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You can call my story just a detailed review of the impressions received during my vacation in Tunisia. Looking ahead, I will say that everything that is written here is a subjective and objective assessment of what is happening and what you see, and it is not necessary that it will be the same for you. Well, first things first.
The beginning of the way. Tunisia is a country of contrasts. Next to absolute poverty, luxury and wealth coexist, next to the severity of religious beliefs, depravity, legalized by the state, coexists.
Flight. It all started with the fact that we flew with Tunisian Airlines. By themselves, they are nothing, we didn’t have to go to the plane, we went straight through the “gut” into the cabin. This makes me happy. On the plane they were fed local hedgehog, honestly it is not clear what it was, but I noticed scrambled eggs, pickled mushrooms and something else that looked like potatoes.
meeting party. Upon arrival at the airport itself, no one with a One2Go sign (this is our operator) met us at the exit.
I had to look for a Russian-speaking operator who would meet another operator and ask him “Where is Amen Voyages actually? (this is the directly meeting side of One2Go). ” To which they answered us, they say, here is a man with a piece of paper in his hands without identification marks, and ask him. Yes, we were lucky, it was our man who marked us on his paper and directed us to the bus stop to look for a man in a One2Go T-shirt. This was our guide Kais.
Guide. I can't say anything bad about the guide. He speaks Russian normally. Answered all questions. The only thing is that he cannot be trusted unconditionally. He still works for himself and for his country, so when he says that the only means of transportation in Tunisia is a taxi, do not believe it. It is so, but not entirely. When he says that from Yasmine Hammamet (tourist area) you can take a taxi to Hammamet itself for 10 dinars (approximately $ 8. The exchange rate is 1 US dollar - 1.
24 dinars as of 20.09. 08), taking a taxi for 4 people - this is not entirely true. There is a bus every half hour in Yasmine Hammamet that will take you all the way to Nabeul if needed. To Hammamet, it costs only 0.54 dinars. So real savings.
Travel to the hotel. I won't go into detail about the trip to the hotel, because, thank God, everything went well. Already during the trip to the hotel, I added up my impression of Tunisia itself. Everywhere garbage and dirt, one-story houses and poverty. People live, it would be in unfinished or dilapidated houses. The roads are full of yellow taxis - this is the only accepted color of taxis in Tunisia. The main surprise awaited us at the entrance to Yasmine Hammamet.
Money exchange. Don't worry about exchanging money. They can always be changed directly at the reception in the hotel or anywhere else. The exchange rate at the hotel is the same as everywhere else.
I don’t understand why they don’t put a satellite dish. Our room overlooked the pool. By the way, this was also a kind of disadvantage. There is no sea view, because the hotel is located 500 meters from the beach. And I understand that the entire hotel does not have a sea view. But I can be wrong. The only thing that is not clear is that you have to pay for a safe of 2.5 dinars per day, which is in your room, and that the receptionists can open the safe without even knowing the code. Based on this, it is not clear what the money is actually paid for? So that another hotel visitor does not climb into the room and take something?
Service. The main thing that excites many is, of course, the cleaning in the room. So, cleaning is carried out every day, but only in this way, wash the floor and change towels if necessary. As for the bed, we got the impression that in 2 weeks it did not change, or if it did, it was changed once. By the way, if you leave the cleaner 0.
5 dinars, then during the cleaning she is more diligent. In English or Russian, the cleaning lady does not understand, so we did not console ourselves with the hopes of learning something from her or saying something to her, only French or if you know Italian and Arabic. Moreover, the language barrier was felt only with the service. At the reception or in shops they understood English.
Nutrition. There are no complaints about nutrition. We had the HB type of food, i. e. breakfast, dinner. I must warn you right away that having lunch for two on the embankment will cost you 14-18 dinars, this is modest. The choice of menu in cafes on the embankments is not great, mostly pizzas, pastas (pasta with meat or cheese and sauce), salads, coffee, cola, fanta, etc. etc. Pizza costs an average of 7-9 dinars, coffee for 1.5-2 dinars and salads for 5-6 dinars. Consider that it doesn't come cheap. On average, lunches will cost you more than $150 for 2 weeks. But again, I repeat, the food is monotonous, you get bored quickly.
