Very dangerous never go here. We were approached in the medina and given directions, then we were followed and let into the tannery. Total scam!! They gave us a tour and then led us to a shop where we were locked in with several men demanding money. We had to hand over €200 then we were allowed leave and the lad who led us in in the first place was waiting outside with more men demanding more money. Complete criminals never experienced anything like it

Read Jenny's review below, we experienced exactly the same. The tanneries should be avoided as they are a massive scam. It's a very slick scam though as we had 3 different people involved in handing us off then got asked to pay at the end. At the end we were asked for 100 dirams each but we gave a firm response and said that they could have 20dirhams as that was all we had. We then marched quickly off. Pretty threatening and was rubbish, they stared all very friendly but it all quicky change. We'd expected to be able to walk away as so often happens but not here the tone was menacing. IF you must go, go by yourself and don't speak to anyone as they are all connected and will gang up against you taking you to small spaces where it's hard to get out.

I’m a very experienced middle aged traveler and have never felt more threatened in my life! People, DO NOT GO. It is a well organised scam that involves numerous individuals all working together to fleece you of money. A dreadful experience

Scam. Basically what everybody else here described: When you’re north of the big market some young guy tells you something about the last day of a festival with gerbers coming from the mountains / roads closed and so on. He wants to show you the way, you say no, another guy appears with a piece of leather and guy1 says guy2 lives next to the festival and is going there anyways. Once you’re there they show you the place they make leather then bring you into a leather shop. Once they realize you won’t buy anything, they get pissed, you leave and all the other guys are waiting for you in front of the store, demanding money. I didn’t give them any so they followed me half way back to the market yelling at me. Guess I should have listened to my gut once the first guy started with ‘I don’t want anything from you, no money no honey’. On the plus side: If you like a breeze of adrenaline you should definitely go there ;)

Although our stay has been amazing and found the people of Marrakesh to be very welcoming and helpful, just one place is letting it all down. The Tanneries, the people here take advantage of the treatment to tourists received from most of the people which takes your guard down as you are treated like the tourist is king. We have had exactly the same experience as all the bad reviews. People working together snatching tourists looking for the tanneries in what feels like a very unsafe uncomfortable area especially as there are no other tourists and all eyes are on you. We made it to the tanneries and after being shown around gave 100dr as a tip the (apparent) manager who was very welcoming and friendly and at first refused the money but as we had paid for other attractions we felt it only fair as he had spent time with us explaining and taking pictures. After we finished he wanted to show us the end product where we were led to a shop down the road, unlike the other parts of town where if you said no they listened even in the souks, so felt confident everything would be ok. However it was very difficult to get out of the very deep shop and especially with the number of people by the door, so we thought lets buy some leather slippers for my daughter and forget the whole thing but after getting him down from £60 to £30 he wasn’t having any of it and it still wasn’t enough apparently so the shop keeper (the Berber) turned to items of my clothing which I warned him it ain’t happening. Eventually after buying the slippers we made it outside where we were met with a large group of about 10 men with the manager of the tannery saying we had not given enough and wanted more money, another 100dr which I gave just to avoid the situation which I think was a small price to pay as no one would have come to our rescue as me and my wife where heavily outnumbered. I hate to think what would have happened if we hadn’t enough as you can see from other reviews not good. This is a well organised scam, I wouldn’t mind if they were up front and said look there is charge to show you round and would have paid more than I gave but to use aggressive tactics will just make people avoid the area.