Thrash

Written: 21 august 2014
Travel time: 9 — 19 august 2014
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 2.0
Cleanliness: 2.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 4.0
THERE WILL BE VERY, VERY, VERY MANY BEECHES)))
Hello, I’ll start with the fact that they were looking for a hotel on an emergency basis, because the opportunity to spend a vacation with the whole family appeared unexpectedly, even at the agency they asked the operator to find a FAMILY QUIET HOTEL 4 * in the tourist area for 11-12 nights, as a result, they sold my wife for 10 days for the price of 12 nights in the city center with two discos on the territory screaming until 12 at night. Plus, when buying, we were not told that we would be accommodated in the Neptune building, which in a past life was 3 *, and now 4 * economy. As they later explained to us, it was 3 different hotels, now they have one owner, a united territory, and they all became 4 *.
So we arrived, at the reception they gave us a key, and the uncle who was supposed to take us to the room snatched my bag and suitcase from me (although they didn’t ask him about it) and ran with a cheerful saiga to show us the room, galloping after him to the room, and this is 150 meters -200, began to look around, I note then we still did not know that the number was ECONOMY)). The room is small, clean (due to the fact that the entire floor both in the bathroom and in the room and on the balcony is tiled, and there are two rugs from the floor mats a meter by half a meter, so people with little ones are careful, they will not seem to plop, and even if you don’t go in the summer you can chill your feet) beds 2 pcs. odnushki (in the agency they begged for a double room (kingsize in bourgeois)) there is no refrigerator (again, they asked the operator for a room with a refrigerator, because August in Tunisia is 30-40 degrees Celsius and we have a small 3.5 years old), plumbing, in principle, works, uncle fiddled with the shower/faucet switch for about five minutes and it worked. In short, to his interrogative -OK ? , they answered with a tired -OK. But my uncle is standing and stubbornly waiting for a tip, he also brought a bag and a suitcase, which no one asked him to do, but where can I get him a local cash, if we are only from the airport by nine in the evening, the currency has not been changed, and US and EU are less than ten no, but for such imposed help and 50 cents, it's a pity. In short, our helper was offended, said that they would now bring a third bed for the small one, slammed the door, and left something thumping under his breath in Tunisian, apparently something not very pleasant, because he didn’t risk it in English : -)

My wife stayed in the room, and we went to the reception with a small one to talk about the fridge and the kingsize bed. It was then that my uncle revealed to me the truth about the economy rooms, according to him. "But kingsize bad, but fredge, bat only for you may friend tumorrow fredge will bi !!! " Well, tomorrow, so tomorrow, ok.
I’ll tell you right away there are restaurants on the territory of 2, bars 3, to which restaurant you are assigned, I advise you to immediately check at the reception, no one told us this, in short, I had to go to the reception again to find out where to eat.
We arrived just in time for dinner, we came to our "RESTAURANT" (essentially a self-service canteen, the tablecloths were usually clean, the chairs were covered with polyethylene, large plates, wine glasses, cutlery during lunch and dinner, as a rule, are not enough and they are also you have to wait for them to be washed after the first use, and very often they wash SHELL, so be careful) In theory, on your first visit, you should be assigned to a certain table at which you have dinner, because breakfast and lunch are based on the "sit where you want" principle, in short, we began to catch the chief after 5 minutes of wandering and torturing the waiters, we found a local administrator, he seated us and said that today it was a temporary table and tomorrow we will seat you for sure !! ! OK, not a question. The question was never fully resolved, no, of course we were given a table, but every time it was occupied by locals or guests from CIVILIZED EUROPE, we, the pale-faced northern barbarions, were kicked all over the hall, this was repeated 3 or 4 times, this is in 10 days , and I’m talking exclusively about dinner, and don’t talk, here are goons, they would give a tip to the waiter and everything would be ok, they gave it, it didn’t help)
Regarding the hawka itself, we were at the peak of the season (mid-August), so in principle there was nothing to complain about, the assortment was not bad, fruits (watermelons, melons, peaches, apples, plums, grapes) were constantly available, poultry: chicken, turkey (fried, stewed, baked, there were even bourgeois fast food nuggets) constantly, beef (stewed beyond all praise), lamb, fish, vegetables (stewed, salads and cuts), main dishes are also varied, I recommend trying local main courses, these are mostly cereals cereals with meat and vegetables and various legumes, soups, as a rule, one vegetable soup is mashed and the second is thin, but spicy there is no such thing here, the peculiarities of national cuisine in hotel restaurants, so stock up on instant cereals, there is always milk, a microwave is present, you can brew without problems. ULTRA OF THIS BUSINESS, there is always a lot of it, this business (bakery products) is always fresh, VERY tasty and bursts in huge quantities, both locally and by everyone else. So people watching the figure get ready for a tough test : -)

