ВПОЛНЕ ПРИЛИЧНЫЙ ОТЕЛЬ ДЛЯ ТУНИСА! QUITE GOOD HOTEL FOR TUNISIA!

I'll start with the transfer, or rather with the deception of tourists by the JoinUp tour operator. They promised a decent Boeing and the SkyUp air carrier, but in the end, a day or two before departure, they changed to Bukovina with 20-year-old MacDouglas MD80s, on which even their flight attendants are afraid to fly (I won’t name names for obvious reasons). For canceling the tour before departure, there is a 100% fine, respectively, and poor tourists have no choice but to fly on this old "corn" to the country of their dreams - Tunisia . . ((As I later learned from JoinUp from Lviv, this is a common practice. Not a comfortable aircraft cabin , from the ventilation grilles it blows either cold, or hot, or even some kind of stale air. In the cabin, there is a lot of noise from the engines, wings and body creak during each maneuver, turbulence is felt much more compared to Boeing. McDouglas since 2000.
discontinued and most airlines have written them off due to increased fuel consumption and low reliability. The plane flies and lands only thanks to the common prayers of all passengers. Whoever lacks extreme sports at home, welcome aboard the "Bukovyna"! ))) I also forgot to say that the flight was postponed a couple of times, it is not clear why, but I think that according to tech. reasons.


Somehow we flew to Tunisia, Monastir airport, I have never heard such sincere applause after landing and exclamations of joy from passengers, although I had flown a couple of times already to Egypt and Turkey ...They brought me to the hotel within 15-20 minutes . , Marhaba palace is the first on the way from the airport. The beautiful main building of the hotel in the Arabic style, eight floors, 4 elevators (one of them is sometimes buggy and does not respond to button presses). We arrived in the afternoon, settled very quickly, the hotel employee escorted me to the room on the fifth floor with a sea view, as I requested.
Usually Slavs are settled with a view of the city, do not skimp and put a couple of evergreens in your passport when you check in at the reception. Here the staff loves this business very much, well, like everywhere else, probably .. ))) The room was quite decent, not killed, there is a refrigerator, a safe, a 23" plasma TV set, a tea set, a normal bathroom, soap, a hairdryer, all kinds of shampoos, shower gels, towels large and small, a bathrobe (there were no slippers). Everything is clean, tidy, a pleasant smell in the room. They cleaned every day, quite well, replenished what was over, decorated the bed with fresh flower petals. The cleaners tried, even if they didn’t leave "baksheesh". The staff is friendly, the waiters in the restaurant are courteous (most), but there were also a couple of harmful ones, then I just didn’t sit down for their sector of the restaurant. The food is quite good, but not enough seafood, the range of food is not very large, but definitely not hungry stay, do not expect special delicacies, shrimp were only once in 10 days for example.
There is no dress code, live music was only once at dinner. The waiters run constantly, cover, clean, bring drinks to anyone who wishes. I was surprised only that there was no coffee and tea for dinner, although there were a lot of cakes. When asked to bring, they answer to eat at the bar .. )) For breakfast and lunch, you can sit down wherever you want, for dinner only at your number table received when you first visited the restaurant for dinner, the meaning of this procedure remained a mystery (for breakfast and lunch, problems with there were no tables). I didn’t have stomach problems, but my friends suffered that they didn’t remember what they ate, but they told me something for sure in a restaurant, and not in a cafe in the city. By the way, they had a lot of mosquitoes in the room and at night they went to complain to the reception and then poisoned them until the morning. For some reason, I didn’t have mosquitoes in my room . . )) The animation was of high quality, the guys tried to entertain people at the pool, on the beach, arranged exercises, dances, competitions, games, well done!
I won’t list everyone by name as in custom reviews (see previous review) The beach is good, sandy, loose, not trampled down, clean, almost white sand, sometimes tides bring algae, but the beach is periodically cleaned of them and debris. if you don’t have breakfast for a very long time, you can have time to take a sunbed. A gentle entrance to the sea, clean, clear water, sometimes jellyfish swim. I had problems with TV in my room, I didn’t show channels, after a complaint to the reception they promptly brought a new TV set. In the reviews, people wrote that things were missing and even from the safe, I don’t know, nothing was missing from me. Perhaps we were lucky with the cleaner, he always cleans the same one, so if anything you can point to him. Nearby is a beautiful city, shops, cafes, a port, near it are colored muses. fountains. Go see it tonight for sure! In general, the hotel is good, something in between, between Turkey and Egypt. I recommend it for a relaxing family holiday or the neighboring Concorde green park palace (it will be newer)