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When If you get are lucky enough and manage to pass the terminalfirst obstacle, ask for a boarding card from one of the booths and fill ityou will reach passport control. Here no ticket will be asked. Then waltz you will have to take a free shuttle bus bringing passengers to the X-ray and someone probably asks for ferries some km away. Your ticket will be asked again here, so be ready with your ticket. Explain that story if you are a hitchhiker and that the trucks are allowed to don't have one passenger apart from the driver. Be prepared for lengthy conversation though. Smile. Once If you are done with manage to get in the formalities a minibus will take you to down to bus and reach the port. ferries, Moroccan drivers are your best choice. Just convince them that you don't have drugs with you (Arabic sign "I have no drugs" makes them smile). Explain that all they have to do is to take you into the ferry and in Spain you will walk out of the ferry by yourself.
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The new port, Tanger Med, is situated some 40 km east of the city and there are ferries to Spain ([[Algeciras]]) several times a day (less frequently to [[Barcelona]] and [[Italy]]). From the big roundabout in Tanger (Place Jamia el Arbia) walk about 4 kilometers towards national road N2 (follow the Tanger Med sign). After a big flyover bridge there is a bus stop where you can hitch a short ride to a toll booth that takes you to the highway A4 (not too much traffic but if you just keep walking towards the highway someone stops). Alternatively, get to the national road N16 (the beach road following Avenue d'Espagne).
Go to the passenger terminal for immigration formalities, ask for a boarding card from one of the booths and fill it.
Go to the boarding gate, where you will find the first obstacle: a guard whose only task is to check that you have a ticket. Explain that you are a hitchhiker and that the trucks are allowed to have one passenger apart from the driver. Be prepared for lengthy conversation though. Smile. There are good chances that you won't convince him, in this case read below how to get a discounted price with a ticket agent.
It might take a while but eventually you will get a ride to the ferry. Then you just go and have a nice meal with the driver.
Just before reaching Algeciras you should try to hitch a ride out of the port (otherwise be prepared for a long walk).
In February 2018 [[User: Phidias81|Davide]] and Oti didn't manage to pass the ticket inspection. They asked for help at the guard and then at the Port Authority info point without success. Eventually they asked for help also to a nice english speaking lady at the main Info point for passenger, and she pointed at a ticket agent where they were able to get a discount from 360 dh to 250 dh )after negotiating from the proposed 300 dh price. There were several other Moroccan people around the agent, all using the same shortcut and paying 300 dh, so it wasn't possible to negotiate even further. Also options were very limited because of bad wheated ferries had been cancelled for the previous 9 hours and the cheapest company, Intershipping, wasn't running at all. But if you are alone with the agent try to get it much cheaper.
'''Getting a Discount from a Ticket Agent'''
If you don't manage to hitchhike your last resort is to look for a discounted tickets. According to several users reports there are ticket agents hanging around the terminal negotiating bulk prices for tour buses at a cheaper price.
Try to find them, and if you can't by yourself just ask to the info point to direct you to a ticket agent.
They are people moving from one window to the other back and forth. If you agree on a discounted price, you'll have to trust them and give them your passport, so that they can produce a Bus ticket for you. After some 30 minutes you'll get your ticket and passport back and pay.
You don't need to go on a bus, you can act now as a normal passenger, pass the controls and keep your luggage always with you.
Two hitchhikers managed to hitch a lift to Spain from the truck gate in April 2013. It was very difficult, they weren't sure what was happening most of the time, and they don't think it would be very easy to repeat. But it is possible! Full story in the discussion section.
