If your priority is the atmosphere — dinner, entertainment, fire, stars — without adjusting your Marrakech accommodation, the 550 MAD dinner-show evening delivers that and returns you to your riad by night's end.If you want to wake up in the desert, watch the sunrise over the stone hills and avoid a late-night drive back, the overnight stay is the better fit despite the higher price.
Some travelers do both across a trip: a dinner evening on one visit, an overnight stay on a later one, to experience Agafay at two different paces.
Dinner evening only
550 MAD per person, no accommodation, return to Marrakech that night.
Full overnight stay
From 2500 MAD per night, includes tent, meals and the desert sunrise.
No late-night drive
Staying over removes the need to travel back after dark.