Review: Royal Air Maroc Domestic “Le Médina” Lounge Casablanca (CMN)

I was very thankful for access to the Royal Air Maroc “Le Médina” Lounge in the domestic terminal of Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport (CMN), even though the lounge was absolutely pitiful in many respects.

Royal Air Maroc Domestic “Le Médina” Lounge Casablanca Review (CMN)

The domestic terminal in CMN is very small. There are two bus gates (rather than use a jetbridge, you take a bus to your aircraft), restrooms, a coffee shop, and this lounge.

Since I arrived from New York an hour early, my 2.5-hour layover became a 3.5-hour layover, leaving me with plenty of time. As an aside, I tried to access the international lounge (the so-called “Zenith” lounge), but was turned away at the security checkpoint (and treated like I was insane for even trying to access it) because I was only traveling on a national flight.

What I found odd, by the way, was that I never went through passport control in Casablanca. There was a security checkpoint before entering the domestic terminal area, but I was not stamped into Morocco until I reached Marrakesh.

On to the lounge…

The lounge does not have set hours, but is open from 30 minutes prior to the first domestic departure of the day until the last domestic flight boards.

Access is reserved for oneworld sapphire and emerald status holders (including Safar Flyer Gold or Platinum card holders) or business class passengers traveling on Royal Air Maroc (there are no other oneworld carriers that offer domestic flights within Morocco). You are permitted one guest if entering via status or no guests if entering via ticket class of service.

Just present your boarding pass at reception. If you do not have access, one-time passes are not sold, but don’t worry…you are not missing much.

The lounge is just a large room with chairs and coffee tables, a hidden bar with five stools, and two computer workstations.

There are no bathrooms (or showers) in this lounge.

Wi-Fi internet is available. The lounge uses 220-volt Type C plugs, as you see in throughout Europe, so plan accordingly if you need an adapter. There are also USB-C plugs, though they don’t have enough juice to charge a laptop.

In terms of food and drinks, the lounge is very disappointing. The lounge was dry (no alcohol) which was not a surprise, but the coffee machine was broken (hence my incident next door), leaving only tea (which I suppose would have been far better than the Nescafe coffee machine anyway), water, milk, orange juice, tonic water, Sprite, and Coca Cola. The food was limited to very dry bread rolls and strawberry jam. ًلا شكرا

And that’s that…a small lounge indeed.

But considering the termianl itself was just a large hangar with uncomfortable chairs and no plugs, I certainly appreicated this place ahead of my quick hop to Marrakesh.