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Please tell me how much the excursion to the Sahara (2 days) costs from the guides. And are there street agencies, and what are their prices? Thanks in advance)))
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In my opinion, exactly a year ago it cost about 100 euros. The tour is super, but in July it's hard because of the heat.
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answered 15 years ago
There are no street agencies in Tunisia. All agencies work at uniform prices approved by the Ministry of Tourism
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answered 15 years ago
True, I have not met street vendors selling the Sahara. In any case, do not focus on Egypt, it seems that such a business is very developed there. For all your problems on the excursion, ONLY the meeting company is fully responsible, and buy excursions from them. But in almost every hotel there are moonlighting local so-called fans to sell something. They even have licenses from Ming. there is no tourism. If you bought, say, a Caravan or a Pirate, and then changed your mind, then it’s difficult to get the money back, you have to swear and threaten. I have seen this method many times. Including so and barkers at the spa act. There, masseurs work not only without honey. education, but even without courses! Do not pay attention that they even forked out for special clothes - this is a disguise. So be careful when buying from locals.
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answered 15 years ago
At the Express tour (receiving party) in September 2008, it cost 200 dinars (~ 160 dollars), but it's worth it. And it’s also good to go on a combined tour: Tunis, Carthage, Sidi Bou Said, Bardo (one day) ~ 70 dollars. We did not see street agencies, since there all prices for tours are under state control.
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answered 15 years ago
We were in Tunisia in May 2009, rested in Sousse, lived in SOUSSE PALACE 4*. We traveled to the Sahara with Exotic’s Tours, we had only negative emotions from the escort, we didn’t like the fact that there was a deception with the excursion program, and the guide Hamdi is just a different story, and not at all positive. The price, if my memory serves me right, is 190 dinars, but it was one of the highest prices, then we looked at the folders with offers from other companies in the hotel, from the Russian-speaking ones Biblioglobus was the cheapest, like 160 dinars. As promised by the program, the first point of this excursion was the Colosseum El Jem turned out to be the last, and the first was Kairouan, or rather, we spent 2 hours on a carpet shop and 15 minutes on the Okba mosque, because of which we did not see the city of Tozeur, in which we were supposed to live, but in fact we were settled in Duza, we got to Tozeur already at night in a children's park with dinosaurs and the entrance price is 10 dinars per person, and the most interesting thing in this city is the unusual architecture of the city itself and the way of laying bricks. . .
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answered 15 years ago
The city of Matmata was shown very schematically, if it can be called that, we drove along the road looking at holes in the ground or in the rocks from afar, and made a stop in a house made for tourists and not at all dug in the ground, but deepened but in the rock, so what seen in the guidebook and read on the internet, we just looked for show. It is a pity that more than one excursion program does not include a visit to Ksar, but in fact, Ksar and Matmata is what makes Tunisia different from any other eastern country, this is their highlight. . . So my friends and I planned an independent trip to about. Djerba, with a visit to everything interesting in the South. The roads there are excellent, while relaxing in Sousse, we rented a car for 40 yedays and traveled all that the guidebook advised in the north of the country, you can’t even compare with an organized tour, and it’s cheaper and better and more diverse. The country is for the most part loyal to tourists, and all the stories of the meeting party that it is not safe are complete nonsense, the only point is that tourists would pay them money for excursions, and the prices there are not small.
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answered 15 years ago
Is it really not only me who has such an opinion about the "divorce" of guides ??? It's good to see. According to the excursions to the Sahara described by Makarenko, it is a solid truth, I was convinced twice. The fact that El Jem and Kairouan changed is not significant - there is no difference. Did you sit on carpets? so that the guide cut down the commission, what is not clear? But they don’t let them into Okba, mainly under an agreement with the miners. . . you are certainly not Muslims, and the mosque does not need to be trampled. Estimate how many groups come per day and per month. Yes, if everyone is trampled, then the ancient Okba will crumble and will not function for its intended purpose. What's so amazing? In Tozere, few people spend the night - 1 out of 50!!! And our people do not react at all to the method of laying bricks. I wandered independently around the Tozero center and the market for 3 hours, for me personally - enough. And it is better to go to ksars in Morocco, in Tunisia - they are not developed. . . All excursions are taken to the same trogladytes - they receive a salary for this. But random ones - they may not be allowed into the house, so as not to get sick with European flu. And the fact that Tunisia is safe everywhere is true. . . . well, compared to Algeria (was less than a year ago)
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answered 15 years ago
Yes, safsaf You are not alone! :)
We were two couples and were indignant at the frank lies directly to our eyes from the side of the guide, he even tried to pretend that he did not know the representative of their company, which sold the tickets to us and told the program of the tour. We went from Duza to Tozeur in the 6th separately from the group, but since it was not close to go, we got there just as it was getting dark, so our intentions to take a walk on our own also failed. And the reason was just a trip to the carpets, we had to arrive in Tozeur by 5 pm according to promises, but in fact it was already 7 pm. It is not clear why to lie, all that is needed is to truthfully state the program, and that's all, no questions.
Moreover, we have something to compare with, we travel a lot, for example, we have the most enthusiastic memories from the tour of the imperial cities in Morocco and the great merit of our guide in this, she gave it 100%.
As a result, in Tunisia, the head of the meeting party approached us at the airport, asked why we didn’t like it so much and said that if we want conclusions, we should write a complaint, found paper and a pen for us, we wrote. It's a shame when our tourists are treated like second class and at the same time ours are silent.
We were two couples and were indignant at the frank lies directly to our eyes from the side of the guide, he even tried to pretend that he did not know the representative of their company, which sold the tickets to us and told the program of the tour. We went from Duza to Tozeur in the 6th separately from the group, but since it was not close to go, we got there just as it was getting dark, so our intentions to take a walk on our own also failed. And the reason was just a trip to the carpets, we had to arrive in Tozeur by 5 pm according to promises, but in fact it was already 7 pm. It is not clear why to lie, all that is needed is to truthfully state the program, and that's all, no questions.
Moreover, we have something to compare with, we travel a lot, for example, we have the most enthusiastic memories from the tour of the imperial cities in Morocco and the great merit of our guide in this, she gave it 100%.
As a result, in Tunisia, the head of the meeting party approached us at the airport, asked why we didn’t like it so much and said that if we want conclusions, we should write a complaint, found paper and a pen for us, we wrote. It's a shame when our tourists are treated like second class and at the same time ours are silent.
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answered 15 years ago
Dear tourists, how much can you write and say that in the host company, employees are divided by type of earnings. There are those who only pick up from the airport, and they don’t even bother to take them back and bring them to passport control. 2-guides coming to the hotel: their task is to sell you everything that doesn’t hit. Special luck - to sell both the Sahara and Carthage. I know such as thalasso, and the Biomare course, and the zoo, and fish. the restaurant will be offered - everything where it is chopped%. They actually live by this, because the salary is 300 dinars. 3-guides - who accompany you on excursions and, in theory, answer all your questions. Here, a year or 2 ago, there was such a guide Julia in Hammamet, who soared to everyone that "you are in the Ionian Sea (part of the Mediterranean), so there are a lot of ions here ... " She does not even understand what ions are, and even more so that an ion . the sea is far to the northeast, between Italy and Greece. In general, a set of words, and you pay for information. And your written claim will have little effect. Most likely - this is a reason for the director to keep the guide's salary in his pocket. And ours are silent, because they don’t understand when they hang noodles on their ears. Not everyone is so smart!
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