Breakfast at the hotel as in Turkey, eggs, cottage cheese, jams, buns, coffee, tea, and sometimes some mixture of stewed vegetables and sausages. By the way, sausage or, as they call it salami, is a rare muck. But this is an amateur. At least she didn't hurt her stomach. But for dinner already expanse. As for salads, of course they have a complete fantasy. There was a feeling that they were doing them only because they had to feed a lot of people. As for meat, everything was good, there was a choice for every taste, and chicken and turkey, and lamb. The most interesting part was in the desserts. What's dinner without dessert, that's what their chef thinks. Here walk the soul. Firstly, a large cake is always placed in the center, and sliced \u200b\u200bpieces of other cakes, fruits, eclairs, rolls, puddings, well, in short, everything to get up after dinner and take a horizontal position, because the first 30 minutes walking is difficult. The stomach presses down . At dinner, a complimentary bottle of water, cola or fanta is served.
All other drinks, such as beer or wine for money. Beer 2.5 dinars, and wine 0.3 liters. in my opinion, 3 dinars, in short, not cheap.
Animation. This part of leisure in the hotel deserves special attention. Because it's not animation, it's not clear what. I'm telling. Animation starts every day at 21-30. Before dinner, the animator invites everyone to the hotel lobby, where it is actually held, right next to the lobby bar. In short, a group of guys and girls is selected from the people who have come, and dancing begins to some of their local music. Better to keep silent about them. This must be seen. And this continues for hours until 23-00, or even later. So that lovers go to bed early, they will have to put up with loud music, or close the door to the balcony and turn on the air conditioning, because something needs to breathe. Yes, I almost forgot, every Saturday at the same time a fakir performs, a beautiful sight, but nothing more. This is the entertainment program at the hotel.
Hotel guests.
The hotel mostly stays Poles, French, Germans and a little bit of our brother. Regarding the first, we were not very lucky, because, as they occupied, almost the whole hotel. It would be nothing, only when two Poles are talking, for some reason you can hear them at any end of the restaurant or the beach. And if they escort their people home or what good they leave themselves, then half of the hotel does not sleep for hours until 2 am. So we had to calm them down with a rich, Russian obscenity in a "slightly" raised voice. You know, it helped, they calmed down, but the next day they moved to another wing of the hotel, and the other half did not sleep. Considering that many people come on vacation with small children, what kind of behavior deserves special attention. Maybe we just got “lucky” with them, but the fact is the fact. Other visitors were more relaxed.
Beach. As I already mentioned, 500 meters to the beach, a little and not a little. In principle, they did not feel any discomfort.
The beach is clean and sandy. On the first day, there was one difficulty to find the actual beach of our hotel, because it was difficult to find a sign with an index. But these are trifles, they found it, and then everything was fine. On the beach, as usual, they carry whole blocks of cigarettes, sell small palm trees, beads, cacti, fruits, scarves, and offer to get a henna tattoo. It's honestly a bit annoying, but tolerable. There are many things from entertainment, and a scooter and a parachute, and water skiing and much more. The prices are acceptable within 30 dinars for each. On the neighboring beaches of other hotels, warm-ups are carried out in the water and on land. Everyone is invited. So every day you can keep fit by warming up on the beach. The sea water is clean. Sometimes if in the morning the wind is from the sea, then algae are washed ashore, but they do not interfere, because you can move away from the coast 5-10 and you can swim.
By the way, due to the fact that the sea is shallow, about 30 meters from the shore, you can swim even for those who cannot swim. I'll tell you well. There are not enough sunbeds for everyone, so it is advisable to come to the sea early, at least by 9-00 hours, that is, immediately after breakfast. Then you are guaranteed to be with a sunbed.
Embankment. The waterfront is beautiful and clean. Along the entire embankment, on one side, there are cafes, on the other hand, souvenir shops, cafes and hotels. There is a yacht club, near which there is a very beautiful and cozy park. Horse-drawn carriages drive along the embankment. This is both good and bad at the same time. Because of the horses, in some places along the embankment one can feel the characteristic pungent smell of their (horses) liquid excrement evaporating on hot asphalt, associated with other excrement. Can you imagine this smell? Although they are nowhere to be seen on the road, the smell is such that one gets the impression that they are everywhere.
