Prefer all inclusive? Then you - NOT HERE!

Written: 15 june 2008
Travel time: 16 — 23 june 2008
1. Instead of the usual bracelet in such cases, there is a plastic card with your data and a photo taken using a webcam. This is part of the procedure for registering you at the hotel. The production of the map itself (immediately) takes about 5 minutes. So if you don’t have a line of all-inclusive entrants in front of you, like you do, then consider yourself lucky (you avoided the tedious waiting procedure! )
2. On the map, you can get everything locally produced, but there is a very big “BUT”:
- at the same time, no one will give you Fanta and vodka (or pizza in a beach cafe) on the card - either one or the other!
- if you still prefer alcohol, then the next 20-30 (!!! ) grams of vodka or a glass of wine or beer - in about 10 minutes, not earlier!
- if you come with children and you have several cards in your hands, then you may have the illusion that in this way you are provided with the necessary amount of drink for the first time gatherings in the bar...

do not flatter yourself, no one will pour you on "children's" cards!
3. Each building has its own dining room, I would not call it a restaurant. We were settled in a building near the beach and pools with children's slides. The next morning after our arrival, we went down to the dining room on the ground floor. Only a few tables were occupied in the hall, but the waiter, seeing our cards, sent us to the dining room of the main building, since the all-inclusive is served only there!
The beach cafe is the only place nearby and for those by the pools to get booze, snacks and drinks.
Not very convenient given the number of applicants (permanent queues! )
Service leaves much to be desired!
This is the first place of many where the desire to receive a tip was so clearly written on the faces of the waiters. Any drink is not brought immediately, but after 5-10 minutes.
This means that a banal phantom for a child will also have to wait.
And not like in a normal hotel: he went to the machine and poured as much as you want and when you want!
The receipt scheme is the same as indicated above, although wine can be brought immediately upon request.
In fairness, it must be said that such restrictions on all-inclusiveness in Tunisia do not occur everywhere.
Out of curiosity, I asked the tourists from other hotels about the situation. For example, in Eden Club everything is the same as in a normal Egyptian hotel, i. e. bracelets and there are no previously mentioned problems
At breakfast (40 minutes before the end):
The hall was filled by about a third, there were no clean tables (that means with napkins and cutlery).
Found a table with no dirty dishes.
He did not hope for a quick arrival of the waiter, but went to the cupboard with dishes and took knives and forks.
The children wanted Kellox with milk, went there - no spoons, no cups!
He gestured to the waiter that he didn’t, and he grunted in response, like “shuzz they’ll bring it! ”

Then I made eye contact with an elderly English woman standing next to me, she smiled knowingly at me and retired to her table with the words “Good luck! ” , they say "good luck waiting! "
And what - after 5 minutes, a young waiter defiled to the table with a leisurely gait, carrying a dozen spoons and cups in his hands, which were instantly taken apart by those waiting.
Of the 2 tiles on which pancakes are baked, only one worked.
In the queue (10-15 people), of course, only those who really, really want pancakes.
On juice machines there are stickers “Pineapple juice”, “Orange juice” and some other red one.
In fact - water with the addition of the appropriate syrup!
By the way, there were no clean glasses.
And to top it all off, the waiter quickly cleared off the table what I had collected for myself to eat. Seeing me, frozen at the table, he apologized, but what's the matter with me?
During breakfast, these “pleasant” little things accumulated so much that I cursed in an undertone, but strongly, so that the manager responsible for training the staff repeatedly hiccuped!
And at the same time, to those smart people who came up with and implemented all these restrictions in the all-inclusive system!
FOOD. - monotonous and tasteless. Of course, no one went hungry.
At the same time, I want to note to the previous and subsequent commentators that this argument is appropriate for hotels up to 3 ***.
TV. There is only one Russian sports channel in our building, the rest is in Arabic and European languages.
There is a refrigerator in the room, locked with a key (the lock is embedded in the door).
Do you want to use? - from you 5 dinars per day.
Safe - at the reception. When paying for a safe, for example, a week in advance, please note that the receipt indicates that the amount paid is a deposit.
Otherwise, there will be no refund.
The question actually is not even about money, but in principle!
Here is 4 **** all inclusive with sonorous Marhaba Royal Salem!
Well, how?
Do you have enough information?
Still want to stay at this hotel? ))))
Good luck !
Translated automatically from Russian. View original