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Trip Tunisia, Hammamet, Almaz Hotel ****.
When we were offered this hotel in a travel agency, it was very annoying that there were practically no reviews of our (Russian-Ukrainian-speaking) tourists about it. But still, the price of the tour suited us and the choice from several offered fell on Almaz, in fact, thanks to the photo and the wording "the interior is decorated in Arabic style. " I fulfill my vow to write a review upon arrival to help tourists like me. The trip took place at the beginning of September 2009.
Hotel, room, service, cuisine, animation.
We arrived at the hotel at night, settled immediately, did not pay extra for the room. The room was given on the top 4th floor, overlooking the road and neighboring hotels (see photo). The road parallel to the hotel is not the main one and they practically don’t drive on it, and almost don’t go. The main road to the hotel is perpendicular, the sound from passing cars is audible, but if the balcony doors are closed, there is practically none, although the room to that road is extreme, but not a corner one, there is still some kind of hall and a large balcony on the corner of the 4th floor. The rooms, inside the hotel, overlooking the pool, I won’t say which is better - animation music until 15 pm and at night, and people are constantly hanging out there. We liked the interior of the room (see photo). Large balcony. Large bathroom with full wall mirror. In general, there are enough mirrors in the room, in the bathroom, in the corridor in full growth and at the boudoir table. The bathroom has a hair dryer, hot water all the time, fixtures for the shower, good plumbing, a bathroom with a curtain is not a shower. The toilet is separated from the bathroom by a partition, but there are no doors (this is a minus), one “multifunctional” door closes the entire bathroom and if you turn it in the other direction, it will close the toilet, but then the bath is open. Of the benefits of technical and electrical, except for a hairdryer, TV, air conditioning. The air conditioner is set so that it is not set below 24 - it immediately turns off, the smell from it is not heard in the room, but if you come in from a walk, you feel some kind of slight dampness, they only used it for the first 2 days, then they preferred to ventilate the room on the street, it was especially fresh in the evenings. There are different channels on TV, the Russian-speaking one is ORT. I was embarrassed by the large family bed upon arrival in the room, I was relaxing with a friend. So I realized that there are no “doubles” with separate beds. But when the cover was removed, it turned out that there were two beds, but they were standing side by side and knocked down by a common “wing” at the top. The bedspread was terribly heavy and thrown onto the adjacent sofa in a crumpled form by us, the cleaner did not put it in order, then we understood why - the two of us barely folded it humanly after 2 days. Clean normally, I will make a reservation - I'm not picky. The left peignoir and dressing gown were fanned out on the bed, but alas, they didn’t notice any special frills and decorations on the bed. They handed the dinar to the cleaner, because they read that the left money is not taken. No mosquitoes, ants, cockroaches. I noticed that the corners at the junction of the walls and the floor were very carefully smeared - not a crack, so I think there is “no life” in the rooms, except for ours, of course.
The hotel hall of 4-3 floors is very interesting in the form of balconies in the inner part overlooking the hall and the "reception" of the 1st floor, the inner balconies are decorated with carved wooden frames. 2 elevators. The floors are carpeted, sofas.
The territory of the hotel is not big and not small, well-groomed and beautiful, there are many palm trees, flowers and ornamental plants.
The animation is quite interesting, BUT in English. (In general, you need to go to Tunisia with knowledge of at least one common Western European language (English, German, French - the second official in the country). We, with our German with a dictionary and the same English, felt ignoramuses and at times idiots, well, you understand, they address you in 3 languages, and you smile like a dunce in response and are already ashamed to say "Nicht verstehen". Russian, Ukrainian are not known there. Maybe a little Polish. It was very pleasing that Ukrainian words with German, some words could be snatched out of your speech. . . I took a dictionary in case of emergency, it came in handy. ) Gymnastics, aerobics in the water is quite intense, "water ball". There were some events in the evening, but we didn't go. Tip: do not buy anything from animators (discs, T-shirts) bend at 10 expensive and forget to give change.
Kitchen. Breakfast: puffs of 4 types, but similar in taste, eggs, stewed potatoes or vegetables, plain and chocolate muesli, coffee, tea, milk, drinks.
Lunch: a lot of everything and meat and fish and potatoes and rice and pasta and chicken, different interpretations of stewed vegetables, pizza, omelettes - I liked the most, salads are sliced u200bu200btomatoes, cucumbers, ham, greens, etc. , lentils, sauces. There are a lot of them, but at home from these products it would be tastier, it was somehow tasteless here, or this was my inner feeling at that moment. Although they communicated with others, lovers of delicious food, did not want to eat here. There are a lot of cakes from sweets, some kind of semolina dough, not flour, tastes like our inexpensive cakes. In Egypt, I liked sweet things more. Fruits: melons, watermelons, rare peaches, rare grapes. Drinks eternal Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, local "Juices" I did not like.
Dinner was somewhat like lunch. Rose and red wine was not appreciated. I don’t understand wines, it’s also difficult to judge.
In general, the food at the hotel was not particularly surprising, but not much for gourmets and satisfying.
