relaxed holiday in the off-season

Written: 20 may 2012
Travel time: 28 april — 9 may 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
Rested with children 20 and 12 years old for the May holidays in the Garden. The beach was closed until the end of May. In fact, it would be correct to consider them as two independent hotels.

The territory of the hotel is well-groomed, clean (which can not be said about the capital, Tunisia), compact. The hotel is located between the two parts of Hammamet, which can be reached by taxi, which are constantly on duty at the hotel. The cost is 4-5 dinars. Outside the hotel, in general, there is nothing to do. Nearby there is a nightclub where young people from the hotel went, accompanied by animators. All is well.

The rooms are quite livable, except for the shower, because of the wrong layout, water accumulated on the floor all the time, so the accommodation is 3.

The food was all right. Especially breakfasts: various types of croissants, buns, omelettes, fried vegetables, sausages, muffins, etc.


For lunch and dinner, 2-3 types of meat are a must, fish every day, delicious desserts. The difference from Turkey is no grass, vegetables are limited. M. b. because spring.
What I especially liked: the wine was bottled, the coffee was very decent, delicious cocoa.

In a Mauritanian hookah cafe for lovers of exotic 2.5 dinars.

Vacationers: 50% - French (families), the rest - Russians and Poles. I must say, with the French to rest Pts. well, they are cheerful, cheerful, active in animation. When they all left on 06.05. to the election of their president, it immediately became boring in the evenings at the animation, the gloomy faces of compatriots became visible.

The staff speaks French, English and to discuss us tourists in Arabic. Everyone is very correct and polite. We remembered school English, learned a little French phrases. Animation, respectively, is also in French. and English.

The Garden does not have its own beach, the train took it to Venus, and there they passed through the territory to the beach. Walk 5-10 minutes. Perhaps in the heat, a disadvantage, in May, just right. The beach is yellow sand, there were enough sunbeds for everyone, they swam from 04.05, the water is like a cool shower.
Souvenirs: I liked the joy store in Yasmine Hammamet. Fixed prices (magnet-1 din. ), ethnic outfits are inexpensive, olive soap, tam-tams 2.5 din. etc. Compare prices with prices in Medina (fixed below). Who will go to the Sahara, it is better to buy souvenirs there, cheaper at times.

I bought alcohol in duty free: Buha (fig vodka), Tibarin-date liqueur, spices in the old Medina.

I really liked the excursion Tunis-Carthage-Sidi Bou Said-Bardo Museum. Guide Alexey is above all praise. The story is interesting, captivating and educational. This smoothed out the overpriced Biblio Globe tour. So if you hear that Alexey is conducting the tour, feel free to take it.

In general, the rest is calm, measured. The 150-year-old protectorate of France left its mark: it is safe to walk around the city, enter the Medina.
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