Pseudo vacation in Tunisia or welcome to HELL

Written: 21 august 2012
Travel time: 4 — 18 august 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
1.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 1.0
Cleanliness: 3.0
Food: 1.0
Amenities: 1.0
First of all, a little about myself, close to 20, an adherent of multiculturalism, a lover of ethnicity and everything authentic. I have been to many countries: Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, mostly 4 or 5 star hotels, I am loyal to different conditions of rest, the priorities are as follows: clean room and good room service, beautiful beach and friendly attitude, interesting culture. There was no such thing as travel planning, the choice was made in conditions of complete time pressure one day before departure. The hotel was chosen based on the availability of a room, and what is there to hide - a relatively reasonable price for the tour.
About Hotel El Olf
The hotel definitely does not pull on any star rating, on the strength of 2 stars. The rooms are run down, each room has a few faults: mine was the sink, air conditioner and WC. If you are placed overlooking the pool, which is likely if you are young and do not have children, then hang on. From 21 o'clock animation begins, from which everything in the room vibrates. And it is identical from day to day, with stupid stupid music. I could not change the number, the reason: there were no free rooms in the other wing. Therefore, every day from 21 to 23 hours I tried to be outside the hotel, on Saturday until 2 am. During my stay, some people complained about cases of theft. This is a child's mobile phone, or a player and other trifles. Tip: at the slightest suspicion, not hoping that you could leave somewhere, contact the police.

About nutrition
The hotel has plastic food. Tasteless, monotonous and rather stale. On the advice of friends, did not take "all inclusive". There is nothing to drink except carbonated slag, too. The tablecloths are gray, there are no napkins, the staff in the so-called restaurant, and the dining room, in the worst sense of the word, is inadequate to check. Prices for drinks are thought out on the go, the goal is to make money on tourists. Surrender is sometimes simply not brought. Appliances are dirty, in short supply, plates too. Fruits, and these are rotten peaches and apples, are sorted out at the moment of opening. I advise you to walk to the embankment and for 20-30 dinars enjoy really delicious cuisine and a rosy attitude. NB: Be on the lookout for cafes in the Medina, the prices on the menu don't match what you get in the end. Having ordered three mojitos, they rolled out the bill for 10 dinars more under the pretext that they made us mojitos, just think about it, middle-iced. To be honest, after visiting Cuba, such a wording is still a mystery to me, 2 ice floes did not pull not only for a mojito, but just for a chilled drink, and the sweet, caustic green soda was simply terrible. Every visit to a fixed price store and restaurants requires focus and calculation. This is especially true of the supermarket next to the RElax cafe, the first from the side of the hotel. Prices are not indicated and each time an extra 7-15 dinars were withdrawn on a check. It is worth walking two meters and visiting the second store, the owner is a nice woman, everything is more or less honest here.
About the audience of the hotel
During the stay, the main audience was French, and most of them were disabled and downs. The attitude towards Russians is unambiguous - frankly boorish and dismissive. At first she spoke only English, but after hearing how I communicate with Russians, the stay became simply unbearable. During dinner, they didn’t let us eat - in their opinion, we took the places of the French, during the evening we received dozens of invitations to enjoy alcohol in the company of waiters. Animators are not familiar with the concept of sexual harassment, they may approach an unsuspecting tourist and start massaging their shoulders or legs. More unfortunate sisters, unfortunately, were tried to pull off their swimsuit or take them to a secluded corner in the shade of palm trees.

Beach or microBITCH (that's right, not Beach)
This hotel has the smallest beach, and quite dirty. Torn banners, designed to protect the area from other beaches, fluttered in the wind. I found it only on the fourth day, and then only because the security of another hotel realized that I was a stranger. The beach is a daytime fiesta place for all the locals. They shamelessly occupy free sunbeds. Sunbeds - ancient, failed, they are in short supply. Special mention deserves a beach guard in a long-no longer white T-shirt with holes. On the 7th day of my stay, he very impolitely asked to show him the keys. Further, all the remaining days, he performed this ritual. Beach vendors are arrogant, making it difficult to lie quietly on the beach. I didn’t pay attention, I saved the player, the book and my friends. When entering the sea, be careful: the entire coast is a sewer, the result of the life of camels and horses. If you are with a small child, then you will spend your entire vacation making sure that a passing camel or horse does not crush your child.
Room cleaning
The only positive thing about El Olf was good room cleaning, for which I deliberately and invariably left 5 dinars (100 rubles). It was a kind of payoff with the hope that my creams, cosmetics and clothes would not attract the attention of the maids. These hopes were not destined to come true - one day, running into the room during the day and making sure that the card with the formidable “do not disturb” was posted, after 5 minutes I saw a maid who slipped into my bath for an unknown purpose. Moreover, she did not have the necessary props for cleaning. Then a silent scene, when asked what she was doing, she did not receive an answer. Since then, expensive cosmetics have been added to the camera, money and documents on a turnkey basis in a suitcase.
Tunisia, or *opa of the world

After a two-week stay in the country, I realized one thing - Tunisia is not ready to receive tourists. The mentality is not the same, the infrastructure is lame. Everywhere there is dirt and a fetid smell, aggression in the eyes of the local population, if you extremely politely refuse to visit the store and outright hatred for everyone. Even the sea does not save her, in the afternoon - it is covered with algae. It may be useful for the figure, but visually and tactilely unpleasant. In my ranking, Tunisia is an anti-tourist country.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original