In the bar, drinks are all the same + beer (in my opinion) is not bad, it went with a bang among tourists. I don’t understand alcoholic beverages well, once I took rum-cola, the traditional taste was forgotten, it seemed to me 10 years ago.
The pool is large, sunbeds are free, but you need to borrow early, it may not be enough, bring your own towels.
The location of the hotel is good, near the Medina (market), a supermarket where you can buy souvenirs, cafes.
To the sea about 5-10 minutes depending on how to go. Sunbeds, umbrellas for free, we took our own towels. The beach bar is chargeable. The beach is one with areas allocated for each hotel. The beach is sandy. Along the sea (10-15 meters) it is cleaned regularly, where the sunbeds are not clean sand, if removed, then not thoroughly. We were unlucky, the first 3 days the sea was crazy dirty - algae, moreover, went far enough along the beach, despite the nets of all the hotels, the water was black. On the 4th day the water was all clear and on the 7th day when we left, the water was just class!! ! I didn't want to go out.
Mosquitoes: didn't see or hear a single one.
Excursions: compared to Egypt, here you will be offered no more than 8 excursions on certain days, of which the most awful Sahara 2 days of those with whom we talked, everyone liked it, they were going themselves, but did not go because of fatigue, an error in the departure time knocked us out out of the rut for 3 days, slept off and rested only by the 4th day. We went to Phrygia (Zoo) and Zulu evening. So nothing - I'm talking about the evening (drums of African dances), I liked the zoo more, but they gave little time for it and there was no guide on the bus to the zoo, it was very inconvenient to drop off the tokens at the gate and forward the meeting in an hour, no one said anything about the zoo told handed out schematics and everything. Zoo: giraffes, seals, buffaloes, camels, ostriches, monkeys, crocodile, elephants, hyenas, lynxes, tigers, wolves, donkeys, goats, rams, gazelles, zebras... They really wanted to see a kangaroo (everything Zadorny remembered, about a jacket with documents that our tourist threw on the shoulders of the kangaroo and that the bag is part of the body of the kangaroo), but they did not see it, only a pointer.
Excursions were taken from the "Nord" guide Inessa, as I understand it, she is the only one from the "Nord" to all the hotels in Hammamet. He comes only to the first meeting with new tourists and that's it. Again, not in favor of Tunisia, we went to Egypt with the Tez tour, the guide was sitting there at the hotel for hours in the morning and evening.
There are no special complaints about the hotel, a good hotel, there will be more of our tourists and the service staff will teach our language, and so far with their knowledge of the language and vocabulary.
From the photos taken there, I made postcards at home, I will also post them, see.
When we were offered this hotel in a travel agency, it was very annoying that there were practically no reviews of our (Russian-Ukrainian-speaking) tourists about it. But still, the price of the tour suited us and the choice from several offered fell on Almaz, in fact, thanks to the photo and the wording "the interior is decorated in Arabic style. " I fulfill my vow to write a review upon arrival to help tourists like me. The trip took place at the beginning of September 2009.
Hotel, room, service, cuisine, animation.
We arrived at the hotel at night, settled immediately, did not pay extra for the room. The room was given on the top 4th floor, overlooking the road and neighboring hotels (see photo). The road parallel to the hotel is not the main one and they practically don’t drive on it, and almost don’t go. The main road to the hotel is perpendicular, the sound from passing cars is audible, but if the balcony doors are closed, there is practically none, although the room to that road is extreme, but not a corner one, there is still some kind of hall and a large balcony on the corner of the 4th floor. The rooms, inside the hotel, overlooking the pool, I won’t say which is better - animation music until 15 pm and at night, and people are constantly hanging out there. We liked the interior of the room (see photo). Large balcony. Large bathroom with full wall mirror. In general, there are enough mirrors in the room, in the bathroom, in the corridor in full growth and at the boudoir table. The bathroom has a hair dryer, hot water all the time, fixtures for the shower, good plumbing, a bathroom with a curtain is not a shower. The toilet is separated from the bathroom by a partition, but there are no doors (this is a minus), one “multifunctional” door closes the entire bathroom and if you turn it in the other direction, it will close the toilet, but then the bath is open. Of the benefits of technical and electrical, except for a hairdryer, TV, air conditioning. The air conditioner is set so that it is not set below 24 - it immediately turns off, the smell from it is not heard in the room, but if you come in from a walk, you feel some kind of slight dampness, they only used it for the first 2 days, then they preferred to ventilate the room on the street, it was especially fresh in the evenings. There are different channels on TV, the Russian-speaking one is ORT. I was embarrassed by the large family bed upon arrival in the room, I was relaxing with a friend. So I realized that there are no “doubles” with separate beds. But when the cover was removed, it turned out that there were two beds, but they were standing side by side and knocked down by a common “wing” at the top. The bedspread was terribly heavy and thrown onto the adjacent sofa in a crumpled form by us, the cleaner did not put it in order, then we understood why - the two of us barely folded it humanly after 2 days. Clean normally, I will make a reservation - I'm not picky. The left peignoir and dressing gown were fanned out on the bed, but alas, they didn’t notice any special frills and decorations on the bed. They handed the dinar to the cleaner, because they read that the left money is not taken. No mosquitoes, ants, cockroaches. I noticed that the corners at the junction of the walls and the floor were very carefully smeared - not a crack, so I think there is “no life” in the rooms, except for ours, of course.
