really captured the interests of their customers, who voted in their thousands to pick the companies that they thought offered the best service throughout the holiday industry.

66,000 people voted and here is who they thought came out on top:

Category
Winner
Best airline
Emirates
Best airline cabin crew
Emirates
Best airline for value for money
easyJet
Best airline for travelling with babies Virgin Atlantic
Best airline for disabled travellers Virgin Atlantic
Best airport
Belfast International
Best airport hotel
Gatwick Sofitel
Best airport hotel restaurant
Manchester Premier Inn
Best airport hotel for families
Manchester Premier Inn
Best airport car park
Edinburgh Park and Fly
Best airport lounge
Edinburgh Servisair
Most inspirational travel film
Shirley Valentine
Best travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet

The awards have been running for three years now and they are going from strength to strength each year. This is proof of how well they have been received by the public who clearly appreciate the way in which the awards allow them to see who their fellow travellers
believe to be the best companies that you can travel with. The number of voters this year almost tripled from the number of people who voted last year, again more proof that awards were something that was lacking from the travel industry.

This year’s awards were held on the 15th September in London.

Because the winners were voted for by the people who really matter (their customers) it gives a true reflection of the companies who give the best service without any industry bias being involved.

There were two new categories introduced this year and they were the categories for the most inspirational travel film, which was voted to be Shirley Valentine and the second new category was the best travel guide publisher which was voted as the Lonely Planet guide books.

Holiday Extras are not planning on stopping here though; they have bigger and better plans for next year. They want to add more categories and are planning on getting more people involved with the voting. This year the voters were put into a draw to say thank you for taking part and the winner received a fantastic package that tallowed them a stay in one of the luxury airport hotels with a meal before their flight the next day plus 2 week’s airport parking.

Watch this space because these awards are starting to set an industry standard!

Congratulations to the Best of Morocco Blogs 2011!

admin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 06:18:18 +0000

The contest is complete and the votes are tallied. What we found was that the winners all won without any sort of vote manipulations, no hanging chads, no strongman tactics, and no promises or bribes. These are the winners and the people have voted them the best blogs in Morocco! Congratulations. Winners are requested to contact me at reviews@moroccoblogs.com to find out how to collect their prizes and Best of Morocco Blogs Badges. The complete list of prizes is listed at http://moroccoblogs.com/complete-list-of-sponsors-and-prizes/

Life in Marrakesh – Best Overall Moroccan Blog 43% of the votes
Itto’s Living – Best Culture Blog 30% of the votes
Sou Sou Kitchen – Best Morocco Food Blog 65% of the votes
A Moroccan About The World Around Him 30% of the votes
Marrokia – Best Non-English Blog 47% of the votes
Raising Rabat – Best Expat Morocco Blog 53% of the votes
Morocco Travel Blog Best Morocco Travel Blog 40%
Ali Berrada Best Morocco Photo Blog 61%
Marrakesh-Morocco/Center for Language and Culture Morocco 58% of the votes
@TKOMorocco Best Morocco Twitter 14%

Sou Sou Kitchen not only had the best food blog but also had more votes than any other nominee in any category and so won the special prize of dinner for two at Cafe Clock in the Fez Medina.

Total votes 1641

Complete List of Sponsors and Prizes

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:53:08 +0000

This year’s Best of Morocco Blogs have even better prizes than last year. We’d like to thank our sponsors for generously donating the prizes for the winners of each category. Please visit their sites and check out what they have to offer!

Travel-Exploration.com.
Dar Tassa
Dar Guennoun
Pingo
Morocco Sahara
Fez Food
Dar Zerhoune

Winners of all categories will be featured for the entire year of 2011 on the homepage of MoroccoBlogs with their RSS feeds. What does that mean? It means that for all of 2011 the content of the winning blogs will be fed to our homepage creating links, promoting your sites, and making sure that everyone knows exactly who the Best Morocco Blogs of 2011 are!!! In terms of link and ad value, this prize is worth approximately $1000 per blog.

But that’s not all. The winners of each category will also win a one day Historical Tour in Marrakech, Fes or the Ouarzazate Kasbahs region from Travel-Exploration.com.

Winner of the Best Culture Category will win a 2 nights stay for two at 2 nights stay in Dar Tassa in the HighAtlas for 2 people in 2011 any time except for 28 March to 30, April and 20 Dec to 31st Dec .

Winner of the Best News Commentary Blog will win a 2 night stay for two at Dar Guennoun in the Fes Medina during non peak times in 2011.

Winner of the Best Expat blog will receive $200 (20 $10 vouchers) in prepaid International Calling Cards from Pingo.

Morocco Sahara has offered to sponsor the winner of the Best Morocco Photo Blog Winner with a Camel Trek for two in the Sahara. The winning photo blogger and guest will get a two night experience of a lifetime!

Fez Food has offered to give the best Non-English blog a Foodie walking tour for two including making Tanjia en route as recommended by Lonely Planet

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/morocco/travel-tips-and-articles/75841

Dar Zerhoune in Moulay Idriss is giving the winner of the Best Morocco Travel Blog a two night stay for two in their gorgeous boutique hotel.

In addition we have two special prizes. The winner of the Best Overall blog wins a domain from Vagobond.com.

Cafe Clock has also agreed to give the single nominee with the most votes a meal for two at the famous Cafe Clock in the Fes Medina.

