The Bouregreg Marina sits on the Salé bank of the Bou Regreg estuary, about a twenty-minute walk from the Hassan Tower esplanade and visually opposite the Kasbah of the Udayas on the Rabat side. Part of the broader Bouregreg Valley redevelopment, it combines a working yacht harbour, a quay of waterfront cafés and restaurants, and access to short river-boat tours that take you under the Kasbah walls toward the Atlantic mouth. The whole stretch is the cleanest modern counterpart to Rabat's Almohad and Merinid heritage on the opposite bank.

Getting across is half the experience. The traditional rowboat ferry runs continuously from the Rabat side below the Kasbah of the Udayas — about 3 MAD per person, three minutes across, and a genuine everyday commute that Rabatis and Slaouis still use rather than a tourist contrivance. Alternatively the Rabat–Salé tram crosses the Hassan II Bridge in ten minutes, or a small taxi handles the same trip for under 20 MAD. Most visitors take the rowboat one way and walk or tram the other, especially after dark when the floodlit Kasbah ramparts make the rowboat crossing the better view.

The signature evening pick is Le Dhow, an old wooden dhow sailing ship permanently moored at the centre of the marina and converted into a multi-floor restaurant and bar. The boat is the only meal on the river that is actually on the river. The rest of the quay carries cheaper cafés for mint tea and pastries, and the marina's yacht club at the mouth. Open-motorboat tours run thirty-to-forty-five-minute loops around the estuary mouth and out toward the Atlantic for about 100 MAD per person; negotiate at the quay. The illuminated Kasbah across the water is the signature night view.