As for the shops on the waterfront. I’ll note right away that if you don’t plan to buy anything, then it’s better not to go on the other side. Because all the sellers will pull and it's annoying. It is better to cross to the other side of the road and you can safely walk. True, boys will find you everywhere - jasmine sellers. They will offer you to buy a small bouquet of jasmine for 1 dinar. There are practically no supermarkets. The only more or less normal supermarket in the usual sense for us is located near the Green Golf Hotel on the opposite side of the Marina cottage complex. Moreover, it is necessary to stock up on medicines, because there are no pharmacies on the embankment. There is really one, but it is at night, it works from 19-30 - 09-30. But there is not much choice there either. Medicines for the stomach and intestines are especially important. I know for myself. The nearest day pharmacy from our hotel is 40 minutes on foot or by taxi for 3 dinar.
Pharmacies also only understand Arabic or French. Unless, of course, you call them a medicine that sounds the same all over the world, you are lucky, otherwise it will take a long time to explain what exactly you need.
Souvenir market Throughout Tunisia, the souvenir market is known as Medina, it is in Yasmine Hammamet - Medina, and in Hammamet - Medina, and in the capital - Medina. So in the Medina there is a lot of everything, that's only 2, or even more times cheaper than on the waterfront. I immediately draw attention to the fact that sellers name the prices that come to their mind. Immediately you can safely divide this price by 2 and only from this price start bargaining. They will never sell you for less than they can afford, so feel free to name your prices. Sellers are arrogant, too intrusive, but you need to be prepared for this.
Tours. The choice of excursions is not great.
Some of the main ones are: safari for 2 days (145-205 dinars, depending on whether you ride jeeps and camels), Tunis-Carthage for 1 day (75 dinars) and sailing on a pirate ship for half a day (35 dinars) . The most memorable of course safari. In two days you travel around half the country with a visit to the main attractions. I like it. But a lot depends on the guide. I did not like the guide in Tunis-Carthage, he spoke Russian poorly, and did not follow the group at all.
Airport in Monastir. Arrival, in fact, as well as departure, is carried out through the airport located in the city of Monastir. The main thing that I should note in this part is that you do not spend all the dinars, leave at least 10 dinars for packing luggage, unless of course there is a need for this. Packing medium-sized luggage costs 5 dinars, and large 10. In the memo to the tourist, it was indicated that the package costs 2.5 dinars. We thought so too.
That's actually all.
I wish you a pleasant stay! I hope my story will be useful to you.
The beginning of the way. Tunisia is a country of contrasts. Next to absolute poverty, luxury and wealth coexist, next to the severity of religious beliefs, depravity, legalized by the state, coexists.
Flight. It all started with the fact that we flew with Tunisian Airlines. By themselves, they are nothing, we didn’t have to go to the plane, we went straight through the “gut” into the cabin. This makes me happy. On the plane they were fed local hedgehog, honestly it is not clear what it was, but I noticed scrambled eggs, pickled mushrooms and something else that looked like potatoes.
meeting party. Upon arrival at the airport itself, no one with a One2Go sign (this is our operator) met us at the exit.
I had to look for a Russian-speaking operator who would meet another operator and ask him “Where is Amen Voyages actually? (this is the directly meeting side of One2Go). ” To which they answered us, they say, here is a man with a piece of paper in his hands without identification marks, and ask him. Yes, we were lucky, it was our man who marked us on his paper and directed us to the bus stop to look for a man in a One2Go T-shirt. This was our guide Kais.
Guide. I can't say anything bad about the guide. He speaks Russian normally. Answered all questions. The only thing is that he cannot be trusted unconditionally. He still works for himself and for his country, so when he says that the only means of transportation in Tunisia is a taxi, do not believe it. It is so, but not entirely. When he says that from Yasmine Hammamet (tourist area) you can take a taxi to Hammamet itself for 10 dinars (approximately $ 8. The exchange rate is 1 US dollar - 1.
24 dinars as of 20.09. 08), taking a taxi for 4 people - this is not entirely true. There is a bus every half hour in Yasmine Hammamet that will take you all the way to Nabeul if needed. To Hammamet, it costs only 0.54 dinars. So real savings.
Travel to the hotel. I won't go into detail about the trip to the hotel, because, thank God, everything went well. Already during the trip to the hotel, I added up my impression of Tunisia itself. Everywhere garbage and dirt, one-story houses and poverty. People live, it would be in unfinished or dilapidated houses. The roads are full of yellow taxis - this is the only accepted color of taxis in Tunisia. The main surprise awaited us at the entrance to Yasmine Hammamet.