A big hearty thank you to all of our sponsors this year and best of luck to all the contestants and participants. To Sponsor a category or all categories contact us at reviews@moroccoblogs.com

Complete List of Nominess for Best of Morocco Blogs 2011

admin — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:08:55 +0000

Complete List of Nominees for 2011 Best of Morocco Blogs

Best Overall Moroccan Blog

* Petit a Petit
* Life in Marrakesh
* Moorish Wanderer
* Safiaa
* Evelyn in Morocco
* Cafe Clock Online
* Muriel in Morocco

Best Morocco Culture Blog

* Jewish Morocco
* Itto’s Living
* My Marrakesh
* Safiaa
* Culture Vultures
* Yoga Marrakesh
* Robin Des Blogs

Best Morocco Food Blog

* Morocco Mama
* Maroc
Mama
* Sou Sou Kitchen
* Vanessa in Fes
* Fez Food
* Cafe Clock

Best News/Commentary Morocco Blog

* A Moroccan About The World About Him
* al-mirrat – The Mirror
* Amarg
* Eat Bees
* The Magic of My Universe
* Genisis Morocco

Best Non- English Blog

* Marrokia
* Veelzijdig Marokko
* Agharass
* Pres du Puis
* Ginger Chocolate and Honey
* Casablanca4Life
* The Wafi Abdouss Foundation
* Mouad
*Tassourt

Best Expat Morocco Blog

* Raising Rabat
* The World is Her Playground
* Itto’s Journal
* Evelyn in Morocco
* Muriel in Morocco
* Emily and Jon in Morocco
* Ben in Morocco

Best Morocco Travel Blog

* Morocco Travel
Blog
* Safar Travel Morocco
* Hey Morocco!
* Travels with Kylie
* Holidays Morocco
* 31 Best Riads in Marrakesh
* Visiting Morocco
* Travel Bug Morocco

Best Morocco Photo Blog

*Agharass
* Ali Berrada
*
Photos Morocco
* Digital Morocco
* Adrian Campbell Howard Photography
*
Claude Renault Photography

Best Morocco Facebook Page

* Marrakesh-Morocco/Center-for-
Language-and-Culture-Morocco
* Fes Food
* Welcome-To-Morocco
* Rabat-Morocco
* TKOMorocco
* Peace-Corps-Journals-Morocco
* Agadir-Morocco
* Morocco-Times
* Morocco-Surf-Trips
* Surf-Sistas-Morocco-Boutique-
Surf-Camps-for-Girls
* 2M-TV-Maroc-Morocco
* Kinitra-Morocco
* Hitch-Hike-to-Morocco
* Travel-Blank-Morocco
* MOROCCO-Marlene-Dietrich-1930
* Couchsurfing-of-Morocco
* Made-In-Morocco
* MOROCCO-LOUNGE-official
* Cafe-Morocco
* I-Love-Morocco
* French-Morocco
* Morocco-Web
* Morocco

Best Morocco Twitter Account to follow?

* @morocco
* @topmorocco
* @TKOMorocco
* @MoroccoVIP
* @USAidMorocco
* @BikersHome
* @ToursofPeace
* @MoroccoEXP
* @newsmorocco
* @Club_Morocco
* @MadeinMorocco
* @TripsToMorocco
* @GEWMorocco2010
* @MoroccoChannel
* @AmChamMorocco
* @MarocFoundation
* @morocconewsonline
* @alilimorocco
* @MoroccoTravels
* @elmoroccoNYC
* @MoroccoUSA
* @MoroccoIT
* @Travel_Morocco
* @Morocomcent
* @MoroccoNews
* @Morocco_
* @insidemorocco
* @Morocco_Invest
* @MarocPost

Vote for the Best of Morocco Blogs

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:00:47 +0000

Well, as you guys have noticed, the voting for the 2011 Bombies has begun.

We had a small scare this morning when our traffic went through the roof and knocked out our servers for a couple of hours. We upgraded and got everything going smoothly again, but unfortunately, a lot of those who came in the early hours didn’t get a chance to vote. Please encourage them to come back and vote again if the site was down.

As can be expected, we had a few snafus, but everything seems to be happening alright now. We’ve had a few blog owners request category changes and instead of dropping them from the categories where they were nominated by others, we added them to the new categories. We will no longer be able to do that as of noon tomorrow so please make sure that if you have a problem with the way your blog is listed, you let us know ASAP.

We will be providing a full list of sponsors and nominees in the coming days. In the meantime, we would like to thank everyone for their patience in dealing the servers and category changes. In the first day we are already seeing more traffic than we had on the busiest day of the contest last year.

Looks like it’s going to be one hell of a show. Good luck to all of you and please remember that we base the voting on IP addresses so if you have all your classmates vote from the same laptop, we will have to eliminate all but one of those votes. It’s the only fair way for us to do things.

Nominations for the 2011 Bombies are now closed.

admin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:50:31 +0000

I’d like to thank everyone who took the time to nominate their favorite Morocco Blogs, Facebook Pages, and Twitter Accounts. We’ve got a huge selection to choose from and I hope that before you vote you will take the time to look at all the great nominees. The voting will begin at midnight tonight so exactly on the beginning of January 7, 2011. Polls will be open for exactly one month at which point we will tally the results and announce the winners. Good luck to everyone, we’ve got some great prizes for the winners of every category and a lot of fun and excitement coming up in 2011. Let the competition begin!

Agharass has been nominated for Best Non-English and Best Photo Blog

admin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:21:48 +0000

Another last minute nomination. Just another day to get your nominations in.

Agharass.com has been nominated for the best Non-English Blog and also for best Photo Blog at the subdomain portfolio.agharass.com

Wouldn't you like to put this badge on your site? Wouldn't it be even better to put Winner?

Robin Des Blogs has been nominated for Best Culture Blog

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:42:58 +0000

From the nominator:

Category: Best Morocco Art/Culture Blog
Name : Robin Des blogs
URL: http://www.docteurho.com
Read the blog and you’ll know why i’m nominating him!