Rest in Tunisia after the terrorist attack

Written: 29 july 2015
Travel time: 2 — 14 july 2015
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 5.0
We flew to rest in Tunisia immediately after the terrorist attack, as the vouchers were already on hand. In terms of security, everything was in order. There are a lot of police around: they were on duty on the beach, and at the hotel, and they accompanied all excursions. Despite the fact that the hotel was not fully booked, the check-in had to wait. The room was good enough and spacious. 2 balconies, sea view and hotel view. Minus the room - poor drain in the bathroom, lack of shampoo and a paid safe. We did not take the safe, nothing was missing from the room, Cleaning is normal.
The food is normal, a lot of fruit, we talked with tourists from other hotels, they did not give watermelons and melons. There are dishes of both local cuisine and European ones. Good wine. Grilled dishes were tasteless, never liked. Ice cream every evening, delicious pastries.
The big minus of the hotel, in my opinion, is the beach. There is no toilet, shower, changing rooms on the beach, but it is full of local anxious Arabs. In the morning they are still chased by the beach guards, but in the afternoon they are free. We swam with the women, trying to keep together, as local teenagers, clearly suffering from sperm toxicity, swam under the Russians, trying to pinch or touch... We even got together with several women and wrote a complaint to the manager, the guards were enough for a couple of days, then again the same history. Thanks to the local Arab grandfather, who, if he was on the beach, then drove the kid.

Animation, so to speak, is very amateurish, only the local team entertained, unlike Turkey and Egypt, no one came. Someone liked it, foreigners were especially active: Poles, French. Russians went about 40 percent, no more. On the last day, only 3 rows were filled at the most.
Excursions: people liked the Sahara, we did not go. We took 3 excursions: Carthage, a zoo with an African show, a laser show. Liked the last 2. The laser show is cool: with dancing, singing, horse riding. And you will learn a lot from the history of Tunisia. I even liked it more than in Spain. Big minus - Pegasus guides. When the hotel guide Svetlana said: "We have good guides, " she apparently got very excited. On the first tour, the guide's story took about 30 minutes, on the second, 20 minutes, and it was said about the animals: "There are such and such animals in our zoo... - and that's it, and on the third tour the guide's story was generally limited to the words: "First there will be a wedding a show, then a dinner, then a laser show, "and that's it! When someone tried to ask the guide a question (and they are all local), he didn’t understand what they were asking him at all. Moreover, after the show, other tour operators met their tourists with signs at the entrance , since it was dark, we were left to ourselves. By the way, how much I travel with different tour operators, Pegasus really has the most shameful guides in all countries.
Conclusion: the rest is very similar to Turkey and Egypt, but in Turkey the service is much better, and in Egypt - the sea. So it's up to you where to go.
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