Money exchange. Don't worry about exchanging money. They can always be changed directly at the reception in the hotel or anywhere else. The exchange rate at the hotel is the same as everywhere else.
I don’t understand why they don’t put a satellite dish. Our room overlooked the pool. By the way, this was also a kind of disadvantage. There is no sea view, because the hotel is located 500 meters from the beach. And I understand that the entire hotel does not have a sea view. But I can be wrong. The only thing that is not clear is that you have to pay for a safe of 2.5 dinars per day, which is in your room, and that the receptionists can open the safe without even knowing the code. Based on this, it is not clear what the money is actually paid for? So that another hotel visitor does not climb into the room and take something?
Service. The main thing that excites many is, of course, the cleaning in the room. So, cleaning is carried out every day, but only in this way, wash the floor and change towels if necessary. As for the bed, we got the impression that in 2 weeks it did not change, or if it did, it was changed once. By the way, if you leave the cleaner 0.
5 dinars, then during the cleaning she is more diligent. In English or Russian, the cleaning lady does not understand, so we did not console ourselves with the hopes of learning something from her or saying something to her, only French or if you know Italian and Arabic. Moreover, the language barrier was felt only with the service. At the reception or in shops they understood English.
Nutrition. There are no complaints about nutrition. We had the HB type of food, i. e. breakfast, dinner. I must warn you right away that having lunch for two on the embankment will cost you 14-18 dinars, this is modest. The choice of menu in cafes on the embankments is not great, mostly pizzas, pastas (pasta with meat or cheese and sauce), salads, coffee, cola, fanta, etc. etc. Pizza costs an average of 7-9 dinars, coffee for 1.5-2 dinars and salads for 5-6 dinars. Consider that it doesn't come cheap. On average, lunches will cost you more than $150 for 2 weeks. But again, I repeat, the food is monotonous, you get bored quickly.
Breakfast at the hotel as in Turkey, eggs, cottage cheese, jams, buns, coffee, tea, and sometimes some mixture of stewed vegetables and sausages. By the way, sausage or, as they call it salami, is a rare muck. But this is an amateur. At least she didn't hurt her stomach. But for dinner already expanse. As for salads, of course they have a complete fantasy. There was a feeling that they were doing them only because they had to feed a lot of people. As for meat, everything was good, there was a choice for every taste, and chicken and turkey, and lamb. The most interesting part was in the desserts. What's dinner without dessert, that's what their chef thinks. Here walk the soul. Firstly, a large cake is always placed in the center, and sliced \u200b\u200bpieces of other cakes, fruits, eclairs, rolls, puddings, well, in short, everything to get up after dinner and take a horizontal position, because the first 30 minutes walking is difficult. The stomach presses down . At dinner, a complimentary bottle of water, cola or fanta is served.
All other drinks, such as beer or wine for money. Beer 2.5 dinars, and wine 0.3 liters. in my opinion, 3 dinars, in short, not cheap.
Animation. This part of leisure in the hotel deserves special attention. Because it's not animation, it's not clear what. I'm telling. Animation starts every day at 21-30. Before dinner, the animator invites everyone to the hotel lobby, where it is actually held, right next to the lobby bar. In short, a group of guys and girls is selected from the people who have come, and dancing begins to some of their local music. Better to keep silent about them. This must be seen. And this continues for hours until 23-00, or even later. So that lovers go to bed early, they will have to put up with loud music, or close the door to the balcony and turn on the air conditioning, because something needs to breathe. Yes, I almost forgot, every Saturday at the same time a fakir performs, a beautiful sight, but nothing more. This is the entertainment program at the hotel.
Hotel guests.
The hotel mostly stays Poles, French, Germans and a little bit of our brother. Regarding the first, we were not very lucky, because, as they occupied, almost the whole hotel. It would be nothing, only when two Poles are talking, for some reason you can hear them at any end of the restaurant or the beach. And if they escort their people home or what good they leave themselves, then half of the hotel does not sleep for hours until 2 am. So we had to calm them down with a rich, Russian obscenity in a "slightly" raised voice. You know, it helped, they calmed down, but the next day they moved to another wing of the hotel, and the other half did not sleep. Considering that many people come on vacation with small children, what kind of behavior deserves special attention. Maybe we just got “lucky” with them, but the fact is the fact. Other visitors were more relaxed.
