Thapsus - на троечку Thapsus - C grade

Traveled with my 5 year old daughter. June 26 to July 10.
The beach and the sea are wonderful, the water was calm in the morning, we swam in the shallows not far from the coast, where there was no garbage (it appeared on July 1 - the holidays before Ramadan began for the local population). After lunch there were usually waves - we enjoyed jumping on them. In terms of warmth, the water was cold at first, but warmed up by July. It was very comfortable. The sand is almost white, the water from this acquires a wonderful azure color. Sometimes we watched skirmishes about the lack of sunbeds. Sunbeds with cracks along the entire length. I weigh 50 kg, on such a sunbed I only slightly sagged down, and it didn’t bother me, but for large people there will be no ice. Reservation of sunbeds is prohibited, but they are reserved anyway. If you haven’t found free ones, for a couple of dinars (or just for a nice smile) the security guards will clean them up for you, removing other people’s towels from the sunbeds. To avoid litigation with the returned owners of the towels taken away by the security guard, immediately say that they should contact them on all issues, and that you have nothing to do with it. The traders on the beach are very stubborn, it seems that they will interfere even if one person saves another from doing artificial respiration. Security chases them if they stick to someone too much. Once there was a thunderstorm at night, the rest of the days it was clear, there was no wind for only one day.
The restaurant is more like a dining room, the food is delicious, by the end of lunches, dinners, hot food did not end, various cakes, fruits were watermelons, melons, peaches, nectarines, small pears. Always two types of meat and fish. There were not enough dishes, they did not have time to wash the glasses, sometimes the child could not pour water for himself, take glasses from the table where wine was not allowed. The day before our departure, the hotel bought plastic glasses. And in general, a lot of things with cracks - dishes, plastic chairs, sun loungers on the beach. Since July 1, the hotel has been filled with Arabs. And not for the weekend, but for a long time) The queues for food were simply shocking, everyone filmed them on cameras and phones. If there were two Arab girls in the queue in front of you, then all their relatives could join them, 6-8 people that way. The unfortunate eight hot troughs could only be approached from one side, respectively, the speed with which the queue moved was snail's. Bread began to be cut into pieces and not left as before with whole baguettes, clean cutlery / glasses / tables can not be found. The first time I stood in line for a hot twenty minutes, I returned to the table at which my daughter was sitting and found her crying. Every morning she now asked if I would stand in line. According to the Poles, the Russians who visited the hotel a year and two years ago during the same period did not have such queues, then the Arabs came only for the weekend. Beer on all inclusive is not bad, but only that in the restaurant for lunch and dinner, in bars, do not take free beer. For money (and not small ones), you will be offered a lot of drinks there, but you may not recognize the taste of your favorite drink) I advise you to order all paid alcohol in small portions so as not to be upset about the money spent.

Animation - well done guys, from morning till night they worked. No vulgarity. There is a Russian-speaking animator Zina. The mini club is open from 10 am to 12 pm and from 3 pm to 5 pm. Every day there is a mini disco and then a show. The shows, as usual, are not particularly interesting. For 15 days there was no fakir show (Before the evening program in the bar, the line also went off scale.
The hotel - the rooms are modest, the water pressure in the shower is constantly changing, sometimes it barely flows, sometimes it's normal. Once, before dinner, there was no water on our third floor, not at all - we rinsed well in the shower on the beach. The bathroom was leaking, and in order not to slip, I laid a towel on the floor. The air conditioner worked perfectly, but our friends did not work at all. And many people had this problem. Cleaning is unobtrusive, they clean for a long time and badly, regardless of the tip. In the exchange office at the reception sometimes there were no dinars. I have never been counted. There are two payphones right in the hotel on the wall. The first hotel where I saw cockroaches. One in my room. Very big. I haven't heard of theft.
They almost didn’t swim in the pools - the water in the closed one was very chlorinated, and in the open one, since July 1st, so many Arab women were swarming that there was simply no place there. The animator conducting aqua aerobics did not always manage to disperse them so that the girls could calmly do it.
The contingent is all Russians from St. Petersburg, there are also Ukrainians and Belarusians (Kyiv and Minsk). There was no prejudice towards us. And the behavior of other nations was at the same level. The Russians didn't stand out. Everyone, including the Arabs, was unhappy with the situation with the overcrowded hotel. Wealthy Arab families were resting, and when they came to the restaurant in the evening, they did not plan to stand in lines for 30-40 minutes for food and drinks.
Of all the treshki I have ever visited in this hotel, I most often heard the dissatisfaction of tourists.

Shopping - be sure to bargain! Even fixed price stores can drop a little. Near the hotel, halva and shampoos are a couple of dinars more expensive than in the medina, but you don’t spend money on a taxi. Halva in dutik is many times more expensive, and there are no shampoos. I didn't buy oil. I bought Magon and Katarina rosé wines and Tibarin tincture in the deutik. Ches speaking did not like.
Excursions - take only one, to Phrygia Zoo. From the hotel to go two hours, no guide. The driver silently drives you sharply braking at intersections. And my child and others were sick in both directions. I liked the animals, and my daughter whined what she wanted to the hotel.
We will not go to this hotel anymore, but we will be happy to visit Mahdia.
We send big greetings to Fedenka in Kyiv, his mother Sveta and grandmother, and Nastenka and her grandmother from St. Petersburg. The holiday would have been much sadder without you! Special thanks to the light for the shampoos)