Прекрасный отель с ужасным питанием Great hotel with terrible food

Not the first time in Tunisia. Traveled with an 11-year-old child, bought a last-minute tour at the My Planet travel agency inexpensively, 11 nights - 38.000 rubles. The hotel was recommended as being in the center of Hammamet. I was surprised by the different number of stars in the hotel reviews on different sites, and 5 *, and 4 * and 3 * !! ! The hotel has pluses: it is really located in the center of Hammamet (in a residential area, and not a separately built "oasis" for tourists), there is where to take a walk to see real life, local shops, near the Old Medina (ancient market), not far from the European store "Generale", bus station. From the Old Medina, you can walk to the hotel through the city's public beach. The local population is not aggressive. But still, I would recommend tourist girls to dress in more authentic dresses, especially on evening walks. The hotel has its own beach, the first line, many rooms go directly to the beach. Our room was on the first floor, a view of the neighboring building, at first it seemed like a disadvantage, but later it became a plus when Arab parties were held on the beach for several days until 1 or 2 in the morning and the guests of nearby rooms could not sleep. . . The owner of the hotel also places in it a disco for Arabs, very loud. There is no animation in the hotel, although the children have a lot of rest. The beach is small, the sand is clean, but after the Arab discos, it comes across splinters, cigarette butts, forks (!!! ). The sea is calm and clean enough, the entrance is gentle, very convenient for small children, but at a depth of about shoulder-length along almost the entire beach there are stones overgrown with algae, many swim across them, but I personally scratched my leg, so I don’t advise. There is a cafe on the beach, but they don’t serve hotel guests, it’s from a cafe disco, to get cola or chemical juice you have to go up to the pool bar. The pool is small but the kids love it. FOOD: terrible. If you come 15 minutes later than the breakfast/lunch/dinner time, there is almost nothing left. Breakfast can still be recognized as 3 * - eggs, tomatoes, yogurt, jam, butter, coffee, cocoa, watermelon. Lunch / dinner is the same, soups are very spicy, side dishes are cold (pasta, potatoes, rice). I understand that Dar Hayet is 3 *, but so that stewed fish heads or chicken NECKS (!!! ), monotonous onion-tomato-cucumber salads (six bowls, they have these three ingredients separately or cut into large pieces, medium and small ones). Gorgeous Tunisian pastries - there is none here, only in the morning one kind of croissants and a muffin, in the evening two plates at the distribution of the cake, cut into pieces the size of a matchbox, which the guests take apart in a minute.... After complaining to our hotel guide Natalya about the food, the waiter brought us a plate with several pieces of cake a couple of times at the table, looking like caviar.... Among the staff there are nice and adequate people (as an exception), but they cannot change the hotel, this is the girl in the bar on the ground floor of Roger and the reception staff. Once it was a luxurious 5 * hotel, which can be seen from the magnificent BUILDING with 40 rooms, all in marble and original paintings, a small restaurant, its own isolated beach without crowds of tourists and animators, with a small pool. . . my CONCLUSION: if you are not picky about food, or maybe just do not want to gain weight (as always on an All Inclusive vacation), come to this quiet marble hotel, they don’t build them anymore!