hotel for pensioners

Written: 6 august 2011
Travel time: 26 june — 10 july 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 7.0
Advantages:
Quiet, calm, unobtrusive, decent food, very, very friendly staff. I even regretted that I didn’t take a couple of souvenirs from Russia, for example, for them the matryoshka is still a curiosity.

Disadvantages:
after July 1, holidays begin for children in Tunisia and neighboring Arab countries. Many Arab families just after July 1

This is my first time in Tunisia, before that I was in Europe (not a beach holiday) and in Turkey and Egypt. Traveled from Moscow, operator Elite-travel, on Prospekt Mira, house 11. Everything is well organized. And I gathered literally in 2 days and bought a ticket.
True, they flew with Tunisian airlines, they feed very poorly, you can die of hunger! So take bananas or a couple of sandwiches for the road.
And when I flew back from Tunisia, I took a bottle of water on the plane (from the hotel), you can carry water at their airport. And it’s good that I took it, otherwise you won’t be able to interrogate the stewardesses and water!


The hotel has good tennis courts.
I lived in the main building, not in a bungalow, in a room that overlooked the courts. Rather, there was a construction site in the distance, and a road. I didn't hear any construction noise though. But I was offered a view of the sea, but I didn’t want to, because it turns out to be a view of the pool, and there is noise and din, I didn’t want to. The room is big. In the room itself there is a safe, free of charge, however, with a key, not a number one. It was a little embarrassing that the room did not have some kind of latch, that is, the maid could enter with her key. There were enough sun beds for everyone on the beach. True, some agreed with the security guard on the beach for 1 dinar per day and he left them a sunbed on the first line by the sea.
This is a hotel for pensioners, that is, for me, young people will be bored there. There is practically no animation. There is nowhere to go outside the hotel.
I brought a lot of natural creams from Tunisia, based on seaweed and clay. Even in the pharmacy, buy a gel made from natural aloe, it costs 9 dinars.
A wonderful remedy, both for burns and for the home, heals wounds, abrasions. In general, their olive oil-based and aloe-based after-sun products are a hundred times better than any Garnier, Nivea, etc.
The hotel sells cosmetics based on aloe, near the reception. MD Naturkosmetik The Germans told me that these cosmetics are much more expensive in Germany, because they are natural and very good.
For older ladies, it is best to take a lifting cream, it is 62 dinars.
In the hotel itself, the staff speaks French, German, practically does not speak English! But they learn Russian with great diligence, I even regretted that I didn’t take a phrase book with me, I would give them a gift, let them teach ...If you don’t speak foreign languages, then take a phrase book with you, you can Arabic-Russian, you can French-Russian. Otherwise, there will be problems, this is not Turkey for you, where everyone already speaks Russian ...


Mineral water is not brought into the room, but you can pick it up from the reception yourself.
Of course, the maids are waiting for a tip, but they clean up quite decently even without a tip. I was surprised that the maids had no vacuum cleaners. They sweep with a broom ...I gave the waiter a tip of 10 dinars at the end of the vacation, I also left the maid at the end, if you wish, leave a little money to the guy that you carried sunbeds on the beach every day.
To my surprise, our vodka, any kind, will be a good present. Alcohol in Tunisia is expensive.

I am satisfied with the rest, but this is because I found what I was looking for. In the morning at 6 in the morning I went to the sea and walked along the coast, 2 kilometers one way and back. The morning is full of such tourists and locals, someone runs along the sea, someone walks. Silence and peace. And for some it may seem boring...and there is nothing to do in the evening... outside the hotel there is a desert and a couple of souvenir shops. In general, who is looking for peace and solitude (including from our Russians) - you are here. The kids will be bored. The youth also have nothing to do.
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