Morocco and LPG

[Gadabout2]

We are planning to go to Morocco in December/January. A few years ago we had a problem in Ireland finding gas bottles (apparently Ireland has unique bottle fittings) so we had 2 x 11kg Gaslows fitted to fire up our cooking and heating/hot water, so we can fill from Autogas stations. Great for wildcamping in UK and Europe, but we have heard that LPG (or GPL, or Autogas) is not available in Morocco. Is this really true? If so, can anyone help us with ideas about what gas is available in Morocco, fittings etc... - or are we just "stuffed"?
We often also carry a Camping Gaz barbecue and grill with a couple of bottles of Camping Gaz and could also carry our old gas burners left over from our camping days.

 

[Byronic]

The gas plant just north of Agadir will refill just about any bottle. Camping Gaz bottle exchange is available just about everywhere, and very cheap, unlike in Europe.
Bearing in mind maximum visa period is 3 months (there are ways of extending) with your Gaslows topped up in Spain they may well last you out with care, just be ready to default to Camping Gas. Try not to bring Moroccan marked Camping Gaz to Europe many would-be exchangers will not exchange them.
Don't forget high pressure pigtails to connect Camping Gaz to your van if it requires such.

 

[Deleted member 3011]

I had a fixed autogas tank underneath plus space in the gas locker. Had an extra valve regulator and pigtail installed when the fixed tank went in. Bought a Moroccan 13kg (11kg??) swap bottle and used that all the time leaving the fixed tank for reserve. Morocco has several major gas swap-bottle companies and theoretically you can't swap bottles between them but we found an extra 10 or 20 dirham solved that problem.

We left Morocco with a full moroccan bottle and kept that for reserve when we went back to Europe.

Cost of the Moroccan bottle was only a couple of euro so not a big deal.

Perhaps the OP could leave one of the gaslow bottles home and buy a moroccan bottle in morocco.

 

[Byronic]

Per Kilogram the Camping Gas exchange was and probably still is the cheapest way of buying gas in Maroc. If you are already carrying a couple of CGs then it saves the faffing around buying and disposing of Maroc bottles.

Seems a bit of a retrograde step leaving a refillable Gaslow at home.

 

[vwalan]

filling other countries bottles in anza north of agadir is very expensive compared to using a maroc bottle . can be more than buying a full bottle thats maroc. there was several gas stations that would fill other bottles but they are stopping it . the normal gas exchange 12 kg bottle is cheaper than camping gas . but camping gas is available almost anywhere in maroc .