I've gone 4 times. I always went with Morocco's tour group. (See www.casbahdance.org for the package she is offering for the 2007 festival.) In addition to the package deal she offers, you'd have airfare to/from New York, plus whatever money you want to allocate for buying souvenirs, gifts, costumes, taxi fares, camel rides, etc. You'd also want to budget something for meals. The hotel where the festival has been in the past includes a buffet breakfast with the room fee if you stay at it, but you're on your own for other meals.

In previous years, the festival charged in the neighborhood of $60-70 for the opening night gala dinner show, and a similar amount for the closiong night gala dinner show. You sign up for your classes piecemeal - the 2-hour folkloric classes have been $30 each, and the 3-hour "master instructor" Oriental classes have been $60 each. So your costs will depend on how many classes you take. Of course, I don't know whether the prices will be the same in 2007. They have had 3 class slots per day, with several workshops to choose between each time. The first and last slots were $60 3-hour ones, and the middle slots were $30 2-hour ones. I'm not sure, but I think there's a minimum of $200 total for classes (ie, you must buy at least that many classes) plus a $25-ish registration fee. The reason I'm not sure is that this minimum and this fee were waived for those of us who traveled with Morocco as part of her tour group - a professional consideration that Raqia provided to Morocco.

wish i could but probably won't go till next year.. :o(