There is also such a feature of the dish of the day in this restaurant, as a rule, in 100% of cases, french fries and something overcooked fish / poultry / meat on the grill and very often chicken nuggets, so queues line up for this as in the Mausoleum and the people are gaining REALLY MOUNTAINS THIS DISH OF THE DAY, I have never seen French fries and nuggets consumed in such quantities and by such a number of people, and you have to stand behind it for a really long time, although there are fried, boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes in the end, as well as chicken, turkey , beef, lamb (and all properly cooked, not in rancid oil or burned on the grill). By the way, local sausages are very popular.
As for drinking coffee, tea, water (if necessary, bottled in the room is taken at the bar, but only after 7 pm) no problem. As for "juices" throughout the territory, self-service machines (coffee machine and soft drinks) are poked from strategic places for coffee, there are no questions, but normal "juices" are issued only at the reception in the hotel lobby, in the rest there is an eternal problem, then they are not there, then they give out almost pure concentrate, although we must admit water and carbonated cocoa (cola, fanta, etc. ) gives out regularly.
By the way, I made a big mistake, I tried the A LA Cheif salad - this is a very interesting and economical dish to prepare - take what the guests did not gobble up in the previous feeding, chop finely and add mayonnaise to taste) The effect was gorgeous, very cleansing, both top and bottom, rinsed with a bang : -)
I won’t say about the drunk, I don’t drink)
In short, you won't die of hunger.
We then returned to our room to take a shower. THE WATER FROM THE TAP WAS REALLY SALT, i. e. not salty, but salty. There was no more strength to swear, we left this question in the morning.
In the morning, the water went just brackish, and we put up with it, especially since the guide from our tour operator said that it was like that in all of Sousse.

Since I'm talking about showers, I'll say about towels and cleaning, darkness and anarchy. The maid can clean the room throughout the day a little bit, i. e. from 9 to 17, he can first pick up all the towels in the morning, then bring them at 13-15, then come at 16 at 16 to wipe the floor, the first day we had it, until I went to the administrator, and did not ask to clean the room immediately and with morning, because the child sleeps during the day, corrected. By the way, when I figured out the cleaning, I reminded about the refrigerator, a phrase was absolutely identical to the first one) As for towels: 50 shades of gray is about them), there were no others (we asked the maid to clean every 2 days) and even the tip left to her did not save the situation with towels , and the foot towels that were left for us near the bathroom looked more like a fishing net than towels. By the way, about the refrigerator, when imported tourists or locals moved out / entered on our floor, I saw mini-refrigerators brought / taken away, but Russians are not as good FRIENDS for the local administration as other tourists. And after the third or fourth reminder, they resigned themselves to the absence of it in our room.
By the way, the cleaning itself consisted in smearing dirt on the glass surfaces of the furniture, taking out the trash can and wet sweeping the field, the maid did not even go to the balcony.
Shampoos and soaps appeared once, and towels were changed once for us at the moment when we were sleeping : -)
In short, all of the above is bullshit, because they go south for the sake of the sea, hot sand and sun. So this is the Plump Polar Chanterelle, otherwise it's a COMPLETE SCRIPTER.
The sun is the only point to which there are no questions at all.
Hot sand - it's a beach, it's HORRIBLE, it's a mixture of garbage, ashtray and Soviet flea market of the mid-90s. The hotel's beach is fenced, but it saves only from annoying sellers who do not hang around between the sun loungers, and the surf line itself is not fenced by anything, so when you try to enter the sea, you will be intercepted by local hucksters. If you don’t like the smell of exhaust gases, then you can stay on the beach until 10-00, maximum up to 10-30, then all kinds of entertainment crap appear, like jet skis, boats, parachutes with bananas, etc. , all this Arava rumbles and stinks, damn it I can smell exhaust fumes in the Gulf of Finland)
Each visit to the beach at 7-30 - 8-00 in the morning began with combing the sand within a radius of 2-3 meters from the sun loungers with an umbrella in order to search and remove: cigarette butts, disposable cups, peach pits / plums, straws from cocktails and other things rubbish, of which there was a HUGE amount in the sand. Yes, on the beach of Petropavlovka this shit is many times less. I don’t understand that we ourselves like to sunbathe in an ashtray afterwards. Damn, I myself smoke, well, Christmas trees, sticks, adults can’t tear off their ass and not bring them to the trash.

