hours.
Post
Main post office (Blvd Mohammed V)
Travel Agencies
Maroc Voyages ( 0536 68 39 93; 110 Blvd Allal ben Abdallah) For ferry and air tickets.
Getting There & Away
Air
Oujda’s Angad Airport ( 0536 68 32 61) is 15km north of the town off the road Saídia.
Grand-taxi fares are set at Dh120, but any bus to Nador, Berkane or Saídia can drop you on
the main road for a few dirham.
RAM ( 0536 68 39 09; 45 Blvd Mohammed V) has two (or three) daily flights to
Casablanca. Also direct flights to France – Click here.
Border Crossing
Few anticipate the Algerian border reopening soon. Buses and grands taxis used to run
constantly to the border, and on to Tlemcen.
Bus
The main bus station sits in the shadow of the huge new Mohammed VI Mosque. The CTM
office ( 0536 68 20 47; Rue Sidi Brahim) has a suboffice just off Place du 16 Août selling
tickets to Casablanca (Dh190, 11 hours) via Taza (Dh55, 3½ hours), Fez (Dh110, 4½ hours),
Meknès (Dh120, five hours) and Rabat (Dh170, 9½ hours); and Tangier (Dh165, 12½ hours)
also via Taza, Fez and Meknès. There is also a service every other day to Figuig (Dh95, seven
hours).
Trans Ghazala runs several daily services to Casablanca via Fez, Meknès and Rabat. You
also can buy tickets for these services at the Trans Ghazala ticket office ( 0536 68 53 87;
Rue Sidi Brahim) .
Numerous other companies with ticket offices in the bus station offer frequent departures for
Taza, Fez and Meknès as well as Berkane (Dh12, one hour) and Nador (Dh30, three hours).
There are two daily morning buses to Bouarfa (Dh55, five hours) and Figuig (Dh70, seven
hours) with Champion Bus. There are also several buses a day to Saídia (Dh15, 1½ hours) and
Al-Hoceima (Dh58, five hours). There are also two daily buses to Tangier (Dh140, 14 hours) via
Chefchaouen and Tetouan.
Taxi
Grands taxis to Taza (Dh70, 3½ hours) leave regularly outside the main bus station. Change
here for onward connections. Grands taxis heading north to Nador (Dh55, three hours), Saídia
(Dh25, one hour) and Berkane (Dh18, one hour) congregate north of town near the junction of
Rue ibn Abdelmalek and Blvd Mohammed Derfoufi.
Train