Отдыхом недовольны Rest dissatisfied

My daughter and I went to Tunisia for the first and, I think, the last time. It all started with a change in departure time - 4 hours later than stated (we made an early booking), and we had to spend the whole day in Kyiv. We flew instead of Tunisian airlines UIA, flew another 50 minutes later than it was written on the ticket. As a result, we arrived in the evening, for dinner, having lost the whole day and did not go to the sea. The hotel looks luxurious, a lot of marble, expensive paintings on the walls, and the room slightly disappointed us - small with tired furniture, windows overlooking the neighboring hotel, in addition, there are a lot of mosquitoes in the whole hotel and rooms !! ! You sit in the lobby on the Internet, and they feast on you... horror... Take a fumigator, they are expensive! Then we learned that the manager had to pay $50 for a room with a sea view. The hotel is huge, with 500 rooms. because of the large number of tourists and the children always screaming and running around the hall, you feel uncomfortable, there are always queues in the restaurant, boors from the Russian outback (fortunately there were very few of them), unceremonious eternally cackling Poles, Czechs, Slovaks. Due to the large number of people, the servants did not have time to put new appliances on the tables, they had to self-service. The choice of dishes was large, but some of them were tasteless, and on the penultimate day before departure, the daughter found a maggot (worm) on the meat, then she searched for a long time the manager to show this disgusting. The manager began to convince us that it was from a salad, then that it was rice, and then he apologized and said that they had such "only today. " But we wrote a complaint anyway, although the hotel director convinced us, that we are wrong and it was not a worm. Although it must be admitted, the pastries there were not bad, 3 times a day they gave watermelons, occasionally melons, once peaches and often fruit salad in disposable cups (finely chopped the same fruits). On the fifth day of my stay, I had the imprudence to eat sheep cheese and yogurt for breakfast, after 2 hours my stomach ached and I could not leave the room for a day due to terrible diarrhea. It’s good that I had medicines for this case! Another 3 days after that I could not recover. From drinking they gave cola, fanta, sprite, and the chemical composition of juices. The water from the cooler is also not very high quality. On the beach they gave the same in disposable cups, but if you wish, they could also pour it into your bottle. I haven’t drunk so much of this muck for a long time! At the hotel, all drinks are poured into plastic cups, which are simply rinsed with water. At the bar, the choice is the same. Beer tastes like kvass, we didn’t find out what cocktails we can take on an all-inclusive basis. There were cups and tea bags in the bar, but it was impossible to make tea - the water in the cooler was a little warm. All calls to the bartenders were useless , they just shrugged. The coffee was only instant in a huge container with a tap, there was milk nearby. Their local fig vodka also tasted disgusting.
The room was cleaned by women, they cleaned well every day, but the bed linen was not changed even once in 13 days, the towels were washed and old, the pile from them remained on the body when wiped. Toilet paper was brought every day, once they put a small piece of soap, there was nothing else, no shower gel, no shampoo and hair dryer. The quality of Internet services was very poor, there was often no connection, especially in the evening, when vacationers gathered in three halls with laptops, netbooks and smartphones.
Hamammet is a territory, more precisely a circular zone, surrounded by checkpoints, where there are only hotels of different stars and souvenir shops, where we were persuaded to buy gold, which turned out to be not gold at all, but gold plating on copper (the houses were specially checked). We walked through the streets - everywhere is dirty, it stinks of animal urine, the Arabs pester us all the time, though they do not show aggression. Although the beach is across the road from the hotel, it is not very clean. You had to have your own towels (for using hotel towels, a fine of 50 dinars), there were not always free sunbeds, they are collected every evening (at 17:30), and in the morning employees put them out again hotel. Arabs with camels and horses walk all the time along the water's edge, offer to ride for money, animals immediately defecate, and then children build castles from this sand. The water in the sea was clear, but not very warm, after 15-16 hours the wind rose, it became very cool and we began to freeze and had to leave at about half past six. The pool water was also "cool" and stank of chlorine very much.

The only thing that left us with an indelible impression was a two-day trip to the Sahara. We traveled almost the entire country -1200 km, saw the ancient amphitheater, sunset and sunrise in the desert, the open-air museum of natural history, drove jeeps (creepy) through the dunes, in general, a lot of impressions. True, the trip is hard, you spend a lot of time on the road, by the end of the trip my legs were very swollen. If you plan to go to the Sahara, then take a tour from your tour operator - save at least $ 100! We did not buy from our Join Up for $ 80 (per person), we thought we’d buy it cheaper on the spot - as a result, the hotel paid $ 135 per person + 25 dinars for camel riding (1 hour, they went to watch the sunset), and then they bought an excursion on a pirate ship (50 dinars each, but they sold us 35 each). The excursion on a pirate ship included: a fakir show, lunch and swimming in the open sea. Who will go, put on swimsuits right away and get ready to jump immediately from the ship, the forester is only for those who climb back! )))