Средиземнеморское Таити Mediterranean Tahiti

We had a great rest, but everyone should be prepared for unpleasant surprises that may await him at the Prima Life Garden Park Aquapark 3 * hotel, so that the rest does not turn into a frustration from unjustified ideas about the service. I am writing not for grumbling, but for a real assessment of an experienced person. For our 18-year-old student son, for example, these grades are an empty ring. He stretched out in general in full and did not see anything like that. I must say that Russian tourists on Djerba began to rest only in October 2007. This hotel is mostly our Warsaw Pact brothers who are as picky as we are. Mostly they are Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Poles. The pools were washed only once in 10 days, with a barely working device. People floundered in muddy pools during the entire time that we were there. The tiled surfaces where vacationers walked barefoot around the pools were never washed. The sea was great.
The beach, as they say in the guidebooks with white sand. The sea on Djerba is much more beautiful than on the mainland of Tunisia. It has a turquoise hue, clean, gentle. Swimming in it at this time is a pleasure. Animation for children is fun and playful. The kids love it. Night discos are great. Water aerobics - groovy, but in a muddy pool. The food is probably in the top three. You won't go hungry, you'll find something to eat. Chicken meat was constant, beef almost every other day. Fruit at that time in this hotel, one might say, was almost non-existent. Cheap (300 millimeters per kg), but very tasty Tunisian watermelons were served only for dinner, not every day and at the end of dinner, on a couple of trays that were swept away in a moment, lined up with a line of 10-15 people. In salads, melons were cut along the edges of the trays. Once a tray was brought out separately with a very meager amount of melon.
There were no peaches, no dates, no plums, no apricots, no raisins, no honey, as was the case in the 4th Caribbean World Skanes Monastir. Coffee and tea were poor, unlike the 4-ki, where there were machines everywhere and you could enjoy the coffee of your choice, on the machine panel, at any time. Here, one tortured unit (apparently from the time of independence) stood in one bar, where the staff poured and poured and there was always a queue of 7-10 people. Juice was only available for breakfast and lunch, there were often not enough glasses, because they were small, 100 grams. The maintenance of the hotel grounds is very poor. Poor or not working air conditioners in the rooms, a common thing. Our guide immediately warned that the air conditioning system had recently failed, contact the staff if you have any complaints, they will repair along the way. I didn’t like it very much, that at the first meeting with our guide Roma, it was immediately said that because

our planes take off in the evening, and the accommodation is allegedly paid for before 12.00, then you need to pay 30 dinars from the room at the reception desk on the last day, so that you can stay calmly until 8 pm, when the bus comes for us. We have not yet seen such a practice, even in Tunisia (a month ago we rested in the area of ​ ​ Monastir, only in the 4-ke, there was nothing like that). If the departure from the hotel is scheduled as indicated on the voucher, what are the additional charges? This is a petty fraud on the part of the hotel employees with the consent and cover of the Express tour, in this hotel, or such a low all-inclusive service.
On the beach we met Sasha, an Arab, a Russian-speaking resident of Djerba. His father lives in Midoun on about. Djerba, and my mother is in Ukraine. His mobile phone is 22031454. If you address him in Russian, he will only be happy!
He advertises paid services (windsurfing, scooters and parachuting) on ​ ​ the beach between the Prima Life Hotel and the Caribbean Word in the suburbs of Aghir.
If you want to rent a car without intermediaries, you can immediately contact Amin.
Amin, a car rental agent in Midoun on the island. Djerba. His mobile phone is 97599894. He speaks English, French and Arabic. The office is called "La Colombe", where the phones are 98423661 GSM, 75655794 TEL, 75730023 TEL/FAX. To fill out a car rental contract, you must have a passport and rights. We took a brand new Peugeot 206 with air conditioning from Amin for 80 dinars per day. Then, as our representatives of the host country "Express tours" (our Roma and a Russian-speaking, round, sugary Arab, with a female voice) bent prices from 95 to 125 dinars for renting the same car, apparently trying to earn their commission. So they represent our interests there!! ! The contract was drawn up in Arabic and French.
Through the Russian-speaking Sasha, thank you very much, we phoned Amin and at the indicated time, by 12.00, he drove straight to the hotel. There, within 5 minutes, they filled out a contract, gave the key to the car, handed over the car in a perfectly clean condition, and we parted with it for a day.

Currency exchange as elsewhere at the reception. The exchange rate was 1 dollar - 1.114 dinars. If you don't ask for a document, they won't give it to you. And if they do, then at check-out, if there is unused currency, they say at the reception - at the airport they change it back minus 30%, we will change it better, you will calculate, the same 30%. Petty scams are the norm. You need to be ready for this. At the airport, in a cafe, in front of the visitors, and 2 police officers, the worker easily wanted to cheat on $20 on change for $4. Only after persistent proceedings, in full view of everyone, did he return the loot with difficulty.
As for the island, it is really quite small. About 30 km in diameter.
The coastline is about 150 km. During the day, you can go around it up and down several times. There are not many attractions on it. You can see the oldest synagogue of the Mushroom, the entrance to which is free, but the control from terrorists, like at the airport, through security. Crocodile farm, paid pleasure. About 400 crocodiles bask there. Pleasure is paid, about 10 dinars per person. An ancient fortress in Houmt Souk, nothing more than to look at the silent old building, located near the port. The island is connected to the mainland by a Roman causeway, which is now paved (the road between ElKantara and Sarcissus). Also, you can get to the mainland by ferry, which for a nominal fee of 1 dinar will take you with a car in any direction. The ferry takes about 15 minutes. He walks constantly, with a break only late at night for 3 hours (from 3 to 6 in the morning, in my opinion).
In the markets where local residents buy watermelons (for, in Arabic) they cost 300 millimeters per 1 kg, peaches 1.3 dinars per 1 kg.