The hotel hall of 4-3 floors is very interesting in the form of balconies in the inner part overlooking the hall and the "reception" of the 1st floor, the inner balconies are decorated with carved wooden frames. 2 elevators. The floors are carpeted, sofas.
The territory of the hotel is not big and not small, well-groomed and beautiful, there are many palm trees, flowers and ornamental plants.
The animation is quite interesting, BUT in English. (In general, you need to go to Tunisia with knowledge of at least one common Western European language (English, German, French - the second official in the country). We, with our German with a dictionary and the same English, felt ignoramuses and at times idiots, well, you understand, they address you in 3 languages, and you smile like a dunce in response and are already ashamed to say "Nicht verstehen". Russian, Ukrainian are not known there. Maybe a little Polish. It was very pleasing that Ukrainian words with German, some words could be snatched out of your speech. . . I took a dictionary in case of emergency, it came in handy. ) Gymnastics, aerobics in the water is quite intense, "water ball". There were some events in the evening, but we didn't go. Tip: do not buy anything from animators (discs, T-shirts) bend at 10 expensive and forget to give change.
Kitchen. Breakfast: puffs of 4 types, but similar in taste, eggs, stewed potatoes or vegetables, plain and chocolate muesli, coffee, tea, milk, drinks.
Lunch: a lot of everything and meat and fish and potatoes and rice and pasta and chicken, different interpretations of stewed vegetables, pizza, omelettes - I liked the most, salads are sliced u200bu200btomatoes, cucumbers, ham, greens, etc. , lentils, sauces. There are a lot of them, but at home from these products it would be tastier, it was somehow tasteless here, or this was my inner feeling at that moment. Although they communicated with others, lovers of delicious food, did not want to eat here. There are a lot of cakes from sweets, some kind of semolina dough, not flour, tastes like our inexpensive cakes. In Egypt, I liked sweet things more. Fruits: melons, watermelons, rare peaches, rare grapes. Drinks eternal Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, local "Juices" I did not like.
Dinner was somewhat like lunch. Rose and red wine was not appreciated. I don’t understand wines, it’s also difficult to judge.
In general, the food at the hotel was not particularly surprising, but not much for gourmets and satisfying.
In the bar, drinks are all the same + beer (in my opinion) is not bad, it went with a bang among tourists. I don’t understand alcoholic beverages well, once I took rum-cola, the traditional taste was forgotten, it seemed to me 10 years ago.
The pool is large, sunbeds are free, but you need to borrow early, it may not be enough, bring your own towels.
The location of the hotel is good, near the Medina (market), a supermarket where you can buy souvenirs, cafes.
To the sea about 5-10 minutes depending on how to go. Sunbeds, umbrellas for free, we took our own towels. The beach bar is chargeable. The beach is one with areas allocated for each hotel. The beach is sandy. Along the sea (10-15 meters) it is cleaned regularly, where the sunbeds are not clean sand, if removed, then not thoroughly. We were unlucky, the first 3 days the sea was crazy dirty - algae, moreover, went far enough along the beach, despite the nets of all the hotels, the water was black. On the 4th day the water was all clear and on the 7th day when we left, the water was just class!! ! I didn't want to go out.
Mosquitoes: didn't see or hear a single one.
Excursions: compared to Egypt, here you will be offered no more than 8 excursions on certain days, of which the most awful Sahara 2 days of those with whom we talked, everyone liked it, they were going themselves, but did not go because of fatigue, an error in the departure time knocked us out out of the rut for 3 days, slept off and rested only by the 4th day. We went to Phrygia (Zoo) and Zulu evening. So nothing - I'm talking about the evening (drums of African dances), I liked the zoo more, but they gave little time for it and there was no guide on the bus to the zoo, it was very inconvenient to drop off the tokens at the gate and forward the meeting in an hour, no one said anything about the zoo told handed out schematics and everything. Zoo: giraffes, seals, buffaloes, camels, ostriches, monkeys, crocodile, elephants, hyenas, lynxes, tigers, wolves, donkeys, goats, rams, gazelles, zebras... They really wanted to see a kangaroo (everything Zadorny remembered, about a jacket with documents that our tourist threw on the shoulders of the kangaroo and that the bag is part of the body of the kangaroo), but they did not see it, only a pointer.
Excursions were taken from the "Nord" guide Inessa, as I understand it, she is the only one from the "Nord" to all the hotels in Hammamet. He comes only to the first meeting with new tourists and that's it. Again, not in favor of Tunisia, we went to Egypt with the Tez tour, the guide was sitting there at the hotel for hours in the morning and evening.
There are no special complaints about the hotel, a good hotel, there will be more of our tourists and the service staff will teach our language, and so far with their knowledge of the language and vocabulary.
From the photos taken there, I made postcards at home, I will also post them, see.
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