Beach. As I already mentioned, 500 meters to the beach, a little and not a little. In principle, they did not feel any discomfort.
The beach is clean and sandy. On the first day, there was one difficulty to find the actual beach of our hotel, because it was difficult to find a sign with an index. But these are trifles, they found it, and then everything was fine. On the beach, as usual, they carry whole blocks of cigarettes, sell small palm trees, beads, cacti, fruits, scarves, and offer to get a henna tattoo. It's honestly a bit annoying, but tolerable. There are many things from entertainment, and a scooter and a parachute, and water skiing and much more. The prices are acceptable within 30 dinars for each. On the neighboring beaches of other hotels, warm-ups are carried out in the water and on land. Everyone is invited. So every day you can keep fit by warming up on the beach. The sea water is clean. Sometimes if in the morning the wind is from the sea, then algae are washed ashore, but they do not interfere, because you can move away from the coast 5-10 and you can swim.
By the way, due to the fact that the sea is shallow, about 30 meters from the shore, you can swim even for those who cannot swim. I'll tell you well. There are not enough sunbeds for everyone, so it is advisable to come to the sea early, at least by 9-00 hours, that is, immediately after breakfast. Then you are guaranteed to be with a sunbed.
Embankment. The waterfront is beautiful and clean. Along the entire embankment, on one side, there are cafes, on the other hand, souvenir shops, cafes and hotels. There is a yacht club, near which there is a very beautiful and cozy park. Horse-drawn carriages drive along the embankment. This is both good and bad at the same time. Because of the horses, in some places along the embankment one can feel the characteristic pungent smell of their (horses) liquid excrement evaporating on hot asphalt, associated with other excrement. Can you imagine this smell? Although they are nowhere to be seen on the road, the smell is such that one gets the impression that they are everywhere.
As for the shops on the waterfront. I’ll note right away that if you don’t plan to buy anything, then it’s better not to go on the other side. Because all the sellers will pull and it's annoying. It is better to cross to the other side of the road and you can safely walk. True, boys will find you everywhere - jasmine sellers. They will offer you to buy a small bouquet of jasmine for 1 dinar. There are practically no supermarkets. The only more or less normal supermarket in the usual sense for us is located near the Green Golf Hotel on the opposite side of the Marina cottage complex. Moreover, it is necessary to stock up on medicines, because there are no pharmacies on the embankment. There is really one, but it is at night, it works from 19-30 - 09-30. But there is not much choice there either. Medicines for the stomach and intestines are especially important. I know for myself. The nearest day pharmacy from our hotel is 40 minutes on foot or by taxi for 3 dinar.
Pharmacies also only understand Arabic or French. Unless, of course, you call them a medicine that sounds the same all over the world, you are lucky, otherwise it will take a long time to explain what exactly you need.
Souvenir market Throughout Tunisia, the souvenir market is known as Medina, it is in Yasmine Hammamet - Medina, and in Hammamet - Medina, and in the capital - Medina. So in the Medina there is a lot of everything, that's only 2, or even more times cheaper than on the waterfront. I immediately draw attention to the fact that sellers name the prices that come to their mind. Immediately you can safely divide this price by 2 and only from this price start bargaining. They will never sell you for less than they can afford, so feel free to name your prices. Sellers are arrogant, too intrusive, but you need to be prepared for this.
Tours. The choice of excursions is not great.
Some of the main ones are: safari for 2 days (145-205 dinars, depending on whether you ride jeeps and camels), Tunis-Carthage for 1 day (75 dinars) and sailing on a pirate ship for half a day (35 dinars) . The most memorable of course safari. In two days you travel around half the country with a visit to the main attractions. I like it. But a lot depends on the guide. I did not like the guide in Tunis-Carthage, he spoke Russian poorly, and did not follow the group at all.
Airport in Monastir. Arrival, in fact, as well as departure, is carried out through the airport located in the city of Monastir. The main thing that I should note in this part is that you do not spend all the dinars, leave at least 10 dinars for packing luggage, unless of course there is a need for this. Packing medium-sized luggage costs 5 dinars, and large 10. In the memo to the tourist, it was indicated that the package costs 2.5 dinars. We thought so too.
That's actually all.
I wish you a pleasant stay! I hope my story will be useful to you.
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