More SEA. It is stupidly dirty, the surf line is not cleaned at all, and there is even more garbage, especially after strong waves, candy wrappers, labels, empty bottles, thank God they are plastic, algae. I'm not saying that it's just overwhelmed, overwhelmed, but it's good and it spoils the mood. By the way, travel agencies are silent about this, if you look at the sea, then on the right side, 100 meters from the beach, a sewage / drainage ditch goes into the sea, which you can see if you leave the hotel and walk towards the Movenpick hotel, that's how we go to it and stumbled upon, there flows such a nice greenish slurry with the appropriate smell.
Further, as soon as it started to smell of gasoline, they went to the pool, there are 2 of them on the territory, one is more focused on adults, it is right with a bar in the water. The second one is more for toddlers with slides and a smooth descent, we splashed around in this, and there is also a paddling pool for very toddlers with a small slide, but as a rule, you can’t breathe there from moms, dads and grandmothers) By the way, sunbeds under umbrellas by the pool by half past seven in the morning like As a rule, everyone is busy, so when we went to breakfast around seven, the beginning of the eighth, we tried to take it.
The water in the pool in the first half of the day can even be said to be clean, but when we came after sleep (at 16-17 hours) it was sometimes a little unclear, but by the morning it was usually clean again, only once in the morning it was so cloudy that we didn't even dare to go there.
Animators, well done tried to entertain everyone, both old and young, rather unobtrusively, and more young, always after dinner there was some kind of program for small hours until 10 pm, then for older persons until 12 at night all sorts of shows / discos, so if you have a sensitive sleep mentally prepare for the thump of music under the windows until midnight. But our child is not yet interested, so I can’t say anything in more detail.
For older people, water aerobics, water polo tournaments were held in the pool, all kinds of darts, karaoke, ping pong, etc. were held on the beach and around the pool.

The territory is large, but there is nowhere to walk with a child, and the territory is rather neglected. In general, it seems that the entire hotel or hotels are very used. There is a playground, but it is in a terrible state, and the path that leads to it rests on the fence. Apparently it now belongs to another hotel))) It didn’t matter to us what kind of view opens from the window, but the view of the backyard scenery of a 4-star hotel is very depressing. And it’s not particularly interesting to go out of the territory with a small child, the exit from the hotel is on a rather busy highway, you won’t find anything interesting to the right, you will go the same to the left. I mean within walking distance.
One gets the impression that if you are a Russian-speaking tourist and as soon as you check in i. e. agree that the room suits you, all the people who manage the hotel do not care about you. Whether you ask for something or not, you will be promised mountains of gold, but in fact they wanted to SRAAAAAAT on you, and I repeat, we didn’t goof and left a tip to the staff, but in this particular hotel and specifically the attitude towards Russians is depressing. We were last year in Tunisia, in Hammamet in the tourist zone at the El Mouradi Beach hotel, it seems that we were in another country, there is such a strong difference. Although it is worth noting that ordinary Tunisians have an absolutely normal attitude towards Russians, and they adore children, moreover, of all nations and ages. So I warn especially caring parents that strangers can approach your child, talk to him, stroke, kiss, pat on the cheeks, so get ready to either very quickly evade child-loving natives, or put up) Last year, when something happened for the first time similar, my wife and I almost had a heart attack.
By the way, we traveled a lot in Hamamet by taxi, and everything was fine there, but for the first time in Sousse, the taxi driver offered to go not according to the meter, but according to a fixed rate, and it turned out to be a dinar and a half more expensive than according to the meter, but we were tired and it makes no sense to swear and they didn’t see another taxi, a trifle, but unpleasant, and the sediment remained.
Opposite the hotel there are two "largest" shopping centers - I will tell the residents of St. Petersburg in size about a quarter or even 1/5 from Mega Parnas, and at prices it does not differ from St. Petersburg, something even more expensive. I recommend rolling into Magasin General - this is a network of French supermarkets with reasonable prices, for the second year we buy olive oil and olive soap on an "industrial scale" there, as well as local spicy seasoning Harissa and Sardines in olive oil, and local halva mmmmmm and most importantly local coffee, to be honest, for me it’s better than all sorts of magnets and horseradish, by the way, this is one of the few shops where you can buy local strong alcohol, taxi fare from the hotel to the supermarket door is 3-3.5 dinars (about 65-70 rubles)

Summary, my wife and I did not like it and we will not return to Sousse, but most importantly, the small one was very pleased, because he did not encounter all the minor domestic problems.
And for us, the MOST IMPORTANT thing is that the little one is satisfied. All the best, I hope it helps someone : -)
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